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To: Jape

No, she said that Swifties alleged that it was a "self-inflicted wound" which occured when he shot a grenade which landed short and hit him in the butt. But before she could finish Matthews kept interrupting her.


73 posted on 08/20/2004 11:14:30 PM PDT by Cableguy
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To: Cableguy

Yep! Michelle's only error was in assuming that Matthews was professional enough to have actually read the Swiftboaters' book before commenting on it. She mentioned the self-inflicted wounds on the assumption that Matthews knew what she was talking about. Not having even cracked open the book he'd been ridiculing on TV, Matthews went ballistic and began howling that Michelle was accusing Kerry of shooting himself to avoid combat.

Michelle's error was one that anybody might make. If I was invited on a talk show where a particular book was being discussed, I'd assume the host had read the book.

But Matthews' error was atrocious. He had failed to read the very book he was using as the topic on several editions of his show. Even worse, he was attacking the book without having read it.

Olberman's error was equally appalling. He smeared Michelle without checking on the context of what actually happened.

Michelle wins the round and the match!


90 posted on 08/21/2004 6:33:57 AM PDT by puroresu
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