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Re: Fisking vs Top-Posting

2010-09-22 12:45:32
I read the post that I was replying to.

Given that the poster was claiming Rod Beckstrom as the inspiration for the
Tea Party, I did not consider the actual contents of the book very relevant
since the fallacies in the original post are that the Tea Party is a
decentralized movement and that its organization is somehow novel.

It is a matter of record that the major tea party events reported in the
mainstream media were organized by Fox News and 'Freedom Works'.


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Well afaik we should ask Robert Fisk about it.

But Phillip has the tendency to also post comments (top, bottom,
inline, sideways and upside down)  without reading the source he is
making the comment about, like @CircleID regarding Beckstrom's book
"The Starfish and Spider" (read the book it's quite interesting).

Perhaps we'll get a better picture about "fisking" with a video blog ...

Cheers
J

PS. Upps I top posted, sorry :-S

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Keith Moore 
<moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com>
wrote:

On Sep 21, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:

Fisking ... it sounds naughty :-). No blogger jargon aqui (I mean me).

I'll admit it...I was really disappointed to learn how Phillip had
defined that word.  I think the word should be reserved for something
naughtier.

And yes, top posting really is inherently evil. :)  There's no need to
quote an entire (long) message for context, that's what the In-Reply-To
field is for.


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