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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Is this an error?

While few would question the right of AIPAC leaders to lobby U.S. politicians, legally bribe them with campaign contributions, or limit their right to speak as they please in public, not matter how scurrilous or libelous their words, I sometimes wonder if Americans have focused on what AIPAC lobbies for and what its acolytes in politics and the media support.

Shouldn't it be no matter instead of not matter??
  

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S. politicians , legally bribe them with campaign contributions, or limit their right to speak as they please in public, not matter how scurrilous or libelous their words, I sometimes wonder if Americans have focused on what AIPAC lobbies for and what its acolytes in politics and the media support. Shouldn't it be no matter instead of not matter??

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  • politicians , legally bribe them with campaign contributions, or limit their right to speak as they please in public, not matter how scurrilous or libelous their words, I sometimes wonder if Americans have focused on what AIPAC lobbies for and what its acolytes in politics and the media support.
  • Shouldn't it be no matter instead of not matter??
  • Yes.
  • Perhaps its just a typo.
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Hi,

While few would question the right of AIPAC leaders to lobby U.S. politicians, legally bribe them with campaign contributions, or limit their right to speak as they please in public, not matter how scurrilous or libelous their words, I sometimes wonder if Americans have focused on what AIPAC lobbies for and what its acolytes in politics and the media
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Thank you.

However, are you certain? I am wondering because the author seems to have made way too many errors for the professional writer he is.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/scheuer.php
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Hi,
That's certainly how I see it.

It seems unlikely that the writer is saying this.
While few would question the right of AIPAC leaders to lobby U.S. politicians, legally bribe U.S poliiicians with campaign contributions, or limit U. S. politicians' right to speak as they please in public, no matter how scurrilous or libelous U. S. politicians' words,
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No, you are right. However, I thought not matter could have been idiomatic.

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