# I pit Bricker for subtle reasons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 21, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bricker-for-subtle-reasons/568403 "2011-01-21T01:39:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 59
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bricker-for-subtle-reasons/568403/59 "2011-01-21T23:48:14Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’d argue that his largest blind spot is (the OP’s number 2) in the tu quoque argument. He’s entirely too eager to state as a defense to some Republican/conservative action, “Democrats do it too.” That has nothing to do with whether it’s a correct or appropriate action. In fairness, that’s not what he does at all. There are some people (on both sides) who do that. Bricker at no point either defended the job killing health care bill title or said that Democrats had proposed bills with equally idiotic titles. Instead he did something more subtle, which is that he asked if the OPer would be equally outraged if a Democrat proposed such a bill. This does several clever things: (a) it strongly implies that Democrats do and have proposed such bills without having to actually outright state such (which would of course open him up to being called on it) (b) it puts the OPer on the defensive… now for your thread to continue you have to prove that you’re not a hypocrite. Which is very hard to do (c) it tends to totally derail the thread entirely, until the original complaint is lost and forgotten > [@](#): > > Overall, I’ve got to admit I’m rather pleased he’s a member here. Absolutely agreed. Perhaps we should move this thread from the BBQ pit to the Huggie-love-fest-pit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bricker-for-subtle-reasons/568403)._