Thoughts from a morning walk 2: Angle website

Yikes, I went to the top of Thomas Creek and back down, in just under an hour, too. Whew! But, it does clear the mind, so I was prepared to think about today’s Reno Gazette-Journal Fact Checker.

I’ve been closely following the brou-ha-ha over the there-missing-there,again Sharron Angle website, and the cached original that was re-upped by the Reid camp. Today, the RG-J Fact Checker took a look at the revised official Angle website and compared it to the ‘original’ that Angle’s staff took down on the night of her primary victory. This action was apparently so that her national GOP handlers could ‘help’ her better parse the wording of her so-called ‘positions’ on a number of hot button issues.

I applaud the Fact Checker, and think this is a valuable, necessary service in this day and age.

However….

Fact Checker is treading a careful line here, suggesting that there are no substantive differences between the original and the revised website in so far as her basic positions on the issues are concerned. That’s sort of true, but not the point.

You can take that position so long as you’re only parsing the words - the when you start looking at intent (particularly the intent to deceive ) then you’re on different ground.

Let’s pretend for a moment that you, the average busy voter, hadn’t even seen the original website - filled with some pretty darn extreme positions. Then you saw the revamped, politically correct website, filled with much more moderated statements on those same positions.

Example:

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