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An arsenal of cruelest quotes (repeating what LIBERALS say)
Washington Times ^ | April 29, 2005 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Posted on 04/29/2005 5:08:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

..........Allow me to point out that "the right" not only indulges in jarring invective but also has adopted very disturbing polemical techniques.

For several years, its writers have engaged in discrediting their opponents by quoting them. Yes, they simply hurl back into a person's face things the person has said, without any regard as to how this cruel quoting coarsens our society.

........ A year after I was scorned for publishing stories revealing Bill Clinton has an eye for the ladies (and other parts of his anatomy for the ladies as well), it became apparent I was right. Other writers had just published the same findings. The Wall Street Journal's David Brooks asked me if I would like to "gloat" about this subsequent vindication.

.......... treacherous quoting of innocent liberals has become a staple of the American right. Rush Limbaugh does it every weekday and so does Sean Hannity. Every year the Media Research Center holds a huge dinner... devoted to ridiculing media members for things they said over the past year -- and uses videotape. MRC spends the year taping network news and then plays select tapes back during dinner. They give awards for the stupidest quotations. Naturally this year Dan Rather won.

Hundreds of conservatives turn out for the MRC awards dinner every year and have a very jolly time. I must admit I went this year and enjoyed myself immensely. Ann Coulter was on the program and Mr. Hannity. Boone Pickens and Zell Miller stole the show, though Swift Boat hero John O'Neill was superb. All in all it is a very amusing -- if treacherous -- evening. Curiously, it is never reported by major media. Maybe they are waiting for Al Franken to hold an amusing dinner. It will be a long wait.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blogs; cable; internet; liberals; msm; talkradio; truth

1 posted on 04/29/2005 5:08:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This sounds as though it comes from a "Neanderthal"!


2 posted on 04/29/2005 5:13:58 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Maybe they are waiting for Al Franken to hold an amusing dinner. It will be a long wait.

he he he he.

3 posted on 04/29/2005 5:14:35 AM PDT by Fido969 (God? I'm not quite sure of what God is. I know what God isn't. God isn't me.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Whole article is a must read.


4 posted on 04/29/2005 5:18:44 AM PDT by SampleMan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Maybe they are waiting for Al Franken to hold an amusing dinner. It will be a long wait.

Franken is afraid to hold a dinner...after all, who would want to foot the catering tab if Michael Moore showed up?!

5 posted on 04/29/2005 5:26:37 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Mr. Kinsley explained how unfair it is sometime ago when he noted liberals were having their foolish statements thrown back at them because of the advent of so many Internet search machines making it easy to retrieve a public person's errors.

Dang Internet!!!! We need a gatekeeper !!!! How else can a good liberal spin and rewrite history?


[Hillary saw what the Internet did to John Kerry. She knows that could be her Achilles' heal.]
6 posted on 04/29/2005 5:30:03 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Click Here


7 posted on 04/29/2005 5:34:17 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: TomGuy

Yes, we'll keep a good ear out for the Shrillary


8 posted on 04/29/2005 5:35:28 AM PDT by standingfirm
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To: SkyPilot

Thanks!


9 posted on 04/29/2005 5:37:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bump! And lol at the article, very nicely done.

Ann Coulter often comments (paraphrasing) that the Left acts like Nexis-Lexis doesn't exist.


10 posted on 04/29/2005 5:43:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Official Ruling Class Oligarch Oppressor)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Good article! I may have to read his book, too.


11 posted on 04/29/2005 5:47:16 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bump for later reading!


12 posted on 04/29/2005 5:52:31 AM PDT by alwaysconservative (The left: putting the "fun" back in dysfunctional!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I think this lovely article deserves a visit from our favorite marine mammal.

OH THE HUGH MANITEE!

Shalom.

13 posted on 04/29/2005 5:56:47 AM PDT by ArGee (Why do we let the abnormal tell us what's normal?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Curiously, it is never reported by major media

Hell will freeze over first!

Personally...I look forward to the Houston Comical circulation figures and wonder when a real investigation into their inflated, although declining figures will occur...

14 posted on 04/29/2005 5:57:19 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: gunnedah

Did you read the whole thing, or just couldn't see the satire?


15 posted on 04/29/2005 6:35:05 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Travis McGee
"An arsenal of cruelest quotes (repeating what LIBERALS say)"

I suppose an uber-Freeper named "Cultural Jihad" is cited by Tyrrell as well? (heh-heh...)

16 posted on 04/29/2005 6:40:38 AM PDT by F16Fighter
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