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NIKOLAY (#10):
You can't check your basic facts, Nikolay, can you?
(1) The statement by Rick that you refer to is not from his "basic facts." It does not appear in his post, it appears in a comment he made to a commenter on his post. His "basic facts" are in his post. You haven't pointed to one single error in his post.
(2) Comment #6 already made your point about "two years" versus "two days." Did you even read the other comments before making yours, announcing it (misleadingly) like it was a revelation?
(3) The idea of "fact checking" responses to comments is completely insane. You might as well say you don't want the author of posts to respond to comments, a suggestion I would find wildly stupid, counterproductive and offensive.
(4) Rick didn't say Kos tried to remove his comment from his blog, he said he tried to remove it from the Internet, which implies sources other than his blog. And again, this statement was not made in his post, but only in a response to a commenter.
(5) Even if Rick had made a mistake, the presence of a mistake is no evidence at all of the lack of fact checking. It's childish propaganda to suggest otherwise. Huge news organizations like the Times and Post employ full-time fact checkers and yet still make mistakes every day. You, Nikolay, also make them.
I'd also like to point out that the proper way to prove the Daily Kos isn't a hate site is to give evidence that it's full of love, not to prove that some other site is a hate site. The latter is the tactic relied upon in the USSR to deal with critics, a tactic that drove the USSR into oblivion. Just because Michelle Malkin is a hate site (it isn't) doesn't prove the Daily Kos isn't, nor does it mean that Malkin couldn't criticize Kos as being one. Just because I've fought in war doesn't mean I can't criticize others for doing so. In fact, those who've been there may be the most reliable critics that exist.
Moreover, as Rick correctly points out, the terms being used are totally meaningless. Rick states: "Hence, his idea of just what constitutes 'hate speech' could very well mean one thing in one context and an entirely different thing in another." Indeed so. Was it wrong for Martin Luther King to hate the KKK and want to eradicate it? Is it wrong for me to hate the Putin administration in Russia, or Josef Stalin? Can any sane person suggest that Mr. Greenwald's comments are full of love and human understanding?
It's just my opinion, Nikolay, but I don't believe your comments are so motivated.
Comment Posted By La Russophobe On 27.07.2007 @ 03:09
