--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVTGEOK_O8 > > I am truely ashamed of myself for letting the sound-bites > (sound-bytes?) of Fox News cloud my judgement sufficiently > that I felt a need to defend speech that actually needs no > defense when heard in context.
It needs no defense for you and me and many others (although Obama himself has been forced to condemn some of it). For still others, though, it's indefensible. And all they'll see of it is the Fox News clips, or even just the "worst" pieces of those clips that will be put in anti-Obama commercials by right-wing McCain supporters, or written down and circulated in emails, or repeated by a neighbor. (Technical note: It is sound *bite*, not "byte"-- a bite as in a taste, a small piece that's "bitten" out of the whole. And the phrase is something of a misnomer today, unless one is talking about a radio broadcast, because it's usually a sight-and-sound bite.)
