# Shodan, please lay out your case here.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 3, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-please-lay-out-your-case-here/338212 "2006-01-03T14:12:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-please-lay-out-your-case-here/338212/14 "2006-01-03T23:32:28Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> You’re a fucking liar.
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> You got caught doing exactly what you condemn in others, and instead of admitting it, you decided to try to bluster it out.

Wow. Are you intentionally going for a world record in irony, or are you just hoping that no-one will notice that neither your paraphraseology of what **LHoD** paraphrased, nor your paraphraseology of _his_ paraphraseology, are remotely fucking accurate? How in the hell can you come back after that shit and accuse _him_ of being a liar? Are you saying his correction of your bullshit post is a lie? Because I can tell you right now I’ve read the original posts, and you’re absolutely full of shit. To remind you, since you apparently seem to think that your wilful paraphraseology (and not even noted as such, unlike **LHoD** ’s) is okay:

> [@Republican Contract with America](#):
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> It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

> [@LHoD](#):
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> They’re going to build a government that is based on Christian values.

> [@Shodan](#):
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> “Congress will respect the values of the American family”

> [@Shodan](#):
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> “we are going to impose Christian values on the country”

I invite any disinterested observer to comment on whose paraphrasing is the least honest, taking into particular consideration the fact that **Shodan** ’s was presented as being a direct quote, and that **LHoD** explicitly acknowledged the fact that his interpretation was his own. If you want my view, it is that **LHoD** ’s interpretation is debatable yet understandable, given the co-option of the terms “faith” and “family” by the Christian right in the US, while **Shodan** ’s is just outright full of shit, leaving out as it does key words in the former “quote”, and inserting as it does implications not made in the latter.

Hell, **Shodan** , I really did used to respect you. But this is just mindless on your part. Truly pathetic.

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