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Author Re: Interview with CJA Award Winning Historian at Chessville
Taylor Kingston

2006-08-26, 11:34 pm


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> One thing I have noticed with regard to these Evans ratpackers
> is the way the double-standardize everything. For example, when
> Larry Parr charges that "politicos" at the USCF tossed out Evans'
> column, it had to be in order to silence an "independent" voice.
>
> Yet when independent critics take aim at the ratpackers or any
> of their extended family, this same "independence" is regarded
> with strong resentment! So strong in fact that ratpackers like
> jr and Mr. Parr will invent an association, purportedly headed by
> Edward Winter, which directs these non-independents to attack
> the clan for no good reason.
>
> Another hilarious example is where jr or Larry Parr will, with a
> straight face, loudly complain that *someone else* has a big ego!
> Not if that doesn't define double-standardism to a tea, I don't know
> what does!


There's another inconsistency, Greg. Those who gainsay Parr are said
not only to have big egos, but they are also supposed to be 'dripping
with envy.' Rather contradictory -- egotism indicates a surfeit of
self-esteem, envy a lack of self-esteem. Non sequitur. But logic was
never Parr's strong suit.

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