Dear "Sir".
Nov. 1st, 2008 02:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garoteDear "Sir".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402083.html
Your article here has about as much integrity as a third-grade book report scrawled on a handkerchief during the bus ride to school.
I've seen better political commentary spill out of a scrabble box. This argument you present, basically attempting to link Senator Obama to Hitler via Jew-hatred, is what we on the internet call an invocation of Godwin's Law. Google it.
While an argument is typically defined as a series of connected statements designed to establish a proposition, the spew coming out of your word-processor does manage to paint a coherent argument despite missing the typical definition by a mile. The proposition is obviously "Richard Cohen is a vacuous pundit", and the connected statements are, "I, Richard Cohen, detect no outrage," "Therefore I shall attempt to manufacture it," "And I shall do so by trotting out dead news from ten months ago", and in conclusion, "I consider half a minute of Google too daunting for an editorial". Well proven, Sir! I am utterly convinced.
Of your disingenuous vapidity.
Good day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402083.html
Your article here has about as much integrity as a third-grade book report scrawled on a handkerchief during the bus ride to school.
I've seen better political commentary spill out of a scrabble box. This argument you present, basically attempting to link Senator Obama to Hitler via Jew-hatred, is what we on the internet call an invocation of Godwin's Law. Google it.
While an argument is typically defined as a series of connected statements designed to establish a proposition, the spew coming out of your word-processor does manage to paint a coherent argument despite missing the typical definition by a mile. The proposition is obviously "Richard Cohen is a vacuous pundit", and the connected statements are, "I, Richard Cohen, detect no outrage," "Therefore I shall attempt to manufacture it," "And I shall do so by trotting out dead news from ten months ago", and in conclusion, "I consider half a minute of Google too daunting for an editorial". Well proven, Sir! I am utterly convinced.
Of your disingenuous vapidity.
Good day.
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Date: 2008-11-01 07:10 pm (UTC)-------------
Some people don't think America is special (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/zdwightbillingsly/story/0F65A2211E2B470A862574EA007A0D75?OpenDocument)
Oh boy, disingenuous trash in an election year from a Black Republican(TM). Fine, whatever, do your thing. This creaky old tune you're playing still gets hands clapping in the right places.
But I've always wondered and yet never had the chance to Ask A Black Republican(TM):
What do you get out of this? You clearly don't believe this crap you're selling, because there's no passion in your words. And none of the people who benefit from this ceaseless torrent of doublethink are that stupid. So what is it?
Do you just like seeing your name in the newspaper? Is the dumb, clumsy hatemail you get a source of smug succor? Or does this routine give you access to the people and places you want?
Please bite, but only if you're not going to play stupid.
-JP
No response. :( Doesn't anyone love their fans anymore?
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Date: 2008-11-02 08:42 am (UTC)Oh well, back to my limousine, chardonnay, ivory tower, and (insert other stereotypical thing here).
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Date: 2008-11-02 08:46 am (UTC)