More from Mr. Shapley
“Instead of allowing you or your colleagues to continue putting words in my mouth, perhaps I should just let the column speak for itself. If you choose to rank yourself among the likes of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., or presume to suggest that your lobbying is the same thing as registered voters actually affixing their signatures to petitions, that is your conceit and you’re welcome to it. I’m sure it plays well with your donors. As to “proof of the widespread fraud you seem to think is going on” — you brought that up, remember? It was you who introduced me to this “myth.” You do say, however, that “Statistically it’s probably a tiny, tiny fraction of the emails (going to Congress that are bogus).” So, since you presume to lecture me on how a reporter is to perform (we’ll forgive you the fact that I’m not a reporter, but a nonetheless fact-dependant opinion writer, nonetheless fact-driven), what evidence to you have to substantiate this “probably” statistic?
At the risk of redundancy, I’ll remind you that I did not for a moment challenge your right — constitutionally or otherwise — to do this or virtue therein. Your continued flailing at that straw man is irrelevant. Of course you have a right to do so, but members of Congress ought to be able to know exactly with whom they’re corresponding.
Shapley @ the P-I”
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:34 pm
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