From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:29:13 +1200, Zeborah   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > Suzanne Blom  wrote:   
      
   >> "David Friedman"  wrote   
   >> in message  news:ddfr-5F6B87.11251320092008@newsfarm.ams.   
   >> highwinds-media.com...   
      
   >>> People who would go so far as to attack the use of the   
   >>> word "niggardly" out of fear it might offend feel   
   >>> perfectly comfortable believing, and repeating,   
   >>> assertions about Sarah Palin that are either baseless   
   >>> or demonstrably false--because she is a conservative,   
   >>> religious, small town girl, hence the sort of person   
   >>> that people like them are actually prejudiced against.   
      
   >> Jesus, David, do you always have to choose the most   
   >> inflammatory examples?   
      
   He's a political creature and naturally chooses political   
   examples.  He couldn't care less that they tend to be   
   inflammatory.  What strikes me is the broad brush   
   generalization, which puts one of his own prejudices on   
   display even more vividly than usual.   
      
   >> The only lies I've heard about Palin are the ones that   
   >> make her out to be better than she is.   
      
   > There have been other lies -- eg rumours over the   
   > parentage of her youngest child;   
      
   Hadn't heard that one (and frankly couldn't care less).   
      
   > people naming books she tried to have banned when in fact   
   > she was only speaking in hypothetical generalities (and   
   > yet still kind of skeezy).   
      
   I'll certainly give you 'generalities'; how hypothetical   
   they really were, though, is anyone's guess, and given her   
   persistence at the time, I suspect that she did have   
   something in mind.  But yes, I have heard that one.   
      
   > It seems unnecessary to me; there are plenty of truths to   
   > report.   
      
   Indeed yes.  (Though I quite like the idea of a load of   
   coals destined for Newcastle and bedecked with gilded   
   lilies.)   
      
   Brian   
      
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