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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 10:54 AM
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5. I think it's sort of a roundabout tribute to Ernest Hemingway for
Edited on Sat Jul-21-07 11:04 AM by Old Crusoe
you to give us this post this morning. Today's his birthday, and it was Hemingway who thought that to be effective, writers had to have a built-in bullshit detector.

I don't know if there are prior references to a bullshit detector, and Heminway wasn't even talking about politics, but it's a hell of a useful construction.

I think DU and other sites have state-of-the-art bullshit detectors when it comes to the media. And you just know some of those slimey rascals read these boards.

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