Dennis Prager: Jimmy Carter: 'Compassion for Mordor'

Town Hall ^ | January 6, 2004 | Dennis Prager

[StoneColdGOP]

Come clean.

You got this from "The Onion", right?

[Maigret]

I guess we have a pretty good idea that not everyone reads an entire article before shooting, LOL

[Sans-Culotte]

The punchline whent over my head anyway. I thought the line about the "story being fiction, but not false", referred to the LOTR trilogy!

[Utah Girl]

How dare Jimmah Carter besmirch LOTR. ;)

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I saw your debate earlier today with q here. Here's one where quiddy left off the most important part of the story -- that it was a parody -- by doing his unnecessary excerpting. And in so doing he ruined part of Prager's intent -- by letting the reader catch on slowly that it was a parody it leaves the reader with the feeling, that even though fictional, nevertheless Carter could have said it.

Worse, Q, you have misled YOUR devotees. You do do a service most cases; but what about the many who don't bother reading past the first part of the excerpt unless it interests them? I guarantee you have caused some of your fans to have made a fool of themselves when telling their friends what Carter most recently said. The honorable thing for you to do was to add the spoiler it by saying in the excerpted link "(BTW -- Prager admits this is a parody)".

I humbly suggest that you ask a moderator to fix the exception line accordingly.

[Sloth]

*Obvious* parody, in spite of what so many are saying.

[quidnunc]

Avoiding_Sulla wrote: I saw your debate earlier today with q here. Here's one where quiddy left off the most important part of the story -- that it was a parody -- by doing his unnecessary excerpting. And in so doing he ruined part of Prager's intent -- by letting the reader catch on slowly that it was a parody it leaves the reader with the feeling, that even though fictional, nevertheless Carter could have said it. Worse, Q, you have misled YOUR devotees. You do do a service most cases; but what about the many who don't bother reading past the first part of the excerpt unless it interests them? I guarantee you have caused some of your fans to have made a fool of themselves when telling their friends what Carter most recently said. The honorable thing for you to do was to add the spoiler it by saying in the excerpted link "(BTW -- Prager admits this is a parody)". I humbly suggest that you ask a moderator to fix the exception line accordingly.

I find an article, I post an excerpt so the reader can get enough of it's flavor to see if he's interested in it and I provide a link.

The rest is up to the prospective reader, who is obligated to expend at least a minimum amount of effort in exchange for my doing most of the work.

Freepers aren't a bunch of toddlers and I'm not a pre-school teacher.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

This is NOT just a flavor q. It's a totally different story. It's the equivalent of you spreading a false rumor. Now that you know it is a rumor, if you fail to correct it, you are spreading false reports intentionally.

Stop trying to say you bear NO responsibility for you actions and inactions. You clearly do.

[quidnunc]

Avoiding_Sulla wrote: This is NOT just a flavor q. It's a totally different story. It's the equivalent of you spreading a false rumor. Now that you know it is a rumor, if you fail to correct it, you are spreading false reports intentionally. Stop trying to say you bear NO responsibility for you actions and inactions. You clearly do.

What part of "This Is An Excerpt" do you not understand?

Excerpt (n.): a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented exerpts from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: extract, selection] v : take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.

[XHogPilot]

This editorial describes Jimmah to da bone!

[Killborn]

Thank you :)

[risk]

"What if young people start identifying George W. Bush with Aragorn or Gandalf, and Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden with Saruman?"

This is a joke, right? You found this on the Onion, correct? Oh, this is Jimmy Carter, so I have to suspect that he could have actually said this.