They Get Paid For This: Part IX - Are You SURE You Want To Do That?

Oliver Willis - a young blogger who has become less cogent and readable as his traffic and popularity on the left have grown, who is employed by George Soros, did something very dumb yesterday.

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I think it's kind of funny that the wingnuts at sites like Powerline have discovered the subtle art of "nuance" (the same thing they've been slamming Kerry for since he doesn't use kindergarten sentences like Dear Leader).

Powerline are "wingnuts?"

Granted, they may not be capable of logic like this:

But here's the thing. Dear Leader didn't say anything resembling "Senator Kerry's words would have us believe" (not that the sorry excuse for a President could get such a complex sentence out), but blatantly lied and blatantly claimed that Kerry said: "he would prefer the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to the situation in Iraq today". Look. Black is black and white is white, and George W. Bush is a heck of a liar, and Goldstein's a hell of an idiot apologist. John Kerry never said that. He just didn't.
An example. If Kerry said "George Bush admitted that he's the shittiest president since Nixon", that would be a lie, because Bush would never say that. Now, were Kerry to say "George Bush is the shittiest president since Dick Nixon" he would be telling the truth in truckloads.

So, we have a gratuitous dictator reference, eight unsupported assertions (saying "he just didn't!", three flaming ad-hominae and an out-of-context assertion intended to mislead...

...but Powerline are the "wingnuts"?

Posted by Mitch at September 26, 2004 08:02 AM | TrackBack