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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (69892)6/1/2008 3:54:21 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 540958
 
>>I did not intentionally twist Obama's statement. I don't have time to research every bit of information, and it really doesn't make any difference because everything I say is challenged anyway.<<

MM -

I believe you. I don't think you're intentionally twisting Obama's words.

What you are doing is relying on unreliable sources for your information about him. Your sources have an interest in casting doubt and suspicion on Obama, and they are taking things he has said out of context, or repeating things others have taken out of context without checking them out. Their purpose is not to understand what Obama actually stands for and who he is, but to make him out to be some kind of horrifying radical extremist.

If you use those kinds of sources, you're bound to get bad information.

And before you defend your sources, note the sequence of events that has happened here more than a few times now. You find some "Oh my God, did he really say that?" quotation. You post it here. Someone here then provides the corrected quote, and/or the context in which it was said. This happens every single time you post one of those quotations from Obama.

A subtle pattern begins to emerge.

The problem is that your sources are not telling the truth. You may choose to keep using those sources for information if you wish, but don't forget that they have a lousy record for factuality.

- Allen
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