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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

this is kind of minor if he just added punctuation to it

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Always defending the powerful, this account is.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

just call out fake news when I see it

read the article

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm sure it's a coincidence that the powerful are having their cause advanced on social media. A complete coincidence.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

what do you mean by that

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

The problem is the punctuation was added to prematurely end that sentence. There was a clause removed from the sentence. There are also two paragraphs missing. Schiff is the David Barton of TDS.

Someone with his education knows that flooded should be used to indicate the removal of the final clause. Further, and honest person would know that removing context, presenting this as if it the message, is dishonest.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

dores it change the meaning? he was just reading it aloud.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

It was a presentation in which there was a mock-up of the supposed message. And yes, it does change the message. Removing the remainder of the message, or not even making it clear there was more to it, removes the basis under which the assertion was made. This'd be called out in an undergraduate essay.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

do you know what was said

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Yes. It's in the original source and quite a few sites reporting on this.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

how is it different then

I read this breitbart and they don't want to say

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's literally in the article.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

ok yeah I know but from my reading it didn't change the meaning of this so I wanted to see how you interpreted it

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It provides some rationale. Whether the context adds anything to to claim I'd certainly up for debate, but removing the clause from the final sentence was at best incredibly sloppy and perhaps the worst part of this. Omitting the paragraphs was also bad, albeit to a lesser extent if he would summarise them.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This man hit every single limb on the way down when he fell out of the ugly tree.