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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (6029)	9/29/1998 3:33:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 67261

jbe, not to be too touchy, but this paragraph here, >>There are those that employ the Guilt by Association approach: e.g., "Clinton is a scuzzbag, and if you don't want to impeach him, it must because you are a scuzzbag too"; or (let's be even-handed here) "the religious right fanatics hate Clinton, so if you hate Clinton, you must be a religious right fanatic too."<< The paragraph implies that someone on the "religious right" is the equivalent of a "scuzzbag" on the left. The ending "you must be a religious right fanatic too" is the so-called even-handed equivalent of the "scuzzbag". Granted that "fanatic" is generally perjorative in any context, but the rest...hmmm. I guess the reality is that people on the right use the term "liberal" as an insult, so I guess I can't complain too much if others chose to use the expression "religious right" as an insult. I'm going to sleep now, so 'nite.