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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
This slimeball rhetorical device should become known as the Jonah Goldberg Limited Takeback, in which you assert something vulgar and provocative, then acknowledge you stepped over the line without withdrawing the original slur. Sort of like spitting at someone, then saying, "Gee, I guess my saliva went a little too far."
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If you read Wolcott regularly, you might see the irony in quoting from his complaints about slurring.
