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Originally Posted by roachboy
so you really are arguing that.
jesus.
beneath that, however, you are pointing to the problem---conservative memes getting way way way too much press attention without adequate indicators that they are fucked up. they get press and they're presented as if they represented a legitimate political position. THAT'S the problem.
if that wasn't happening, none of this idiocy would get traction amongst the paranoid set.
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You are a smart guy so I think you can drop your punditry long enough to at least imagine, for a moment, that the speech Obama was going to give was on healthcare or the environment (I KNOW that it wasn't, but imagine that was the actual speech he intended to give). Can you at least understand that some parents would not have wanted to have their kids subjected to that speech? I believe that you can, just as you can understand how other parents would not have wanted their kids subjected to a Bush speech on the importance of interrogating prisoners (just an inverse political hot-button, thats all).
Now, in the absence of a subject matter (due to a failure on the WH's part), the parents opted out. In the presence of subject matter, parents would not opted out. Since the initial opt-out by some parents - the WH, media, and you guys are rewriting the event to make it look like those parents acted entirely irrational to a speech on staying in school which, in truth, was not what they were reacting to. Is it so hard to admit, "Yep, the WH should have been more on point" and move on?
FTR, I do not have my children pulled out of the Obama speech and never did.
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Originally Posted by Halx
Then again, it is the dismissal of absurdities that can come back to haunt a campaign. Those absurdities can gain traction in today's world where every nutjob can have a voice on FOX News.
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...or MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, the internet,...
Just sayin'