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- Subject: Re: Allan Bloom, Micheal Medved and Jack Chick
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- From: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 11:15 MST
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- In article <1993Jan23.144008.22923@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>, gsmith@polyhymnia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes...
- >In article <P0BLXB6w164w@cellar.org> revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K'
- >Siano) writes:
- >>More recently, Michael Medved has portrayed the film industry as a
- >>decadent, soul-sick coterie of dissolute leftists in <Hollywood Vs.
- >>America>-- an image that isn't very different from Jack Chick's
- >>caricatures of gays, Satanists, and secular humanists.
- >
- >Yes, indeed. Movies! Micheal Medved hated 'The Cook, The Thief, His
- >Wife, and Her Lover', so he is a wacko like unto Jack Chick.
-
- Not quite. The argument (which Siano makes in another article which
- goes into some detail on Medved's book) is more like "Michael Medved
- misuses statistics to argue for a number of mutually inconsistent
- propositions, so he is a wacko like unto Jack Chick."
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- Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
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