Madhulk  +  504428 Wed, 23 Apr 08 05:30 PM  A journalist blackmails a person. Journalist: It's a business proposition. 1 00,000 dollars and these records will disappear forever. The guy: I'd question your integrity, but you're a journalist. Is he just being sarcastic meannig really: "I wouldn't question your integrity if you weren't a journalist"? Madhulk Joined on Mon, Dec 17 2007 Bulgaria Senior Member 3,177 THE MAN OF STEEL

	Grammar Geek  +  504455 Wed, 23 Apr 08 07:19 PM He is suggesting that journalists don't have any integrity to start with. You can't wonder what's wrong with his sense of integrity if he didn't expect a journalist to have one anyway. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Madhulk  +  504461 Wed, 23 Apr 08 07:41 PM Grammar Geek “ He is suggesting that journalists don't have any integrity to start with. You can't wonder what's wrong with his sense of integrity if he didn't expect a journalist to have one anyway. ”   Right, journalist don't have integrity because they'd do anything for a scoop.  Thanks, Grammar Geek!  Madhulk