# Repugs insist on oath for demos to hear Cheney speech.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 1, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repugs-insist-on-oath-for-demos-to-hear-cheney-speech/257795 "2004-08-01T01:23:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repugs-insist-on-oath-for-demos-to-hear-cheney-speech/257795/121 "2004-10-28T13:53:01Z")

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> [@Hyperelastic](#):
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> The issue isn’t whether it’s legal. The issue is that it shows how pathetic and cowardly our chicken-hawk homunculus-in-chief really is.

Again, while I concur in the asssessment of the oath as a really, really stupid idea, claims have been made in this thread that the ejected attendees had their rights violated. That erroneous statement does raise a legal issue.

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**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repugs-insist-on-oath-for-demos-to-hear-cheney-speech/257795/122 "2004-10-28T14:48:46Z")

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> [@Dewey Cheatem Undhow](#):
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> Sod off. If you’ve got an example of me deliberately ignoring context to score a cheap (and meaningless) point, pony up. That sort of thing isn’t “sharp elbows,” it’s just chickenshit debating.

An example of you waltzing into a thread and grasping onto some small part of the situation being discussed, propounding your opinion on it as if it were scripture and then dismissing all us unruly children to go out and play? Do you ever do anything else?

Enjoy,  
Steven

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repugs-insist-on-oath-for-demos-to-hear-cheney-speech/257795/123 "2004-10-29T00:32:10Z")

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> [@Mtgman](#):
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> An example of you waltzing into a thread and grasping onto some small part of the situation being discussed, propounding your opinion on it as if it were scripture and then dismissing all us unruly children to go out and play? Do you ever do anything else?

I’d dispute your characterization of my posts for starters, and I’d be interested to see you cite an example.

Further, I’ve never deliberately lifted an opponent’s argument out of context to make it look like I’ve won a point (I’ve occasionally done it to make a joke, but that’s it). Which is pretty plainly what I was asking for an example of in my last post.

But more to the point: out of all the issues I raised in my last post, _this_ is the thing you seize on?

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**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repugs-insist-on-oath-for-demos-to-hear-cheney-speech/257795/124 "2004-10-29T15:53:08Z")

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Looks like instead of signing an oath beforehand they now just ask you to take an oath AT the event:  
[http://slate.com/id/2108852/](http://slate.com/id/2108852/)

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