[Vision2020] Saundra's Revisionism and continuation false contexts(was RE: Bad news reporting)

[Chasuk]

On 8/25/05, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> SAUNDRA,
 
> I wrote this:
 
> "Tom I know did a great deal for the Homeless people
> in Moscow and has bent over backwards to pass
> legislation for the University and help the students."
 
> Tom Trail quoted me as saying this:
 
> Supporters of Trail for Re-election(in box above)
 
> "I support Tom Trail. He has bent over backwards for
> the University and Students"--Donovan Arnold ASUI
> Senator.

> Do you call that an exact quote???

No, I call it liberal paraphrasing.  The wording, more ethically,
should have appeared like this:

"Tom... has bent over backwards... for the University and...
students."  --Donovan Arnold ASUI Senator.

Personally, I wouldn't have quibbled over Tom's version (assuming that
I was a Tom Trail supporter), as his meaning matches yours, EXCEPT for
where he includes the words "I support Tom Trail."  Arguably, this
could have been divined from the context, but the integrity of the
action is still troubling.  That would have chafed me, as well. 
Unless, of course, I had made that statement elsewhere, and he (or,
more probably, his PR person) had merely grafted it for more appealing
propinquity.

This seems to have generated quite a lot of fire for having started
with so little kindling.