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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (31536)	1/17/2009 6:53:43 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Re: "Please provide one instance of a corrupt Republican who was not publicly pilloried....' Peter, it seems that you are getting yourself all twisted-up and confused here. (Either that or, and I hope this is not it, you are being deliberately disingenuous and saying things that you KNOW are untrue....) I never made ANY ASSERTION that 'corrupt Republicans are not raked-over-the-coals by the Press' (nor, for that matter, that corrupt Dems aren't EITHER!) In fact... I made no comment at all about 'press'. (YOU were the only one doing that... with your silly and unsupported assertions that "100% of the time if when no party is mentioned of corrupt politicians the party is D. 100% of the time the media mentions the R when they are accused of corruption" ... silly assertions for which you provided zero in supporting evidence to establish the claims....) No, I merely contented myself by pointing out that I was not in the habit of buying a pig in a poke, or inclined to believe claims of 'fact' for which no supporting evidence is provided. <GGG> No, Peter... the only ASSERTIONS OF FACT THAT I made were these: "Corruption is everywhere in politics", "power corrupts equally", and that "BOTH sides of the 'Republi-crat' duopoly provide ample historical evidence for that".... "CORRUPTION is an equal opportunity enlister... and "power always corrupts." While I began my remarks with this one opinion: "I see little difference between either branch of the 'Republi-crats' insofar as 'corruption' goes!" Message 25324049 Message 25321390 Message 25321335 Message 25318608 No, Peter --- I said nothing about Press treatments (mostly restricting my remarks to more generalized comments about the ubiquitousness of corruption in politics, across the political spectrum) while you were the only one making claims about the Press... and assigning silly "100%" modifiers to your claims. So... to ask me to provide examples where 'corrupt Republicans have not been publicly pilloried' is setting up a Straw Man argument --- since I NEVER made any such remark or claim to begin with! I said 'corruption is everywhere'... whereas YOU PETER were the only one claiming exact percentages of anything. :-)