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To: familyop
Instead of insulting the journalist, how about directing it to the person who actually expressed the sentiment as opposed to the person who reported the expressed sentiment?

Context is key.

And after a White House meeting with the NRA, Vice President Joe Biden pointedly omitted promising an assault weapons ban that he and the president have long supported, suggesting the White House would focus first on closing loopholes on gun buyers’ background checks and limiting the size of ammunition cartridges.

40 posted on 01/17/2013 8:25:46 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

The authoress wrote that text without quotation marks. The words are properly assumed by readers to be hers, paraphrased or otherwise. The common nature of such errors is understandable, though, with so many English classes filled with man-hating instead of useful skills.


41 posted on 01/18/2013 9:31:32 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Altariel

The blame should be shared, though. That publication needs an editor with some rudimentary technical knowledge.


43 posted on 01/18/2013 9:51:58 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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