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Princeton Student Admits to Staging Attack, Police Say
in response to reader comment: typical conservative lie?!

Submitted by J., Dec 18, 2007 17:50

First, I don't have the energy to point out once again, how "but Clinton did worse!!!" is not a valid argument. It is "debate" I would not accept from my five year old trying to diminish his actions by pointing out the crimes of his older siblings....but have accepted that expecting likewise from the average neo-con is pointless.

So, I will just go right to pointing out the nonsense of the "point". First, if this is such a "well known" liberal strategy, you certainly can come up with a list of several others...and none of them almost two decades old, right? Yah, I won't hold my breath. This, my moralist friend, is what is commonly known as a "lie". A lie based on either ignorance or assumption is no less a lie.

And, could you please tell me exactly what "case" Ms. Brawley attempting to draw attention to? Yah...we call that "logic" and it is pretty much mutually exclusive to hyperbole and mistruths.

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As this incident seems to be a reprise of a hoax Nava perpetrated in high school, I would say that... [MORE]

dognose

Dec 18, 2007 22:35

No matter how much you try to spin this to blame liberal the facts remains Nava is a conservative and... [MORE]

Lee

Dec 19, 2007 03:37

I don't see all (or any!) of the anti-"librul" commenters from the original story here doing the moral thing and... [MORE]

Katie

Dec 18, 2007 19:35

As I read the article in yesterday's print edition, I wondered why no-one else was reporting on it; later, I... [MORE]

myra

Dec 18, 2007 17:21

Your paper was the only one apparently taken in by this hoax. Even the student newspaper reported it with measured... [MORE]

Gelston

Dec 17, 2007 21:13

This is a case of a conservative person using a well-known liberal strategy of staging an attack to call attention... [MORE]

Edit

Dec 17, 2007 21:11

First, I don't have the energy to point out once again, how "but Clinton did worse!!!" is not a valid...

J.

Dec 18, 2007 17:50

The Anscombe Society is the society Opus Dei establishes on Ivy League campuses . Prof. Robert George is a member... [MORE]

joe

Dec 17, 2007 20:39

When you have no argument, the conservative approach seems to be lie and try make others look bad. Where could... [MORE]

chaz

Dec 17, 2007 18:29

Campus Repuglican groups have been the breeding ground of much that is wrong with America from Ehrlichman & Segretti to... [MORE]

Steve

Dec 17, 2007 17:15

Campus Democrat groups have been the breeding ground for much of what is wrong with America from Webster Hubble &... [MORE]

GT

Dec 17, 2007 18:36

Send Nava home for Christmas break, and tell him not to come back for 2nd semester! [MORE]

Cachet

Dec 18, 2007 02:55

Really??!? Awesome!!! Now...can you take a dim view on the child molesters? The treasonous and traitors? And, are you sure on the... [MORE]

J.

Dec 18, 2007 17:41

Thank you for posting this correction. I hope it will receive at least as prominent placement in your print edition... [MORE]

Gary Reilly

Dec 17, 2007 16:05

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