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VWolf

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5. So, one the one hand,

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 08:28 AM

Sep 2012

we have a guy saying all softs of awful things, claiming they were taken out of context, and then proven wrong when the entire video is released.

And on the other hand, we have a guy saying something reasonable, that WAS taken out of context, and that comment is made even MORE reasonable when the entire video is released.

False equivalency, much?

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