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To: Dr. Frank
Holding a negative opinion about the President is not, in and of itself, "unpatriotic". It's lame that I have to even say this.

From which post are you quoting the word "unpatriotic"? I can't find it anywhere above yours.

30 posted on 10/23/2003 1:05:30 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
From which post are you quoting the word "unpatriotic"? I can't find it anywhere above yours.

Don't fret that you can't find it; the blame is not yours. Perhaps I should not have put the word in quotes and I would not have had I known it would cause confusion and distress. For, I was not quoting anyone per se, I was employing the quotes as (what is often termed on the web) scare-quotes.

Were the scare-quotes appropriate? Well, if the organization PABAAH: Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood is not recommending boycott of Harris's movie because they consider him/his quote unpatriotic, but simply because they don't like his comments or for some other reason, then obviously my comments re:unpatriotic don't apply. In other words: My comments about Harris's statement not being unpatriotic were only directed to any hypothetical people (if any such people exist) who may have the misimpression that the quote was unpatriotic and who may thus on those erroneous grounds deem a boycott of his movie "patriotic" (which it is not).

Lest further miscommunication occur due to the quotation marks I have just used in the preceding sentence, I want to make it clear that I do not question the patriotism as such of the members of PABAAH (whom I may fairly and accurately quote as having used the word "Patriotic" in reference to themselves, if nothing else). What I question is the inherent patriotism of the act (of boycotting Radio). But again, if PABAAH does not mean to imply that they consider the act patriotic, but rather that they are patriotic Americans who want to engage in this spurious (and not especially patriotic) act, then I actually have no quarrel with them. I don't know if this all is the case, however, hence my post. Best,

43 posted on 10/23/2003 1:33:06 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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