Questions about the Massachusetts senator's claim came from such disparate sources as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who called on Kerry to name the leaders, and a man at a town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., who engaged the candidate in a contentious argument about his statement.
That's a very contentious statement.
It makes me ask myself: Was it a deliberately contentious statement??
The last part of that highly contentious statement happens to be true.
As recently as 2007, Zuckerberg made the contentious statement that "Young people are just smarter", and voiced his preference for hiring people below the age of 30.
Even for a former New York politician, these were contentious statements.
He said he was resigning from the Democratic Progressive Party's executive committee -- a way, perhaps, to dissociate himself from contentious statements in the party platform and from the party's hard-liners.
The couple did meet Hitler at Berchtesgaden later in the trip - though they had to be driven around for an hour outside while he finished his afternoon nap - and had a long conversation with him, during which the duke made no contentious statements nor offered any support for Nazism.
She has an older version of each personage on hand to dispute contentious statements – "I never said that!" – and complicate the general perspective on events.
