Ah...ok...thanks, Jack. I confess I did not read carefully enough.

So... my own comment on Ake's post:

""Bill can be as guilty as any other in evasion and hyping his own views."
I can comment on that one: I *never* intentionally evade. If a rational & substantive answer would take more time than I have to compose it, then I may say so and give a brief synopsis or just not bother. I hate being unclear!
As to "hyping my own views". Please explain how "hyping" differs from 'explaining' or just simply 'stating'. What YOU, ake, seem to not understand, is that 'my view' is often merely a statement that I find someone else's view flawed, poorly stated, or as I said about Palin, based on simple factual errors. Criticizing a view does not 'necessarily' mean that I espouse the opposite view... though that can happen.
When I have a clear, unambiguous opinion on some matter, I try to say so. (see my views on environmental issues, or gun control).
In THIS long post, the point is that there seem to be some really odd distortions of what my 'view' actually is! My view IS that Sarah Palin and her ilk do not think, reason and debate in the same way that most of their opponents do! That does **NOT** mean that I automatically agree with everything said by anyone you class as a 'liberal'.

So... you see why discussions like this are difficult for me? There are so many explications needed that it is often hard to stay directly on the topic.