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Steve King’s Defense
Michael,
Sorry, but this is still blaming the victim. More go along to get along with the left. Their policies don’t work so they must prove that they are defending minorities which they are not. The only way is to manufacture the illusion that the left is worth anything is to create racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, and Islamophobes that don’t exist by falsely quoting someone and then repeating the lie over and over. Rep. King did not say what the Times reporter said he did. If she thinks he said those things, it would be amazing that the Times hired someone who doesn’t understand ordinary English grammar. King’s incredible failure was starting a new paragraph with a new introductory sentence. This allowed the Times reporter to misquote him by smearing the content of the previous paragraph into the new. If we weren’t living in left-wing hell at a minimum the Times reporter would have been forced to retract and apologize. Considering that it is impossible to imagine that she didn’t know exactly what she was doing I think the termination of her employment at the Times would also be appropriate.
When your strawman arguments get really stale you’ve got to go out and manufacture a living strawman by destroying somebody’s life with false accusation. One can’t stop it from happening but I don’t think one should help.
Regards,
Jim
So you are agreeing with Michael who pictures King as a dunce.
I always liked him up until a couple of years ago. He just isn’t careful enough with his rhetoric or what he is doing, and I don’t have enough brainpower to keep up with this stuff. For example, he endorses Faith Goldy for Toronto mayor. Well, what in the hell is her schtick? She’s working for a perfectly good place, rebel media, and then she gets kicked out of it because she talks to the Daily Stormer without asking permission first. Why go there in this media and political environment?
He gives a lot of RINOs etc. that can’t hold a complicated thought a target rich environment.
Having said that Mark Styne had a pretty good defense of him on the radio, yesterday.
I think I’m missing your point Mark. If we’re talking about a punctuation changing the meaning of the quote, then either it really is a Klan hood if the reporter got the punctuation correct or its a mischaracterization to call it a dunce cap even because with the proper punctuation there is absolutely nothing wrong with what King said.
Mark,
I’m sorry. I suppose I should have made my sarcasm more explicit. How could starting a new paragraph in proper English grammatical form be an “incredible failure”. I was being sarcastic. King may not have been a genius but he actually made no mistakes at all. It is the Times reporter who with malice misquoted him. One must doubt any defense by her that she didn’t know exactly what she was doing. At minimum, an apology & retraction is required from “the paper of record”.
Regards,
Jim