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To: Richard Kimball
Am I supposed to know what that means?

Went right over my head like one of Stewart's bullets.

72 posted on 03/04/2009 7:08:09 PM PST by Syncro (Play by the rules and you're gonna miss all the fun--Jacky Don Tucker (Toby Keith)
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To: Syncro
Fortunately, we have Keith Olbermann to point out that Rush Limbaugh did not accurately quote the preamble to the Constitution in his CPAC speech last weekend. I'm not sure what scam Olbermann imagined Rush was trying to put over on the American people by saying conservatives believed in the "preamble to the Constitution" and then quoting words from the Declaration of Independence -- but Olbermann put an end to that cruel deception!

In the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, there's a similar error in the script. Pompey is taking classes from Ransom Stoddard (Stewart's character.)

I'm quoting from memory, so may be slightly off:

Pompey: "It was writ by Mr. Thomas Jefferson of Virginia."
Stoddard: "Written, Pompey."
Pompey: "And it was called the Declaration of Independence."
Stoddard: "The Constitution."
Pompey: "And it goes like this: We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

It's one of those little errors in a movie that shows up on movie trivia sites sometimes. When I heard Rush make the error, the first thing I thought of was the movie.

79 posted on 03/04/2009 7:45:34 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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