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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (38317)	7/23/2005 11:38:04 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I know that. I thought I made that clear. That's actually part of my point, but never mind. I don't think we can communicate on this- and maybe not on anything else. I write things here, they makes sense to me, and they get interpreted in ways beyond my wildest dreams. What can I say? I'm not criticizing; I'm just noting that even though I thought there could be communication, I might have been wrong. No judgment. No condescension. I'm just noting a complete failure of communication here. Oh well.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (38317)	7/24/2005 2:43:14 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

FWIW, I gave more thought as to whether she should be on the list than anyone else. I consider her a friend too. That however was not part of the criteria. She also was perhaps the only one on the list who generally refrained from insults, personal attacks, & ridicule, etc., of other SI members. She did tend to have less forbearance toward the objects of her POV however (Bush & his Admin, etc.). This too was less extreme than a vast majority of those on the list. In the end it was the weight of evidence & the established criteria that placed her there. As much as it troubled me to include her, it is IMO, an indictment of those on the left who tolerated, sometimes encouraged, all too often agreed with, but almost never repudiated the extremists on their side of the isle. It's quite possible that folks like Suma who gave greater weight to the POV's of fellow liberals & was simultaneously leary of most conservative POV's, they may have ended up being duped into believing the left's extremists were speaking the truth. JMHO