Apparently not very.
Summarizing what’s wrong with Bricker’s lone ‘example,’ post 50 from the original thread:
- Senator Webb didn’t say anything like what the Doper he quoted suggested.
- Even if he had, Webb is irrelevant as a for-instance. He’s retired from the Senate and can neither honor nor violate any pledge he made concerning gun control in the wake of Newtown.
- Bricker now says he wasn’t citing Webb, but rather what a SDMB poster said in 2006 about what Webb said. (What that supports, and how, are as unclear to me as I’m sure they are to every poster here besides Bricker.)
- That contradicts what Bricker said in post 50: