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

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:19:40 GMT, Wage Peace <whatif@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>>>> 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.

[No response.]

>> 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.

[No response.]

>>>>> 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.

[No response.]

>> 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.
>
>Yeah, I did.

Thank you.

You should also drop the pretense that you are "always able to back up
every assertion that [you] make." You failed to do that in this
thread; you provided a bogus quotation.

> I should have said "I don't think anybody anticipated the
>breach of the levees.² instead
>of ³nobody could have anticipated ...

Bingo.

>So that means I was totally wrong about it, huh?

Your quotation is an assertion of fact. Providing a mis-quotation
demonstrates that you fail to meet your own standards:

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

I have three suggestions:

1. Check your quotations! If you put quotation marks around something,
Pease make sure that you provided an accurate quote. Cutting then
pasting the quotation into a search engine will often work to help you
verify your quotations and avoid such mistakes.

2. When you do something like this, acknowledge the mistake and move
on.

3. Please drop the bloody pretense that you "[...] always have, and
always will be able to back up every assertion [you] make."

Thanks!

--phil

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