re: #53 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
I cannot resist the pedant’s urge to point out that you *could* also be citing someone just in order to handle a part of your argument that has already been established, to avoid going over old ground.
“As Smith has successfully argued, blancmange is very like trifle. Therefore…”
But I agree that isn’t what Gellar’s doing here.