Was there sufficient evidence to dismiss it out of hand?
Like you say, “Why not address each story on its merits? Doesn’t that seem a safer, and fairer, course?” ISTM that that’s what we were doing.
Like I said earlier, ISTM that, with respect to Palin, you are expecting us not to consider possibilities that may not be likely, but for which an argument can be made.
That seems antithetical to the ethic of this board.
I’m not gonna dig it up again, but according to her own words, she believed it was. And wasn’t it her husband who said that the point of that rapid-fire return trip was to keep Trig from being born down here in the lower 48?
T%hat’s nice. At what point in the debate did we have access to this opinion from her personal physician? I could be wrong, but I don’t recall its surfacing during the Babygate debates.
As I recall, it came in before the new server went online, but after when most of us stopped giving a shit. And I’m too lazy to look up her exact words, but I recall that they scanned precisely as if the MD would have argued strenuously against the flight, but all’s well that ends well, and I’m not gonna fuck with someone who may be our next vice president.
Todd was keeping an eye on where his kid was born in case the pending “not all of your children were born in Alaska” clause in the Alaskan national constitution might stymie Sarah’s bid for the Alaskan presidency.
Cite for their being any discussions here that in any way took it seriously? And we still need a cite for any of the bad ol’ Main Stream Media reporting it even to comment upon its silliness, so we aren’t left thinking you just blew another transparent attempt at False Equivalence.
As soon as she adopted it for her very own, certainly.
I have quoted your entire post, because it is a fucking awesome post.
You raise a series of devastingly valid points. This, especially: …when someone is in an environment in which the overhwleming majority disagrees with him, and a fringe of that majority disagrees with him in unreasonable, rude, blindly partisan ways; that person tends to conflate the two and start feeling that the overwhelming majority disagrees with him in unreasonable, rude, blindly partisan ways… is, as I reflect on it, is probably exactly what’s going on. I spoke of the “tone” here, without quoting specific posts, and as I think about what you’ve said here I think that this phenomenon is exactly what’s created that impression for me.
Outstanding insight.
Which is what makes your complaint indistinguishable from something you yanked out of your ass.
:smack:
Jesus goddamn Christ, dude.
This applies to the majority, too. Certainly Bricker gets a lot of undeserved flak because he’s often arguing the same side of a debate as [insert names of certain conservative posters], notwithstanding the fact that he rarely, if ever, stoops to the sort of tactics which makes [those guys] deserving of flak.
The tactics he typically uses instead are less childish but just as dishonest. Please consider that a great deal of the flak he gets is because of that.
Frylock, care to elaborate? :dubious:
The tactic he typically uses is reasoned debate. Would I like it if he provided a few more citations? Sure, but that’s hardly “dishonest”.
I guess. Bricker’s comment acknowledged that he might have been in error in thinking there was a “tone” in the responses he’s recieving. He was being somewhat conciliatory. And you answered by insulting him. That’s assinine.
With generous use of false equivalencies, tu quoques, excluded middles, filtered facts, and general weaseling.
But he’s awfully polite about it, sure. And so was december.
Understand that Elvis has a very low tolerance for board improprieties not committed by himself.
If you know of any other kind, kindly so demonstrate. :rolleyes:
Sara Palin secretly flew to Kenya to have Trig but won’t show anyone his real birth certificate.
I will not demontrate, but I can confirm that I have seen board improprieties not committed by you.
Ah.
Happenin’ place, that Kenya, what with all the Palins and the Obamas and the Hawkings running about, having kids, deluding the American people.
Thank you. I wish all of my conservative friends and co-workers would be as reasonable as this.
I appreciate that we all bring our own ideas of the “right” way to do things to the table and I have always liked hearing conservatives’ reasoned debate. Why can’t we have more of this and less of the Death Squads and Re-Education Camp crap? The world would be a boring place if we all thought the same–I just miss the days when we could discuss what’s going on in the world without one party screaming that the world is coming to an end.
Thank you for a thoughtful and reasonable response to a thoughtful and reasonable post.
How is that not scandalous?
Edit: (Not that I think or ever thought it was true.)