I guess I better start proof reading better, I'm getting terribly lazy about that. Missing an "f" in "off" or putting "where" instead of "were" in a sentence.
First of all, this kind of diversion (the "b-b-but Clinton..!") variety is a terrible rhetorical technique, but I'll bite because I find it interesting here
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First of all, this kind of diversion (the "b-b-but Clinton..!") variety is a terrible rhetorical technique, but I'll bite because I find it interesting here.
Seeing as how Maher's comments took place this weekend, diversion would hardly be an appropriate definition. Pulling up Coulter quotes from 2002, well that might be more appropriate.
certainly you don't think it's completely unreasonable to believe that his death could have prevented certain events from occuring.Obviously but when I, and I imagine others, imitate liberals with the kind of dripping sarcasm that would have them compare President Bush or his administration to that of Nazi Germany, I do so, for the most part, to make a point. When you say things like a reasonable and intelligent person would advocate terrorist assassination plots against our nation's leaders, I feel much more disturbed about the very sanity of the left-wing movement in our nation. You seem to act as though Maher's comments were made completely oblivious to the effect they would have, even for a
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Seeing as how Maher's comments took place this weekend, diversion would hardly be an appropriate definition. Pulling up Coulter quotes from 2002, well that might be more appropriate.
If I could edit LJ quotes, I would have amended my comment to say that if you're trying to illustrate media bias, the contrast is okay. But insofar as you're trying to apologize for Coulter, bringing up Maher like this is irrelevant. I assumed you were trying to do the latter, but I could be wrong.
Rest assured Cheney was not the only person in America willing to intervene militarily in Afghanistan in.I wasn't referring to the invasion of Afghanistan, and I don't know why you would think that. There are many far-more-controversial Cheney-related machinisms which provoke ire. But it boils down to a somewhat-ugly of the thought that "the world would be better off if this guy were dead". The real contraversey isn't in the sentiment itself, but in how it's expressed. It's more disturbing to say "I wish terrorists would kill Dick Cheney", and it's more
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But insofar as you're trying to apologize for CoulterNo, certainly not. As I said in the original post, Coulter was outted for her remarks, which she should've been because they were inappropriate and in poor taste. Usually I enjoy Coulter even if it's just my darker side longing for someone to yell at liberal ideas as opposed to rationally deconstructing them. The reason I made the post was specifically to contrast how each situation was handled as I see both Coulter and Maher on par as partisan hacks. One of them, Maher, talked about something I found extremely vile, much more so than Coulter's comments, but he is given much more of a pass
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I would have to say that most of the reason Democrats can get away with this sort of shit is that the Republican Party has always held itself up to a higher standard, at least in theory (though not so much in recent practice) - if their own are accused of doing wrong, the party assumes they're guilty and hangs them out to dry. If a Democrat does wrong, their Party rallies around them in support until it's determined that they actually did do wrong, then they're hung out to dry.
So it's of no surprise to just about everyone when a Democrat does something infuriating that pretty much nothing comes of it (until at very least, it's no longer news). It's so bad that people actually expect that kind of behavior from Democrats. When a Republican does the same, they're gutted, as is supposed to happen, because Republicans are supposed to be so much more "morally and ethically pure" than Democrats.
I saw Coulter being Coulter, an angry, devisive woman who will do and say anything controversial for better or for worse. Her comments were out of line, as are other comments she's made in the past, and for some reason the media was extremely touchy about this one. I don't condone it, but when I heard what Maher said, I felt very distressed.
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Anyways, I thought I'd just put up a couple of links too:
http://newsbusters.org/stories/maher_sorry_cheney_assasination_attempt_failed.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/us/politics/04coulter.html?ei=5090&en=a9da398f95d639efex=1330664400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272611820.shtml
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Seeing as how Maher's comments took place this weekend, diversion would hardly be an appropriate definition. Pulling up Coulter quotes from 2002, well that might be more appropriate.
certainly you don't think it's completely unreasonable to believe that his death could have prevented certain events from occuring.Obviously but when I, and I imagine others, imitate liberals with the kind of dripping sarcasm that would have them compare President Bush or his administration to that of Nazi Germany, I do so, for the most part, to make a point. When you say things like a reasonable and intelligent person would advocate terrorist assassination plots against our nation's leaders, I feel much more disturbed about the very sanity of the left-wing movement in our nation. You seem to act as though Maher's comments were made completely oblivious to the effect they would have, even for a ( ... )
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If I could edit LJ quotes, I would have amended my comment to say that if you're trying to illustrate media bias, the contrast is okay. But insofar as you're trying to apologize for Coulter, bringing up Maher like this is irrelevant. I assumed you were trying to do the latter, but I could be wrong.
Rest assured Cheney was not the only person in America willing to intervene militarily in Afghanistan in.I wasn't referring to the invasion of Afghanistan, and I don't know why you would think that. There are many far-more-controversial Cheney-related machinisms which provoke ire. But it boils down to a somewhat-ugly of the thought that "the world would be better off if this guy were dead". The real contraversey isn't in the sentiment itself, but in how it's expressed. It's more disturbing to say "I wish terrorists would kill Dick Cheney", and it's more ( ... )
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So it's of no surprise to just about everyone when a Democrat does something infuriating that pretty much nothing comes of it (until at very least, it's no longer news). It's so bad that people actually expect that kind of behavior from Democrats. When a Republican does the same, they're gutted, as is supposed to happen, because Republicans are supposed to be so much more "morally and ethically pure" than Democrats.
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I saw Coulter being Coulter, an angry, devisive woman who will do and say anything controversial for better or for worse. Her comments were out of line, as are other comments she's made in the past, and for some reason the media was extremely touchy about this one. I don't condone it, but when I heard what Maher said, I felt very distressed.
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