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Posted by David Totheroh on 09/12/06 07:04
Ed Hulse wrote:
> David Totheroh wrote:
>
> > > Well, there *was* that little matter of making up conversations
> > > wholesale and attributing to Reagan remarks he never made -- like the
> > > one about AIDS being God's way of punishing gays.
> >
> > You're absolutely right. Reagan didn't say that. His communications
> > director Pat Buchanan said AIDs was "nature's revenge on gay men" and
> > Reagan never had him retract or amend the statement.
>
> And that, I take it, justifies putting similar words in Reagan's mouth.
> So much for the concern about fictionalizing history....
No, but neither does it justify putting words in MY mouth. I said
nothing about justifying false quotes, I merely presented what I
believe to be an accurate quote by an official spoksman for the Reagan
administration (the truth or falsity of which, I note, you fail to
address while you're falsely accusing me).
>
> > Novak has said lots of things, like that he used the term "Agency
> > operative" when he says he meant 'employee.' For someone who's been in
> > Washington as long as he has, it doesn't pass the smell test. What he
> > says contradicts your implication that his confirmation came from
> > "WHO'S WHO." "Novak will later write that he originally acquired the
> > information from an official who is "no partisan gunslinger." Novak
> > says, "When I called another official for confirmation, he said:
> > 'Oh, you know about it.'"" The documents are ambiguous about who
> > he met first, Armitage or Rove. And in any case, documents show that
> > Libby leaked the info more than 2 weeks before Novak spoke to both
> > Armitage and Rove.
>
> Mr. Stone, meet Mr. Totheroh.
Again, I note your unwillingness (inability?) to even try to refute the
facts of the matter that I present, and instead substitute personal
innuendo and attack of my character. It may, in this day and age be a
pragmatically effective approach short term, but it is a very weak
argument, logically speaking. I don't know you Mr. Hulse (just as you
don't know me) but from what I've heard from mutual acquaintances, I
expected a higher level of discourse.
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