Just Wondering
2/13/2014 9:06:00 PM
On 2/13/2014 12:20 PM, Fact Checker wrote:
> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 4:32:10 PM UTC-2, Just Wondering wrote:
>> On 2/13/2014 10:38 AM, John Manning wrote:
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>>> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:30:40 PM UTC-2, Truth and honesty wrote:
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>>> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:01:13 -0200, John Manning wrote:
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>>> > > That's what it said, idiot.
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>>> > Why are you so rude to everyone.
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>>> Liars deserve respect?
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>> Rudeness says nothing about the other person. It's a display of a
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>> negative character trait in the one displaying the rudeness.
>
> Referring to Mr Manning as Cap'n Ahab isn't rudeness?
>
It was used as a metaphor, a fitting and accurate shorthand description
of his openly blind hatred of President Bush, which bears a striking
similarity to Captain Ahab's hatred of the great whale in Herman
Melville's novel "Moby Dick.".
You will not that I did not call him idiot, asshole, moron, fool, or any
number of other epithets he is so free with.