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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| So pro-conspiracy witnesses are not just mistaken, they are insane, drunkards, abusers, liars, publicity hounds... grudge holders, folks with hidden agendas |
This is pretty harsh and I would never have expressed it that way, but you have to admit it's pretty hard to deny. Gotta respect those Amazon book reviews. |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| So pro-conspiracy witnesses are not just mistaken, they are insane, drunkards, abusers, liars, publicity hounds... grudge holders, folks with hidden agendas |
This is pretty harsh and I would never have expressed it that way, but you have to admit it's pretty hard to deny. Gotta respect those Amazon book reviews. |
You keep stooping to lower lows , Ya- Ta Boy
Here is the complete review on Amazon of Posner Boys "Case Closed"
that Ya- ta BOY cherry picked for ( his) effect. A textbook case of disinformation:
33 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
Mind closed is the more appropriate title , July 9, 2006
By A Reader - See all my reviews
This book is not only tendentious garbage--it is dangerous as well. All of Posner's deceptive shaping of the evidence depends entirely on the reader not knowing a damn thing about the case. He is a good writer--a genius worthy of Sammy Glick and Joseph Goebbels. Read carefully, Posner's sources are revealed to be official ones--current or former members of governments, police forces, courts. And all sources that he attacks are citizens--and there are thousands of non-governmental sources in this case who provide a mountain of evidence for conspiracy. Posner trashes every one he can get his tricky hands on. So pro-conspiracy witnesses are not just mistaken, they are insane, drunkards, abusers, liars, publicity hounds ( unlike himself , of course) . grudge holders, folks with hidden agendas ( again, unlike all those intelligence agents he believes in so devoutly). Let the reader beware: This is State Propaganda at its most clever and diabolical, and the purpose of the book is to convince the reader that only losers believe in conspiracies, those who have not succeeded in this greatest of all possible societies. Sour Grapes , in other words.
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1400034620/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&pageNumber=2&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Another reviewer writes:
OJ Should Hire Posner, July 11, 2006
By A reader - See all my reviews
This book is uniformly praised by ignorant people who want to believe the Warren Commission. Posner saw an opportunity to take their money, and he took it. Good for him. I'm sure if there was a sizable market of people wanting to believe OJ was innocent, he'd write that book too, with all sorts of convincing "scientific" evidence. Take a look at Weisberg's Case Open, if you can find it , for documentation of some of Posner's more amusing misrepresentations. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| This book is uniformly praised by ignorant people |
Wow! Two in one day. |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| This book is uniformly praised by ignorant people |
Wow! Two in one day. |
Miss something again Ya-ta BOY
"This book is uniformly praised by ignorant people [who want to believe the Warren Commission]. " |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Are 'A Reader' and 'A reader' your favorite literary critics? |
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