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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: making things up
Message-ID: <1029@gilbbs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 16:08:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: gilbbs.1029
Posted: Mon Sep 22 16:08:06 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Sep-86 23:46:47 EDT
References: <8579@duke.duke.UUCP> <1047@frog.UUCP>
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Summary: speaking of making things up...

In article <1047@frog.UUCP>, tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson) writes:
> > IS NOT FAIR NOR IS IT MORAL to make up things, nor take out of context
> > quotations which do not reflect the author's meaning, nor to use your
> > vague recollections as evidence, especially after others have pointed
> > out using the actual text that you are simply wrong, just to argue that
> > someone is a bad and Evil Person.  Joe McCarthy did it, and he was 
> > wrong.
> 
> Not that McCarthy deserves defending, but no one he accused of being a
> Communist wasn't.

   Ahem.  Mr. Hudson, I presume that you are prepared to document that
outrageous comment with some facts (preferably *NOT* "facts" prepared by
the John Birch Society)????

   Perhaps this ought to be re-directed to net.followup?

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