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Thread #129116 Message #2896256
Posted By: Ron Davies
28-Apr-10 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Your papers, please' - for US citizens?
Subject: RE: BS: 'Your papers, please' - for US citizens?
Bill--
It's not "93% vs 95%" but the entire credibility of anything Heather McDonald says. I suspect PDQ would not especially like figures tossed out by, say, Keith Olberman, attributed to some other group.
Heather has, for instance written on the "controversy over so-called racial profiling". Though racial profiling may not occur as often as Mudcatters think, it does exist. Someone who denies it totally loses believability. She is plainly a polemicist.
Like Keith Olberman in a similar situation, at this point Heather has no credibility without backup. And if the 95% proves without foundation, PDQ's argument falls.