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sigh* yourself, buddy.
It has been proven that the article you quoted was incorrect - Private Eye, as I quoted earlier, stated (and here it is again just in case your missed it)
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For the record, the charity Parents and Children Together, which runs the two play groups at the centre of last week's outbreak, told the Press Association that "children at the two family centres sing a variety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme. They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc. This encourages the children to extend their vocabulary."
Curiously, this explanation went unreported by any of the national papers.
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So you appear to be using something that was made up by the tabloids to prove your point...
I agree with you that some people feel the need to, for whatever reason, over-compensate, and this is wrong - however, it doesn't lessen the point I was trying to make which was that the original "black sheep" stories in the popular press were complete misinterpretations of what actually happened.