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Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:40:27 +0000
Gee whiz!  As a gun-toting life member of the National Rifle Association and 
someone who voted for Bush once -- one time was all I could take -- I'm 
surprised that just because I poked a bit of fun at Rupert's silly news network 
I seem to have been mistaken for a liberal Democrat.  I hate Republicans and 
Democrats equally, and I am neither.  I'm a Murkin, dammit, and proud as hell 
to be one.

Walt, Murkin by birth and Southern by the grace of God 

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >> Of course, the folks who watch Fox probably don't notice.
> >
> > See the smiley!  :-)  "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly."  Oh, really? 
> > Factor that in.
> 
> I take exception to that remark and offer this e-mail as the virtual 
> equivalent of a drink thrown in your smug, sanctimonious face. You think you 
> can append a smiley to your cheap shot and that makes it okay? As we said 
> down South, not hardly. Now, I know the individual targeted here is a 
> long-time, popular member of this list, and I am new to it, and thus likely 
> to be excoriated and perhaps even banished for my temerity--but I'm 56 
> goddamn years old and I refuse to sit by quietly while while people who 
> believe and vote the way I do are ridiculed in such a supercilious manner. 
> If I have earned banishment, then so be it.
> 
> There's plenty of ignorance and stupidity on all sides of any political 
> argument--in the United States and anywhere else in the world where people 
> actually are allowed to argue about politics. I'm damned if I can see a 
> reason why a mailing list about Olympus cameras should be a launch pad for 
> petty political barbs--of any flavor. Lord knows there are a gracious plenty 
> of places on the internet to vent one's political spleen. You just don't 
> need to do it here. And while I know there's always a temptation to sling a 
> cheap shot when the opportunity arises (even cheap shots have their appeal) 
> but resisting temptation is a mark of maturity.
> 
> Alas, I have failed to follow my own admonition, and so I offer my abject 
> apology to members of the list who are offended--and, now that I've said my 
> piece I'll even offer to buy a drink for the target of this oppositional 
> screed to return the in-the-face favor if the opportunity should ever arise.
> 
> 
> Humbly submitted,
> 
> 
> Bob Whitmire
> 
> 
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