Comments on: “I have talked about it on TV for several years.”

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:23:16 +0000

Zython says: “Hey, Dennis, if you liked Atlas Shrugged, you’ll LOVE Atlas Shrugged 2: One Hour Later.”

I love that cartoon.

I also love listening to Randians argue about the virtue of that book ON THE FUCKING INTERNET.

By: Zython

Zython — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:34:01 +0000

Hey, Dennis, if you liked Atlas Shrugged, you'll LOVE Atlas Shrugged 2: One Hour Later.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:53:08 +0000

Not what I said at all, Denny.

Don’t know what you’re talking about.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:32:33 +0000

They kill themselves and leave us in peace?

Sweet! Duros62
Sometimes it appears from reading lib blogs that all liberals think that way, not just you guys. People who pay in godly amounts of taxes and donate to charity are scumbags to you if they don’t vote Democrat. They’re the ones you want to say STFU to if they question just what the heck is Obama doing with this massive stimulus program. You think they should not have a voice no matter what their greater good is to society as a whole.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:01:12 +0000

They kill themselves and leave us in peace?

Sweet!

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:23:10 +0000

Ummm, not sure I see a connection. Is there one?

Duros, I can’t speak for Dennis, but IIRC in the book all the awesome independent rugged Republicans (the wet dreams of Amused Observer, in other words) depart the world and leave it in the hands of the unproducing, whiny Democrat welfare queens and society implodes.

By: Jack J.

Jack J. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:03:34 +0000

Why wait for a book (Atlas Shrugs)that promotes a now soundly discredited social theory?

Any “comeback” is due to curiosity because of the references made to the book’s contribution to the thinking behind our current social and economic mess.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:51:33 +0000

And yes, kidding about the 2 month waiting list, though the book is making a comeback.

Is this another one of those “It didn’t happen but it could have” moments?

Funny thing though, a lot of my friends and co-workers seem to be disappearing lately and leaving no forwarding address.

Ummm, not sure I see a connection. Is there one?

By: Zython

Zython — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:31:40 +0000

Funny thing though, a lot of my friends and co-workers seem to be disappearing lately and leaving no forwarding address.

Can’t say I blame them.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:08:39 +0000

Not to mention the irony of borrowing Atlas Shrugs from a library. Duros62

That one I own, Duros. And refer to often. And yes, kidding about the 2 month waiting list, though the book is making a comeback. Funny thing though, a lot of my friends and co-workers seem to be disappearing lately and leaving no forwarding address.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:59:37 +0000

Not to mention the irony of borrowing Atlas Shrugs from a library.

Dear God

Thanks for that.

Your pal,
Duros

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:58:13 +0000

Two month waiting list now for Atlas Shrugged. You're kidding, right? Here ya go. You can even get one used.

By: Crusty Dem

Crusty Dem — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:35:22 +0000

Exactly bvac, if you can’t defend your rationale, “read my book, which comes out in a few months” is nothing more than a weak dodge. I can’t understand why people can’t just say “I was wrong”. It’s not hard. You can even put blame in there “I was wrong, I didn’t think Bush and co would do such a shitty job, and that was my mistake..” – see, you’re admitting some error while putting most of the blame on someone else. It’s worked for the smarter conservative (and “liberal hawk”) pundits… Hell, isn’t that more or less the Hillary Clinton line?

By: michael

michael — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:28:38 +0000

Anyone else kind of snickering at the idea of libertarians taking Ayn Rand books out from the public library?

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:28:29 +0000

Borrow a book from the library, Dennis? Strikes me as a little socialist. Not to mention the irony of borrowing Atlas Shrugs from a library.

By: bvac

bvac — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:14:39 +0000

Parthenon:
1) Sending somebody to your book means they have to go buy your book. Which is just a little used-car salesman sleazy, to me.

I would also add, that if you need an entire fucking book to rationalize your support for a war so obviously rooted in falsehoods from the very beginning, you reek of desperation (and are desperately trying to stay relevant.)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:16:44 +0000

Sending somebody to your book means they have to go buy your book. Which is just a little used-car salesman sleazy, to me. Parthy

Just saying it looks like from me that conversing on Twitter about a how you stand now vs, how you stood before on Iraq is not the best of forums for seeing eye to eye. All I’m saying is if it were me and I had a little back and forth one-sentence lines with someone I wouldn’t go back to my blog and share it with everyone and let them rip that person to shreds, as if you guys needed an excuse to do that. I would, if I thought I had found a major inconsistency in his thinking, yes, go out and buy the book and see what he writes and if it was inconsistent with what he just Twittered, then I’d write about that.

And new books can be gotten easily at just about any public library system, Parthy. I do it all the time. It’s EZPZ. The new one’s you have to read in two weeks usually, because someone behind you is waiting on it. Especially the conservative tomes.

Two month waiting list now for Atlas Shrugged.

By: Jack J.

Jack J. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:45:00 +0000

From mediocre attorney to a one term, mediocre congressman looking for relevence in a party gone mad and not finding that relevence, he becomes a mediocre partisan hack on TeeVee.

He’s a weasel and I think OW’s little talk with him just reinforced that image.

Sorry if I offended any weasels.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:25:08 +0000

Seems like telling someone who doesn’t understand your position to read your book for better clarification

Two points, amigo:

1) Sending somebody to your book means they have to go buy your book. Which is just a little used-car salesman sleazy, to me.

2) It appears to me that OW gave him every opportunity to explain his position. I don’t know how well that could be done over twitter, but it’s presumptuous to assume OW was out to get him.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:20:31 +0000

“In Joe’s defense, the war did seem like a good idea to anybody without google and a free half-hour to do a little research.” –Parthenon

There’s really nothing at all about this thread that is in Joe’s defense. I’m not a Twitter guy, but it seems a bit on the sleazy side to have one or two quick comments on it get posted on a blog so he can be ripped apart. Like when bloggers get asked to appear on a tv or radio show and don’t get to say what they wanted to say or the way the wish they had phrased something, or that they were burned and didn’t get to respond, then they go on their blog and say what an ass the other guy was. Just doesn’t seem like cricket to me.

Seems like telling someone who doesn’t understand your position to read your book for better clarification is not a bad response to someone who seems to be looking for a gotcha moment or a perceived inconsistency in your logic and not trying to honestly get to know you better.

But that’s just me- I don’t know what the Twitter protocol is.