"Many people believe that Krugman doesn't actually write the columns that appear under his name in the Times, because they are so stupid. "
Related from Jeff Goldstein - "The Lie of the Liberal Arts Education"
And while we're on the topic, there's a $10,000 [now 20K - ed.] reward out there still waiting to be claimed!
It’s time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up. Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once. Surely one of those two cameras wielded by members of his entourage will prove his point.
And surely if those cameras did not capture such abhorrence, then someone from the mainstream media — those who printed and broadcast his assertions without any reasonable questioning or investigation — must themselves surely have it on camera. Of course we already know they don’t. If they did, you’d have seen it by now.
THOUSANDS OF TIMES.
Plus: That's quite the arm you got there, Bubba!
Why lookie here - "Cancon".
What is interesting is how the illogical 'reasoning' of associationism works.
It goes like this. IF X person used an 'insulting word' to Y person, then all other people in the vicinity, or even society, are guilty. Not just that one person, but everyone.
And to carry this 'reasoning' further, such an act also means that Y person's proposals (such as, oh, flinging cake to the poor) are valid!
You'll see this associationism used all the time, particularly by the left, in their attempts to wreck various policies and bills.
The Afghans mistreated the Taliban prisoners? Ahh, this means that Canadians are warmongering, war criminals. And especially Harper.
Ann Coulter comes to Ottawa? She's a conservative. So is Harper. Ahh, this means that Harper invited her and he wanted a crisis and he wanted....blah blah.
The Power of Irrational Associationism. That's the political left.
NRO just had an article on a related topic. The lack of diversity of thought and politics in universities harms students, conservatives and liberals. It denies students the opportunity to form their own opinions. Conservatism is unfairly demonized. Liberals become lazy in their arguments and unbearably arrogant when challenged with opposing ideas.
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=1234
Statement of Professor John Ellis to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislature, March 22, 2010
March 23, 2010 By John Ellis
"One-sided departments can’t educate. John Stuart Mill put the point best when he said: “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.” What Mill is saying here is that you don’t really understand the case for the left until you also thoroughly grasp the case for the right, because the one is an answer to the other and so each is a necessary part of understanding the other. If leftist professors think they can simply present the other side’s case themselves, Mill had this devastating response: “Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.” And for that reason, he went on to say, the student must “be able to hear [the arguments] from people who actually believe them, who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
If you follow this thought, you’ll see that it is not just the side that is excluded that suffers. In fact, the side that does the excluding suffers the most intellectually. A political monoculture sooner or later always degenerates into extremism and incoherence, because it needs an opposition to keep it healthy. "
Has Antonia fessed up to the twitter post or is this another rush to judgment like the Korea post yesterday?
ET:
Guilt by association. Nothing new.
If you lean to the right and observe a trend you're guilty of profiling and discrimination.
If you are progressive and liberal you have the innate ability and social responsibility to make judgments without evidence. Such as which babies should die. That AGW is threatening to wipe out the human race. That evil doesn't really exist, except in those who disagree with you.
The Krugman link sent me to a Tea Party poll. Not sure if this was intended.
Wonder if that guy in Cincy was a southpaw.
Seriously though, who is more to blame? The democrats? Or the media for fanning the flames?
I recall some colleagues at work dissing Ann Coulter for her camel comment this week, and I asked them: "Did you see that interaction?" and they said no. And then I replied: "Well I guess you believe EVERYTHING you read in the paper, and watch on TV." But my colleagues seemed more surprised at my comment, then to question their media overlords.
Sheep. So many. And so many vote left.
I can see Paul Krugman's house from Vancouver Island because it is that fu*king big!
I wonder how much he spends on his carbon credits?
Dave:
There you go.
The importance of verifying facts before jumping to conclusions.
Works for both sides of the political debate.
The price of throwing out unverified claims is credibility.
"The Power of Irrational Associationism. That's the political left."
High schools kids do that a lot. You also see it in people who suffer from paranoid delusions.
Sooooo ... Leftists either have a juvenile mindset or they are delusional, paranoid people. I may be using associationism here, but then, in this case, it's probably true.
Krugman link works for me.
"another rush to judgment like the Korea post yesterday?"
All content came off the news wire.
Wire content was speculative.
As I recall, it said South Korean officials were investigating the POSSIBILITY of the ship being hit by a torpedo.
And, that's what set off a Chicken Little frenzy. The facts proved to be different later in the day.
Just a little lesson in jumping to conclusions.
I recently slept through one of my classes. Turns out the prof spent quite a bit of time ripping on Israel. Guess I didn't miss anything.
Read "Sun rises in East" by John.
I guess Krugman's lost his economic integrity, so he's going straight to where the target is lowest: opinionated journalism.
I was watching Hannity yesterday where they were discussing this nonsense. I was ashamed to be of the conservative bent the way the conservatives on Hannity were bow and scraping before the leftist smear.
"Oh I'm not trying to incite violence" etc etc etc. Take what the Lefties give you and jam it down their throat.
Were I an American Conservative and someone says to me that the Conservatives are inciting violence, I would point out that the American Revolution was fought using guns against tyrants. Men so moved by their desire to be free that they took up arms and overthrew the ruling elite. Don't like violence lefty? Good! Neither do I! What's more I don't like the hijacking of the Nation and the trampling of the Constitution by a bunch brigands who pretend to be civilized men and women. My forefathers bequeathed to me FREEDOM and no two bit thug in a fancy suit is going to take that away from me.
"Liberal Lies Archive"
Specimens:
"Liberals saying- I support the military"
"Jane Fonda: I would think that if you understood what Communism was,
you would hope, you would pray on
your knees, that we would someday
become communists"
http://boycottliberalism.com/Liberal-Lies-Archive.htm
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More here:
www.democrats.org
Lib.caca
Posted by: ET at March 27, 2010 10:44 AM
Nice post, ET. You missed the double-standard, however:
If you are a member of identified religious group "Z", and extremists of your religion self-detonate, fly planes into buildings and massacre thousands of innocents, the same left-bots will literally trip over themselves demanding that we need to understand "why you hate us", and why we drove you to it. Not that every conservative believes every member of group "Z" believes in such actions, but to the left it is imperative we hold everyone in the group in high esteem. Or at least understand why the extremists wish to kill us. Or why other group Z members at Concordia U were celebrating openly in the aftermath of the aerial massacre. Or...
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
The Power of Irrational Associationism.
Yeah that is one of the main tools in the PLO/HAMAS propaganda tool box.
Kassim rockets become self defence....
Building apartments in your capital becomes agression...
Then globally there is the farce of the plethera of "De-militarized Zones".....
syf
"""The facts proved to be different later in the day."""
or they are stated differently later in the day for political reasons
read about JFK assinasion, MLK ass., WMD in Iraq, nuclear situation in Iran, and on, and on,
not saying that the incident refered to was not an accident, just saying the NEW position may not be fact, only time may tell
GYM:
Yeah, you're right. It was a conspiracy.
I actually have what used to be known as a "liberal arts" education. Since I graduated the first time, university has become nothing more than a place where kids go to finish the Leftist indoctrination they've been getting all through school from Kindergarten on up.
Were I shopping for education these days, I'd go to any community college and study a TRADE. Its hard to make a welding lecture into communist indoctrination. They try, but so far they aren't smart enough to do it.
Anyone who genuinely wants to learn scholarship, as a thing in itself, or English, Anthropology, etc. would be well advised to simply read old textbooks. Anything printed before about 1975 would probably be safe. Pre-1965 would be better.
At the Showdown in Searchlight Tea Party rally I just returned from, Breitbart upped his reward to $100,000.
She is an evil seed of Islamism. A deadly flower trap to the gullible for the Jihadists.
If these killers hide behind schools & Women. Why not a girl? The colonization continues.
JMO