Comments on: My Straw Man Can Beat Up Your Straw Man

By: cliff davis

cliff davis — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:07:21 +0000

bye the way lookup and inform yourself on theUCC-1 lawes.

By: cliff davis

cliff davis — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:04:11 +0000

if you understand what the strawman REALLY is you would be outraged.google “strawman redemrtion”and read these things,it will tell you the way the” WORLD” really works.this is the way BOTH POLITICL PARTIES control us.

By: teh l4m3

teh l4m3 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:30:56 +0000

I’ve heard it said that Jeff Goldstein is an cum-guzzling ass monster twat. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s just cabin fever is all.

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:13:36 +0000

Nice Iko Iko, t- you are class!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:51:03 +0000

I’ll take a side of red herring with my straw man, please.

Oh, and I think all the good little wingnuts might want to remember what happens when a fundamentalist Christian hangs out with heathens and gets too close to the straw man.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:00:25 +0000

My strawman and your strawman
sittin by the fire,
My strawman said to your strawman,
“I’m going to set your flag on fire!”

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:29:46 +0000

Wait, don’t we here in the S,N! community knock down the strawiest of straw men on the right every day? Maybe it’s just funnier when we do it. (Well, it’s definitely funnier.)

By: Timmah420

Timmah420 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:01:27 +0000

That kind of reminds me of that part in that FOX news documentary “outfoxed” where they have that series of clips with all the reporters prefacing statements like “Kerry looks french” or “Kerry dined on a lunch of Brie before surrendering to the waiter” with “some say”.

By: ortho_bob

ortho_bob — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:06:26 +0000

I don’t know what the fuss is all about. All Bush has to do is substitute “13 year old Chad ‘Whassup’ Dillwinkle of Draino Junction, Ca. told his friend Stinky Dave that” for “some say” and his statements are perfectly valid. That Chad has got “Gitmo bound” written all over him, especially if he doesn’t give me back my Green Day album….

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:28:41 +0000

Shorter NewsBusters: Moooooooooooooooooom! Billy did it too! We’re only repeating what he did! That means it’s okay, right, Mommy? Mommy? Wake up Mommy!

By: Tom Allen

Tom Allen — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:07:24 +0000

Ah, good ol’ Cicero — a rich conservative lawyer, who, although an upstart “new man” (novus homo), championed the “status quo” (status quo) and supported the dictator Sulla.

Fortunately, in the past 2000 years, many things have changed. In particular, conservatives no longer support dictators nor do they use antiquated rhetorical devices. Hurrah, progress!

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:24:05 +0000

Holy shit- pols use misleading rhetorical devices? I’m utterly stunned (must have forgotten to read my Cicero for the day…or taken my meds).

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:41:36 +0000

Re: the parsing. At what point does it stop being technically correct if parsed to the 18th degree and start becoming what it simply is: language used to perpetuate or transmit a falsehood or lie.

By: tb

tb — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:12:35 +0000

At Protein Wisdom they were driven into an absolute parsing frenzy over this one. The idea that anything less than pure liquid truth could come from Bush’s lips is unthinkable to them.

By: helmut

helmut — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:49:07 +0000

Ignoratio elenchi.

By: Worst. President. Ever.

Worst. President. Ever. — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:14:45 +0000

“But Clinton lied too!”— what a comeback!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:05:52 +0000

Who are San Fran Nan and Dingy Harry? I’m not up with my wingnut “nicknames that sound like hobo nicknames”.

By: sexual harrassment panda

sexual harrassment panda — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:21:20 +0000

You know, at some point, smacking these people down begins to look a bit like rolling the autistic kid for his lunch money. And then doing it again the next day. In other words, utterly cruel.

That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy it, of course.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:09:51 +0000

Our first question: did President Clinton never use a straw-man argument in a speech? Hi, I'm Jillian, and I'm here with a Very Special Message from the Philosopher's After School Special Network. Tonight, our Very Special Message is called "Johnny's Double Dare", and it shows what happens when Johnny's friends pressure him into experiementation with the dangerous fallacy tu quoque. This is a show that should be watched by all members of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, together with their parents, so that the important lessons learned can be discussed afterward.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:46:36 +0000

Meanwhile, back in realityville, Christian culture is proving itself to also be incompatible with Democracy.