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To: ahayes
I know what she said. It's obvious that your reference to it was a failed attempt to extricate yourself from the hole you dug. Then again, I may be wrong and you just don't have the mental acuity to see that the meaning/definition of the word "enjoy" is not a mere quibble, but rather, of great importance.

Your failed argument is based on a definition of enjoy that is different than the one Ann used. Your attempt to attribute to her what she did not in fact do is akin to you putting words in her mouth.

That places you in the intellectually dishonest camp or woefully ignorant. Which one? You chose.

153 posted on 06/17/2006 11:53:27 AM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Zon; ahayes
Your failed argument is based on a definition of enjoy that is different than the one Ann used. Your attempt to attribute to her what she did not in fact do is akin to you putting words in her mouth.

You know, when you have to spend so much time telling us what the definition of "is", is, or, rather that "enjoy" means this, rather than that, it is you who have lost the argument.

If you have to explain it, it didn't work.

Do you laugh at a joke if it has to be explained to you?

155 posted on 06/17/2006 11:58:29 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: Zon
You know that she suggested they go pose for Playboy and you think this was a good example of rational discourse?

I think Ann chose to use the word "enjoy" just as deliberately as Newsweek chose that particular headline. To think otherwise is, well, naive.

Do you really think that it is consistent to use the word "enjoy" meaning "benefit from" instead of "derive pleasure from" and then go make the Playboy comment? Do you think Ann is really being sensitive to the poor widows' feelings? Of course not! The attempt to water-down Coulter's rhetoric by saying, "Well, she didn't mean enjoy enjoy, she just meant enjoy," is just an attempt to assuage one's conscience. At least it shows that Ann Coulter's most avid fans feel some pricklings at her most venemous attacks.

156 posted on 06/17/2006 11:59:37 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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