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Originally Posted by Hippikos
Just wondering, has Maggie an opinion of her own? Or just reproducing what she reads/hears?
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All my opinions are my own. I do occasionally listen to sources other than NPR, CNN, CBS, the NYT, MoveOn.org, Dailykos and DemocraticUnderground.
There are people whose opinions and comments I admire, and I'm not alone in being willing to use attributed quotes from relevant sources; if this impugns the independance of my opinions then that's tough. When something is well-said by another I'd prefer to quote them with credit than paraphrase and call it my own; agreeing with Pierre Bayle that “[t]here is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.”
I've also found that being both queer and pro gun-rights does actually require a certain independance of mind.