Comments on: Conservative Columnists Make Up Obama Narcissism Statistic

By: daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:10:06 +0000

Translation of OxyCon’s post: “I can’t actually refute anything that Ezra Klein wrote at the link that Oliver provided, so I’m just going to call him a name.”

By: Zython

Zython — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:11:05 +0000

What reason do you see for voting against a measure that allows victims to report crimes?

For the noblest of all possible reasons for conservatives to do anything. To piss of liberals.

By: OxyCon

OxyCon — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:54:52 +0000

The fact that a far left blogging hack like Ezra Klein is employed to write for the Washington Post tells you all you need to know about the Washington Post, and one of the main reasons why they are in decline.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:42:39 +0000

SaveFarris: Are you allowed to claim less than 67 minutes after claming Republicans “vote for rape”?

OK, I’ll listen to what you have to say to show that it wasn’t.

What reason do you see for voting against a measure that allows victims to report crimes?

By: Indeed

Indeed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:53:23 +0000

the story doesn’t really have any traction, but they will keep screaming about it as long and as loud as possible.

I heard that Al Gore said he invented the Internet. It’s true! Well, that’s what I heard anyway.

By: Iandanger

Iandanger — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:50:35 +0000

Any time people try to prove points by analyzing word usage my eyes glaze over. By picking and choosing what data you use, you can prove pretty much anything. Hell, just look at Anne Coulter’s horrorshow of a research method, she does very little research and uses misleading tactics to make it seem like things she is suggesting are true, when they are verifiably false. This is like the silly right wing myth that “advanced literary analysis” by “language composition experts” has shown that William Ayers edited Dreams of My Father and did a substantial rewrite. Of course, since there isn’t any real world evidence (in a court room setting, its call it circumstantial evidence, and despite what you see on Law and Order, its the most reliable evidence you can get), the story doesn’t really have any traction, but they will keep screaming about it as long and as loud as possible.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:55:02 +0000

Perhaps George F. Will believes that President Obama doesn’t speak as the previous [technical] President. One can’t help but recall Mr. Will’s: “Bush’s terseness is Ernest Hemingway seasoned with John Wesley.”

This did not sit well with Norman Mailer:

To the Editor:

George F. Will writes: “Bush’s terseness is Ernest Hemingway seasoned with John Wesley.” (“Old Fashioned Values Return Since Sept. 11,” Op Ed, March 12)

Well, one is hardly familiar with John Wesley’s sermons, but I do know that to put George W. Bush’s prose next to Hemingway is equal to saying that Jackie Susann is right up there with Jane Austen.

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can’t stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will’s readiness to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

Here’s a passage from “A Farewell to Arms.” It has more going for it than “terseness.”

“I was embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice… I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words you could not stand to hear… Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the names of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

It is worth reminding ourselves that the life of a democracy may also depend on the good and honorable use of language and not on the scurvy manipulation of such words as “evil” and “love” by intellectual striplings of the caliber of our president.

Norman Mailer
Provincetown

There’s a reason they call ‘em Teh Classics.

By: Matt Osborne

Matt Osborne — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:38:42 +0000

@SaveFarris: they voted for rape. Get over it.

By: jrfunkenstein

jrfunkenstein — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:07:15 +0000

‘Why can’t conservatives be decent and honest when they try to make their points?’

Because honest, fact based debates by the GOP will make baby Jesus a Satanist.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:58:22 +0000

I’m sorry the people in your party voted for rape.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:34:49 +0000

Why can’t conservatives be decent and honest when they try to make their points?

Are you allowed to claim less than 67 minutes after claming Republicans “vote for rape”?

By: Skippy

Skippy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:14:07 +0000

This would be the same George Will who once dedicated an entire frickin’ column to declaring war on denim blue jeans. This is just more proof that he’s got far, FAR too much time on his hands.