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The objections--that Africans, too, dealt in slaves; that slaves came from West Africa, not Uganda; that American blacks, not Africans deserve the apology--are nit-picking.
Regarding Stephen Harrigan's "Endless Summer," on plot holes in Contact , please allow me to nit-pick your nit-picking.
Bush's portrayal of substantive interrogation as nasty nit-picking has completely suckered the media.
But after praising the album's freshness and listing the many guest artists (from Eminem to Aaliyah to Lil' Kim), most critics start nit-picking.
Whenever there was a movie with D.C. street scenes, our critic invariably devoted the bulk of his review to nit-picking about the film's bogus geography.