"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
Merely mis-remembering something from 35 years ago is a routine lapse and
does not constitute delusion. But to insist that a distant memory on a
partisan matter is necessarily reliable and requires no fact-checking,
and
to cling to that memory in the absence of corroboration and in the
presence
of
strong contrary evidence, is to willfully dwell in a fantasy world.

I have seen no contrary evidence, strong or otherwise, to my memory of 35
years ago, nor has anyone even attempted to present any.

The evidence I presented consists of the observation that despite many
researchers (partisan and otherwise) poring over the public (and private)
record concerning both Kerry's and Bush's actions 35 years ago, no
right-wing blogger and no ratings-hungry corporate news outlet has
publicized the newspaper articles that allegedly link "Kerry and associates"
to what you claim they perpetrated: a cruel hoax in which they forged
telegrams that gave false notice of combat deaths!

I already pointed this evidence out to you (contrary to your assertion just
above). Incredibly, your response was that the forgery has not been
publicized because it is not interesting enough for anyone to care about!
Neither Kerry's enemies, nor the prime-time ratings-mongers, consider it
worth mentioning! That response shows the absurd lengths to which you will
go to rationalize your pet beliefs.

However, Kerry repeated his story about being in Cambodia in 1968 many
times
over the years, even after the errors in it were pointed out to him.

Kerry has acknolwedged the error and amended his statement accordingly. As I
said earlier, it is not remarkable for you (or Kerry, or anyone else) to
have years-old memories that drift from the facts. What is remarkable is is
your stalwart, systematic lack of concern for evidence.

I have to wonder about the fantasy world you live in. You seem perfectly
willing to swallow anything that Kerry has to say, but anyone who
disagrees
with you is either a liar or delusional.

Here again you are simply pulling imagined facts out of thin air, apparently
without even knowing or caring that you are doing so. Concerning your first
claim, I never "swallowed" Kerry's mistaken statement about 1968, and I
disagree with a great deal he says. You haven't the slightest reason to
believe the contrary, yet you blithely assert the contrary as fact.
Concerning your second claim, I have had numerous discussions in this very
newsgroup in which I disagreed with others, sometimes quite strongly,
without accusing them of dissembling or delusion. But that doesn't stop you
from asserting the contrary as fact. That is why I say you live in a
fantasy world. You have a pattern of saying and believing whatever is
convenient for you to say and believe, without even pausing to consider
whether it's true.

--Gary