Thanks SaveFarris, I’ve been picking up pointers on drawing false equivalences from you right-wingers.

Like I bet if I said that Amused Observer’s hood is showing again, you would write in to tell me that Robert Byrd’s was too back in 1947. Have I got the hang of it?

When Obama’s most faithful constituancy protests his policies will be the day hell freezes over.

And that’s where you lost me. Check this out.

A sampling:

Putz, today:
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH OFFERS a quick path to “Jeffersonian democracy” in Iran.

June ’02:
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH says forget this wobbly stuff: we’re getting ready for war with Iraq.

August ’02:
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH responds to a growing trend among antiwar folks of impugning the masculinity of prowar folks while engaging in chest-pounding displays on their own.

August ’03:
UPDATE: Pejman Yousefzadeh notes that this is more evidence that Iraq didn’t distract us from the pursuit of Al Qaeda.

September ’03:
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH thinks that the air is going out of the Plame/Wilson affair as Robert Novak says it wasn’t leaked by the Administration.

November ’05:
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: “You would think the myth that General Shinseki was fired because of his comments on troop deployment in Iraq wouldn’t get any traction anymore.”

And the follow up:

[Weapons] inspections [in Iraq] are not worth the paper the Ba’athist regime used to transmit their proposal. Needless to say, I am skeptical of the offer. So is Steven Den Beste. And for that matter, so is the White House.
posted by Pejman at 9/16/2002 10:56:00 PM

CLAUSEWITZ HE AIN’T Bill Clinton thinks that we ought to get Osama bin Laden before going after Saddam Hussein. Never mind that the two are not mutually exclusive. Never mind that bin Laden may already be dead. Never mind that if he is alive, making his death a prerequisite for any attack against Iraq gives Saddam Hussein even more of an incentive to support al Qaeda, as James Taranto points out today. In short, never mind basic facts. Bill Clinton wants you to take his advice. Any takers?
posted by Pejman at 9/06/2002 01:50:00 PM

LILEKS SPEAKS . . . Correction: Lileks Fisks. And what a Fisking it is. Incidentally, any guesses as to whether Stephen Green has recovered from the joy of yet another favorable Lileks mention? It must be sort of like having da Vinci compliment one of your inventions.
posted by Pejman at 9/06/2002 03:04:00 PM

THE MYSTERY OF SCOTT RITTER Tony Adragna and Jane Galt have both indicated that Scott Ritter’s recent statements on Iraq should not be trusted, because Ritter has so dramatically changed his views without a scintilla of evidence or justification for that radical change. The Blogosphere wonders what the cause is for Ritter’s reversal of position. Well, here’s your chance to offer theories and hypotheses for why Ritter has changed his mind. Leave your Musings below, and let me know your opinion as to why Ritter now so fervently believes that Iraq is not a threat, and why he believes that war with Iraq should not be an option. Personally, I think that he has been blackmailed. I know that a number of bloggers feel the same way. I can’t imagine another reason that would have caused him to change his mind in so dramatic a fashion.
posted by Pejman at 9/09/2002 11:12:00 AM

AN EPIC MISMATCH IF I EVER SAW ONE Jane Galt counters the various arguments of antiwar protestors in her typically lucid and intelligent manner.
posted by Pejman at 9/23/2002 11:17:00 AM

BIZARRO-WORLD Greg Buete takes on Scott Ritter and the apologists for Saddam Hussein.
posted by Pejman at 9/24/2002 12:06:00 PM

BEHOLD THE UNWASHED MASSES And in this case, chances are that they really are unwashed. If this is all the antiwar Left has to offer by way of an argument, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see the Right succeeding as well as it does in the larger debate.
posted by Pejman at 9/28/2002 01:50:00 PM

WARBLOGGERWATCH: ARE YOU LISTENING? Steven Den Beste explains the fallacy of strawman arguments–specifically in reference to the definition of “the Bush Doctrine.”
posted by Pejman at 8/05/2002 03:02:00 PM

PLAYING THE STOCK MARKET James Glassman offers some tips.
posted by Pejman at 8/06/2002 10:56:00 AM

TAKE A CHILL PILL OpinionJournal argues that there should be some semblance of calm in discussing the issue of detainees in the war on terrorism. I agree–comparing the detainees to Argentina’s “disappeared,” as former Secretary of State Warren Christopher did, was classic rhetorical overkill and demagoguery.
posted by Pejman at 8/08/2002 01:10:00 PM

IRAQ WAR WATCH Bill Kristol’s slamming of critics of a war with Iraq is well worth a read.
posted by Pejman at 8/20/2002 02:43:00 PM

http://www.wcpo.com/Photo.aspx?content_id=d63309d4-e08d-4067-a43b-8178cb67bb51&i=10

300 people? Who knows, more than 17.

Side note: have you heard his techno band? Yikes!

Keeping it classy, as always.

Cincy Tea Party Members Protest ABC Health Care Special

Slide show included.