Bill Arkin’s Continuing Trouble with Quotes
Regular readers know Bill Arkin has trouble with quotes. Well, he’s having trouble again:
The fact that I worked for Greenpeace at one time seems to propel many readers and bloggers — Little Green Footballs, Power Line, Captain’s Quarters, Decision ’08, Patterico’s Pontifications — into a frenzy.
The bloggers often describe me as a “former liberal Greenpeace political activist.”
Really?
Funny thing: when you stick the phrase “former liberal Greenpeace political activist” into Google, you get (as of this morning) one result: Bill Arkin.
This is classic Arkin. His apologists will no doubt argue that, in context, this is not meant to be a quote. But it would have been so easy to simply omit the quotes, so that there would be no doubt. Why not just do that?
Memo to Arkin: you can’t be trusted with quotation marks. If it’s not a direct quote, just don’t use quotation marks. Better yet: just don’t use them at all.
UPDATE AND PROGRAMMING NOTE: This may be the last post for several days. I will explain later.
take out the former and what do you get?
actus (ebc508) — 12/6/2005 @ 10:19 am[…] […]
basil’s blog » Supper 12-07-2005 (ffeebd) — 12/7/2005 @ 3:27 pmLike…several days later?
See Dubya (58fbf9) — 12/7/2005 @ 3:27 pm😆 Awww, you bad, bad bloogers are picking on this liberal pinhead Arkin… For shame!…:lol:
russ (ee21cb) — 12/8/2005 @ 8:52 am