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Most boring email ever...ever

JamesB said:
Uhh, possibly because it isn't true?
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Setting aside that Marvin Bush was of course not the head of the company, there's something else in there that I've always loved about conspiracy theorists and political fanatics in general. If no news organization has ever reported on Marvin Bush's former board membership, how exactly do the truthers know about it?

I've always wanted to give a fallacy name to that species of self-contradictory argument, which I hear too often on the Internet, that goes something like "I read in the Washington Post that [some nefarious thing is supposedly happening]. HOW COME THE NEWS MEDIA ISN'T REPORTING ON THIS???"
 
gumboot said:
I love it when Conspiracy Theorists try to make themselves sound highly educated and informed, and then make blisteringly stupid comments such as claiming the Pentagon had five layers of air defense, and Norman Mineta was the head of the FAA!

Why do we even bother?
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This isn't exactly what you're talking about here, but it reminds me of something: I'm frequently amused by truthers who have never heard of metonymy and think that news references to the "Pentagon's air-defense plans" (or similar) literally refers to the five-sided building in Arlington rather than being news-reporter slang for the U.S. defense establishment.

Now that the BBC has tried to teach Dylan what a synonym is, maybe someone else can take up the task of teaching the truthers what a metonym is.
 
This guy strikes me as a good "batting practice" pitcher. For the non-American audience, a BP pitcher helps warm up the baseball hitters before a game by lobbing nice, easy pitches that they can proceed to crush.
 
tacodaemon said:
Setting aside that Marvin Bush was of course not the head of the company, there's something else in there that I've always loved about conspiracy theorists and political fanatics in general. If no news organization has ever reported on Marvin Bush's former board membership, how exactly do the truthers know about it?
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I love how Conspiracy Theorists think it's important that Marvin Bush was once on the board of a company that was never in charge of security at the WTC. Conspiracy!

-Gumboot
 
Brainster said:
This guy strikes me as a good "batting practice" pitcher. For the non-American audience, a BP pitcher helps warm up the baseball hitters before a game by lobbing nice, easy pitches that they can proceed to crush.
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Pat,
That's a great comparison.
Being new to the community, and not having done near as much homework as accomplished debunkers, even I felt like I could have hit a few out of the park. I hesitate to even swing, though, 'cause even a bunt against a rookie pitcher causes so much angst....
Oh, what the H E double hockey sticks...
He still needs to check his math...age in the mid 70's...Vietnam Era Vet...ummmm.....Probably the oldest enlisted man at the time...30-something private, maybe corporal or sergeant or sailor at the time...
 
OldTigerCub said:
Pat,
That's a great comparison.
Being new to the community, and not having done near as much homework as accomplished debunkers, even I felt like I could have hit a few out of the park. I hesitate to even swing, though, 'cause even a bunt against a rookie pitcher causes so much angst....
Oh, what the H E double hockey sticks...
He still needs to check his math...age in the mid 70's...Vietnam Era Vet...ummmm.....Probably the oldest enlisted man at the time...30-something private, maybe corporal or sergeant or sailor at the time...
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hes not that old. He lied. Note the "bay of Tonkin" faux pas. Im guessing early to mid teen
 
tacodaemon said:
Now that the BBC has tried to teach Dylan what a synonym is, maybe someone else can take up the task of teaching the truthers what a metonym is.
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"Simile", wasn't it?


No, not important--just checking my sanity.
 
A W Smith said:
hes not that old. He lied. Note the "bay of Tonkin" faux pas. Im guessing early to mid teen
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Hehe....just what I was hinting at. If the poster in question lies about his age, well....you know where I'm going...credibility makes him hardly worthwhile debating with. Consequently, Pat nailed it: Easy to hit out of the park.

ETA: I do wonder if he's signed up for the draft yet. ;)
 
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OldTigerCub said:
He still needs to check his math...age in the mid 70's...Vietnam Era Vet...ummmm.....Probably the oldest enlisted man at the time...30-something private, maybe corporal or sergeant or sailor at the time...
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I interpreted that as meaning he was in the military in the mid-1970s, but I'm not all that familiar with American idiom.

And here am I, a Vietnam era veteran, in the mid 70's ready and willing to 'fight' for my country and our freedom.
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I am just wondering if during his Vietnam era service if he ever patrolled in the Bay of Tonkin. :D
 
JamesB said:
Wow, you have reached a whole new level of woo.



Huh, so the "Bay" of Tonkin incident forced Japan's hand in WWII? Can this guy put together a coherent thought?



Five layers? Where do these layers start, West Viriginia?



Uhh, possibly because it isn't true?
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"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
"Germans?"
"Forget it, he's rolling."
 
Brainster said:
This guy strikes me as a good "batting practice" pitcher. For the non-American audience, a BP pitcher helps warm up the baseball hitters before a game by lobbing nice, easy pitches that they can proceed to crush.
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Given that guy's verbose pomposity, I'd amend that description a little: He's a batting practice pitcher who tells everyone he's actually Nolan Ryan.
 
A "Vietnam era Veteran": Does that mean he was a "veteran" of the era, and not actually a veteran of the Vietnam war. Besides the fact that it was over and ending by the "mid 70s".

Sounds like an soon to be aging baby boomer that feels bad that he missed the whole 60s.
 
Why do those dolts always claim that NORAD failed four times on 9/11 ? Isn't that kind of a single event ? If you're going NOT to catch one plane, chances are you're not going to get the other three.
 
Belz... said:
Why do those dolts always claim that NORAD failed four times on 9/11 ? Isn't that kind of a single event ? If you're going NOT to catch one plane, chances are you're not going to get the other three.
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Not to mention that NORAD was meant to protect from squadrons of bombers, a barrage of ICBMs, and ships off shore bombarding... Not 4 commercial airliners hijacked.

I really hate these idiot truthers.
 
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