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Old 04-18-2018, 03:22 PM   #43
Pete F.
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Originally Posted by detbuch View Post
This "but . . ." meme is getting tiresome. Especially when most of those who cite it do it themselves. It's not a valid argument but an Alinsky type tactic of ridicule meant to distract and destroy.
Oh no, that is so evil sounds like something the evil NEA would suggest.
And the tactic used by Trump, classic rhetoric is better in your mind.
“I was going to say ‘dummy’ Bush; I won’t say it. I won’t say it,”
“I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct,”
“Unlike others, I never attacked dopey Jon Stewart for his phony last name. Would never do that!”
“I promised I would not say that she [Carly Fiornia] ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, that she laid off tens of thousands of people and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say it, so I will not say it.”
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