-=>> Bob Klahn wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 bk>>>  So, now I no longer accept their facts, which makes their
 bk>>>  conclusions unworthy of serious consideration.

 DD>> Oh, I accept the facts - but, not the faux facts. And most
 DD>> "facts" from both the far right and the far left seem to be

 BK>>  I am not talking about the far right, just ordinary everyday
 BK>>  conservatives.

 DD> Today's "ordinary everyday conservatives" are yesterday's
 DD> radial, reactionary right.

 That was my point.

 DD> I measure conservatism by the
 DD> Barry Goldwater yardstick - Barry would be considered a
 DD> moderate or worse, maybe even guilty of librul leanings by
 DD> today's "ordinary everyday conservatives". Of course they

 That is true, and who thought they could make us wish for a
 return to Barry Goldwater?

 DD> will deny that estimate - but their words and actions give
 DD> the lie to any denials in that direction

 DD> Did David Brock and his whole bunch of doofuses (doofi???)
 DD> die? I know Dan Schorr is still pontificating.

 From what I have seen of Brock, he is not far left. Schorr I
 don't much remember what he was.

 DD>> faux facts, made up on the spot to support some specious
 DD>> position or other. So, without independent corroboration -
 DD>> they all go into the bit bucket.

 BK>>  That is why I keep resources, and do research.

 DD> As do I.

 bk>>>  See the tagline.

 bk>>> ... If a conservative says it, it's misstated, misleading, or just
 bk>>> plain wrong.

 DD>> The same may be said of the ultra-liberal.

 BK>>  That was a plain old conservative. If an ultra-right winger says
 BK>>  it it's an outright lie.

 BK>>  Ultra-liberals are scarce these days.

 DD> Not as scarce as the radical right would like, or hope.

 hehe...
 DD>

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