What about Reagan?
“What about Reagan?”
What about him? Did he reverse the cumulative changes? Or do you think that there was NOT much change in that period? I assume Newt was aware of the Reagan efforts...he made some pretty large contributions. I think there’s a good chance he was talking about the massive lurch we’ve taken to the left, don’t you?
Shhhh you are not allowed to ask the Newt Cult tough questions like that.
Lesson One- The Ellipsis
An ellipsis is a form of punctuation, represented by three evenly-spaced dots or periods, that signifies some portion of a quote or statement has been intentionally left out for brevity. For example:
But “from 1965 to 1994 . . . America went off on the wrong track.”
In the preceding quote, material (in this case, of unknown content) has been left out of the quote in order to summarize its overall meaning. Such material could be ancillary, or it could clarify or limit the extend of the general statement. Without the original quote, however, we don't know what has been left out.
Occasionally, some individuals might argue about what qualifying information may or may not be represented in the original quote. With only the concatenated quote to work from, however, we have no way of knowing what information was or was not included to limit this statement. Hence, the aforementioned individuals may be exposed as "Morons" (see Lesson Sixty-Seven: Brute Stupidity and its Various Forms)...