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In Joe Klein language, a "substantively correct" column is one which reinforces a belief which "everyone" "knows" to be true, even though there are no actual, you know, facts to support it.
Like if I were to say that at the end of the day Trent Lott puts his feet up on the shoulders of a crouching black servant who calls him "Massa," and someone said "No he doesn't," if I were Joe Klein I could say "Well, it's substantively correct."
I, of course, can't get away with it. But Joe Klein can. Because he's in The Village. And because he's "only" smearing Democrats.
The above comment is probably disrespectful of John McCain's military service somehow.
by RickMassimo on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 01:42:05 PM PDT
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It is substantively correct.
It either means he is
And perhaps number three is it. After all, we have kids being taught to a test and asking for the summation (and skipping all of the reason)... it does make some sense.
But it is scary if this is the way of the country.
"Bubba, what did I tell you about starin' into the sun? You want to become a Democrat or somthin'?"
by feloneouscat on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 01:53:06 PM PDT
is the one it ISN'T. He thinks everyone will read; he just doesn't think anyone will wonder whether he might be right, or commit the treason of checking it out.
Especially after having been proved so wrong before. That's what I don't get about The Village. They'd never trust someone who was as wrong as often as they were.
Unless they were Republicans, of course.
by RickMassimo on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 02:06:23 PM PDT
the shoulders of a crouching black servant who calls him "Massa".
At least I don't have any information to the contrary...
by feloneouscat on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 01:58:36 PM PDT
by RickMassimo on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 02:03:01 PM PDT
wide narrow
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