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Well that there's your problem. Best to stick with what you know best; like drawing rainbow coloured unicorns and sucking d*ck.

I suspect you don't really know what "unbiased" means, or are using it very selectively. Possibly even both.



Yes. Really. I'm still unsure why people keep thinking this is so unusual. If *anyone* other than Palin said those exact words in a tweet, none of you would assume it was a gun reference and not a web page reference. We do "reload" web pages, right? Do you seriously want me to link to the hundreds of thousands of uses of the word "reload" on the internet which refer to reloading a page and not a firearm? Want to take a wild guess what the ratio is there?

I can only respond to what I'm presented. I was presented with two links: A map with cross hairs on it, and a tweet saying not to retreat but to reload, with a request to visit a facebook page. Based on that information and only that information there's no reason to assume that the tweet was a firearm reference. The first and obvious assumption to anyone not acting in a biased manner is that it was a reference to loading a web page and not a gun.


You are so blinded by your own bias that you can't see what is really a biased response. I'll ask again that you think about what it means to be biased. You are judging Palin's words based on your own starting assumptions. You assume she's a gun-toting hick advocating violence and so you interpret her words in that context. That's textbook bias. I'm interpreting the words in the context given and with no bias. It's a reference to a web page and a request to reload. The correct interpretation should be obvious. To anyone who is actually unbiased that is...


This is not to say that she *wasn't* tossing in a double meaning there. I'm sure she was. However, she's counting on the very bias you seem to think you don't have in order to get that meaning. Get it? I'll ask a simple question: If you knew nothing more about Palin than the tweet referenced above, would you assume that the reload reference was about firearms? I know this is hard, but use your brains and imagine for a moment that someone you've never heard of before in your life posted that tweet and be honest about what it would mean to you. You'd *never* get a gun reference. Thus, your assumption is biased. Mine is *not*. Sheesh! If you're going to use words at least use them properly.

Edited, Jan 13th 2011 4:24pm by gbaji

I accepted long ago that there's no hope of reaching gbaji. 'Twas just a joke...something I like to do when I'm not painting unicorns and blowing guys...


...and furthering the gay agenda, and undermining our troops, and supporting radical islam, of course. Can't forget those.

Please explain to me how "do not retreat" relates to her webpage?

I don't know about you, but I often find myself retreating from websites.

Particularly ones that Usagi links to.

The funny thing (well, one of them among many) is that Gbaji is wringing his hands and complaining about we all so unfairly thought of guns in relation to Palin when Palin has been working with a media team since mid 2008 to cultivate this whole gun-toting, hard-fightin' Mama Grizzly frontier woman bullshit.

Why do you think she made sure to get a "Don't retreat, reload" comment in while holding a shotgun on her TLC program? So we'd know her thoughts about how to see new content on websites? She's just building her brand. She's carefully cultivated the exact same persona that Gbaji is all a-fluster about us "accusing" her of having.

I wasn't aware that jokes and condescension were mutually exclusive.

Huh.

I know. You thrive on ******** at length about shit you're completely ignorant about so why would I suspect you're playing cute here?

You spoke from ignorance and looked stupid for it. We get it.

So assuming it's a reference to "reloading" a web page is absurd, but assuming it's intended to reference a scene from a TV show she hadn't done yet isn't? Apparently in addition to being a great cook Mrs Palin is also able to see into the future! Makes you wonder what went wrong with that whole election thing in 2008... ;)

And implicit in that is the appeal (just in general, not an appeal to DO anything, before anyone gets their buckskin knickers in a big ol' sweaty knot) to the NRA crowd. Just showing how very down she is with the gun hobbyist set, don'tcher know.

To be clear, you're loling at the Palin camp not manning up to the metaphor rather than actually using the metaphor itself.

Also, how is it a show she's not done yet? I've never watched it, but I've seen commercial spots for it and I know I saw 2 slots blocked off for it on TLC.

Ah, ok.