Blankets

[Matthew P Wiener]

David Casseres wrote:

>Matthew Weiner sez

>>I don't approve of outright nonsense and lying being passed off as mere
>>distortions and embellishments.  Nor of the guts of the song being passed
>>off as "some details" along the way, now that they've been found baldly
>>inaccurate.

>I was going to stay out of this but I really do have to point out that
>what you have is some evidence that in one place, at one time, a couple
>of Army types apparently gave a couple of infected blankets to some
>Indians.  To try to pass this off as evidence that no Indians anywhere,
>at any time, were ever given quantities of infected blankets in exchange
>for land is grossly irresponsible.

And I am not doing that whatsoever.  Sheesh.  Meanwhile, the song remains
baldly inaccurate, historywise.  Deal with it, eh?  Scrambling to find
*somewhere* a positive spin *somehow* on its historical contents is not
going to work.

>Your use of the words "baldly inaccurate" is

  on the money.  The guts of the song are indeed baldly inaccurate, as I
showed with point by point enumeration of its disconnection from reality.

You may bother to note that most of the historical errors had nothing to
do with the blankets before lying your head off about what I did or did
not "try to pass off".

>All you're really saying is, "if I can't find a written record of it, not
>only did it never happen but any poetic assertion of it is outright
>nonsense and lying."

Liar.  I said exactly what I said.
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