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Well, most groups will turn a blind eye to one of their own. I'm speaking in generalities not specifics. I think it was fabulous that Mrs. Card did hold Rabbit to a higher standard, but I didn't see a lot of outrage coming from the normally conservative LDS contingent present on this board. M_p_h in particular, seemed to be going along and having fun with the thread, even though I would view him as conservative.
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I was pretty sure that The Rabbit was LDS. But then there is also Moon Rabbit, and both are rare enough posters that I get them mixed up.
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Sara, for all that we disagree on things, I don't know that you are capable of trolling. I profoundly respect your adherence to Good Sense and Civil Discourse.
I think all manner of assertions can be made-- what I believe got Kristine riled up was that the assertions were being supported on a bed of misinformation.
I suppose acceptable hyperbole is in the eye of the beholder. I can say that celia is, without exception, the most evil, the most degenerate, the most damning influence on Hatrack, and no one would bat an eyelash.
But if I use the same terms to describe Lalo, it may be taken quite seriously.
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I thought that the whole thing was in bad taste, and was trying to diffuse what I veiwed as cruel and unfair by fluffing it to death.
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You know, it must be my bias, but it didn't occur to me that that was being presented as a direct comparison. For me it was an amusing exercise at comparing what I know about the two men and trying to figure out who would have said what. A conundrum, if you will.
I guess, more than anything, it just means I need to get the hell away from Hatrack.
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Thanks, Scott. Getting riled up about inaccuracy is something I can relate to.
I still don't get why the quotes attributed to Bush Jr's 2003 State of the Union address were not fact-checked before assertion by so many across the net. That's so easy to do (transcripts are on on the main fed page, on CNN's page, on the major network pages, on C-Span's pages), yet the untrue assertion was made over and over, even by the Boston Globe. Bizzare.
I'm also not sure why any of those quotes were seen as troubling, actually. I mean, I find them troubling, but I wouldn't find any of them (even the Hitler ones, from what I remember) to be unexpected from a Christian leader. Mind you, I'd prefer not to have such a leader over me speak in this way in his or her official capacity, but I would have just chalked it up to one of those things I dislike, not something horrifying.
I say this not to be difficult, just that the strength of the reaction to them [all around] seemed unexpected to me.
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I'm with BtL on this one. It was a fun mental exercise, because the quotes had been removed from context in such a way as to make it as difficult as possible to determine which of them said it.
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