Having grown tired of the echo chamber on TLC and other center-left blogs, I recently took the battle to The ModerateVoice.com in order to try to influnce and persuade that elusive animal, the so called moderate voter. I was having some success, doing battle with some of there distinctly non-moderate Neo-con front pagers.
However my credibility is now shot to hell because I used Larrys currently recommended post as a source. While I agree completely with his analysis, certian facts in his lead in are incorrect. To wit, his claim that Olmert rpeortedly did not serve in the military. If you decide to quote Larry in any postings, be aware that this information is not correct. More on the flip
To see the exchange as it happened, here is the
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Having been left with my ass hanging in the wind, I E-Mailed Larry for a response. Here is his reply-
Are you really this fucking stupid? The thrust of the article had nothing to do with Olmert. If you were on the level you would know that. Instead, you're just an ass sniffer who loves the taste of his own shit. Go bother someone else moron.
Now I am sure that Larry gets plenty of E-Mails, and he may very well have misunderstood my motivation, but I did invite him to read the posts. If he would have, he would have understood the situation.
Point of fact, Larry has some foundation to stand on, as there is some question of Olmerts long term service. But point in fact, Olmert did serve in the military.
Those facts are indeed irrelavant to the analysis, but are quite relevant when trying to establish Larrys credintials in a highly charged partisan atmosphere.
There are people that agree with Larry
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I think if we want to claim to be members of the reality based comunity, we must try to be as factual as possible. Larry is right about one thing, Olmerts service is not germain to the analysis. So why the hell even put it in there? Thats why I got caught by the short hairs. Why blow an in-depth hard hitting piece like that with some petty incorrect tidbit like that. Thats why I didn't fact check this.
I would hate to someone else get punked in a like manner as I got punked. So be aware fellow Kossacks.
Thats all I have to say about that subject.