# Whack-a-Mole did something really stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 29, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-mole-did-something-really-stupid/551862 "2010-08-29T03:38:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 85
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-mole-did-something-really-stupid/551862/85 "2010-08-31T02:39:16Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > [@Bricker](#): > > > > Now comes **The Second Stone** who says that DeLay must be gulty because I’m defending him, and as I admitted in another thread, I never had a client I thought was completely innocent. > > > > I point out that the two situations are completely different: I was talking about my time as a public defender. **The Second Stone** ’s response? The message board is a public forum, and you are defending DeLay, so that’s being a public defender. > > Please tell me he didn’t say that. Sorry. From the GD thread: > [@How Dare They Not Prosecute Tom Delay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-they-not-prosecute-tom-delay/551280/150): > > I said that as a public defender, I believed I never had an innocent client. There is absolutely nothing to allow you to infer that because it was true of my long-ago career as a PD, it’s also true of anyone I choose to defend in argument here. > [@How Dare They Not Prosecute Tom Delay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-they-not-prosecute-tom-delay/551280/151): > > Well, now you are splitting hairs. This is a public forum, he is accused of of a crime, you are defending him. You have never publicly defended someone who is factually innocent. Therefore, he is guilty. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-mole-did-something-really-stupid/551862)._