Posted on 08/31/2016 5:46:05 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
Wow! What a gracious response.
Here's your link, [expletive deleted]:
Levin had announced LAST WEEK that he would declare who he was voting for AFTER Labor Day.
Think about it.
Why would he need to announce to his audience who he was voting for? ??
Because pre-Labor Day it wasn’t clear.
Duh.
So you DISHONESTLY took his POST Labor Day announcement and applied it retroactively.
News for you: had it been clear, obvious, or even surmisable PRE-LABOR Day, Levin would not have (1) had to prep his audience for the big announcement, or (2) have had to make the announcement at all.
Can you comprehend this???
Because pre-Labor Day it wasn’t clear.
Are you really serious? If he said last week he'd announce after Labor Day who he was voting for, then he'd already decided who he was voting for and just wanted to build up a large enough audience to spike his ratings. What? You think he was sitting around Hamlet-like all last week trying to decide? Ridiculous.
So you DISHONESTLY took his POST Labor Day announcement and applied it retroactively.
News for you: had it been clear, obvious, or even surmisable PRE-LABOR Day, Levin would not have (1) had to prep his audience for the big announcement, or (2) have had to make the announcement at all.
Once again, what are you talking about Mr. Fantasy Writer? Obviously, before Levin made his announcement nobody was absolutely sure what he would say. But if one wanted to make a bet, the signs were all there that he'd endorse Trump. I saw that. You didn't.
The signs were there, because whatever Levin said about Trump, what he said about Hillary Clinton was even more negative. You focused on the bogus headlines from months back that took Levin's emotional rant as a definitive statement that he'd never vote for Trump.
How silly was that? Of course, when Levin makes an endorsement, it's going to be a major thing for him, not something he tosses off in the middle of a rant months before.
"Prepping" the audience, making an official announcement: all ways of boosting ratings. But anybody who really thought he was going to back Clinton or Johnson or staying home wasn't paying very close attention.
You were saying Mark Levin wouldn't endorse Donald Trump. I said he probably would. And look what happened. He did. All the snark and accusations don't change that.
‘You were saying Mark Levin wouldn’t endorse Donald Trump.’
I was reading carefully through your comments, wordy though they were. I could with ease respond to your completely-missing-the-point points...but then I came to the above outright lie.
I don’t like lies.
If you care to rephrase your comments so as to eliminate this blatant lie, I’ll be happy to respond.
Otherwise, here is my response:
If you have to lie to make your case, your case is ipso facto a lost cause.
Anyway, here's what you said:
Here is the quote: “I’m not voting for Donald Trump. Period. … These bully, dirty tricks, Nixonian tactics, they’re only going to backfire. So, count me as never Trump,” Levin said.
Period means period, and neverTrump means neverTrump. Since you’re not Mark Levin, your impressions don’t cancel his direct statements. Link me to a quote where he says he’s reneged on his neverTrump commitment, or stop wasting my time.
I take that as your statement that Levin wasn't going to endorse Trump. That's a conclusion a lot of people would draw from what you wrote. You clearly indicated that you thought Levin wouldn't endorse Trump, and he did. Case closed. I'm not going to waste any more time on this.
Once again, if you have to totally misrepresent what a person said, you are in the wrong—flat wrong. I made no—zero—predictions about the future. I simply and accurately quoted what Levin had in fact said. The entire narrative that I was predicting the future started and ended in your own mind—and it was false.
Of course you’re done. You have no logical or rational leg to stand on, so retreat is your best option. I give you credit, though, for recognizing that you’re in a hole, and at least setting aside the shovel.
Since the discussion is over, I’ll leave you with this thought. If a person makes an absolute statement, it’s up to them and no one else to modify it, if need be. For example, if I say I will never, ever, under any circumstances, travel to Mexico, then it’s up to me and me alone to renege on that commitment, should I so choose. You cannot renege for me; if it’s to happen, I must be the one to do it.
Think about that for a while. It’s the key to the entire discussion.
PS: it’s dishonest to accuse someone of saying something they didn’t say. You said I predicted Levin would not vote for Trump. Quibble all you like, but that is a completely untrue statement.
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