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First of all, Happy New Year to you. Hope you enjoyed your holidays. Remember when I had said the press could and would alter what someone said to make a point? I found an example. Happens on both sides of the spectrum so I am not doing anything other that providing an example.

Maureen Dowd's Dishonest Deletion

Columnist Maureen Dowd purposely mangled a quote from President
Bush to make him look naive about the dangers posed by Al Qaeda.
In her May 14 "Osama's Offspring," Dowd writes: "Busy chasing off
Saddam, the president and vice president had told us that Al
Qaeda was spent. 'Al Qaeda is on the run,' President Bush said
last week. 'That group of terrorists who attacked our country is
slowly but surely being decimated...They're not a problem
anymore.'"

Dowd used ellipses...to hide the truth. Here's what Bush actually
said in Arkansas May 5: "Al Qaeda is on the run. That group of
terrorists who attacked our country is slowly, but surely being
decimated. Right now, about half of all the top Al Qaeda
operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, they're not
a problem anymore. And we'll stay on the hunt. To make sure
America is a secure country, the Al Qaeda terrorists have got to
understand it doesn't matter how long it's going to take, they
will be brought to justice."

Notice the third sentence of Bush's speech: It's clear Bush was
only talking about the top Al Qaeda operatives that "are either
jailed or dead" as being "not a problem anymore" -- not the group
itself. Dowd dishonestly deleted that sentence and the first
three words of the next in order to make Bush "say" Al Qaeda was
no longer a threat.
01-05-2004 07:26 AM
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Be wary of any quotes using ellipses marks. That should be the first thing one learns as a college freshman. Since I was educated by the Catholics, I learned that as a freshman in high school.

The Left does this as does the Right, it depends on what market the writer is writing for.

As I've said long ago, the press has only one agenda in this country and that's to make a buck! 03-puke
01-05-2004 08:34 AM
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So Sister Mary Holy Water told you what not to do too? :laugh:
01-05-2004 09:56 AM
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rickheel Wrote:So Sister Mary Holy Water told you what not to do too? :laugh:
There weren't any nuns at my school, only priests and civilian teachers. To get a job teaching there you had to have at least a master's degree in your field. A history teacher, for example, had to possess at least an M.A. in history. This differentiates from the public schools in many ways. In a public school, one teaching history probably has the bare minimum of a bachelor's degree in education (BAE), and in some of the poorer schools, they'll hire anyone off the street who can pass a drug test to teach history, i.e. football coaches.
Same deal with the sciences, mostly taught by the few priests at my school. Math was also taught by Jesuit priests (the Jesuits have a tradition of education that goes back to their founding as an order circa 1550).
In the public schools, however, any focker with a B.S.E. (bachelor of science, education) teaches chemistry and ninth grade physical science. Similar to math teachers who've taken the school of education route. They might have had about six math classes in college other than the two core math classes like college algebra and trig. But this is the general trend, there are some differences depending on a locality's school district and their hiring practices (enter political squabbling over funding here :drink: ).

No wonder the Japanese and Chinese are running circles around the creme-de-le-creme of American "scientists."

The Jesuits have a no-holds barred philosophy to education. You get what you pay for and the Catholics oftentimes award scholarships to their employee's kids, as they did my brother and me. The Jesuits taught me everything and provided me with the correct foundation for college, or the "real" world. Perhaps that is why I lost my religion the moment I left that school. Anyway, I wouldn't trade it for any experience in the world. I loved that school regardless of all the bitching I did while I was there! :laugh:

Point of post: public education, for the most part, sucks! If I had kids, they'd go to a Jesuit school or I'd home school. Forget all that poorly funded propaganda thrown at youngsters at the local school district!!
01-05-2004 01:58 PM
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12 years of Catholic School then ran wild. My sons attend public schools here and are both in accelerated programs. I hate the fact the schools teach to the SOL's, but that is the way it is. We suppliment their education through exposure to many things, most of all, good books. I was taught by Nuns and then Monks. Bunch of sick bastards. Well, not all of them.
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