Garance Franke-Ruta sounds the alarm:
The Bush-Cheney campaign says (all punctuation and formatting as per the original):Yep. While the Bush campaign solecism is intentionally abusive, let's clear up a benign, publicly cherished error. American punctuation employs single quotation marks solely for the purposes of quotes-within-quotes. Only the British use single "inverted commas," as they're known across the pond, for ironic or sarcastic emphasis—and look what their loosey-goosey rules got them from 1776 to 1782.
In Book, Kerry Called Yasser Arafat "Statesman" And "Role Model." "Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman, while those whose only object is to disrupt society require no such 'role models.'" (Sen. John Kerry, The New War, 1997, pp. 112-113)As you can see, though, Kerry never called Yasser Arafat a role model; he wrote that some see him as a "role model." Those scare quotes are key. They completely change the meaning of the words they surround. The scare quotes mean that Kerry is saying that some terrorist groups look up to Arafat, but that the author, Kerry, specifically contests this definition.
For some people it's easier to give up smoking than to hold down that SHIFT key, but no 'scare quotes,' only "scare quotes," as G F-R correctly illustrates.
Posted by Kriston at June 30, 2004 5:14 PMI agree.
I'm curious...how did the transcriber know to put scare quotes in Kerry's quote? Did he raise his hands and give the scare quote gesture when he said it?
Posted by: j.scott barnard at July 1, 2004 8:37 AMThe quote is pulled from John Kerry's book, The New War, which are his conclusions from serving as ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Terrorism. From 1997, probably while he was still all x-treme adrenaline high from beating William Weld.
Posted by: Kriston at July 1, 2004 9:22 AMGoing to the meat of the statement, isn't Kerry making an observation that applies very well to whatshisname who had that militia but who made a deal with the U.S. and has told his militia to disband so he can run for legitimate political office in Iraq? You know, ol' whatshisname.
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