Re: oh please.
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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It is a canard that it is loaded rhetoric or that it makes things worse. Mike F. ________________________________ From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 3:24:13 PM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] oh please. On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Johne Cook wrote: > <looks up 'cannard.'> He means "canard", i.e. the French word for "duck". As it happens, there is no "canard" here, even by the English definition of "a false or unfounded report or story". Palin really *did* say the words "blood libel", and the words really *are* historically associated with medieval European anti-Semitism (you might recall that the phrase came up a lot when pundits discussed Mel Gibson's Passion). It may or may not be the case that the term has a broader meaning now and is therefore more acceptable in everyday political usage, but that is a difference of opinion, not one of fact, and can therefore not be easily labelled "false or unfounded" in the sense that the word means. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot