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Old 10-13-2007, 11:03 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug View Post
I still haven't had anyone reasonably oppose my criticism. They just generally criticized me.
Because there's no way to reasonably oppose it. Your criticisms are sound.

People are going to defend it because it didn't offend them personally or because it came from on high, but the basic nuts-and-bolts contentions of the talk are simplistic and shortsighted. I'm sure Beck is a nice enough lady, but she didn't come off very well. I'd guess that one of the last things she would have wanted would have been to instigate the (sometimes bitter) arguments that she did. She might have come off differently than she had anticipated, but that doesn't change the fact that she chose her words poorly.
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