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* On the day of a massive public sector strike, [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]] was booked on BBC's ''The One Show'' in which [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuuDnqSPnhA he made comments] that he would execute strikers... [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/01/jeremy-clarkson-one-show-strike as part of a joke] about the BBC's [[Golden Mean Fallacy|obsession with balance]]; Clarkson himself was pretty neutral on the strikes. Of course, everyone latched onto the joke acting as if, for once, he was being serious.
** Apart from Number 10, which issued a statement saying: "Those who have made the regrettable decision to strike may be assured: Executions are not government policy."
* Anti-religious critics, skeptics and [[The Fundamentalist|atheist fundamentalists]] occasionally quote-mine the Scriptures of
* A common tactic by creationists is to quote mine [[On The Origin Of Species]], specifically, the part where [[Charles Darwin]] talks about how absurd it seems that the eye could have evolved. The quote mine is leaving out the second paragraph, wherein he explains exactly why eye evolution is perfectly reasonable.
** The Quote Mine, "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."
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