Posted on 07/03/2004 3:31:41 PM PDT by Pokey78
Mark steyn bump
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Ping! Thought you might find this of interest based on our previous conversation. It's another review (this one by Mark Steyn) written as if the second hour of the film doesn't exist.
I owe you a response to your long and detailed freepmail. Meanwhile, my Dem younger brother is putting the squeeze on me to see it with him next Tuesday, when he comes down to civilization from Bishop, California. I am consulting my conscience on that one.
Having now read your freepmail, regarding the second half, I take it you think the selective use of vinettes was very effective agitprop, or assuming you think the selection rings true, effective revealing of that the emperor has no clothes? I think I probably should see, and post a vanity. I keep saying I should do it on various topics. Maybe this time I will follow through.
Tell your brother you'll see it with him on one condition--that afterward he will give you an amount of time equal to the length of the film, during which you get to refute, uninterrupted, all the lies in the movie. Then go prepared to do just that. I think it's a fair deal--you give your time, he gives his.
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I tell all liberals I meet that I understand Bush is the devil...It seems to disarm them
The scalpel of the master.
Another good slam at Moore.
My brother is one of my best friends by the way. And so it goes.
Make sure you buy the ticket for the Movie playing next to it.
(1) you may want to leave MMoores POS
(2) MMoore shouldn't be allowed money, he doesn't know how to spend it properly (Hillary knows)
I have a sister like that. Try a discussion where you both will agree only to talk about facts, not feelings. Discuss issues, not what you think of the individual politicians or spokespeople.
And have facts at your side. For example, tax cuts have always resulted in increases to the Nat'l treasury. That is not arguable, even if the Liberals "feel" that it can't be so.
My brother and I largely agree on economics. Indeed, on that score, if anything, I am a bit to the left of him. My bother likes to think of himself as a pre Goldwater liberal Pubbie, whose party long ago abandoned him, as the Southern Baptists and other suspect types took control. But when he saw the quarterly check I wrote to Uncle Sam this June, he noted that he understood better why I was a Bush supporter. I told him I thought in all good conscience, I should probably pay more. And so it goes.
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