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Timmer - I have one of these conspiracy theorists as a contributor on my own blog - UGH!!!! I just have to laugh like I do at South Park!
Greta -
Yeah, they are definitely a creepy bunch. Try to reason with them, show some facts and plausible explanations and SNAP! They close their ears and minds faster than you can say NUTBAG! 
T
Finally, convincing proof of the conspiracy: the Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush tapes!
Gert -
That was classic, man! I respect a guy who, regardless of his aversion to a political figure (in this case, President Bush) can argue against frivolous claims against that same figure.
No doubt you feel the facts and whatever reasonable evidence that is out there is enough to support your arguments against the Prez - and perhaps you feel your fellow liberals are being sell-outs if they allow themselves to believe virtually anything negative about him.
I admit that this president has his shortcomings - and I am not afraid to write about those I see. Of course I mostly favor his job performance and you mostly don't - but I am glad to know that our differences of opinion are at least genuine. That is precisely why your site is one of only two liberal sites I have listed on my blogroll.
Cheers, T
Back for more, Timmer? A glutton for punishment, no?
Ho ho ho to Gert, very droll. Doesn’t change the laws of physics any, but most amusing nevertheless.
I am, naturally, going to argue the case for the negative. Tell me, does that make me ‘ consistent’ or ‘predictable’? And am I predictable in my consistency, or consistent in predictability? And are you consistently predictable or predictably consistent?
Whatever, I can assure you that our differences of opinion are, most emphatically, genuine. Gert’s piece does highlight the absurdity of whatever planning discussions may or may not have been held, but I doubt very much that Dick, Don and Georgie-boy dreamt it up on their own one lunchtime.
Poor old Timmer thinks he’s onto something because he’s read an issue of Popular Mechanics, blissfully unaware that PM has had its ass kicked from Anchorage to Alabama over their ‘rebuttal’ but hey! Waddaya say? Let’s boogie!
Straw men like ‘where passengers spirited away to a gas chamber?’ ain’t gonna help you out here, Bub. No-one ever said that happened. Stick to the facts, laughing-boy.
Here’s a curious sentence. ‘If he didn't expect it, why did President Bush just sit there in that classroom and continue to read to the kids instead of leaping to his feet and taking charge when "informed" that an aircraft had crashed into the North Tower?’
I agree. If it was such a suprise, why DIDN’T he leap into action? Why DID sit there like a stunned mullet? You’re starting to sound like CT yerself, Timmer!
The official argument is bizarre to say the least.
A passenger plane enters a concrete structure through a small hole, penetrates two or three rings of said structure while the wings burn up inside the building AFTER collapsing into the side of the plane and simultaneously disintegrating on impact.
Hmm. If the plane disintegrated on impact, how did it wreck the insides of the building? And if it did enter the building, where is the hole? And if the wings fell off, where are they? And if it didn’t disintegrate, where is it?
"One wing hit the ground; the other was sheared off by the force of the impact with the Pentagon's load-bearing columns"
The wings can’t have entered the building to get ripped apart by the support beams if they a) didn’t have a hole to enter by and b) disintegrated on impact. Savvy? And where is that sheared wing?
Oh, that’s right. It’s a 75-foot hole. Yup, sure looks like one. But if is, where are the wings? How can wing solid enough to pierce the reinforced Pentagon disintegrate immediately afterwards?
Were the black boxes found? It’s all a bit Zen really, isn’t it? I mean, if a box is found and the transcripts aren’t released, was it really found at all?
There are so many anomalies, holes and exceptions in the official tale that it is impossible to believe it. You can cherry-pick your subjects all you want, but when it all adds up it just ain’t right. So it must be wrong. Just call it gut inst
Thanks, Timmer, I love you too (you know that...)!
CTs have a knack of never going away, no matter how much evidence you throw at them. See also the multiple Kennedy CTs...
Hey, Gert!
I've always wanted to find the guy that still believes the Warren Comission report, so I guess that's my mission accomplished!
How much evidence was that again? Maybe y'all want to improve your aim some. Or get some more ammunition. Y'know, real hard stuff that might actually do some damage to the enemy like, ooh, I don't know, the gas station tapes for example, or the black box audio.
In the absence of such evidence, people can't be blamed for speculating, can they? The authorities could shut this ruckus down in an instant if they felt like it, but they don't. Is it truly preposterous to wonder why? I was taught to think critically, to question authority if I thought it was wrong. I guess that all that that kind of behaviour will get me now is a one-way ticket to Git'mo, but that's the Fascism for you.
On the other hand, some of the most passionate campaigners for 911 truth agree that a plane really DID hit the Pentagon, and that the 'no-plane' theory is a set-up with which to beat sceptics over the head. Whatever. Both sides of the story make some pretty good points.
I would urge Timmer, and yourself Gert,to try reading some material from the other side to get a solid understanding of the issues and arguments involved; merely posting the odd rebutall verbatim from where ever does not really do justice to a hypothesis which, if it were to prove correct, could mean the end of the American empire, and consequently a goodly chunk of Western civilisation as we now know it.
The stakes are high; too high for some, obviously. and that's shame, because our freedom is stake.
Cheers
Elroy
Gert -
Yeah, I know about the Kennedy stuff too...but seeing as how I was in a nappy at the time I don't recall the details!
CT's are prone to CT-ing stuff...as long as it does not impune their own politicians (either side, BTW!).
Elroy -
Okay, "Mission Accomplished" dude!!! You are now akin to a certain American President standing on a certain flight deck...and that is where the similarity falls off.
(Yeah, that hurt I know! )
Brother, you only WISH you could get some free digs, cable, religion-sensitive food and religious accessories for free like these heroes of yours!
FYI, it is from my reading of the "other side" (read: Nutbags) that prompted me to write this series. Folks just gotta know where the morons are, right!?
(Not meaning you, of course! )
"The stakes are high; too high for some, obviously. and that's shame, because our freedom is stake."O' Yasser, are you ASOLUTELY SURE that you are a liberal? Snippets like these make me feel your conservative side just bursting to get out. Sorry, but it is true.
T
Okay, "Mission Accomplished" dude!!! You are now akin to a certain American President standing on a certain flight deck...and that is where the similarity falls off.
A fair comparison, I suppose. Like ‘a certain president’, I proclaimed my ‘mission’ to be ‘accomplished’ when I knew full well it wasn’t, and you’re right again (Ooh! THAT hurt more!) in saying that is where the comparison ends, because where ‘a certain president’ is a ‘C’ grade student, I, on the other hand...
Ah, yes! Club Git’mo! Have you heard of the Australian inmate, er, holidaymaker, David Hicks? He is suing the US government and creating every legal wave he can because the US Gov. wants to send him to trial. Why is he resisting? Obvious! It’s just so gooooooooooooood there!
Hell, I might as well go rob a bank and get me a slot in the local nick. Just imagine! No more mortgage worries! TV! So long as they don’t stomp on my copy of Darwin’s Origin Of The Species!
But will they beat me half to death and torture me regularly enough? Hmm. Maybe I HAD better just join the Jihad...
I’ve got to agree with you, though. Reading of the "other side" (read: Nutbags) is vital; Folks just DO gotta know where the morons are! (Likewise!)
Farouk, I sure am ABSOLUTELY sure that I am a liberal, but snippets like this make ME feel that you completely misunderstand the liberal position. The fact of the matter is we on the left are as interested in, if not MORE interested in, freedom than the right.
You wouldn’t get that idea listen to the Bloviator and such like, but it’s the truth nevertheless. actually, the more I think about it, the more I wonder why conservatives HATE freedom, and everything else, so much. maybe you can tell me?
On your little political test you came out as some sort of mild lefty if memory serves; maybe your liberal side just bursting to get out but you’re too busy listening to your pet demagogues to realise they are spinning you a line. Sorry, but it is true.
Cheers
Elroy
Timmer:
It's true: there's a Decent Liberal (not a Far Left Loon) waiting to burst out of you!
More evidence: "I was in a nappy at the time". Such admissions of weakness are decidedly un-Republican! (LOL)
Elroy -
You wrote:
"A fair comparison, I suppose. Like ‘a certain president’, I proclaimed my ‘mission’ to be ‘accomplished’ when I knew full well it wasn’t, and you’re right again (Ooh! THAT hurt more!) in saying that is where the comparison ends, because where ‘a certain president’ is a ‘C’ grade student, I, on the other hand..."
No offense my boy, but methinks you would have a rough time measuring up to President Bush's academic creds. Some excerpts written by a fellow Harvard MBA alumnus' article in "The American Thinker:"
"President George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Even better, his MBA is from Harvard Business School, where postgraduate management training was invented in the early part of the last century...Harvard MBAs indisputably lead more major corporations, receive higher starting salaries fresh out of school, and carry with them more élan and glamour than the graduates of any rival business schools...
"There is simply no way on earth that the son of the then-Ambassador to China, or anyone else, could have coasted through Harvard Business School with a "gentleman’s C." I never, ever heard of a case of an incompetent student being allowed to graduate, simply because a certain family was prominent. On the contrary, I did hear stories of well-born students having to leave prior to graduation. The academic standards were a point of considerable pride."
Did his Daddy pay for it? No doubt. But that is no crime...wish my folks would have paid for my college.
Gert -
Thanks (I think! LOL), but I do not fit easily into any given mold. I admit to being socially liberal on several issues, moderate on others. I am stubbornly proud of this, dammit!
Bush’s SAT’s should had never got him into Yale, and his Yale results should never have got him into Harvard. Daddy, though, had FIHP.
Yoshi Tsurumi, George W. Bush's professor at Harvard Business School, said:
‘I always remember two types of students. One is the very excellent student, the type as a professor you feel honored to be working with...the very rare person you never forget. And then you remember students like George Bush, those who are totally the opposite.’
‘You develop pretty good ideas about what are their weaknesses and strengths in terms of thinking, analysis, their prejudices, their backgrounds and other things that students reveal.’
[Bush] showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him.’ [When asked to explain a particular comment] Bush would respond, "Oh, I never said that."’
‘During the oil and energy crisis [I] led a discussion on whether government should assist retirees and other people on fixed incomes with heating costs. Bush made this ridiculous statement and when I asked him to explain, he said, 'The government doesn't have to help poor people -- because they are lazy.' I said, 'Well, could you explain that assumption?' Not only could he not explain it, he started backtracking on it, saying, 'No, I didn't say that.'"
‘We were in a discussion of the New Deal, and he called Franklin Roosevelt's policies 'socialism.' He denounced labor unions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Medicare, Social Security, you name it. He denounced the civil rights movement as socialism. To him, socialism and communism were the same thing. And when challenged to explain his prejudice, he could not defend his argument, either ideologically, polemically or academically.’
Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him...after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies. So that's how I knew, behind his smile and his smirk, that he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy."
‘The other children of the rich and famous were at least well bred to the point of realizing universal values and standards of behavior, but Bush sometimes came late to class and often sat in the back row of the theater-like classroom, wearing a bomber jacket from the Texas Air National Guard and spitting chewing tobacco into a cup.’
‘He was such a bad student that I asked him once how he got in. He said, 'My dad has good friends. Bush scored in the lowest 10 percent of the class.’
‘He thought he was entitled to all kinds of privileges and special deals. He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, a
Elroy -
Gee, I wonder what this Japanese guy's politics are like? Apparently, he was a frequent guest of shows like "Err America" and such. Even sold some books, I see. Hmmmmm.
One of Yoshi's OTHER former students had this to say about him:
"I got a B+, so it's not a GPA complaint. He's clearly a smart man, but he's one of the worst teachers I've had. Nothing could be translated to real world. We learned terms he created, definitions only he approved of from materials he wrote pre 1980s. My takeaways; Bush is an idiot, Japanese firms are brilliant, and Americans are useless. Horrible!"
Now, ya gotta ask yourself: "Why did this LIBERAL PROFESSOR give Bush a passing grade in this uber-prestigious program if he was so bad?"
Your case is weak using a tainted hack like this, my boy...Bush still earned a Harvard MBA. And you didn't.
NEXT!
What has being Japanese got to do with anything? Not getting a little racist, are we?
Come to that, what do his politics have to do with anything? Why is it that a liberal never have a valid opinion? What Yoshi was saying was not whether Bush disagreed with the concepts under discussion,it was that he didn’t understand them in the first place, and that is not a partisan argument. And if selling a few books on the TV is crime, then Bill O’Reilly would be doing life without parole.
And who is this ‘other former student’? You can’t just quote an ‘other former student’ without least giving a name. And where/when did he say/write this? And what are HIS politics, as if I have to ask?
‘Nothing could be translated to the real world’? Sweet Jesus! Welcome to the world of ideas! It sounds less like Yoshi was bad teacher and more like your ‘other former student’ is incapable of abstract thought. And how do ‘pre-80s’ materials have any kind of bearing on his relationship with Bush? He would have had a hard time teaching him
something written in the 80s in 1973! And he’s got a point – for a long time Japanese firms kicked Americans’ asses, as well you know. Americans are useless? Well, he’s half right and The Republican Part are going all out to prove it. Bush is an idiot? Well...
Why did this professor (it is immaterial what his political stripe may be) give Bush a passing grade in this uber-prestigious program if he was so bad?
Gee Timmer, do you REALLY want me to answer this? (Hint: Think Prescott Walker Bush and
Anyway, given Bush’s business ‘record’ (LOL), the ‘uber-prestigous’ degree that is the Harvard MBA doesn’t seem to have done him much good. Maybe if he had paid attention during class he may not have presided over as many commercial disasters
as he did. It just proves that a degree in anything is a means to and end, not a means in itself.
Yoshi is not the only one to say this, and as weak as you wish may case to be, yours is weaker. At least my ‘tainted hack’ has a name and credentials. And if Yoshi IS such a tainted hack, what was/is he doing teaching such an uber-prestigous course like this?
So Bush ‘earned’ a Harvard MBA? So what? Quite frankly, I couldn’t think of a worse qualification for the leader of the free world. I’d much rather have a human rights lawyer, or a journalist, or anything rather than a freeloading, born-again, substance-abusing frat-boy born with a silver 400-piece cutlery service stuffed in his mouth, no idea of the real-world and a piece of paper that supposedly ‘proves’ his discredited ideas of free-market supremacy.
No, I don’t have an MBA from Harvard. Nor, frankly, do I want one. I don’t doubt that I could get one but I have neither the money nor the inclination, not to mention the green card. Harvard MBAs have spread their tentacles to all four corners of the planet, trailing misery and poverty in their wake. I wish there were none of them. That the LOTFW is one of these automatons is qu
Elroy -
What, just because I point out that someone is Japanese it makes me a racist? Man, you and your Ultra-PC buddies take the "sense" out of "sensitive." Ridiculous!
Yoshi has an agenda - it is plain to see that. While he has the right to say what he wants and sell lots of books, folks with half a brain can dismiss his rhetoric all they want too.
You are wrong about who I can and can't quote. Why do you come to my blog and dictate policy to me? If I want to say the sky is green, what is that to you?
I don't recall the student's name, and if I did you wouldn't recognize it any more than I did.
"Anyway, given Bush’s business ‘record’ (LOL), the ‘uber-prestigous’ degree that is the Harvard MBA doesn’t seem to have done him much good. Maybe if he had paid attention during class he may not have presided over as many commercial disasters as he did. It just proves that a degree in anything is a means to and end, not a means in itself."
You should do a little more reading, brother. Seems to me that GWB did pretty well for himself with the Rangers. He is a multi-millionaire because of his business sense - the one that you are supposedly laughing at. Or is that just a hollow cackle I hear?
And you criticize this prestigious degree - a Harvard MBA - and THAT, my pseudo-pretentious friend, is truly worthy of LOL!
Being Japanese has no bearing on what he has to say about Bush. Bringing it up denigrates him and renders his opinion less worthy on account of his cultural identity. Racist.
I saw last week the fumilating pundits of the Right having a tantrum because Steny Hoyer said that Lt. Gov. Michael Steele ‘slavishly’ supported the GOP –
YOUR ‘Ultra-PC buddies [taking] the "sense" out of "sensible"! ‘Slavishly’ is not a term reserved to describe African Americans to the exclusion of all others.
slavishly
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Deliberately imitative; lacking originality: a slavish reproduction.
That the RW shills got so whiney about this perceived infraction is hypocritical on two counts. 1) The fools who grizzle about the left being too ‘PC’ take PC to new levels of absurdity when it suits them and 2), they draw attention to the fact that Steele is black, as if that has anything to do with it. Racist.
EVERYONE has an agenda one way or another! And in what way does this invalidate his contribution anyway? And I’d like to know what YOUR definition of agenda is. Arguing with the right can is like arguing with Humpty-Dumpty (‘When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.’).
Folks with half a brain CAN dismiss Yoshi’s ‘rhetoric’ all they want too [sic], but those with a fully functioning one are interested in his unique insights to the workings of George’s.
You can indeed quote whomever you want to on ‘your’ blog, but don’t expect to be taken seriously. I come to your blog to discuss politics, not dictate policy, and if you want to say the sky is green go right ahead, but if you can’t back up your assertion be prepared to have your premise demolished.
The reason that you did not ‘recall the student’s name’ is that you never knew it in the first place! This ‘quote’ is an anonymous post on that highly credible resource ratemyprofessor.com!
I did a little more reading G’s business record, and it turns out that he was even more incompetent than I first thought! Arbusto was a disaster bailed by friends of Daddy’s in the shape of Spectrum 7 which, mired in $3m debt, was rescued by Harken, a vehicle driven by MORE buddies and the Saudis, where Bush distinguished himself by indulging in some insider trading and outright fraud.
As for the Rangers, more of 41’s mates offered 43 1.8% of the Rangers for $600,000 of borrowed money, GAVE him a further 10% for work he never did. Then they built a new stadium on the taxpayer’s dime and sold the lot to a Texan millionaire whose businesses were regulated by the vendor, one GW Bush. Yup, he’s a business marvel. Long live the meritocracy!
I do criticise this prestigious degree - a Harvard MBA - and why not? The holders of same are a menace to society.
And you’re right – I AM ‘Pseudo-pretentious’; that is, not pretentious at all. Watch out for those pesky double negatives, friend!
Cheers
Elroy
Elroy -
I am glad that I was able to encourage you to read. Your spin of what you had read might have taken you a bit longer, but you are now more educated than you were - and that is always a good thing, my boy.
The "Slavish" comment was just one in a series of attacks against Michael Steele (As you may have noticed, I am living in Maryland and Steele is running for a Maryland seat on the Senate). There have been many references to Steele as an "Uncle Tom," phrases like "all he brings to the ticket is the color of his skin," and some Democratic operatives were caught obtaining his credit report illegally. He is a real threat to them, and currently is running almost neck-and-neck with his white democrat challenger.
Steny Hoyer has a pattern of doing this, so methinks it was intended as another slur in his series. Check out
http://michellemalkin.com/archiv...ives/
006141.htm and her links from this article.
Not to correct you (again!), but "slavishly" is a word that can be understandably viewed as offensive to blacks in America.
slav-ishNot so long ago, the use of "niggardly" by a local D.C. politician was piled onto. This surprises you?
–adjective
1. of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
2. being or resembling a slave; abjectly submissive: He was slavish in his obedience.
3. base; mean; ignoble: slavish fears.
4. deliberately imitative; lacking originality: a slavish reproduction.
pseu-doYes, I think I wrote what I meant. you are "pseudo pretentious" in that you pretend to be hig-brow. It applies here, because I think it is laughable that you pretend to be better than GWB...a man who is more accomplished and educated than you are. No shame in that, BTW...I am not as accomplished nor as educated as he is either. I just don't act as if it isn't true.
–adjective
1. not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham.
2. almost, approaching, or trying to be.
I had actually done all that reading previously, but it was good to brush up on it. Why you think I am spinning it is beyond me; it’s pretty black and white. It’s on the public record. It’s no secret. What’s your problem, Farouk?
‘Slavish’ was not an attack. Grow up. As for being an ‘Uncle Tom’, I believe that is a description used for a black man that plays up to whitey. It might not be very PC, but it fulfils a function. And when were you guys so PC anyway? I thought the right HATED political correctness! Only when it suits you, obviously. Typical. Hoyer’s terms maybe unfortunate, but he is trying to voice his opinion that maybe Steele is using his cultural identity to attract the black vote. As for trying to obtain his credit records, I guess they are doing unto others as others do unto them. Thanks, Republicans, for lowering that tone!
I will read just about any link you throw at me but must I read Michelle Malkin? Ewww! Hey! Just back from MM’s site and guess what? According to her, most Maryland African-Americans agree with Hoyer! It’s them that say he is a ‘token’. It’s hysterical to see the Right so sensitive over PCness. You see no irony? No, didn’t think so.
I understand that the word has many meanings. So do ‘bat’, ‘swallow’, ‘bear’. etc etc. So what’s the fuss about, apart from trying to smear Hoyer?
The to-do over ‘niggardly’ was ridiculous, I agree. The two words are not even spelled the same. But I do understand why the African-American community are vigilant on this issue; after all, the predominant culture has not exactly been kind to them over the years.
PRETENTIOUS.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
1.full of pretense or pretension.
2.characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
3.making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
So, Pseudo-pretentious. What, am I pretending
to be pretentious? Is my pretention a ‘sham’? Look up ‘double-negative’. It could do you good. It may make you more educated than you were - and that is always a good thing, my boy, as your grip on the English language is up there with Dubya’s!
I don’t pretend to be anything. I don’t pretend I that I went to Yale or Harvard, or that I have an MBA.
For that matter, I don’t pretend to have been in the bottom 10% of my class, to have committed fraud, been arrested for drunk driving or plunged my nation into war.
I am not psudo-anything. I stand by everything I say and do. And yourself?
Cheers
Elroy
Elroy -
Yes, many of us conservative folk actually do have a sense of what is right and wrong...and the PC left only remain PC when it suits them.
Yes, you should read Michelle Malkin...every day. It would do you good, Yasser!
"Pretending to be pretentious" is rather funny, and you once again just didn't get it! Perhaps not all that correct, to be sure, but I don't know where you get the "double negative" thing...must be that you feel doubly negative (which I might agree with).
Ya know, your grip on the English language (like your knowledge of military and intelligence issues) seems to be right up there with Crocodile Dundee!
While conservative folk MAY have a sense of what is right and wrong, they seldom seem to exercise
it. I would list the endless litany of GOP casualties from just this year butI only have 3000 characters.
The PC issue is so misunderstood by the right that we enlightened ones just shake our heads and roll our eyes but, because it’s you Timmer, I’ll spell it out. In a nutshell, the concept concerns avoiding uneccarcarily immflamatory or insulting temrs of address. For instance, I know that in the US you use terms like ‘cripple’ and ‘retard’ quite freely, you see nothing wrong with them, but down here we wouldn’t DREAM of it. We say ‘disabled’ or, indeed, ‘intelectually disabled’.
Likewise, calling an African-American a N****r is felt to be highly offensive and rightly so, but it could be argued that using terms like ‘Uncle Tom’ or ‘Coconut’ to describe same serve a specific purpose which is not primarliy to gratuitously offend. An ‘Uncle Tom’ is an AA who kowtows to his white overseer and a ‘coconut’ is some who is deemed to be black on the outside but white on the inside. They are not nice, but they are not meant to offend purely on the basis of race per se, unlike, say, George Allen’s ‘Macaca’.
The left does not employ PC ‘when it suits them’, they use it all the time, and the right hate it However, the Right are happy to jump on the left when the left are judged to be ‘unPC’ but still feel free to be as unPC as they like, wearing their unPCness as a badge of honour.
It’s like when the right give the left a hard time for being rich, as if they have no right to be, or can’t be an honest leftie and a rich one simultaneously, that the two terms are mutually exclusive. I think it’s because the right cannot fathom why a rich man would vote against his own interest and so therefore has a hidden agenda, but I’d like to know how the poor are meant to access power in 21stC Washington.
And yes, I should read Michelle Malkin every day – I like a laugh!
And while I’m in an educating mood, I will explain what constitues a ‘double-negative’, as this is obviously an aspect of Grammar 101 that escaped you.
The premise of the double negative is that two negatives form a positive. Take the popular Bill Withers song, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’. If there is ‘no sunshine’ then it must be night-time; if there AIN’T ‘no sunshine’ then logic dictates that it must be day-time! So how can can I pretend to pretend? If I am pretending to pretend then I must be genuine.
Now, double negatives may be excused in the context of popular culture, but it is sloppy in serious political discourse. I worry for any native speakers of the Queen’s English that have failed to grasp its fundamentals.
I thank you for the compliment you paid me; while Crocodile Dundee’s accent may be a tad grating, his grammar is impecible. George, on the other hand? ‘Is our chidren learning?’ and ‘Misunderestimated’ tells us all we need to know.
Cheers
Elroy
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