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Posts: 39 (09/04/08 04:31 PM) |
...but not his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan to another another Senator who was being less than truthful. One of many
favortie Moynihan quotes. Anyway, I found this nice piece:
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Posts: 6718 (09/04/08 07:14 PM) Ann: eyes that laugh |
This is why I don't listen to commentary after a speech is made. I don't really need anybody interpreting for me what I've just heard, thanks very
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Wisdom is self-regenerating. The more you use it the more you have. It's not using it that causes you to run out. ~ BoardFlak
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Posts: 50896 (09/05/08 10:07 AM) CoAdmin.w/Grace06 |
clem,
I'm a DPM fan. The first time I saw him on TV, he began his speech with some arcane little historical detail. I thought to myself, can't this guy get better speech writers? They just flop open a history book at random, and just pick a fact, and write a speech based upon it. Only years later did I learn what a scholar he was. We miss him. Ann, I sometimes do listen to the commentary. And sometimes I learn from it. For example; such things as: - the candidate used the word "change" 37 times. - or - the candidate did not mention Ronald Reagan - or - that comment about his brother was also a reference to a Civil War battle in which ... - Some of that stuff I wouldn't notice, count, or know. Some of those commentators are really smart. I think George Will has a PhD. |
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Posts: 2042 (09/05/08 11:31 AM) Minister |
Sear said:
"Some of those commentators are really smart. I think George Will has a PhD. " All that means is his opinion, while not any better than mine, does cost more than mine.
"People the world over have always been more impressed by
the power of our example than by the example of our power. " Bill Clinton |
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Posts: 100 (09/05/08 02:32 PM) Full-Fledged Member |
Daniel P. Moynihan was one of the sharpest knives in the drawer. He and Tip O'Neill, Bill Buckley and a few others were no B.S. types. It was a different
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Ann, are you saying you aren't interested in verifying whether a politician has the truth or not in a speech? The facts in the link Clemie posted are supported elsewhere. The link itself is very informative. Errol or anybody please post it on V&M's.  I've been posting too much over there.
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Posts: 50909 (09/06/08 01:30 PM) CoAdmin.w/Grace06 |
"All that means is his opinion, while not any better than mine, does cost more than mine." EG He knows a lot. That doesn't necessarily make his capacity to reason any better. But I like his style. Here's one of my favorites: Harvard President Larry Summers (served as Tres. Sec. @ Clinton 2nd Term) raised deliberately provocative but un-PC questions about biological ( intellectual) differences between men & women. A minor fluff-up resulted. Summers has apologized 3 times so far. ABC-TV's George Will responds: "Summers simply forgot where he was. He thought he was at a place where there was free intellectual inquiry. He wasn't. He was at Harvard. He was on an American campus, where certain ideas simply can't be thought. The idea that there might be innate, which is to say genetically based cognitive differences between the sexes is not a radical thought. There's a huge body of science investigating it. By mentioning it, he induced in that poor woman [MIT Professor Nancy Hopkins] something like a clinical description of Freudian hysteria. She was going to fall down on the carpet and swoon with vapors and muss up her crinolines. This is what feminism has produced? This frail flower who can't stand to be in the presence of an idea like that." Smooth goin' George. Morticia Addams 7 Badda Boom Badda Bing Congratulations for hitting the century mark here @TRT MA7. I agree, Moynihan and Buckley were heavy hitters. |
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