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Our World: Reclaiming Language from the Left by Caroline Glick

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Bob Levin5/25/2010 2:04:09 am PDT

re: #1 freetoken

Ah, the ultra-scientific, historically aware, smell test. Or is this the ‘pick out a short phrase from a 1000 word article to completely dismiss all of the points and information’ tactic?

What’s interesting is that Glick was accurately quoting another writer, David Hornik. So is it paranoia to accurately quote another writer? What do you call it when you quote someone out of context?

And I’m not sure you actually understand the quote you are picking on. Did David Hornik mean that all of the media in Israel is dominated by leftists, or did Hornik mean, the left wing of the Israeli media? Do you know? To me, there isn’t enough data to know. I’d have to ask David Hornik what he meant. I suspect, and that’s as far as I can go, just a hypothesis, that Hornik meant the left wing of the Israeli media. I only suspect this because he used to be the editor of the Jerusalem Post—not a small paper by any means.