"fact" = proposition, nonfact

[Jonathan Lighter]

No air quotes, no sarcastic stress, no nothing. Dead serious. The general topic was the Fox favorite, crazed campus "liberals" (sic).

  Cf. my previous posts on this topic - which have met with a certain skepticism.

  JL

Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
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Was the word "fact" accompanied with "air quotes" or said in an intonation
that indicated it was facetious?

--Dave Wilton
dave at wilton.net


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_Fox & Friends_ news anchor just now:

"And there was the professor in Wisconsin who was preaching the fact that
the United States was behind 9/11."

JL


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