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Perfect example of how one can hear what one wants to hear if one tries really hard.

"Without saying it specifically..."

might be lost on those of lesser intellect, but that is why it is left up to the journalists to glean what is said behind what is said.

than whom in your mind ?

Yourself ?

distraction after distraction?

Of course Obama said none of the things that the article imagines he did. But that doesn't stop the 972mag machine from spinning fantasy-land nonsense. It really is a great example of how, if you start with a particular lens, you can make everything you see or hear fit that framework.

Make sense, Danny?

Tell me that the next time Paul Krugman, Robert Reich or any other journalist for that matter writes anything related to the economy...or anything else and has to point out things that are denied by the establishment or just to put things in perspective.

It is a journalists job to cut through the bullshit in order to explain and educate.

I guess that I hit close to home with my original comment.

Very deep sips of the Kool Aid.

I would be happy to exchange ideas with you and not clog up the forum.

If you really, really want me to point that out for all of I/P and DU just ask me to.

I'll link to each and every one of your empty posts, and then you can get back to me about serious conversations.

That would go a long way to unclogging the forum.

At school I kept telling this bully not to call me faggot ... He never stopped so I had to thump him.

You know you're addressing a thorny devil, right? Moloch horridus?



All hail the lizard king.

That I also asked not to call me faggot , and they wouldn't stop , relentlessly until I thumped them both.. Then they stopped.

unleess youy care to explain why you brought it up

you do not wish to expound it seems on why it said in the first place, that's okay

To confront them.

Count how many times I have told them not to call me that , but 3 of them persist .

I remember you telling someone just once not to call you "Az" and I never saw anyone call you "Az" ever again....

( anyway the whole thing is silly and immature and I'm ceasing talking about this irrelevant immature unimportant banter)

"That was his moment. A moment that unfortunately doesn’t seem to be taken seriously by either local or international media."

Neither the local nor the international media picked up on the "nuance" that the 972magger did.

Cause for introspection perhaps?

If I thought a comment meant something significant and no other journalist anywhere felt the same way, I might wonder if I was seeing something that was not there.

...but are now open?

The playing field really is level?

In America, yes, but not always.

In other parts of the world, like Israel, not always at all.

His comment referenced Israelis and Palestinians, I take iit to mean that change can often take a long time but it's worth it.

You can read the unabridged quote in post #23.

What do you believe that he is talking about there?

It wasn't "There was a time when my daughters did not have the same opportunities as somebody else’s sons."

He's talking segregation. Jim Crow.

That's a joke.

Is comparing the occupation to historic racism in the US.

This preceding sentence:

'Whenever I meet these young people, whether they're Israeli or Palestinian, I think of my young daughters,' he said during a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

This sentence and the next clearly shows that he was talking about how structural changes can take a long time and was using the civil rights mvmt as an example. If he was comparing the occupation to the historic racism in the US why would he say "whether they're Israeli or Palestinian"?

Get it?

parsed analyzed or what ever to mean something other than what it quite obviously did

maybe it's a mass hallucination

You really just see what you want to see.

Your Daily Mail article actually just prints what Obama says - instead of imagining things like the 972mag article does.

And you apparently.

or something

+972 had it spot on and I do understand why that very obvious comparison makes so many here so very very uncomfortable

The title fits if you were at a convention of psychics and mind readers .

Quite the self supremist attitude.

What do Oberliner and Myself have in common that you think we both have a 'lesser intellect' ?

Sending mexed missages!