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Thread #45911   Message #3787480
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Apr-16 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Well, Keith, I didn't know you were a moderator now! Inflammatory, no. I have stated only facts. False, never. Anyone can view that thread and see exactly what you did. You made a grossly inaccurate characterisation of what your source said (yes, yes, you quoted it in full, then you later went on to put words into his mouth that he neither said nor meant - when are you actually going to come clean, Keith? Do you actually want people to trust what you say or not?) and you refused to back down. It's important, Keith, in any context at all in which you're being taken to task because it shows that you are unreliable in the extreme. Perhaps you were once a Sun reporter. It's what they do all the time. As for the rising, I've already said that those events informed Irish history from then right to this day, a point disputed here by some whose agenda is firmly anti-Irish republican. And I'm certainly not getting into squabbles about who fired what at whom and from where. I've been to Dublin, seen the bullet holes and sated my fired-up curiosity. That's as much as I care to share with you two ill-tempered fellows, but it's on-topic, no?

If you want to make a "blindingly obvious" point, Teribus, it's best to make it blindingly accurately, not blindly inaccurately. You KNOW that Keith misquoted but wouldn't correct himself, don't you? Yes, of course you do. Unfortunately, you define yourself by those who you choose to close ranks with. I wouldn't mind betting you get road rage too.