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Old 11-07-2010, 09:38 AM
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1.Carrie Prejean in the Miss America pageant was punished for dissenting from the left’s position on same sex marriage.
2. Juan Williams was fired for a comment no reasonable person would have found the least bit controversial or offensive.
3. James Watson had his career destroyed for dissenting from the politcally correct view of race.
4.The mainstream media dragged Joe the Plumber through the mud for asking Obama an awkward question.
5. Sara Palin was harrased with hundreds of frivolous ethics complaints.
6. Sandra Bernhard ranted about Sara Palin being gang raped by her “black brothers”and was met with applause from a night club audience.
7.There was an act of arson at Sara Palin’s church.
8. Our President pals around with the likes of William Ayers and Reverend Wright.
9.Our President removed references to God when quoting the Declaration of Independence.
10. The Democratic party embraced race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
11. The Duke University rape case was found to be a hoax.
12. American students in an American high school were forbidden to display the American flag on Cinco de Mayo
13.A California school required students to dress like Muslims and pray to Allah in a class project on Islam.
14 A high school valedictorian was forbidden to talk about her religion in her graduation speech.
15. Progressive students have shouted down conservative speakers on college campuses.
16. Many of you act like Soviet commissars intent on sniffing out “counter-revolutionaries” and sending them to the gulags.


Please rate the above as true/false as best you can.
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Old 11-07-2010, 10:09 AM
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1.Carrie Prejean in the Miss America pageant was punished for dissenting from the left’s position on same sex marriage.
Not going to follow the requested rule. Prejean lost points for her answer to the question. It happens that the position she disagreed with is more "the left's" than "the right's." But when you string the facts together like the question does it creates teh fallacy post hoc eergo propter hoc.

Other questions assume facts not in evidence, so that parts are true and parts false.

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Old 11-07-2010, 10:17 AM
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Not going to follow the requested rule. Prejean lost points for her answer to the question. It happens that the position she disagreed with is more "the left's" than "the right's." But when you string the facts together like the question does it creates teh fallacy post hoc eergo propter hoc.

Other questions assume facts not in evidence, so that parts are true and parts false.

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Yes, I think I understand.
Would you be willing to assign true to only the ones that can be proven? I was thinking there would be more than two of the statements that are true.

Many of them are open to interpretation of the words meaning.
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Old 11-07-2010, 11:07 AM
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6. Sandra Bernhard ranted about Sara Palin being gang raped by her “black brothers”and was met with applause from a night club audience.
That one would come under the heading of "Wouldn't surprise me, and why the fuck do you have a problem with that?"
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Old 11-07-2010, 11:20 AM
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That one would come under the heading of "Wouldn't surprise me, and why the fuck do you have a problem with that?"
I think approval of gang rape would fall under the evil heading.
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Old 11-07-2010, 11:22 AM
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I'm not seeing the point of this, and definitely not in this forum. Suggest you focus your topic better and start something in Great Debates.

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