I Just Have To Say…
By Mitch Berg
…that I learn as much about the law in a week on KAR JARWB than I do in a month of Harvey Birdman reruns. Or even Law and Order.
Yes, I do.
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June 4th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Mitch,
I commend you for accepting comments. Some gutless bloggers don’t.
Foot – as far as I understand, a strawman is a word for an artificial or unargued position which you then choose to tear down. Me chosing to either identify I made a comment or not, is not a strawman – and you not having the guts to make your accusation directly, is what we call ‘gutless’ – as well as not having the guts to let people reply directly.
BTW – another term you may want to bone up on is ad hominem, and then try troll.
The rightwing commenters on this blog engage in ceaseless ad-hominem attacks, and a troll is someone who either makes a salacious and needlessly inflamatory comment which they don’t hang around to defend, or someone who doesn’t add anything to the discussion but simply makes snide and sniping comments, without the guts to participate.
Foot – I wonder which one you are? You certainly seem fully prepared to make ad hominem attacks, and I’ve yet to see you actually participate in something meaningfully. Physiker, heal thyself.
And Mitch, if you want to defend yourself, show up, don’t engage in oblique discussion. I’m not going to perpetuate that discussion point here, but again, at least you have the class to engage – unlike some folks.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Oh and Foot, to satisfy your fragile sensibilities, I’ve identified myself. I wasn’t hiding anything, I generally assumed people could figure it out. Apparently, you don’t have that much faith in people.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Sorry Foot, found your comments – you’re still gutless for not having the balls to comment directly – but do as you like, and nice of you to ignore the point (well, that’s pretty much a constant with you isn’t it?).
June 4th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Yeah, Foot, didn’t you realize that the great and mighty Peev is in charge of the definitions of troll and ad hominem (conveniently defining them as right-of-center phenomena)?
I wonder if he’s also Keeper of the definition of “threadjacker.” That at least would make sense.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
My God. Peev was actually the subject of a blogger’s post. Peev-baiting at its finest!
June 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Steve, in no way did I say it was uniquely right, I said it was common on the right.. get a life.
And Steve, as Foot decided to try to present me as such producing lots of ad hominem attack – frankly I think he’s wrong – I back my comments with pretty substantial evidence – then he needs to not live in a glass house. Mitch owes himself the justice of dealing with things honestly, not churlishly. He is smart enough to do so, one wonders why he didn’t.
BTW Mitch – this point from Cole defends the Iraqi government’s soveriegnty – perhaps you can identify what anti-semitic comment was made here – I don’t see it. And Terry -as threadjacking goes – the reason this is germaine is that Foot – in his diatribe, completely ignored the point that Berg called Cole an anti-semite – so, I’m explaining how these are in fact – the same points. KAR made no point about law (as it related to my post), and made an incorrect complaint about strawmen – while ignoring the basic premise – if you want to talk about being off-topic, go dress down Foot.
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis have united to reject the draft of a security agreement proposed by the United States. A high-level Iraqi source told the pan-Arab London daily that one point of dispute is that the US wants its troops to have complete freedom of movement in the country, whereas the Iraqis want it to be limited. The Americans are said to be seeking to retain the right to dominate Iraqi air space up to 29,000 feet, and to gain open access to the land, air and water of Iraq. The US wants to retain the right to arrest and detain any Iraqi whom the US believes represents a security threat. Washington desires the right to launch military operations to chase terrorists without seeking Iraqi government permission. The US wants immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts for American troops, contractors and corporations in Iraq.
The US also wants to retain the right to define terrorism against Iraq. It does not want to give any undertaking that it will defend Iraq from any outside attack unless it is convinced about the nature of that attack. Likewise it is not offering to safeguard the democratic regime in Iraq.
Iraqis for their part are demanding a recognition of Iraqi sovereignty.” – from Informed Comment at JuanCole.com.
Again, Mitch, what exactly is anti-semitic here. You said you’d basically never read anything from Cole because it would be anti-semitic. I’m not seeing it, would you mind pointing it out? Foot, maybe you could help him, rather than inventing arguments that didn’t exist, you know, strawmen.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Blah, put a quotation mark in front of the word Al Hayat, please – Cole’s comments start there. Thanks
June 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Peev made a baseless claim on Foot?
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I’m shocked, shocked to discover there’s gambling going on here!
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Peev:
“…Foot decided to try to present me as such producing lots of ad hominem attack – frankly I think he’s wrong…”
Really?
Peev:
“Some gutless bloggers…”
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“…the class to engage – unlike some folks.”
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“…to satisfy your fragile sensibilities…”
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“…you’re still gutless for not having the balls to comment directly…”
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“…get a life”
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“…smart enough to do so, one wonders why he didn’t”
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“…in his diatribe”
Frankly, I didn’t need to contribute the material when Peev already provided it… however, it is now convienently collected in one comment.
We all know Peev doesn’t like insults and attacks (just ask him), but one wonders why he uses so many of them.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I don’t have a problem with people using aliases to blog or reply to blogs, but Peev, unless your birth certificate says “Peevish” on it, “gutless bloggers” is irony at best and really much closer to hypocrisy.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Did you get that thing I sent ya’?