a right to your own facts

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/19/09 2:11:38 PM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> At 12:15 PM -0500 2/19/09, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
> >As usual, TZ confuses the right to one's own opinion--however
> >stupid--with a putative right to one's own facts, which only the
> >dim-witted think they have.
>
> Well, a survey of recent American history might suggest that such
> views can be a good route to political power.
>
> LH
>

As the circus guy said, you won't go broke underestimating the good sense of
the American public. The result of which, I guess, is that the country has
gone broke instead.


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