# Fellow Obama-ites: let's be nicer to tighty righties

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-obama-ites-lets-be-nicer-to-tighty-righties/462332>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-obama-ites-lets-be-nicer-to-tighty-righties/462332 "2008-09-06T12:28:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-obama-ites-lets-be-nicer-to-tighty-righties/462332/241 "2008-09-10T14:11:28Z")

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Truth be told, I could have gone on quite happily without being reminded of that repulsive (albeit spunky) bit of drollery.

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-obama-ites-lets-be-nicer-to-tighty-righties/462332/242 "2008-09-10T15:05:46Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Truth be told, I could have gone on quite happily without being reminded of that repulsive (albeit spunky) bit of drollery.

Aww! Here I thought of it as some of my best work. Back to the drawing board I suppose.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-obama-ites-lets-be-nicer-to-tighty-righties/462332/243 "2008-09-10T15:57:19Z")

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> [@Scylla](#):
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> I await RTFs gracious capitulation.

I’m sorry - I thought you were being facetious. Apparently I was wrong.

Our argument turned on whether PBS is, in general, a respectable cite. **Tom** didn’t say anything about this. Instead, he said the PBS story wasn’t a primary source, a fact that we were already in agreement on.

I can only wonder what your email/PM/whatever to **tom** actually said. I’ve got a hunch you may have misrepresented the issue.

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