thanks for your reply. Let me say that I responded to your post because I thought that your response was one of the reasonable ones, not that I was aiming at you :)
There was skepticism, and that's fair, but insinuating that Navychief was a gloryhound goes beyond skepticism into cynicism. And i know cynicism, I'm an expert in it and will demonstrate it:
When we become more concerned with our perceived reputation than we do about getting the truth out, we are no better than the MSM.
All that was asked for was some warm bodies to show up because they wanted to try and get a crowd size that couldn't be ignored. There was no request beyond just showing up at the rally if you could. Thanks again.
Dear Unruly Human,
"All that was asked for was some warm bodies to show up because they wanted to try and get a crowd size that couldn't be ignored. There was no request beyond just showing up at the rally if you could."
Without giving us evidence, this wasn't a reasonable request.
"When we become more concerned with our perceived reputation than we do about getting the truth out, we are no better than the MSM."
No, that's wrong.
The fact is, NavyChief wanted to make use of FR's reputation. I don't blame him. He wanted to make use of the crowd, and the fact that FR is recognized by many as a significant part of the "blogosphere."
That's fine.
But he asked for something to which he had no right. Not without first giving us enough evidence to independently and objectively evaluate his claim.
After all, that's partly on what FR's reputation rests. Folks here looked at the evidence of the faked memos, and analyzed them, factually, logically, rigorously. And after having sifted the evidence, folks were able to come to the conclusion that the memos were faked.
Folks at FR did that during the Clinton years.
Finding out what the evidence and evaluating its truth value is a very, very big part of what FR is.
But, NavyChief was asking us to forego our critical faculties, suspend our disbelief, and just sign on for the ride, just trust him. Uh uh.
We're partisans, you betcha. But "fake but accurate" is their motto, not ours.
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