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Karen Tumulty

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Monday, September 15, 2008 10:49 AM

Reply from Karen Tumulty

Glenn (and pardon if that Glenzilla thing was considered an insult; I've seen it used by some of your biggest fans):

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I was not saying you make up arguments from whole cloth. The point I was trying to make is that most of what you cite to make your arguments--and I'm a regular reader--is stuff that was originally reported in the much-maligned MSM.

I think I made that a little clearer in a subsequent post on that thread, where I said:

Ivb: But where does he get the print sources and quotes that he cites? Um, the media...? Today's installment, BTW, is based on the Gellman book, which Glenzilla too seems to find pretty eye-opening.

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