Blankets
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Sun Jun 8 15:38:52 CDT 1997
I'll continue to use the DELETE button as it was intended, but I offer a
humble suggestion that you two might want to take this discussion off-line.
Cordially,
Doug
At 3:55 PM 6/6/97, Matthew P Wiener wrote:
>David Casseres wrote:
>
>>Matthew Weiner sez
>
>>>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.
>
>>[...] the song is neither corroborated nor contradicted by history,
>>so how the hell can it be "baldly inaccurate, historywise"? History
>>does not say anything at all about the song.
>
>I listed numerous features of the song that were grossly inaccurate so
>far as history goes. You keep pretending I did not.
>
>>> 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 showed nothing but a lack of written documentation,
>
>Liar.
>
>>>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".
>
>>There are no "historical errors" to note.
>
>I noted many. The only attempts to refute me were pretty ridiculous, like
>claiming "the West" did not mean "the West", and so on.
>
>> Do not call me a liar;
>
>Then stop lying. Duh.
>
>> you did
>>indeed try to pass off a lack of evidence as contradictory evidence, and
>>you are still doing so.
>
>You're lying again. I did not try to pass anything off, for one thing.
>--
>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu) If Apple owned
> NBC, they would sue Nike for comedy-interface copyright violation.
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