From: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.bush,alt.flame
Subject: Re: SC rally: "We don't want a draft dodger for president!"
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:37:46 GMT
Reply-To: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu
Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
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art@world.std.com (Al Thompson) writes:
: lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) writes:

:    The "mispelling" you refer to was an honest typing error, nothing more. 
:    Furthermore, I have NEVER corrected someone's spelling in a posting.
: 
: No, that's correct, you just criticized "rednecks" for having a "fifth
: grade educations".  You sneer at, and look down your nose at people whose
: work pays your salary.

[...]

: Gee, Dr. when you sneer at others in public as ignorant louts you open
: yourself up to public rejoinders.  I wouldn't have jumped on you if you
: hadn't called them "beer-swizzling red-necks with fifth grade
: educations".  I know everybody makes spelling mistakes, but when you hold
: yourself out as somehow more intelligent or better educated you assume an
: obligation to demonstrate this status.

The good doctor's comment was followed by a :) -- that's a SMILEY
for those of you who fall in the "humor challenged" department.  It 
was a JOKE!  A FUNNY!  An attempt at HUMOR!  It might not have
been in the best of taste, but it is obvious to anyone with half
a brain that he meant it in jest.  It was an attempt to poke
fun at the possible bias of the local news media in some parts
of the country.  In case you have forgotten:

lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) writes:
: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:

: > How many of you saw this?  What did you think?  How many of you didn't
: > know about this because your TV station or newspaper chose to deny you
: > this knowledge?

: Oh yeah, I always trust my local beer-swizzling red-necks with fifth
: grade educations to give me their in-depth political commentary :-).

Like I said, it was an attempt at humor.  It might not be nice to stereotype
the folks in the area of jsc.nasa.gov in this fashion, but that smiley
indicates that the statement was not meant to be taken seriously.

Get a life folks and grow up!  Enough of this already; I'd rather not have to
edit my killfile to get rid of this flame fest, because I'd rather
not lose the opinions of the posters I would be putting there!

[Back to the original set of attributions]

:    Nose in the air? What do you call this tripe you are shovelling?
: 
: Well, I didn't refer to the stock car racing fans as having fifth grade
: educations and thus making them somehow beneath me.
[...]
: Look up above where you sneer at the intellectual development of stock
: car racing fans.  If that's not a claim to being smarter, or at least
: somehow better informed I don't know what would be.

The man was not referring to stock car racing fans.  He was talking about
the media in his area.

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