Re: Whatd the dude say to piss off Jennifer Harmon?
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I think paul phillips wrote in his blog about this when it happened and he made it sound a lot worse than it actually was. I'll see if I can find the journal entry.
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It was in one of the Slate blog entries, not my personal blog. In the interests of supplying some context (and I still haven't seen what everyone else has since I'm not home) I did not witness it firsthand: I ran into jennifer shortly after she busted and heard it from her while she was still emotional. I included it in my submission for that day which was then substantially reworded by the Slate editor.
So here are the layers of indirection: Reality -> Jennifer's interpretation -> Jennifer's characterization -> Paul's interpretation of Jennifer's characterization -> Slate's attempted clarification of Paul's interpretation.
That's not a lot more indirection than one typically encounters in the media; it might be a lot less. But it may help explain why "I made it sound worse than it was."
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