Pumps' Perplexities

Today, in the world of politics, everybody's spoken word
is being taken "out of context"......

It is very simple to do......All one has to do is just extract
a few words or a phrase form a paragraph and "change
its true meaning".......

When this "change" is done verbally no one can notice......
But in print it is recognizable........The newspaper editor
must use graphic symbols, for example.....".....(......B......)....
This is to denote that the quotation is starting in the middle
of a phrase or sentence......

"(T)hey each had a buck and a quarter".......To some this
statement will reflect equality but in reality the full
poem means something entirely different.....

Jack and Jill went up the hill
They each had a buck and a quarter
Jill came down with two and a half
They did not go up for water

Pumps