tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post116174165055119721..comments2009-07-15T20:15:56.798-07:00Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652wjs@wesleyjsmith.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-1161786584637223832006-10-25T07:29:00.000-07:002006-10-25T07:29:00.000-07:00The trouble is that the pity factor still will play in. It's the old <A HREF="http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/weekly/aa072400a.htm" REL="nofollow">human shield</A> trick that they trotted out in defense of partial-birth abortion.GrannyGrumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-1161748287665065472006-10-24T20:51:00.000-07:002006-10-24T20:51:00.000-07:00The thing is, these kinds of things aren't going to work any more because there are too many truth detectors out there in cyberspace. So now, the story is about the controversy surrounding the ad, and as a consequence, the ad loses its potency. It's like in the Wizard of Oz: The man behind the curtain is definitely being seen, and all power is lost.Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-1161745312537325562006-10-24T20:01:00.000-07:002006-10-24T20:01:00.000-07:00Up until now I'd been figuring that he might just be a dupe of the ESCR Frankensteins. But if he's deliberately misleading people about how under control his symptoms are, there's no reason to doubt that he's misleading people about the ESCR as well.GrannyGrumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com