Don’t Change The Subject
By Mitch Berg
The Tea Parties rallied to protest, and call attention to, the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies (which, to be fare, are in a few instances continuations of Bush-era policies, only accelerated many times over).
The response: “some of you might get violent!”
Don’t change the subject. We were talking about the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies.
If I’m talking with you, or commenting on your blog, about the the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies, and you start babbling about “the avalanche of violence”, I’m not even going to take time out to remind you that every single act of actual, as opposed to threatened, violence this past year has been committed by a leftist of one kind or another. Every single one. No exceptions.
No. I’m just going to tell you “don’t change the subject”.
And if I’m talking with Bill Clinton (unlikely as that may be) about the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies, and he starts prattling about Oklahoma City, I will tell him “don’t change the subject”, too.
Changing the subject when you’re backed into a corner in a debate is the mark of a poor debater or a weasel lawyer.
Changing the subject to defame the person who is beating you in an argument – and we are beating you, Democrats, nationwide, and we’re going to beat you like cheap brisket this November – is the mark of the poor debater whose got everyone’s worst interests at heart.
So don’t change the subject.
April 20th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Does this mean peeve and RatioRinkyDink and DogNabbit and AC and etc are going to be censured?
April 20th, 2010 at 8:45 am
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April 20th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I wrote about Michele’s taking apart Betty McCollum’s speech in this post.
McCollum was singing from the Pelosi-approved hymnal, then Michele utterly demolished McCollum’s arguments.
April 20th, 2010 at 11:15 am
JPA: Nope. It means that when lefties start babbling about violence, we tell them to quit changing the subject. It’s not the “violence” that never happens; it’s the incompetent job our Administration is doing.
GMG: Yep. Keep at it!
April 20th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Pardon, but doesn’t disconnecting the gas lines at a person’s house in protest of the health care bill count as an act of violence of some kind?
April 20th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Nobody’s determined if it was politicallly motivated in any way.
April 21st, 2010 at 8:07 am
Sorry, wingnuts. This presumes that you get to set the terms of debate. You don’t. You’re in the minority, so everyone would prefer that you stop your incessant whining. But make no mistake, whether or not you desist (Angryclown’s guess: not likely), your whines are not “the subject.” The majority sets the terms of debate. You can go along with that or continue to remain on the fringe.
April 21st, 2010 at 9:52 am
Remember when dissent was patriotic.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:26 am
You’d think angryclown would want “whines” to be “the subject”. He is so very good at them. *shrug*
It’s a good thing that Democrats have done so many unforgettably stupid things lately. That “subject” is unlikely to change by November.
April 21st, 2010 at 12:18 pm
That’s fine, AC — you can control the conversation if it’s that important to you. Just don’t make us talk about the Mets.