[MD] Gun smoke in the shape of a fake letter and not a mushroom cloud

Platt Holden plattholden at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 17:46:49 PDT 2008


> [Arlo previously]
> A nice rhetorical cover to try to hide the fact that you've offered
> nothing but
> nonsense. (1) where are the counter-studies? (2) what do you years of
> personal
> experience is a tire shop tell you? (3) why should i distrust the numbers?
> (4)
> should i distrust the government about the war? (5) why should i trust the
> oil
> companies? (6) what evidence do you offer that obama's comments are
> factually
> wrong?
> 
> I don't expect you to answer of these, of course. We all know all we will
> see
> is just more typical talk-radio bullshit.
> 
> [Platt]
> So why ask?
> 
> [Arlo]
> To prove DMB's point.

Prove? DMB?

> [Arlo previously]
> (As for the students I am working with, they are colleagues, I am not
> their
> "teacher").
> 
> [Platt]
> So what does your "work" consist of?
> 
> [Arlo]
> My "work"? ... Shhh... my "work" consists of milking taxpayer dollars
> while I
> sit around all day and design gulags to imprison conservatives with after
> the
> revolution.
> 
> Nice use of scare quotes. Jon Stewart had a segment the other day about a
> sign
> outside the Fannie Mac (or whatever) bank for customers in line that
> read
> quotes and all:
> 
> "Water" for bank customers only.
> 
> Whatever you do, I recommend not drinking the "water".
> 
> But I'm sure your "intelligence" helped you figure that one out.

"Nice rhetorical cover" from the master who has taught us, his students, 
that "anyone can write anything."  



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