tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post2357802514615495557..comments2024-01-23T07:51:17.867-05:00Comments on Fern's Fronds: Colbert a Satire? Who knew?FernWisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04143005104791389904noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post-73069351146081026922010-09-16T21:55:52.924-04:002010-09-16T21:55:52.924-04:00Wow, you really don't get it ..Wow, you really don't get it ..Kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post-39774056750518581482010-09-16T16:17:02.855-04:002010-09-16T16:17:02.855-04:00I'm going to amplify this, since all examples ...I'm going to amplify this, since all examples I used were from one person, and the behavior is not limited to one person.<br /><br />Oh, and http://twitter.com/AriaLeFey, slander is saying something FALSE about another that hurts their reputation. Quoting them, in context, is not false. I hadn't even named you as the source of the examples, but since you want to call this slander, I'll get folks go to the videotape (or at least the twitter timelines) themselves. <br /><br />Another time, I was told that in movie westerns, John Wayne's character was being sarcastic when calling folks 'pilgrim'. That it meant that the person was stupidly European and couldn't even ride one of the horses Europeans were introduced to by the Indians.<br /><br />WTF? asked I. Europeans introduced horses to the Americas. They weren't part of Native American culture, mythos, or even USE, just like rifles and dandelions. The person told me I was wrong, I should look it up, etc. Of course I had posted links supporting my facts. Of course the other person in the chat room didn't look at them.<br /><br />Is the lesson for me to never confuse issues by including facts? Nah.<br /><br />As Gwynn Green once sighed about the Ar nDraiocht Fein motto "Why Not Excellence?", perhaps we should aim to get everyone up to competence first.FernWisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143005104791389904noreply@blogger.com