Re: New Orleans, The part that pisses me off about it...

In article <BF54E438.1A5E3%whatif@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Wage Peace says...
>
>in article 5b9ui110eghmm1osodfig3h4vaokic09pj@xxxxxxx, Phil Earnhardt at
>pae@xxxxxxx wrote on 9/19/05 17:14:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:43:50 GMT, Wage Peace <whatif@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That is amazing to me. We watched this administration claim that 911
>>> happened because we were "vulnerable" and that they had to make drastic
>>> changes to "protect the Homeland" but somehow they were unable to do
>>> anything to prepare for a storm that had already passed over US territory
>>> doing lots of damage and took three days to get to the Gulf Coast.
>>>
>>> "Nobody could have anticipated the breach of the levies." What a crock of
>>> ***.
>>
>> What a crock, indeed. Who exactly are you quoting here?
>
>I'm quoting George W. Bush in his TV interview interview with Diane Sawyer,\

You're not quoting anybody. You put quotation marks around something that nobody
said; googling on your statement on the web returns no hits.

>> Where is a reference to your alleged quotation? I can find no
>> reference. If you have "evidence" that such a statement was ever made,
>> please provide it.
>
>See here:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Anticipated+tHe+Breach+of+the+Levies&bt
>nG=Google+Search

And that's not the [false] quotation that you provided! You're trying to change
your [mis-]quotation from your earlier posting -- those words are inclusded at
the top of this posting. Too late.


Here is the Google search on your false quotation; it returns ZERO results on
the web:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Nobody+could+have+anticipated+the+breach+of+the+levies.%22&btnG=Search

Do you understand this simple principle, Wage? If you're going to put quotation
marks around something, it makes good sense to ensure that you're actually
quoting somebody.

>>> Bush supporters, have you seen enough, yet?
>>
>> I've seen far too many of your unsubstantiated statements. Just like
>> we've seen way too goofy statements from Cindy Sheehan where she calls
>> for us to "'[...] pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans." That,
>> by the way, is an example of real quotation:
>> http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=503
>>
>>> Feel safe and secure?
>>
>> No. I'm have no idea what can protect us from your mis-quotings and
>> mis-attributions.
>>
>Name one mis-quote or mis-attribution. Just one.

Your words above are a mis-quote You put quote marks around a statement that
wasn't a quote.

You owe the newsgroup an apology.


>> I have absolutely no idea how to protect our children from people who
>> make such outlandish statements -- and fail to be accountable when
>> their statements are just plain wrong. Doing in this name of "waging
>> peace" gives you no mandate to just make up statements out of thin
>> air.
>
>Ha ha. You must be new at this.

That is a strange statement from somebody who put quotation marks around
something that no public official said.

You do have cut-and-paste on your computer, right? There is absolutely no excuse
for this kind of a mistake.

>I always have, and always will be able to
>back up every assertion I make.

Then it's time for some serious introspection. In this thread, you [mis-]quoted
a public official.

>? Now let's see you show a statement I made
>that is not supported.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Nobody+could+have+anticipated+the+breach+of+the+levies.%22&btnG=Search

>Wage Peace

Will you own up to your mistake?

--phil

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