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To: highball

At what point does an error become a con?


42 posted on 12/12/2006 9:37:33 AM PST by Continental Soldier
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To: Continental Soldier
At what point does an error become a con?

When the error has been brought to their attention.

You make a good point - this is no longer about them being simply "incorrect." It's a deliberate and cynical attempt to make a quick buck by repeating and reinforcing known falsehoods.

45 posted on 12/12/2006 9:40:02 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Continental Soldier
"At what point does an error become a con?"

When people start to call it "inerrant"

133 posted on 12/15/2006 5:04:54 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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