Re: Tales of the Tea Party
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>It certainly settles it more than cherry-picking the 5 worst signs >>from a WHOLE rally. > > Certainly. If it was the only tea party rally. Ever. Ah, so you want an exhaustive list of every sign at every rally. Ever. Which isn't going to happen, so you won't even have to change your mind. Good. > The rhetoric has > certainly toned down, but some of the early rallies set the tone. So we don't have this exhaustive list of signs, but you know this ... how? > And it > wasn't hard to find questionable signs and birther lunacy in abundance in > the early rallies. It is great that those things are becoming scarce. Assuming this is true, perhaps the change is more mainstream people joining? I dunno, since we're just dealing with opinions here, it's hard to say. > Had she been going to various rallies over the last year, that would > actually paint a better picture, certainly something more conclusive about > the movement as a whole. This only tells us about one rally. Right. Not perfect, but a better picture of a rally than we've had up until now. > It's like > basing your conclusion on what all Christians believe about an issue by just > focusing on one worship service at the church you go to. Which is better than focusing on the 3 or 4 worst nut jobs that happen to be attending the "one worship service". -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot