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To: antiRepublicrat
"That is all technically true, but it constitutes a huge lie unless one knows the context."

Well, Roosevelt may have been a murderer, but the text that followed didn't say that. DI didn't claim anything that they didn't prove.

You guys are just upset because the truth is being more widely disseminated than previously and that obviously must be the result of evil creationists.

48 posted on 12/12/2006 11:05:20 AM PST by GourmetDan
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To: GourmetDan
DI didn't claim anything that they didn't prove.

DI is now claiming that there is something suspect in the judgment. That is a claim that they did not prove.

50 posted on 12/12/2006 11:09:40 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: GourmetDan
Well, Roosevelt may have been a murderer, but the text that followed didn't say that.

In the law, if you direct someone to commit a murder, then you are yourself guilty of murder (also look up "felony murder doctrine" for how one can be a murderer without himself killing anyone). What I wrote in the paragraph text was exactly factual and would lead a reasonable person to conclude the headline was true, but it is in effect a huge lie that completely distorts what really happened. You could do the same with Bush and Iraq.

DI didn't claim anything that they didn't prove.

Completely out of context, as in my earlier example. The DI is lying by removing context and relying on the ignorance of its supporters not to catch it -- or even reject it when the proper context is shown, as is apparent here.

60 posted on 12/12/2006 11:41:15 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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