Jeremy wrote:
] First, allow me to gripe about the Memestreams interface for a
] moment. I dislike the fact that a reply takes text that I had
] italicized, indicating it to be an excerpt (perhaps
] paraphrased) from the document, and attributes it directly to
] me (as in "Jeremy wrote").

Its not possible for us to support all possible ways of indicating excerpts. We were using itallics before the website had threads (about a year ago). Then we switched to using the brackets, because there is no way to have multiple levels of itallics. Currently if you select text on a webpage before hitting the bookmarklet you get brackets, and not itallics. If you used that method of quoting text your messages would be re-attributed properly when people replied to them, and furthermore, they'll be converted in the future if we make changes to the way that quotations work.

As it stands now we can't really handle your exerpts because you aren't using the standard method.

] Second, you are too quick to suspect Safire of foul play. To
] me it seems like a simple misunderstanding.

As I said, I did not have time to read the document in detail. I did not see that a section was missing. Thanks for clarifying.

U: Let me also add that Bush's actual comments were quite a bit more qualified then Safire's paraphrase.

RE: The Age of Liberty