ML>> oh? seems to me that it is "who ya know and who ya blow"
 ML>> that get's one around in political circles... i won't even
 ML>> mention that every single one of those in the trivia quiz
 ML>> are/were politicians and that, in itself, makes it
 ML>> political.

 BK>>  If Abraham Lincoln performed oral sex on his wife that would
 BK>> qualify by you standards. Not by mine.

 ML> not, it would not qualify by my standards... please stop
 ML> trying to think that you know me by the extremely few
 ML> messages that i've written in here that you may have read...

 BK>  According to your own words, at the top of this reply, it would 
 BK> qualify.

wrongo... you're being to terse in your interpretation... how was abe's
wife to help him in political circles? i daresay that she was just a wife
and not a politician, eh?

 ML>> the quiz and its subject matter make it even moreso right
 ML>> dead on on the topic of _this_ echo which is "Politically
 ML>> Incorrect" and is/was based on the ABC network's TV show
 ML>> "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher"...

 BK>>  I am familiar with it. Still doesn't make it anything more than
 BK>> smear jobs.

 ML> whatever, cap'n...

 ML>> FWIW: the following is definitely politically incorrect ;)

 BK>>  Politically incorrect is a term used by right wingers to divert
 BK>> from discussion of valid issues.

 ML> bullshit...

 BK>  Where in the real world do you see it used for any other
 BK>  purpose.

i don't assign "groupings" like "right wingers" and
such to folk because what i'd think of as one thing ends up being
another... for example...

  is one a liberal if they are for folk being able to freely own guns?

 

 ML>> The FBI is warning that Al-Qaeda operatives may try to rent
 ML>> U.S. apartments and rig them with explosives. The Bush
 ML>> administration has warned that anyone perpetuating such a
 ML>> conscienceless act would be hunted down and punished. Plus,
 ML>> they could forget about getting back their security deposit.
 ML>> - Bill Maher

 BK>>  Which is funny. And not a smear.

 ML> and is also politically incorrect ;)

 BK>  Not really. There is nothing there racial, ethnic, or about 
 BK> anyone else who could claim any sort of discrimination. There  is
 BK> nothing there actually offensive to any group I can think of.  Ok,
 BK> to terrorists, yes, but that's stretching the definition. 

another "too terse" interpretation... it is politically incorrect
simply because it is a slight at what some politician (may have) said ;) 
perhaps you need to loosen your definitions a bit? O:)

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