Wow!  I hadn't seen this commentary.  I didn't know MSNBC was so gutsy.  Thanks, Michael for passing it on.
 
I had heard the entire context, and I understand that the problem was with the placement of the word "us" --- "get us stuck in Iraq" rather than "get stuck in Iraq."  I understand Kerry meant to call Bush stupid.  I just wish he didn't try to be subtle about it.  That's where he went wrong (again).   
 
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
 
Rosemary Hartigan, J.D.
Professor and Director, Business and Executive Programs
Graduate School of Management and Technology
University of Maryland University College
 

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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Michael O'Hara
Sent: Fri 11/3/2006 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Attack of the web monitors



      Litigation is a lot like politics, but you do not get past the focus
group.

      Quoting out of context is one of the fine arts of politics.  Done
poorly, as in the race for the House of Representatives in my fair city,
and it prompts cries of "Liar!":  even from dispassionate bystanders.  Done
well, and it is quickly becomes The Big Lie.

      Some practitioners of this art have earned reputations as the best
practitioners of this art.

      Given those reputations, and given the reputation of others to be
windbags of the first order, since I only had seen video clips of a single
damning sentence out of the mouth of a renowned windbag, I wondered what
the entire paragraph looked and sounded like.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/CD-SC-KerryJoke.wmv

Michael

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