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To: Gelato; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
...I think FR is better served by discussing conservative issues and principles, rather than by making fun of and tearing down conservative people.

In other words, when people don't act like Alan Keyes. You may have some humor in you, after all!

Dan

550 posted on 01/09/2002 5:42:52 AM PST by BibChr
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To: BibChr
In other words, when people don't act like Alan Keyes. You may have some humor in you, after all!

Isn't it a little hypocritical for you to bash Keyes on a personal level, on the basis that you think he bashes Bush? Don't you see the irony here?

I assert that Keyes' criticisms of the President are limited to policy. They ALWAYS are. Remember the "Keyes said Bush is evil" speech that seemed to start all this mess last August? Have you ever actually read the speech? It's not an attack on Bush! It's a commentary--with quite a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor in it, that was apparently lost on some in this forum, I might add--on the contradictions of Bush's stem cell research policy. Policy. We are allowed to disagree with the President of the United States on his choices that affect our nation, aren’t we?

Let me offer you this challenge: if Keyes is the personal attacker that you seem to believe he is, prove it. Show one time he criticized the President for something other than policy; one time he got personal, rather than critiquing the Bush Administration. I'm easily convinced, when the undeniable facts are laid in front of me. If I've missed something, show me.

If you want to consider your jokes political parodies, you have to be able to defend it on some basis in reality. Political parodies are exaggerated truths, but they are also social commentaries meant to poke fun at something in society that needs to be changed. You must be making a social statement. Could you be more clear about it? Are you pro-abortion?

555 posted on 01/09/2002 8:28:05 AM PST by Gelato
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