The intent was definitely manipulation. That point so far has escaped you. -----Original Message----- >From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> >Sent: Feb 24, 2007 4:54 PM >To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bushism and Fascism > >> Eric: My point is that its very uselessness to the general public makes >> it a joke and that becomes a tool of manipulation for the wacko left. >> In other words, some claim it is manipulative in order to manipulate >> the views of others ... like those two stoners living in their mother's >> basement wondering where Dave went. > >I've already said I wan't a member of the 'wacko left' and I find it >curiously insensitive that you should keep maligning those who saw the >futility and absurdity of the color coded warnings in this way. I am >sorry that I replied to something you said instead of confining myself >to Omar's post in which I tried, unsuccessfully, to point out that as >nobody was manipulated by this scheme it was not manipulation, any >more than an attempted ascent of K2 is an ascent of K2. This point has >so far escaped Irene, Omar has not replied, and I have nothing more to >say about it. > >Robert Paul >guilty as charged > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html