Finn d'Abuzz wrote:blatham wrote:snood wrote:In all fairness - and I despise Malkin, Coulter, Limbaugh, et al....
...but folks like Michael Moore do the same damn thing....
Others, yes, but not Moore. Neither of the individuals you mention above have regard for accuracy or truth and each have said or written things really quite vile. If Moore is to be faulted, it is in presentation of ideas which are not fully or clearly substantiated.
But not Moore?
Moore has regard for accuracy or truth?
Moore has never said or written things really quite vile?
Baltham has dropped several levels in my regard. (Not that he cares)
Could you find a single passage where Moore has wished or celebrated the death or murder of others...eg Coulter on Muslims or John Murtha?
Could you find an instance or example where Moore has consistently attacked as pathological or as deficit in character a behavior of which he himself is secretly guilty...eg drug use/addiction?
False and inaccurate statements from these three are verging on countless and it's not hard to research the cases/examples.
But we know you won't.
My comment was directed to snood who was making a common error in accepting a simplistic and uncareful assumption that there are two sides in opposition and that therefore the loud or populist or highly emotional voices on either side will be equally guilty of the same intellectual or rhetorical failings. But it takes a close and careful look to find out if that uninvestigated assumption is actually true or not.