Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

to quote your own words, rA: "Im allowing myself to launch an unpredented attack on the BBC who had misquoted Trump and the UK opposition leader. I'd imagine this happens regularly in discussion - a large part of the BBC are boring and unsatisfactory"

You have used all of those words in the past two posts. I am not misquoting you, just editting. Was I responsible in doing this?? I dont think it constitutes misquoting, to quote you

Rearranging the order of words to change their meaning is entirely different, GP, as you well know and that is not something that the BBC stands accused of.

You’ll have written enough essays/dissertations in the dim and distant to recognise that, when quoting people or passages, you often don’t use the full quote and draw attention to the relevant parts eg via the use of ellipses.
Imo, and I accept that I may be wrong, this is the televisual equivalent. Trump’s speech was over an hour long. There is no news channel that is going to include the whole speech, so don’t they invariably just try and provide the gist of it?

[Andy_Faber]

Rearranging the order of words to change their meaning is entirely different, GP, as you well know and that is not something that the BBC stands accused of.

But even ignoring that flagrant piece of editting, it DID change the order of events, which is as bad. As I pointed out in an earlier post, the program showed the marchers proceeding to the White House AFTER Trumps words, which intimates he incited them to do it, when in fact the clip related to an earlier time.

I definitely don't think you're dim, I actually think your failure to quite grasp strong opposing arguments is a tactic and you're doing it here. Its certainly more endearing than calling anyone with an opposing view a Nazi or racist

[ramAnag]

But even ignoring that flagrant piece of editting, it DID change the order of events, which is as bad. As I pointed out in an earlier post, the program showed the marchers proceeding to the White House AFTER Trumps words, which intimates he incited them to do it, when in fact the clip related to an earlier time.

I definitely don't think you're dim, I actually think your failure to quite grasp strong opposing arguments is a tactic and you're doing it here. Its certainly more endearing than calling anyone with an opposing view a Nazi or racist

Okay. You MAY have a point on the editing of the order of events, but you alone seem to be making that point. The fall out all appears to be about the fifty (ish) minute gap between Trump’s opening and closing words.

As regards tactics. I don’t have any. It’s a forum for debate. Doesn’t involve tactics and I genuinely wish people wouldn’t personalise things. As far as I’m concerned I just post my p.o.v and have a little banter. Sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m not. Some people agree, some - unfortunately usually you and GP - don’t.