Okay...so, you're a public figure. Don't you think ANYBODY is going to be able to check facts and call "bullshit" on you? The arrogance of these people never ceases to amaze me.
seriously, it is one thing to recount his complaint in your case- it is another to rewrite history and your personal actions and presence into the scenario...
Rhetorical and blatantly false are well and goodly separable.
...Name me someone who has never embellished a recap like that. It's basically the same end; the boats wouldn't go because of red tape, the sheriff was furious, when the going gets tough Americans screw red tape. Blah, blah, blah. People are overreacting.
How about this: you take the burden of proof and name me one Democrat who's ever "embellished" an anecdote by claiming to have witnessed it first hand when s/he was actually 100 miles away at the time.
The only thing I can recall that remotely compares is Clinton's "sniper fire" comment, and the press and the Obama campaign rightfully didn't treat that like a mere rhetorical flourish.
I'm just saying that at one time or another, we've all done something like that. It's not like he made up the entire story. The story was true, he just wasn't around to hear it. If he had lied about the sheriff and the boat and such, then I'd be more affronted. I also think we should be more worried that he finds monitoring volcanoes to be useless spending rather than the fact that he was not present at the occurance of the event.
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Oh, REALLY classy. Jackass.
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Rhetorical and blatantly false are well and goodly separable.
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oh. right. he's a Republican. never mind.
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The only thing I can recall that remotely compares is Clinton's "sniper fire" comment, and the press and the Obama campaign rightfully didn't treat that like a mere rhetorical flourish.
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Well, most public representatives are supposed to be smarter than that. Can you name a Democrat who's made the same mistake?
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