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Originally Posted by roachboy
cyn---i'm not sure i understand your point.
i should say as an aside that i don't particularly care for al gore. i find him astonishingly wooden. one of those folk that makes me cringe just a little that he's on my side. or i am on his. whatever. on this issue anyway. what i'm reacting to in this thread really is the ad hominem character of this whole thing. and it's timing, which seems more than passing strange. but mostly the former. and there's little comparison between the tactics used by the american right insofar as sustained personal attack as a way of trying to delegitimate a political message is concerned.
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This is pretty much what I mean:
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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
I agree and at that point whatever message the homophobic congressmen had built a career spewing out is pretty much moot when it comes from him. Are his followers really going to continue taking his anti gay message seriously when he makes a speech about it in the future?
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How about the preacher/politician saying family values only to be caught with a mistress?
rb is this something that you don't see the hypocrisy? It's schadenfreude at minimum, hypocrisy at maximum.
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