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January 22nd 18, 11:33 AM
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ego alert - revisited
In article , Joe from Kokomo writes:
Joe from Kokomo wrote: From yahoo news... ???Actually??? he [trumpo] continued, ???throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart???.??? Not only is the president a genius, according to him, but ???a very stable genius at that.??? On 1/9/2018 8:02 AM, wrote: Unlike the respectable information sources, you chose to selectively edit the message so that you seem to have stronger evidence for your claim than is actually present. I respectfully submit that I did not edit anything. I just *directly* quoted yahoo news. Furthermore, I have seen the tapes of trumpo saying exactly what he was quoted by yahoo as saying -- so not sure where your "edited" claim is coming from. OK, you just copied anything that agreed with your biases. Now let's see what an authoritative news source says: "Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart," he added. He said he was a "VERY successful businessman" and television star who won the presidency on his first try. "I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius.... and a very stable genius at that!" The above is from the New York Times, hardly a bastion of conservative reporting. I had read it from a borrowed copy of the newspaper as I was eating lunch at my neighborhood convenience store. Nothing special about the segway into calling himself a genius, but it was a bit of indirection - nuance if you will - in that he provided a syllogism: premise, premise, conclusion, where the conclusion began "I think that would qualify me as...". Hard to argue with it. Anyone who makes a billion dollars qualifies as having a genius for something. Winning the presidency the way he did - something unprecedented as well. George [Above _significantly_ delayed due to problems accessing aioe.org back when we were having our discussion. Improved by changing from my recollection of what I had read to grabbing the original NY Times text.] |
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