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Crazy Analysis
alcaray
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8/17/2009 1:45:58 AM
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Media handling of crazy lies, then and now.
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alcaray
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8/17/2009 1:45:58 AM
Get the Big Lie out there first, and follow it with another Big Lie while the first is being exposed.
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Bowser
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8/17/2009 4:34:06 AM
Excuse me...are you lecturing us on conspiracies?
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TB
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8/17/2009 4:53:16 AM
Honesty. Fear tactics. Terrorizing people with untruths.
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Bowser
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8/17/2009 5:12:22 PM
So where was the media...
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Lee
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8/17/2009 3:08:58 AM
Perlstein is an idiot.
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TB
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8/17/2009 4:41:24 AM
You, Lee, and the linked correspondents missed what the thesis of the piece was.
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alcaray
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8/17/2009 4:59:32 AM
There's no "thesis" there.
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TB
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8/17/2009 1:32:32 PM
I realize that you will read a Perlstine piece and never be able to detect anything but more of the same.
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alcaray
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8/17/2009 5:19:46 PM
re: Perlstein piece
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TB
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8/17/2009 6:10:32 PM
Here are the second and third paragraphs.
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alcaray
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8/17/2009 6:39:09 PM
That's a thesis?
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TB
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8/17/2009 7:47:19 PM
Well at least you are in the discussion now.
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alcaray
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8/17/2009 8:10:53 PM
I wound up the discussion five posts ago.
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TB
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8/17/2009 11:49:10 PM
Do you have any idea...
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alcaray
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8/18/2009 1:53:54 AM
Alinsky Rule 12
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TB
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8/18/2009 3:34:14 AM
"The Left is dead the minute it steps onto an intellectual field of battle."
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Bowser
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8/18/2009 5:48:44 AM
amazing
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alcaray
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8/18/2009 4:03:28 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.