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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (358742)11/15/2007 5:01:20 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1587639
 
CJ, > The problem is, they took more than 10 minutes to look at the evidence.

Of course they did. Occam's Razor didn't fit their agenda, so they had to expand their search and find more "evidence" of a "master conspiracy."

Personally, I didn't have to look any further than the way Brooks' argument is being portrayed. Brooks isn't feigning ignorance, as Herbert's defenders claim. Rather, Brooks tells the story of Reagan's 1980 campaign, which included Reagan's active courting of the black vote, and the context behind Reagan's visit to Philadelphia, Mississippi. He even provides the support context behind the "OMG states rights" phrase:

> Programs like education and others should be turned back to the states and local communities with the tax sources to fund them. I believe in states’ rights. I believe in people doing as much as they can at the community level and the private level.

Brooks also gives the following observation:

> The use of the phrase “states’ rights” didn’t spark any reaction in the crowd, but it led the coverage in The Times and The Post the next day.

So how does Herbert respond? By pounding the table, bringing up more "evidence" of a conspiracy, and using guilt by association. No one on the right denies that race had a lot to do with the GOP's rise to the White House in 1980 (and 1988 as well), but this characterization by Herbert is extreme to say the least.

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