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Real Name: Pat McGroin
Channel: 70s Channel...Keep on Truckin'

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What what WHAT??? How long has there been a '70s Channel?? Congrats, however late, are in order for you! Yeaaaah. Love it!

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BoneRemake

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Your avatar colours scream early 90's

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Thanks for the promote!

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Wonderful. *promote

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Morganth

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I...I'm so ashamed.

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>> ^Morganth:

Flooding someone's email, personal, and home phones constitutes criminal harassment. Ordering multiple pizza's to be delivered to them not only is also harassment, but may also qualify for some forms of identity theft.
1) I'm pretty sure Videosift does not allow videos that promote & are intended to propagate crime
2) You really want to counter their injustice with your own crimes and harassment? That would only be giving them fuel and reason to crack down harder. There's no way this actually came from anonymous.

Pluralizing the word 'pizza' by using an apostrophe-s is also wrong but, to my chagrin, we have no prohibition against it.

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I lol'd with aplomb. *promote

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Love the Dick Cavett slam. *promote

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>> <a href='http://videosift.com/video/True-Grit-2nd-Trailer#comment-1106510'>^alien_concept</a>: 
I wasn't saying that it wouldn't be better all round if people explained why, when they have an opinion on something, I just think calling someone out on it and accusing them of being a typical internet opinion-wielder, might have been a bit strong under the circumstances... And I wouldn't say I'm defeatist either, just perhaps less passionate

"Typical internet opinion-wielder"

Hmm, you may be right. That was WAAAAAY over the top, wasn't it? <shakes fist and screams toward the ceiling> How can I ever live this shame down? HOW??

Just havin' some fun.

I disagree with you again, of course, as I think my words were quite tame and also quite true.

Such that no one can call me a hypocrite, let me illustrate why being able to explain yourself is always a good thing: I recently watched a shitload of the Election08 channel videos and sort of re-experienced the great entertainment value that the election actually was.  If you have a couple hours to kill, I highly recommend doing the same.

There are two sifts from this collection I'd like to introduce into evidence, your honors.

1) http://videosift.com/video/Joe-the-Plumber-Wont-Explain-Death-to-Israel-Remarks
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg (Sarah Palin on Russia)

Video 1 features Joe the Plumber asserting that a vote for Obama means death to Israel.  Fox Host Shepard Smith tries to get Joe to explain himself a bit further but he is ultimately unsuccessful.

Video 2 is the famous "Well, it certainly does" comment.  Couric presses Palin to explain exactly why Alaska's proximity to Russia has provided her with foreign policy credentials.

In both videos, one can easily recognize the flaccid attempts to justify outlandish assertions.  Do you think a well-reasoned response on the part of either of them would have helped or harmed their respective cases?  For Joe the Plumber, it's particularly embarrassing because he freely admits that he "knows just enough to probably be dangerous."  At the very least, Palin provided some explanation, laughable and transparent (and plenty of both) though it was.  Had either Joe the Plumber or Ms. Palin provided explanations, even ones that merely grazed at the periphery of sense, the GOP might have been placed in a different position, election-wise.

If you haven't yet gotten the point, let me say that the assignment of an opinion as "valid" or "invalid" is independent of agreement with the opinion.  The deciding factor?  Whether an opinion is backed-up in an effective way.  The fact that one may not be able to (because it's "just a feeling" they get) is rather the whole point, isn't it?

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