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🔗microstick@msn.com

10/18/2007 7:45:50 PM

BTW, sorry I didn't notice who...but somebody, in a response to Brad Lehman, said that he must have been listening to a lot of Rush Limbaugh; these are exactly the kinds of comments that need to stop. It's a nasty dig, and serves no purpose other than to start a ruckus. I think Brad handled it in a mature way, thankfully...Hstick
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🔗Paul Poletti <paul@polettipiano.com>

10/18/2007 10:30:54 PM

You obviously missed the smiley wink:

;-)

It was a friendly jab, trying to get Brad to be more intellectualy
consistent and not drag in things that are vaguely or totally
unrelated, or have not been part of the argument up to that point and
serve no purpose, all of which are common tactics of a majority of
that sort of talk radio host.

Completely apart from what anyone thinks about Mr. Limbaugh's merit as
a person, he has a certain strategy for arguing his points and
countering those of the people with whom he disagrees, a style which
he shares with many. I was merely referring to this style of debating
and the techniques it employs in a purely rhetorical sense. If you
want to construe this as some sort of a personal insult, then you are
free to do so.

Ciao,

P

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, <microstick@...> wrote:
>
> BTW, sorry I didn't notice who...but somebody, in a response to
Brad Lehman, said that he must have been listening to a lot of Rush
Limbaugh; these are exactly the kinds of comments that need to stop.
It's a nasty dig, and serves no purpose other than to start a ruckus.
I think Brad handled it in a mature way, thankfully...Hstick
> myspace.com/microstick
>