Friday, December 21, 2007

if you suspend your disbelief you can see that what I said was sort of close to the truth so I am in the clear... Right?

I miss Jon Stewart.

Hello??? This has to be one of the great blunders of the campaign. The party of torture is about to be led by a man that inaccurately parses the word, "saw" --as in, to cut up the truth. How is this preferable to a leader that parses the word, "is" to defend a blow job?
"I 'saw' him in the figurative sense."
I see... So you saw him in your mind's eye? It was the sixties, lots of people were seeing things with their third eye...
"The reference of seeing my father lead in civil rights," he said, "and seeing my father march with Martin Luther King is in the sense of this figurative awareness of and recognition of his leadership."
Your honor, please ask the witness to answer the question, "Did you see this event occur?" This is insane.
"I've tried to be as accurate as I can be," he continued, smiling firmly. "If you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term 'saw' includes being aware of -- in the sense I've described."
This sounds like the literary equivalent of a tax loophole. I lied, but then looked up my language in the dictionary, and if you suspend your disbelief you can see that what I said was sort of close to the truth so I am in the clear... Right?
"I'm an English literature major," he insisted at one point. "When we say I saw the Patriots win the World Series, it doesn't necessarily mean you were there." (He meant the Super Bowl, of course.)
There are so many things wrong with this I will leave it for another post

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