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I don't even know where to start. How about, in no particular order:
1) You just wielded your editorial pen to take on a guy who posted a review on Amazon. Not a pundit, not a person with a journalistic gig, just some guy posting his musings on an unedited bulletin board.
Seriously -- what level of communication would be unworthy of your attention? Try reading the scratched musings on a bathroom stall. That will give you plenty of material to write about.
2) You elevated those unedited musings to a level of importance far beyond their wildest dreams. Did your reporting skills unmask any sort of credible "Ross meme" in the general public? If not, why did you waste your time talking about this?
3) Other than ad hominem attacks, did you have anything thoughtful to say about what Ross had to say? The lone, lame attempt I saw was the reference to Anthony Quinn not having had anything to do with Dowd -- as if that were any sort of refutation of his apropos use of an anecdote.
I understand what Ross was getting at, even if he wasn't particularly eloquent when it came to getting his point across. But that point was either worth refuting or being left to its undeniable obscurity -- yet you chose to do neither. That is both curious and strange.
