{"id":1742,"date":"2009-11-07T20:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T00:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2009-11-07T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T00:04:46","slug":"watch-for-those-dreaded-ellipses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/07\/watch-for-those-dreaded-ellipses\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch for those dreaded ellipses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2009\/11\/07\/glenn-greenwald-smears-allahpundit-and-me-with-ellipses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patterico<\/a> does some reconstructive surgery on Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s less-than-totally-honest practice of partial quoting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Greenwald\u2019s implication is clear: right-wing blogger Patterico shouldn\u2019t have recommended Allahpundit\u2019s coverage &mdash; and right-wing blogger Glenn Reynolds shouldn\u2019t have linked Patterico\u2019s recommendation of Allahpundit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If only<\/strong> those right-wing bloggers had warned their readers to be skeptical and avoid jumping to conclusions . . .<\/p>\n<p>But wait! What\u2019s that <strong>little ellipsis<\/strong> in Greenwald\u2019s quotation of my post? Why, I do believe that\u2019s an indication that he <strong>left something out<\/strong> of my quote! Let\u2019s just look at that whole quote to see what Greenwald chose to omit, shall we? I\u2019ll put the part Greenwald omitted in bold type:<\/p>\n<p><em>Whenever there is breaking news, it\u2019s good to keep a few things in mind:<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Don\u2019t jump to conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>* Don\u2019t be afraid to discuss relevant topics even if they seem politically incorrect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Always follow Allahpundit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. So Greenwald omits the part of my quote where I explicitly warn readers, as the <strong>very first thing I say<\/strong>, that they should not jump to conclusions in breaking news situations. And then Greenwald implies that my recommendation of Allahpundit was a poor one because Allahpundit jumped to invalid conclusions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patterico does some reconstructive surgery on Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s less-than-totally-honest practice of partial quoting: Greenwald\u2019s implication is clear: right-wing blogger Patterico shouldn\u2019t have recommended Allahpundit\u2019s coverage &mdash; and right-wing blogger Glenn Reynolds shouldn\u2019t have linked Patterico\u2019s recommendation of Allahpundit. If only those right-wing bloggers had warned their readers to be skeptical and avoid jumping to conclusions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[86,269],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-s6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}