--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Below is a series of FFL discussions on whether the words in the > interview could be used to determine that with CERTAINTY that > Wilson's wife was clandestine, whether the above interview showed > such was "self-evident".
Sorry, but you keep getting it wrong, at least in terms of *my* position. The funny thing is, you *quote* my position first thing: > Judy: > Also, be aware there's an AP article on the > same topic that has a *very* misleading > sentence in reporting on yesterday's (Thursday) > Wolf Blitzer interview with Wilson: > > "But at the same time, Wilson acknowledged his wife was no longer > in an undercover job at the time Novak's column first identified > her. 'My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak > blew her identity,' he said." > > The quote by itself is ambiguous, but in > context, Wilson meant that once Novak had > blown her cover, she was no longer covert > *by definition*. Now, can you see the difference between what I said and how you characterized it above? If you can't, I really have no hope for you. I *never* suggested, and certainly did not *argue*, that Wilson's remark could be used with certainty to determine whether his wife was clandestine. That wasn't the issue at all. Oh, and there's a second misstatement in your intro. The statement *by itself*, as quoted by AP, can't be used to determine anything at all. It becomes self-evident only *in context*--i.e., in the context of the interview--that he didn't mean she wasn't undercover before Novak outed her, as AP had erroneously interpreted it. I understand the lure of the "gotcha" game; it's fun, and as you noted elsewhere, it's exercise for the brain. But if you're going to play it, you better be damn sure *you* get it before you try to get somebody else. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
