> --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (quoting Warren, whose post I still haven't got): > > >"That's just the empty cant of ideologically and > > morally bereft leftist > > extremists" > > To be fair, I should not have said this. I was > tired > and frustrated when I wrote it. It's just that I've > heard this said, over and over and over again, and > I, > and many other people, have rebutted it over and > over > and over again, and none of the people saying this > have ever even bothered to respond to the points > made, > over and over and over again, that this is a > ridiculous thing to say. It's just a profoundly > ridiculous argument, one made entirely without > evidence or argument, and I'm just tired of hearing > it > over and over again. I don't know what the literary > equivalent to this would be - someone telling you, > over and over again, that a mixed metaphor is > gramatically correct even when you send him hour > grammar textbooks saying otherwise? It's just a > ridiculous argument, and I'm tired of it, and I tend > to get frustrated when I hear it, over and over and > over again.
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