# American Idol 3/21 - the 1950s

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 21, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-21-the-1950s/349270 "2006-03-21T12:31:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-21-the-1950s/349270/342 "2006-03-24T22:37:20Z")

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> [@lissener](#):
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> Hmm. Having been scrupulously careful about this, please explain to me–via email if you prefer–how expressing my opinion that a poster’s argument is a straw man is an “attack.” Serious question. I was very, very careful to stay “on message.” I even went so far as to make triply sure that it was clear that I was not intending to put word’s in Liberal’s mouth, but merely to describe his argument.

If you want to call someone’s argument “drivel,” that’s fine, but do NOT use the quote feature. The quote feature is to be used for actual quotes, subject to all the usual rules of quoting someone else’s material.

The use of the QUOTE feature is for quoting. If you want to paraphrase or summarize or re-state in your own words, use quotation marks if you will, but NOT the quote feature.

We thought this was made abundantly clear the last time it came around.

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