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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Seriously -- he's not even talking about what you think he's talking about. Why pretend to read something you haven't?
If you were the editor of the NYT, would you have chosen run Cotton's op-ed piece?
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I read it, and I read Cotton’s piece, and I offered my reaction to both. You seem confused. And you do this a lot lately. You offer something, and when someone reacts to it in a manner that doesn’t fall into the debate you want to have, you whine and attack.
The article clearly made the argument, which you’ve acknowledged, that Cotton’s piece should not have been run as an Oped because the ideas raised in it are dangerous and some facts in it are inaccurate. Its facts should have been better vetted. But as to the dangerousness of its prescriptions? Well, that’s for the audience to decide. Not some ass like the author of the piece you cited (or you) who thinks he knows best what the audience should be allowed to consider.
