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As has been noted, one of ash’s favorite literary devices is to take a correspondent’s phrase and use it in her response, slightly changing the context. Guess which appropriated expression was used by the original writer
A gaffe is defined as telling the truth, or stating an honest opinion, by accident. Recent gaffes have been made by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, first in suggesting that South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond should have been elected on the segregationist platform in 1948, and more recently in regard to Congress cracking down on lobbyists supplying free meals. In fact, he did so twice, first by rhetorically asking, “Where are they supposed to take us – to McDonald’s?” later amended to a comment involving seeing his wife more often.
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“If you can’t say anything nice…’ Let’s just say ash’s mother never advocated that particular piece of wisdom. In fact, ash is grateful she never had to unlearn the basic dishonesty of such a sentiment. Which is not to say she would have volunteered the following without prompting. She wouldn’t have been motivated to bother.
The occasion would have gone unnoted if not for the glowing tribute from another writer.
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Here’s a case where ash’s letter makes no sense but as a rebuttal to another. More than she disdains propaganda is propaganda appropriated whole from the brain of the original propagandist without attribution, probably because the regurgitator has forgotten it’s not an original concept. That’s beside the fact, of course, that it has no basis in logic.
Clinton people should be quiet about 9/11
So, the Clinton administration wants the truth to be told regarding the events leading up to 9/11.
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The title refers to the fact that, as ash has noted in other letters, the conservative columnist George Will commonly enlarges upon his comments during a weekly television appearance for his articles. In this case, he snottily boasted of the naturally cheerful nature of conservatives as opposed to the sour, dour liberals on Sunday, expanding the theme into a full-fledged treatise several days later. Never mind that he portrays himself as a great intellect while espousing such simplistic nonsense. When it comes to denouncing liberalism on the flimsiest grounds, there is no level below which he will not sink:
I could write an anti-conservative screed based on caricatures, clichés, stereotypes, half-truths, misconceptions, and condescending parody.