Proofiness

[Jonathan Lighter]

Bachmann. On TV Farrakhan is mellower.

But either way it would be funny!

JL

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:30 AM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

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> Review in today's NYTimes of a new book on the deceptive use of numbers,
> the title alluding to "Truthiness", introduced a few years ago and commented
> on extensively here, as I recall.  (Charles Seife, author; Viking,
> publisher; $25.95)
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> From the review: "Inflating the size of a crowd to one million is the same
> offense, whether perpetrated about Glenn Beck's "Restoring honor" rally
> (Representative Michelle Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota) or a Million Man
> March (Louis Farrakhan).
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> Bachmann & Farrakhan.  What's that expression about strange bedfellows?
>  Which would be the more distraught, waking up to find the other sharing the
> pillow?
>
> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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