Jesse Taylor takes Julian Sanchez’s reasoned description of Cheney’s intentionally misinterpreted coments, and basically, in more than one hundred words, states that he is too stupid or too partisan to understand even Sanchez’s thorough explanation.
Cheney stated:
Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again, that we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we’ll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we’re not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.
Jesse, in his infinite wisdom and larger arrogance, breathlessly posits:
Without the last clause (from “and that we’ll fall back” through “a terrible mistake for us”), here’s what Cheney said.
1.) You vote John Kerry into office.
2.) Because he’s in office, we will be hit by a terrorist attack.Here’s what he said with the “exculpatory” evidence.
1.) You vote John Kerry into office.
2.) Because he’s in office, we will be hit by a terrorist attack.
3.) After the terrorist attack that only happened because he’s in office, he’ll fuck up how he handles it.Rather than saying Kerry beats his wife, Cheney made the far more responsible statement that after he beats his wife, he won’t clean up the house properly. I’m sorry I was ever offended.
A.) Why would anyone remove the last clause? As Jesse recognizes, it is a clause, and thus part of a sentence, so the only reason to remove the clause is to distort Cheney’s statement.
B.) Since you admit the clause is part of the sentence, why is including it considered ‘exculpatory’ evidence. Shouldn’t it just be considered part of the damned sentence? If you read the entire sentence, there is no NEED to clear Cheney of any guilt, as he said nothing wrong.
C.) Your second formula under the what you have falseley labeled ‘exculpatory evidence’ is flawed. The correct formula for what he said is:
1.) If we vote John Kerry into office
2.) and if we get hit again
3.) we will respond inappropriately
Nowhere in Cheney’s sentence did he say that if you voted for Kerry/Edwards would we be hit again. And that isn’t going to change no matter how stupid Jesse is or becomes.