Comments on: How national TV teaches people how to dodge questions. https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/11/11/how-national-tv-teaches-people-how-to-dodge-questions/ Tue, 12 May 2026 20:11:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/11/11/how-national-tv-teaches-people-how-to-dodge-questions/#comment-8344 bowser Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:03:54 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=5203#comment-8344 Yes. One fruitless appeal for intellectual honesty after another after another. Bush didn't lie, Cheney didn't lie, the US under Bush didn't torture, there is no anthropormorphic global warming, Iraq had WMDs, the Vietnam war was a Soviet plot, Palin is fit to be President of the US. There's simply reality after reality which you deny. Not because of the truth, but because it would be politically inconvenient. What is true depends upon political doctrine, not that which can be demonstrated to be factual. So yes, I'm in a loop. Always hoping that maybe this one time reality, truth, and facts can prevail. Imagine, believing that Obama didn't inherit a country on the brink of financial collapse and with two unwinnable wars!!! Yes. One fruitless appeal for intellectual honesty after another after another.

Bush didn’t lie, Cheney didn’t lie, the US under Bush didn’t torture, there is no anthropormorphic global warming, Iraq had WMDs, the Vietnam war was a Soviet plot, Palin is fit to be President of the US. There’s simply reality after reality which you deny. Not because of the truth, but because it would be politically inconvenient. What is true depends upon political doctrine, not that which can be demonstrated to be factual.

So yes, I’m in a loop. Always hoping that maybe this one time reality, truth, and facts can prevail.

Imagine, believing that Obama didn’t inherit a country on the brink of financial collapse and with two unwinnable wars!!!

]]> By: TB https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/11/11/how-national-tv-teaches-people-how-to-dodge-questions/#comment-8341 TB Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:11:19 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=5203#comment-8341 <p>You do realize you're stuck in a loop, right?</p> Your numbers are wrong. And since I've corrected them more than once, obviously you don't care what the right numbers are. You do realize you’re stuck in a loop, right?

Your numbers are wrong. And since I’ve corrected them more than once, obviously you don’t care what the right numbers are.

]]> By: bowser https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/11/11/how-national-tv-teaches-people-how-to-dodge-questions/#comment-8336 bowser Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:20:47 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=5203#comment-8336 Unless one remembers that Obama inherited a country on the very edge of financial collapse due to the irresponsibility of the previous regime and the 1% with their tax breaks, and two unwinnable wars, one cannot discuss Obama with any intellectual honesty. He did not get a clean slate, as you try to claim. And he got an opposition party who pledged to block any legislation he proposed, no matter how good it may be for the country. Signed a pledge to do that. The Party leadership made the members SIGN A PLEDGE. As far as who you prefer, I know who it will be. Whoever they tell you to. And who are "they"? “I pledge allegiance to the Slate of the Party of the Tea, and to the Banana Republic for which it stands, one oligarchy under God, with liberty and justice for the Chosen Few. Amen and hallelujah.” Recited to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZ3jPMM5Ac Unless one remembers that Obama inherited a country on the very edge of financial collapse due to the irresponsibility of the previous regime and the 1% with their tax breaks, and two unwinnable wars, one cannot discuss Obama with any intellectual honesty.

He did not get a clean slate, as you try to claim. And he got an opposition party who pledged to block any legislation he proposed, no matter how good it may be for the country. Signed a pledge to do that. The Party leadership made the members SIGN A PLEDGE.

As far as who you prefer, I know who it will be. Whoever they tell you to. And who are “they”?

“I pledge allegiance to the Slate of the Party of the Tea, and to the Banana Republic for which it stands, one oligarchy under God, with liberty and justice for the Chosen Few. Amen and hallelujah.”

Recited to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZ3jPMM5Ac

]]> By: TB https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/11/11/how-national-tv-teaches-people-how-to-dodge-questions/#comment-8326 TB Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:30:10 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=5203#comment-8326 There are also stupid questions, irrelevant questions, loaded questions, and questions designed not to get information but to attack the person questioned. Reporters long ago stopped being reporters and started becoming advocates. Referees who are running plays and have bets down on one of the teams. It shows. Why don't you ask me which of those conservative candidates I think would make the best president? What their individual strengths and weaknesses are? How do they match up with the ideas and principles I want in a politican? How do they compare with previous presidents in terms of background, experience, knowledge, and ideologies? (And no, I'm not going to answer that yet. I don't have answers all the way down the line yet.) Most importantly, how do they compare with the left-wing Chicago community organizer currently in the Oval Office who is drilling this nation straight down to the Moho? I do have an answer for <em>that</em> one. You (and others) keep trying to drag me into various false premises, and <em>then</em> starting the discussion. For example, "given my premise that all Republican politicians are ignorant steaming piles of shit, which pile of shit do you like best?" Sorry, that doesn't work here. By the way, you didn't even bother to dodge my question. There are also stupid questions, irrelevant questions, loaded questions, and questions designed not to get information but to attack the person questioned.

Reporters long ago stopped being reporters and started becoming advocates. Referees who are running plays and have bets down on one of the teams. It shows.

Why don’t you ask me which of those conservative candidates I think would make the best president? What their individual strengths and weaknesses are? How do they match up with the ideas and principles I want in a politican? How do they compare with previous presidents in terms of background, experience, knowledge, and ideologies?

(And no, I’m not going to answer that yet. I don’t have answers all the way down the line yet.)

Most importantly, how do they compare with the left-wing Chicago community organizer currently in the Oval Office who is drilling this nation straight down to the Moho? I do have an answer for that one.

You (and others) keep trying to drag me into various false premises, and then starting the discussion. For example, “given my premise that all Republican politicians are ignorant steaming piles of shit, which pile of shit do you like best?”

Sorry, that doesn’t work here.

By the way, you didn’t even bother to dodge my question.

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