[MD] Quality decline

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Read the BBC bias report and weep.

[Arlo]
Again, there is nothing in the passage from the BBC and the Wikipedia 
entry that are at odds. If you can find a discrepency, please let me know.

[Platt]
Further, if anyone has been pushing the value of myths, it's been you.

[Arlo]
I argue for the value of myth as metaphor, not the value of ONE myth 
to determine how we should live.

[Platt]
As for the Hippies, we know what Pirsig said about their misguided 
frivolities.

[Arlo]
Yes. They were "the moral movement".

[Platt]
But you don't point out how what I say is deceptive and distortive. 
You just blame your disagreement with what I say on Limabaugh and 
talk radio, implying that I'm a mind-numbed robot with nary a brain 
in his head. Nothing personal, mind you. Yeah, right.

[Arlo]
I point it out every time, and in context. This revisionism is just 
part of parcel of the proof of that, Platt.

[Platt]
Read your post again. You quoted at length about how liberalism was 
the party of individualism and freedom.

[Arlo]
I said, "This usurption of words leads us to forget that it was 
liberalism that gave us the liberty we enjoy today." Can you tell me 
where in that I say anything about a "party"?

Again, this is just another example of your need to distort rather 
than address dialogue honestly.

[Platt]
See? A personal insult -- "Pee-Wee manuever" -- associating me with a 
despicable character.

[Arlo]
As I described previously, and can be seen by perusing the archives, 
any time you are called on anything,  you end your reply with calling 
the other person exactly what they called you. If someone says you 
are deceptive, you claim the other person is deceptive. I call this 
rhetorical maneuver the Pee-Wee in homage to his "I know what you 
are, but what am I?" defense when he was called anything. Take it 
personally if you wish, I really don't care.

[Platt]
You keep threatening to "hang up" on me, but never do. Promises, promises.

[Arlo]
I've backed out of several threads with you, Platt. As I intend to do 
now with this one. Other threads are what they are, and when you 
offer honest dialogue or ask fair questions, I'll keep going. But 
when it descends into just another "Glorious Conservatism versus Evil 
Liberalism" there is no where it can go, but where it should... the dumpster.