By Brad Friedman on 11/19/2005, 2:11pm PT  

Some fan mail this morning asks "on what planet did you learn English?"...

From: Intergate [address removed]
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:13 AM
Subject: On what planet did you learn English?

So you whine that the GOP altered Murtha's proposal so it would require "immediate" withdrawal of the troops....yet when one read Murtha's OWN proposal, it says:

Section 1. The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.

My question to you: What the hell is the difference between "immediate withdrawal" and "hereby TERMINATED"? EXACTLY ZERO DIFFERENCE you stupid prick.......Both statements mean the EXACT SAME THING!!

++++EAAMPLE: If you were an employee of mine and I said that your job was "hereby terminated", would you think that you had 6 months to clean out your desk? Of course not, you would interpret my statement to mean you were fired that second - right?

[name removed]

Springfield, VA

Our answer...The same planet on which the sender apparently learned to cherry-pick the information he chooses to read and use as the basis for an argument. Sigh...

++++EXAMPLE: If this emailer went to a restaraunt and ordered a steak and the steak involved was to be served medium-well as he ordered it, we suppose he'd have no problem when the steak was delivered to his table completely uncooked. After all, he got his steak and there is "EXACTLY ZERO DIFFERENCE" between what he asked for and what he received.

++++FURTHER EXAMPLE: Using the emailer's bullet-proof logic, if we were to refer to him as "a stupid prick," but he was really just stupid and not a prick at all, it would mean the "EXACT SAME THING!!"

(P.S. For other material the emailer chose to not notice from Murtha's original resolution --- above and beyond the stuff he chose to not notice in even the text he did quote in his impressive email --- see this previous item for the complete text of both Murtha's resolution, and the phony GOP resolution cyncially created to play politics with our troops instead of supporting them.)

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