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My bad, blogflogger!
I felt Corbin did a sufficient job of addressing your concerns, but I'll respond by referring you right back to the paper that ran the story. At least two articles and an op-ed piece, all of which professed dismay that a Supreme Court Justice would use an allegedly obscene gesture outside a cathedral. As Corbin said, they were hardly the only ones to make a fuss about it.
Why must my posts be so divisive? My good reader, what do you call the flamethrowing from the left? Sometime a long ways back, I wrote a piece about divisiveness. The truth is, divisiveness is in the response, not the message. If you choose to react with alienation, hostility or some other bad vibe, then you are being divisive in that you are placing a division between yourself and me. Same here - if a liberal comes along and writes something that is utterly inflammatory about me as a conservative, I will likely choose to divide from him. In that case, I am being divisive. We can only write what we know, or at least believe, to be true. To do that is not being divisive.
As for "inflammatory potshots", see above. As I have said before, I will practice sarcasm and satire as I see fit. As for objectivity, I'm sure you are being just as eloquent and impassioned in your constructive criticism of liberal bloggers who criticize and condemn conservatives, right?
As for calirvoyance - we conservatives have many mystical powers!
posted by
WriterofLight
on March 31, 2006 at 7:46 PM
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WriterofLight - I emailed about 50 liberal friends today. None of them
... were agog about the hand gesture. -- I noticed you totally ignored my comment. Hm. Then again, taking pot shots at liberals is much easier than actually taking constructive action.
posted by
blogflogger
on March 29, 2006 at 9:41 PM
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Corbin - I didn't know you were clairvoyant. Thanks for telling me what
... WriteofLight actually meant.
posted by
blogflogger
on March 29, 2006 at 9:39 PM
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Followup: Scalia Blasted the Herald for Misreporting This
From Newsmax at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/29/105325.shtml?s=ic:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, accused the newspaper's staff of watching "too many episodes of the Sopranos" for interpreting a hand gesture he made at a cathedral as obscene.
The Boston Herald reported Monday the justice made "an obscene gesture, flicking his hand under his chin" in response to a question about whether lawyers might question his impartiality in matters of church and state. The incident occurred after he attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
But Scalia said in his letter the gesture is not obscene at all, but dismissive. Scalia said he had explained the gesture's meaning to no avail to the reporter, whom he referred to as "an up-and-coming 'gotcha' star."
To back his interpretation of the gesture, Scalia in his letter quoted from Luigi Barzini's book, "The Italians:" "The extended fingers of one hand moving slowly back and forth under the raised chin means 'I couldn't care less. It's no business of mine. Count me out."'
posted by
WriterofLight
on March 29, 2006 at 6:48 PM
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All you have to do is...
type into Google.....Justice Scalia Flips Off Detractors?
And you get a list of news and blog sites already doing just that.....
I doubt if Writer was referring to just the Liberals you might know.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on March 29, 2006 at 12:37 PM
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WriterofLight - You wrote an interesting piece, then blew it. Why, why,...
... why do so many of the conservative bloggers here insist on giving credit to liberals for things they didn't say or don't feel?
You wrote, "Of course, the liberals are all agog over this". I don't know of a single liberal who was "agog" over this. Why must your posts be so divisive? Blogit is just a microcosm of our country. Fighting, name calling, and taking sides. I'm sick of it.
Can't you make a point about a topic, or something someone in politics has done, without taking inflammatory pot-shots at non-conservatives? You completely lose many in your reading audience when you lace it with unfounded, and negative accusations.
If you only want your fellow conservatives to rally around, yelling out their support, fine. If you want ANYONE who doesn't already agree with absolutely everything you have to say to read your writing, you may try for a bit more civility and objectivity. Red-rhetoric is so passé.
posted by
blogflogger
on March 28, 2006 at 7:30 PM
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