GIGAFAN99
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Feb 9, 2009 21:06:48 GMT -5
...would it be about A-Rod? Seriously? A-Rod?
Admittedly, A-Rod is the only guy who hears the stimulus package number and says "Simulus' agent can get him more" but what was that guy doing?
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Feb 9, 2009 22:06:59 GMT -5
It was still more lucid than whatever Helen Thomas tried to ask.
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GIGAFAN99
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Feb 9, 2009 22:18:53 GMT -5
It was still more lucid than whatever Helen Thomas tried to ask. True enough. "Pakistan? Thoughts? And are their nuclear weapons anywhere? Whatever happened to that nice boy Greg who used to talk to me when I sat on the porch swing?" |
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Post by HoyaSC on Feb 10, 2009 10:29:43 GMT -5
I was hoping that Obama would refuse to answer the ARod question and dismiss it as frivolous considering the magnitude of the problems he said we're facing.
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Post by Bando on Feb 10, 2009 10:58:54 GMT -5
It was still more lucid than whatever Helen Thomas tried to ask. I mean, I assume she was trying to get him to talk about Israel's nuclear weapons. I can't imagine a president of either party saying anything about the subject ever, so I don't know what she was expecting. |
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Post by kchoya on Feb 10, 2009 12:13:20 GMT -5
...would it be about A-Rod? Seriously? A-Rod? Admittedly, A-Rod is the only guy who hears the stimulus package number and says "Simulus' agent can get him more" but what was that guy doing? I wonder if he came up with that on his own, or if there was direction from WaPo HQ. If it's the former, he's got to be getting a ton of flack today. |
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Post by kchoya on Feb 10, 2009 13:29:12 GMT -5
I was more bothered by the fact that a talk show host was in the front row and he took a question from HuffPo? What's next, Chris Matthews in the front row?
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Post by quickplay on Feb 10, 2009 14:56:58 GMT -5
I was more bothered by the fact that a talk show host was in the front row and he took a question from HuffPo? What's next, Chris Matthews in the front row? Yeah, let's get some more gay prostitutes without any journalistic connections  |
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Post by Elvado on Feb 10, 2009 15:47:58 GMT -5
I'm sure you can find some lying around Barney Frank's pad...
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Post by jgalt on Feb 10, 2009 18:57:24 GMT -5
how bout that he addressed him as "sir" and not mr president?
there also seems to be grumblings by the BET reporter that no one from "black outlets" was called on.
really though, in a month, no one is going to remember any of this. Especially Hellen Thomas who can barely remember her own name.
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Post by strummer8526 on Feb 10, 2009 23:20:38 GMT -5
I don't at all mind bashing an old lady, but out of curiosity, is there a reason for anti-Helen Thomas sentiment? She's never really offended me. Regardless, she's old and feeble.
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Post by rosslynhoya on Feb 11, 2009 8:07:20 GMT -5
In general etiquette, "sir" is the most obsequious usage in English, more respectful than addressing a person by his title, which is more respectful than calling a person by title and last name. For example, in a courtroom, you'd say "Your honor" before "Judge" before "Judge Brown" and I wouldn't recommend calling him Joe at any point.
Crazy Aunt Helen, like Dickie V or Tony K, should have been put out to pasture long long ago. Calling her demented is patently offensive to actual sufferers of dementia. I blame 90% of her problems on truly believing her own mythos - which is based more on her longetivity than any particular analytical skill -- and about 10% on being a viciously partisan America-hating Arab who can't shake her identity issues. She seldom ever asks actual questions and instead sounds more like the standard issue SFS undergrad who prattles on and on about some arcane trivium to demonstrate his own intelligence and then at some point ends with "Isn't that right?"
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 11, 2009 10:16:48 GMT -5
In general etiquette, "sir" is the most obsequious usage in English, more respectful than addressing a person by his title, which is more respectful than calling a person by title and last name. For example, in a courtroom, you'd say "Your honor" before "Judge" before "Judge Brown" and I wouldn't recommend calling him Joe at any point. Crazy Aunt Helen, like Dickie V or Tony K, should have been put out to pasture long long ago. Calling her demented is patently offensive to actual sufferers of dementia. I blame 90% of her problems on truly believing her own mythos - which is based more on her longetivity than any particular analytical skill -- and about 10% on being a viciously partisan America-hating Arab who can't shake her identity issues. She seldom ever asks actual questions and instead sounds more like the standard issue SFS undergrad who prattles on and on about some arcane trivium to demonstrate his own intelligence and then at some point ends with "Isn't that right?" I hardly want to initiate a vocabulary contest with someone who threw 'obsequious' and 'mythos' into his last post, but I think you're misusing the term self-evident. A conclusion that is self-evident requires no evidence. Here, your location is evident only because your choice of handle/screenname provides the proof. |
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rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Feb 11, 2009 10:33:01 GMT -5
Touché!
Are you in a philosophy grad program by any chance? It's hardly fair for professionals to throw their weight around in a HoyaTalk discussion of epistemology.
To be honest, I just felt like I was insulting people's intelligence by putting "Rosslyn" there.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 11, 2009 21:33:20 GMT -5
Touché! Are you in a philosophy grad program by any chance? It's hardly fair for professionals to throw their weight around in a HoyaTalk discussion of epistemology. To be honest, I just felt like I was insulting people's intelligence by putting "Rosslyn" there. No, I have a far more useless graduate degree -- I'm a lawyer. Sorry to be that guy, but I was working on an appellate brief earlier, which puts one in the appropriate mindset to micro-dissect words and phrases. I'd advise you to return to the classic 'Communist Country,' but I suppose that moment has passed. |
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