A few weeks ago, I asked if anyone had seen Jay Stephenson’s integrity. I am sorry to report that it is still missing, and that whatever honesty and courage Jay may once have possessed have deserted him as well.
Last Tuesday, while reporting on the Fratboy-In-Chief’s latest sputterings about terror and terrorists, Jay made the following statement:
The best line and wise words that Democrats need to get through their skull:
“It is Foolish to think you can negotiate with them.”
‘Them’, of course, refers to terrorists. I posted a comment, timestamped September 5th 9:19 pm, that included a simple challenge to Jay:
Can you cite documented examples of any Democrats advocating negotiation with Osama bin Laden and his fellow terrorists, Jay?
Go and look at the page now; you won’t find any comment with that timestamp, because Jay deleted it. It is a common tactic of far right bloggers to delete uncomfortable questions. Here is a mirror of the page as it existed after I posted my initial comment.
Unfortunately for Jay, someone using the moniker ‘Rush’ saw my comment and replied:
I think your question has been answered despite the fact that you grossly misquoted the article. The quote was the “U.N. and world community” not democrats.
Oh, really? I took another look at Jay’s post. Yup, he’d changed his last paragraph:
The best line and wise words that the U.N. and world community need to get through their skull:
“It is Foolish to think you can negotiate with them.”
Jay changed the text of his post rather than answer a simple question. If he truly believes that Democrats advocate negotiation with terrorists, why did he alter the post rather than defend his views?
A couple of days later, a commenter by the name of Clay made the following statement in a comment on another post:
The left’s love affair with the Euro-left’s appeasment policy just might very well be the undoing of the U.S.
After a little back and forth, Clay tried to dodge a challenge to provide a factual underpinning for his views by changing the tune. I called him on it:
That wasn’t your claim, bubba. Your claim was that certain people on “the left” are guilty of a “love affair with the Euro-left’s appeasment policy”. Your feeble attempt to divert attention to your straw man (“research every single liberal by name”) gets the hearty horse-laugh it deserves.
If you can’t (or won’t) tell us who specifically and by name you are accusing of wanting to adopt “the Euro-left’s appeasment policy”, then your accusation is nothing more than empty, fantasy-based rhetoric.
Jay deleted the comment rather than let the discussion continue… and now he has resorted to repeated deletions of my login ID at his site.
So, what have we learned, boys and girls?
- Jay Stephenson ducks hard questions by pretending they were never asked.
- After a hard question is asked, Jay Stephenson changes the record of what he said to make it appear that the questioner was misquoting him.
- Jay will also resort to deleting comments that ask uncomfortable questions of his friends. He simply does not believe that those who agree with him have the intellectual chops to defend their views.
Jay cannot conduct a rational discussion, and it is now clear that he himself knows that he is an intellectual cripple. That’s why he wants to live in a tightly closed little echo chamber, hearing only from people who agree with him. Anyone who does not agree with him might ask a hard question. Oh, the horror!
Jay is, quite simply, scared to death of anyone looking too closely at the claims that he and his cohorts make on StopTheACLU.com I’ll keep looking for some sign that Jay actually possesses the qualities of integrity, honesty, and intellectual courage — but I am not hopeful he will ever display these traits.


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October 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 am
Clay
Meatbrain, I just found this ridiculous claim of yours that you “called me on it”. It’s ashame that Jay deleted you lame comment. You seem to have an unwarranted high opinion of your reasoning skills. Just as you have done on Jay’s site, and on mine, you conveniently respond to maybe 3% of any comments I have made and think you have, “won the arguement”. I see by perusing your site that you seem to be obsessed with your immature “liar, liar you’re pants are on fire” game by devoting quite a few posts calling people “liars” and other names. This is typical liberal moonbat tactics. You aren’t so much “meat that thinks”, as “meat that uses childish tactics of name calling” as opposed to any actual thinking. Of course there is something rather odd about a human being who sees himself as some other beings meal.
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:52 am
meatbrain
“I just found this ridiculous claim of yours that you “called me on it”.”
You claimed that there are (conveniently unnamed) people on “the left” who are guilty of a “love affair with the Euro-left’s appeasment policy”. I challenged you to name those people. You turned tail and fled the conversation — thus demonstrating that you cannot or will not back up your claims with facts.
”...you conveniently respond to maybe 3% of any comments I have made and think you have, “won the arguement”.”
When did your delusion that you can read minds first manifest itself, Clay?
When do you plan to develop a spinal column and respond to my challenge to back up your claims with facts?
October 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Clay
You babbled:
“You claimed that there are (conveniently unnamed) people on “the left” who are guilty of a “love affair with the Euro-left’s appeasment policy”. I challenged you to name those people. You turned tail and fled the conversation — thus demonstrating that you cannot or will not back up your claims with facts.”
I didn’t “turn tail and run”. I just didn’t believe that a liberal like you were this stupid that you needed your idealogy’s position on the War on Terror spelled out for you. I see now that you are. So, for your benefit, insert the name of any liberal whether US Democrat, or European, and you will then get an idea of who I am talking about. They weren’t “conveniently unnamed”, just too many to begin with.
Your whole provide me names tactic is about as stupid as asking me to provide the names of liberal democrats who hate Bush. That hatred for Bush is one of the left’s major themes is so prevelant everywhere in the liberal blogosphere, peace rallies etc. makes such a request patently stupid and not worth responding to. Likewise, your idiotic, “prove it, give me names” of liberals who share in the Eurpoean liberals appeasment mentality.
You know very well the left wants us to cut and run. You and others from the left just prefer the words “re-deploy our troops”. You know very well that you all would have the rest of us believe that it is our War in Iraq that has made the terrorist hate us and improved their recruitment rates, and that if we would just leave, then they would leave us alone.
As for appeasment, let’s see, Spain capituation to al Qaeda after the Madrid train bombings by voting in a liberal president who in turn pulled Spain’s troops out of Iraq serves as a very good example of modern European appeasement. No doubt spaniards think that now the Islamo-Facist terrorists will leave them in peace. Fat chance. They have already declared that they desire the recapture of Spain.
As for American appeasment: the Democrats call for us to withdraw our troops immediately from Iraq (read cut and run) because we are making the terrorists mad at us and driving up their recruitment. The underlying thought here is that if we just withdraw from the Middle East, and quit supporting Israel then the Islamo-Facist brutes will leave us alone.
Again nothing could be further from the truth.
Bin Laden commented after the Somalia affair that watching the American troops withdraw after the display of the bodies of American soldiers being drug through the Somalian streets, demonstrated to him that American soldiers are nothing more than paper tigers and that America can be brought down to her knees after all.
Hence my comment that the left’s love affair with European appeasment toward our enemy will be our undoing.
That’s my stance and I am sticking to it.
The Islamo-Facists have declared war on us. Their hatred of us and the rise in recruitment to their cause, began not in Iraq but back in the late 70’s during the Jimmy Carter presidency. It took 9/11 to get our attention.
You can’t appease an enemy who has your death or submission as their mission. Europe should have learned that lesson when the appeasment tactics of Britan’s Chamberlain only stalled Hitler’s bombing of England.
I said:
“”...you conveniently respond to maybe 3% of any comments I have made and think you have, “won the arguement”.”
Your lame response:
“When did your delusion that you can read minds first manifest itself, Clay?
When do you plan to develop a spinal column and respond to my challenge to back up your claims with facts?”
I don’t need to “read your mind”. My experience debating with you has provided example after example to back up my statement. If anyone needs to grow a back bone, it would be you. All that meat and no bones, makes for one sloshy mess that never gets past one or two, at the most statements, and then gets bogged down in semantics and playing “liar, liar pants on fire” games.
I leave you to your fantasy world where you think you have won the debate against all of the “liars” out there. After all, you have to do something while you wait to be devoured by whatever creature out there is coming to eat you. (Isn’t that what meat is for in the first place?)
October 4th, 2006 at 7:03 am
meatbrain
“I didn’t “turn tail and run”.”
You’re lying, Clay. You were challenged to provide factual support for your claim, and at that exact moment you abandoned the discussion. You turned tail and ran, and Jay provided cover for you by deleting my challenge. Neither of you has the balls to engage in a debate where you are expected to provide factual evidence for your claims.
“You know very well the left wants us to cut and run. You and others from the left just prefer the words “re-deploy our troops”.”
You obviously didn’t get the memo. It’s now perfectly acceptable for right-wing blowhards like yourself to suggest that the troops in Iraq be re-deployed. Rush Limbaugh says so.
“As for American appeasment: the Democrats call for us to withdraw our troops immediately from Iraq…”
Which Democrats call for us to “withdraw our troops immediately from Iraq”? Name them, coward.
You’re afraid of any discussion in which you are challenged to provide facts, Clay. I fully expect that you will again show us what “cut and run” really means.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:19 am
Clay
meatbrain,
You are the one who is lying. I never turned tail and ran. In fact I returned several times for days after I responded to you. I finally gave up after it appeared to me that you had decided to cut your losses.
Obiously, for a leftwing blowhard like yourself it is comonplace to equate the sensible positioning of troops to continue combating terrorism equals the cowardly leftist recommendation of re-deploying the troops home and away from the Middle East so that the terrorist will leave us alone.
Showing you what cut and run means is impossible with leftist blowhards such as yourself. It is a waste of time trying to discuss anything with some lamebrain who spends his energy calling people liars and other assorted names and who refers himself as “meat”.
Like I said before, I leave you to your fantasy world.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:53 am
meatbrain
“I never turned tail and ran.”
False. As of this morning, the comments section for the post "The ACLU v. National Security" (mirror) shows that you posted nothing after my challenge to you (which was posted on September 7th, 2006 at 3:57 pm). You abandoned the debate when you were challenged to back up your claims with facts.
You turned and ran, Clay. As soon as someone asked you for facts, you ran. No amount of hot gas from you will change that reality.
“I finally gave up after it appeared to me that you had decided to cut your losses.”
Your buddy Jay protects those who, like him, fear fact-based discussions. He does this by deleting comments that ask you and your ilk to supply facts that support your claims.
“Obiously, for a leftwing blowhard like yourself it is comonplace to equate the sensible positioning of troops to continue combating terrorism equals the cowardly leftist recommendation of re-deploying the troops home and away from the Middle East so that the terrorist will leave us alone.”
Who, specifically and by name, has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”?
Obviously, you are again going to demonstrate just what “cut and run” looks like.
“Showing you what cut and run means is impossible…”
False. You’ve done it several times already. And you will do it again.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:31 am
Clay
meathead,
First you whined about how Jay had deleted your comments from his blog post challenging me. Now you claim they are there. I checked for them the other day when I came across this ridiculous nonsense you are on about and it wasn’t there hence the “It’s ashame that Jay deleted you lame comment.” statement by me on my first comment to this post. Could it be that you are a liar?
As for which democrats are calling for re-deployment of troops out of Middle East, insert any name you wish. The liberal viewpoint is cut and run, because a). Iraq is a failed effort, a quagmire, b). lt is generating more terrorists and hatred for us, so c). If we do this Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists will leave us alone.
As a liberal blowhard you know this to be the truth. You are just playing the disengenous role of demanding names, because you really can’t offer any counter arguments to any of the points that either I or Jay make, or any other conservative with a different view point than yours for that matter.
There is a reason why you cling to calling your opponents “liars”, getting hung up over semantics and demanding names, and of course responding to only one or two points that have been made. You seem to be proud of calling people liars, and you erroneously think you have won the argument because you didn’t get the names you demanded.
I can’t speak for Jay, but I haven’t made any attempt to supply you with names, citations, nor offered you any lengthy research papers in response to your demands, because I’m not going to waste my time with some knuckle head who is selectively ignoring most of what I post, and is being disengenous.
Like I said….I leave you to your fantasy world. And just as I told you on my blog, I am through responding to you. You are a collosal waste of time, and evidently more of a liar than you claim your opponents are.
Oh, by the way, unlike you, I have no plans for featuring you in a seperate post on my blog, like you have done with me on yours. It isn’t necessary. You did a bang up job of demonstrating what an ass you are when you commented on one of my blog posts. Besides, my blog is about expressing my personal political viewpoints, not introducing some person who thinks he is meat that thinks.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:19 am
meatbrain
“First you whined about how Jay had deleted your comments from his blog post challenging me.”
I stated a simple fact, Clay. I know that the statement of simple facts confuses you. That’s your problem, not mine.
“Now you claim they are there. I checked for them the other day when I came across this ridiculous nonsense you are on about and it wasn’t there hence the “It’s ashame that Jay deleted you lame comment.” statement by me on my first comment to this post. Could it be that you are a liar?”
Could it be that you are a moron? I did not state that my comments were still listed on Jay’s blog. I linked to a mirror of the page that I made just after posting the comment. I have learned that I must make a mirror of the page after each comment I post at StopTheACLU.com, since Jay is so terrified of an honest debate that he routinely deletes comments that challenge him or his fellow wingers to produce facts. Had you a thimbleful of web literacy, you would have looked at the URL I was linking to and seen that it was a mirror maintained here on my own site.
“As for which democrats are calling for re-deployment of troops out of Middle East, insert any name you wish. “
Say what you really mean, Clay: You cannot name a single Democrat who has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. You have again been challenged to produce fact-based evidence for your assertions, and you have again failed to do so.
“There is a reason why you cling to calling your opponents “liars”, getting hung up over semantics and demanding names, and of course responding to only one or two points that have been made.”
There is a reason you cannot produce factual support for your claims: There isn’t any. There is a reason that I call you a liar, Clay: You lie.
“You seem to be proud of calling people liars, and you erroneously think you have won the argument because you didn’t get the names you demanded.”
You’re pretending to read minds again, liar. There hasn’t been an argument to win. When you lie, you aren’t arguing — you are merely lying. When you make fact-free assertions, you aren’t arguing — you are merely bluffing. I’ve called your bluff, and you have failed to produce any facts.
“I can’t speak for Jay, but I haven’t made any attempt to supply you with names, citations, nor offered you any lengthy research papers in response to your demands, because I’m not going to waste my time with some knuckle head who is selectively ignoring most of what I post, and is being disengenous.”
You’re lying again, Clay. The real reason you do not produce facts to support your claims is that you do not have those facts. All your bluster and outgassing is simply an attempt to divert the discussion from the reality that you can’t back up your assertions with facts.
“Like I said….I leave you to your fantasy world. And just as I told you on my blog, I am through responding to you.”
You are turning tail and running away — again. With your lies and your lack of factual evidence exposed, what else can you do?
“You are a collosal waste of time, and evidently more of a liar than you claim your opponents are.”
Yet you have failed to provide evidence of a single lie I have allegedly told. You again make an accusation with no facts behind it.
Run away, little liar.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Clay
Once again you have done a bang up job of making an ass of yourself in public. This time on your own blog. Maybe one of these days you’ll get past name calling and actually learn to debate the issues. Or, maybe not, after all you think you are meat that thinks.
Again…I leave you to your fantasy world where you are a legend in your own mind.
Ciao
October 5th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
meatbrain
“Once again you have done a bang up job of making an ass of yourself in public.”
Once again you have abandoned any attempt at fact-based discussion, Clay. It is not surprising to see you do this — only pathetic.
“Maybe one of these days you’ll get past name calling and actually learn to debate the issues.”
If you do not have the facts to back up your claims, Clay, you are yourself incapable of reasoned debate.
Please continue to pretend that making unsupported claims constitutes a ‘debate’, and that refusing to back up your claims with with facts is a viable tactic.
Who, specifically and by name, has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”, Clay? If you cannot name one single Democrat who has done this, why should anyone believe your claim?
October 5th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Clay
As long as you keep pretending that Democrats have not called for the “re-deployment” of troops (for instance, John Kerry) and needing “names” why should anyone believe you?
Talk about lying and running away. Anyone following this, and everywhere else that you post, can plainly see that you are incapable of anything beyond needing “names” and calling people liars.
Facts? You are either so incredibly stupid that current events evade you, or you are a liar who hides behind doling out “homework assignments” vice actually debating. (btw “vice” means instead of)
Do you remember the times I have called you out on ignoring 97% of what I have commented on? There is a reason for that isn’t there? You don’t respond because you have no responses beyond: “liar, liar pants on fire”, “you are running away” and “give me names, names and more names”.
Ok. Let’s see if you can take what you dish out. I need from you, a 100 page dissertation, completely documented from non-biased sources, proving that the democrat/liberal position of “cutting and running” from Iraq is the best option. Prove how it is perfectly ok, if Sadaam regains power and slaughters those who were trying to form a democratic constitutional government. Demonstrate for all of us how once we do this, Osama bin Ladin, al Qaeda, and all of the Islamo-Facist terrorists out there will leave us alone. Demonstrate that sacrificing the most prevelant democracy in that hot bed of terrorism, Israel, is the best option for securing world peace. Finally, demonstrate how, America, after ensuring these things happen can finally be respected by the rest of the world as a great nation who loves peace and freedom.
Put up meatbrain, or shut up!
Or continue living in you fantasy world…...
October 5th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
meatbrain
“As long as you keep pretending that Democrats have not called for the “re-deployment” of troops (for instance, John Kerry) and needing “names” why should anyone believe you?”
Have I made that claim, Clay? Show me. Where did I claim that no one has recommended redeployment of the troops? Cite the post. Cite the comment. Cite the least sliver of evidence to support this accusation.
I’ll wait. You’ll run away — again.
What we are discussing here is your claim, little coward. Specifically, you have claimed that someone (whom you refuse to name) has ”[recommended]... re-deploying the troops home and away from the Middle East”. That’s the full statement of your original claim, in case you forgot it. Are you now claiming that John Kerry has made this recommendation? If so, show us when and where he said this.
I’ll wait. You’ll run away — again.
As for your hilarious, barely-coherent demand for a “dissertation”—when have I expressed any of the viewpoints you have attributed to me? I’ll save you the trouble of fabricating another lie: I have not said anything that remotely resemble the views you claim I hold. To put it bluntly, Clay, these are your fantasies about what I believe. I’m not obligated to produce anything because you’ve decided to throw your shit at the wall hoping that some of it will stick.
Your implicit claim that I hold these views is a classic straw man fallacy. Go read up on it. I harbor no illusions that you will understand the fallacy, but at least you won’t be able to claim that no one ever told you what you were actually doing.
In contrast, I’m challenging you to provide factual basis for a claim you did make. And, to no one’s surprise, you have again failed to produce a single fact in support of your claim.
Who, specifically and by name, has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”, Clay? If you cannot name one single Democrat who has done this, why should anyone believe your claim?
October 5th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Clay
Another words, you give up. Right?
October 5th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Clay
Just as I thought….
You are still whining about names.
Why should anyone take you seriously?
I can’t think of any reason.
But, in your fantasy “meat” world, I bet you can.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Clay
I especially like your terms of endearment for me: “little liar”, “little coward”
Beyond this, it is telling, your refusal to comply to what was asked of you by me in my last post. In other words, you can dish it out but you can’t take it.
I’m not surprised!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Clay
It still rests on, meatbrain, put up or shut up!!!!
meatbrain, your name apparently fits you.
You can’t seem to put up, so that leaves only the impression that you are so stupid that you need protection from progress.
Glad to help!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Clay
Clarify how incredibly inept you actually are.
You can’t seem to put up, nor can you shut up, so we are left with….what?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:08 am
Clay
Meat. That’s what. Meat. And I dare ask, “What does “meat” have to do with truth? Absolutely nothing!” In other words, “thinking meat” is totally irrelevant to any scholastic conversation.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:41 am
meatbrain
Time for a pop quiz, boys and girls:
Crybaby Clay makes an assertion and cannot present a single fact that supports his claim.
Crybaby Clay invents several viewpoints out of whole cloth, and petulantly demands that someone who does not hold and never has held those viewpoints defend them.
Crybaby Clay is so frustrated that no one will play along with his lies and fantasies that he spams someone else’s blog with a half dozen comments in the space of less than an hour.
Is Crybaby Clay:
a) too clueless to participate in an adult discussion?
b) too delusional to participate in an adult discussion?
c) too infantile to participate in an adult discussion?
or…
d) all of the above?
Send your answers to crybabyclay@thinkingmeat.net, which will auto-forward all replies directly to Crybaby Clay’s email inbox.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Clay
While we’re on the topic of adult discussion. As the rest of know it usually goes something like this:
Person A: Point
Point
Point
ect…
Person B: Disagrees with Point 3
Reason
An attempt at adult discussion with meatbrain:
Person A: Point
Point
Point
Point
Meatbrain: ignores points 1, 3, 4 & 5
Give me names
October 6th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Clay
Person A: provides best answer possible to what is evident to everyone else but meatbrain.
Meatbrain: Liar
Meatbrain: calls opponent assorted other names
Meatbrain creates whole new posts on his blog dedicated to opponent and designed to call opponent names while meatbrain pretends that he is somehow superior in his intellect over opponent.
Ladies & Gentlemen,
All you have to do is read any of meatbrain’s posts or comments that he leaves at other blogs to readily see that he knows nothing about adult discussion.
He doesn’t even engage in any meaningful conversation beyond name calling and asking for proof of things that are already well known.
It thinks it is meat and it also thinks it can think.
I rest my case.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
meatbrain
“Person A: provides best answer possible to what is evident…”
Why is the assertion made by Crybaby Clay (aka ‘Person A’) the “best answer possible”? Because it is supported by the facts — or merely because Crybaby Clay says this is so?
Crybaby Clay made a claim, yet he provided no evidence whatsoever to back it up. It is in fact not “already well known” that all Democrats, or even any Democrats, have recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”.
Until Crybaby Clay provides evidence that this is a common view among Democrats, his “answer” can be considered only as an unsupported assertion. Crybaby Clay appears to believe that simply because he says a thing, it must be so.
Crybaby Clay again demonstrates that he is not only incapable of providing evidence for his claims, but also incapable of even understanding the need to provide evidence for his claims.
Run away, crybaby.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Clay
meatbrain,
I see you are still being disengenous. In case your not, and you really are this ignorant over the left’s side of the war in Iraq, here you go. Democrats have taken heat by their demands that the troops be withdrawn from Iraq and that Bush should provide a timetable as to when this can be accomplished.
The obvious response to the Democrats regarding this ludicrous idea was that providing a time table for when troop withdrawl will be accomplished, will only serve to tip of the enemies we are fighting in Iraq, so that then, all they would have to do would be to just wait us out, and then after we are out of Iraq, they could then ramp their activities back up so that they can topple the fledging new democratic government in Iraq and establish their Islamic rule.
You wanted names, I told you before, pick any outspoken Democrat regarding the war in Iraq. Withdrawl of American troops from the “quagmire” in Iraq has been the Democrat party’s position every since Sadaam Hussien’s regime was overthrown, and we began having problems with reminant Baath party officials, insurgents and al Qaeda terrorists pouring into Iraq via Iran.
If you still need a name, try John Kerry. In fact he has even used the term “redeployment of troops”.
Assuming that you are honestly uninformed about current political matters and are not just lying and hiding behind “give me names” or “you’re a liar tactics”, you really ought to try and keep up. Watch the news, visit political websites. Keep informed.
Just because no one gives you names, or writes dissertations that you demand does not make what they are asserting untrue.
Why don’t you try actually outlining whatever argument you have in contrary to what the other person is saying. Then you will be worthy of debate. Calling people liars, and crybabies only make you look some immature teenager trying to pass himself off as a mature adult thinker.
In all fairness, you may be very intelligent and mature, but you aren’t acting that way. Until you do, I am not going to waste any more of my time trying to have an adult conversation with you. Fair enough?
Ciao.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
meatbrain
“Just because no one gives you names, or writes dissertations that you demand does not make what they are asserting untrue.”
Absolutely correct. But it must also be noted that just because Crybaby Clay keeps repeating the same mantra over and over again, without the slightest shred of evidence, that doesn’t make it true, either. He hasn’t provided evidence for his claim. Without evidence, there is no reason to believe him.
There is especially no reason to believe him when he continues to lie. Note what Crybaby Clay said above:
“Just because no one… writes dissertations that you demand…”
I haven’t demanded that anyone write any dissertations. Crybaby Clay makes those demands — but he’s such a fucking dishonest, gutless little worm, he’ll turn around less than a day later and blame his own demands on someone else.
Crybaby Clay mentioned John Kerry — but without ever citing a complete quote that would provide proof that Kerry recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. That was Crybaby Clay’s assertion, and he still cannot understand that assertions require proof. He is incompetent to conduct an adult discussion of any kind.
And how many times now has Crybaby Clay announced loudly that he’s leaving the discussion, only to come back a few hours later? Poor little crybaby — he really is desperate for an audience for his tantrums.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Clay
Just as I thought. You are too immature for adult discussion. Even when given a name it’s still not good enough. What can I say? I guess if want to keep on pretending that the democrats don’t want us cut and run from Iraq that’s your peragative. After all, as Paul Simon once sang…a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest….
October 6th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
meatbrain
Just as I thought: Crybaby Clay came back to throw another tantrum. It named a name, yes — but it hasn’t provided the least shred of proof that John Kerry recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. That was its claim — and it’s still too incompetent to understand the need to provide proof of its assertion.
Who, specifically and by name, has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”? Crybaby Clay can’t tell us.
October 7th, 2006 at 12:09 am
Clay
What? If John Kerry, or any other Democrat for that matter, calls for the redeployment of our troops what else could it mean than out of Iraq?
It is easy to see that you are incapable of actual discussion. You hide behind “prove it” tactics. No matter how many proofs you are given you will still claim that it’s not enough.
Let’s see if you take what you dish out.
Prove that the democrats don’t want us to cut and run from Iraq.
Since you are such a proven immature ass, I won’t settle for just one name or reference to support the proposition that Democrats don’t want to cut and run from Iraq, I need at least 20. That’s being conservative for such an ass as you, but, hey….I am really a nice guy, so I’ll cut you some slack.
Not that anyone is actually following all of this, but just in case, watch meatbrain spaz into even more name calling against me vice actually proving any thing.
My guess is, since he won’t be able to rise to the challenge, he will just spew more namecalling, and self-deluded arrogant rants, no, temper tantrums about how he is somehow so much more intelligent than me.
Remember…this is a person who thinks that he/she is nothing more than meat, and he/she thinks.
I don’t know about you, but it is starting to smell pretty rank around this website. I think it could be because the meat being offered here is decaying.
October 7th, 2006 at 4:11 am
Rhyleh
Let’s say Kerry does want to cut and run. How does that necessarily represent “the left?” Do you have any surveys of liberal opinion, or are you basing your claims solely on what conservatives say liberals believe?
Have you ever stopped to consider who exactly is “the left”? If a pro-military Republican was against this particular war, would that make him a leftist? Consider this: George H.W. Bush has always had the position that an occupation of Iraq would be an unmitigated disaster. That is why he didn’t invade Bagdad when he had the chance. Containment was his chosen strategy. Many conservatives have opposed this war from the very beginning. For specific examples, see here: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/duncan1.html
October 7th, 2006 at 7:09 am
meatbrain
Oh, look. Crybaby Clay came back to throw another tantrum.
And despite all its wailing and blubbering, it hasn’t provided the least shred of proof that John Kerry recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. That’s the part of its claim that it is desperately trying to ignore: “home and away from the Middle East”.
Let’s repeat that again: “home and away from the Middle East”. Has Crybaby Clay cited any statement from any Democrat that resembles its claim? Nope.
Once again, Crybaby Clay expects everyone to believe what it says just because it says so — not because it can produce an actual complete quote. Crybaby Clay is still too incompetent to understand the need to provide proof of its assertion.
Who, specifically and by name, has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”? Crybaby Clay can’t tell us.
October 7th, 2006 at 7:12 am
meatbrain
“My guess is, since he won’t be able to rise to the challenge, he will just spew more namecalling, and self-deluded arrogant rants, no, temper tantrums about how he is somehow so much more intelligent than me.”
Crybaby Clay can’t help lying — that’s the only tactic it knows. I haven’t once made any statement that I am “so much more intelligent” than it is.
Lying is what Crybaby Clay does. Ofttimes it seems that lying is all that Crybaby Clay does.
Pity Crybaby Clay, because it doesn’t know any better.
October 7th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Clay
If Kerry doesn’t mean out of Iraq and back home then what does he mean? Neither he nor anyone from the democrat party have announced any plan other than cut and run. He hasn’t followed up his “redeployment of troops” with any specific place whatsoever.
Rhyleh,
The left is fairly consistent, I will give them that. Kerry is a liberal and he is expressing the sentiments of the left, which is largely anti-war, anti-Iraq War in particular. The poll to check for leftist is simple by visiting leftist blogs i.e. Daily Kos, Listening to Air America, the left’s poster girl, Cindy Sheehan etc.
Of course I wouldn’t refer to a conservative who was against the war in Iraq a liberal. But, just because a few conservatives don’t favor the war doesn’t impact my stance in favor of it at all. I’m not sure what you are getting at there.
October 8th, 2006 at 8:30 am
meatbrain
Ah. Now, finally, we get the truth.
“If Kerry doesn’t mean out of Iraq and back home then what does he mean?”
Crybaby Clay confirms what’s been obvious all along: his entire stance on this is one large, malodorous example of the argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy, the argument from ignorance.
Crybaby Clay has, thus far, provided exactly one example of a Democrat who favors redeployment of the troops currently stationed in Iraq. That one example consists of exactly three words, with no citation for where, when, or in what context they were spoken.
From these three words, Crybaby Clay has fabricated the fantasy that John Kerry, and by extension all Democrats, must all favor the idea that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. Crybaby remains utterly ignorant regarding Kerry’s actual stance — he hasn’t taken the time to go look up a complete sentence, for God’s sake! — and he knows nothing about what any other Democrat may have said on the subject. But ignorance doesn’t bother Crybaby Clay in the least. He has, in fact, come to depend upon ignorance as the foundation of his views.
Straw men, arguments from ignorance, outright lies: Crybaby Clay has become a living paragon of intellectual fraud and dishonesty. The sad thing is that there are so many others like him who willfully pollute the national discourse today.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Clay
Kind of like you huh? You sit there and scream “liar”, “crybaby” etc. Yet you yourself offer no particular defense for why you think democrats aren’t for pulling our troops out of Iraq. By the way, you can add Nancy Pelosi to the list of Democrats calling for re-deployment. Of course that won’t matter. No number of democrat names will suffice. It’s all part of the game you are playing. I ask you what Kerry could mean, and Pelosi for that matter, when they don’t specify where the troops are to be redeployed, if not back home? And you are silent. When Kerry states that the first thing he will do if elected is pull the funding for Iraq (which is disengenous since, Congress, not the President funds wars) it is clear to those possessing common sense that withdrawl and abandonment of Iraq is in the Democrats’ agenda. Unless, of course, you would have us all believe that all of our troops should be loaded in to cargo planes that circle the airways of Iraq a coulple of thousand feet in the air until Kerry and Pelosi figure out where to “re-deploy” them to. Yet, you don’t answer. That is telling. You just sit there and hurl names and other immature tactics. You’re kind of like the monkey in the zoo who sits there and hurls his defecation at passerbys.
It is clear that you are incapable of any sound reasoning. Just childish name calling and using phrases like “straw man” and “argumentum ad ignorantiam” to fool, I guess, the gullible into believing that you are sharp.
You aren’t sharp. You are playing a little game where you take a well known position (i.e. the Democrats are for withdrawing from Iraq ASAP no matter what that might mean) and pretend that I am making some “brand new” claim concerning the Democrat position. You call for names to be dropped. However, no number of names will suffice because you will continue to hide behind “insufficient proof”.
You have been asked several times to come out of hiding and state why you don’t believe the democrats wish to cut and run, yet you don’t. You just keep accusing me of being a “crybaby” or “a liar”. I contend that you are simply unable to defend any position. That is why you sit there and demand proof and call your opponent names. That is apparently all that you are capable of doing
Your blog is replete with examples of you trying to smear your opponents with name calling, sans any real rational argument from you.
I have lingered here far longer than I should have. I fully expect you to follow up my exit with more childish name calling but I frankly don’t care any more. I have wasted my time expecting meaningful debate from you. You are incapable of any reasoned discussion. You apparently live in a fantasy world where name calling means to you reasoned debate.
At least Rhyleh, was able to express herself with dignity.
You can call me crybaby and stomp up and down until you’re red in the face, I could careless. I will not respond any longer.
Actually, it would be to my credit if you do respond to this, my last comment, the way I expect you to. Then it will be broadcast yet again, loud and clear, just what sort of loser you actually are. Completely incapable of reasoned argument, just name callling. The real liar and crybaby is you….crybaby meatbrain.
Cry baby cry…...
October 8th, 2006 at 9:57 am
meatbrain
“You are playing a little game where you take a well known position (i.e. the Democrats are for withdrawing from Iraq ASAP no matter what that might mean)...”
First, let’s be clear on the “well known position” Crybaby Clay claims: He has stated that John Kerry recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. He claims that other Democrats hold this view — although the only other name he can give is Nancy Pelosi, and cites no statement she has made to support this claim. He cites no statement John Kerry has made that supports this claim. He cites no statement any Democrat has made that supports this claim.
This “well known position” is one for which Crybaby Clay cannot provide a single shred of documentary evidence. Why? Because he’s never bothered to find the facts. He relies solely on his own ignorance.
“Just childish name calling and using phrases like “straw man” and “argumentum ad ignorantiam” to fool, I guess, the gullible into believing that you are sharp.”
Crybaby Clay is ignorant of the classic logical fallacies. Gee, that’s not a surprise, is it? Ignorance is his favorite state of mind.
“You have been asked several times to come out of hiding and state why you don’t believe the democrats wish to cut and run…”
Straw man. Crybaby Clay can cite no statement of mine that indicates this is my belief. He again invents a fantasy of his own and expects everyone to believe that this is the truth Because! He! Says! So!
Run away, crybaby. Fantasy and ignorance are your best friends. Go play with them.
October 8th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Clay
Thanks you made my point excellently
Ciao
October 8th, 2006 at 10:20 am
meatbrain
“Thanks you made my point excellently”
Crybaby Clay again expects everyone to believe what he says just because he says so. And he still has no presented no evidence for his claims about the Democrats.
“Actually, it would be to my credit if you do respond to this, my last comment…”
And he’s still a liar. He cannot even tell the truth about his own intentions.
It is worth remembering that every statement Crybaby Clay has made in this thread in recent days has been made with the specific intent to avoid answering a simple question:
Who, specifically and by name, has recommended that the US should ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”?
October 10th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Clay
Not only has meatbrain managed to make my point, (more inane name calling) but watch him now. Let’s see how much denial he is in with this proof of the democrat desire to “cut and run” from Iraq:
Sen John F. Kerry (D-MA), 6 Apr 2006 e-mail to supporters – “I believe that American combat troops should come home from Iraq in 2006 … I believe we must set a May 15th deadline for the Iraqis to form an effective unity government. And, if the Iraqi politicians choose to ignore that deadline, then I believe things will only get worse and we will have no choice but to withdraw immediately.”
Sen John F. Kerry (D-MA), 6 Apr 2006 floor speech – ”...withdrawing U.S.
troops from Iraq is necessary to give democracy a chance to succeed and is vital to America’s national security interests. ... I set a goal of withdrawing most American combat forces by the end of this year. ... I believe most of our forces should be out by the end of the year. ”
DNC Chairman Howard Dean, 8 Dec 2005, “American Morning”, CNN – “We need a strategic redeployment of our troops. We need to bring the 50,000 [National] Guard troops home in the next six months. They don’t belong there in the first place.”
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), Jan 2006 – “My plan calls for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops consistent with the safety of U.S. forces.” ...
“I think the vast majority will be out by the end of the year. And I’m hopeful it’ll be out sooner than that.” ... “Sure, you’re gonna see a plan for withdrawal [before the November elections.]” ... Murtha wants all the troops home within six months, except for a quick reaction force of about 20,000 who would be based nearby in Kuwait. (Bob Anderson, CBS) ... ”...my recommendation, where we redeploy as quickly as possible.”
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), July 20, 2006 speech – “We can no longer afford to sit and wait. It is too costly to wait for future administrations to resolve. We must act now and adopt a policy of redeployment.”
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), 17 Nov 2005 statement – I believe before the Iraqi elections, scheduled for mid December, the Iraqi people and the emerging government must be put on notice that the United States will immediately redeploy. ... To immediately redeploy U.S. troops consistent with the safety of U.S. forces.
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), Nov 2005 press conference – The United States will immediately redeploy – immediately redeploy. No schedule which can be changed, nothing that’s controlled by the Iraqis, this is an immediate redeployment of our American forces because they have become the target.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) Jose Serrano (D-New York) & Robert Wexler
(D-Florida) – All voted in favor of House Resolution 571 (18 Nov 2005) which states “Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.”
Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) William Clay (D-MO) Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) Jim McDermott (D-WA) Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Major Owens (D-NY) all voted “Present” on HR 571, thus refusing to vote against an immediate withdrawal.
October 10th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
meatbrain
Crybaby Clay still can’t be trusted to tell the truth. “I will not respond any longer”, indeed.
I do applaud Crybaby Clay for finally taking the time to look up some actual facts. However, it’s a sign of deeply ingrained intellectual dishonesty to make an assertion first, and only later go cherry-picking facts to support the claim. That is exactly what Clay has done here. And he isn’t even a competent cherry-picker.
Clay’s evidence is not consistent with his earlier claim: “As for which democrats are calling for re-deployment of troops out of Middle East, insert any name you wish.” He has named only twelve Democrats — so his implicit claim that all Democrats want the troops immediately withdrawn and returned home remains unsupported.
Do the facts he has cited support his claim that the twelve individual Democrats he has named recommend that the US ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”?
re: Murtha: None of the quotes Crybaby provides is consistent with the claim that Murtha recommends that the US ”[re-deploy] the troops home and away from the Middle East”. All of the quotes that Crybaby cites are, however, consistent with Murtha’s position, as he stated in an open letter to Congress on 12/14/05:
re Capuano, Clay, Hinchey, McDermott, Nadler, Owens: HR 571 was not an honest expression of Murtha’s recommendations. It was, in fact, a Republican sham designed to act solely as a political trap for Democrats. Crybaby Clay knows this — or, if he does not, he is again arguing from ignorance. It is therefore not surprising that many Democrats refused to vote for or against it.
Crybaby Clay would have us believe that those Democrats that did not vote against HR 571, which proposed “the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately”, must therefore have been in favor of immediate withdrawal. This is the classic either/or fallacy, aka the ‘false dilemma’. It is false to claim that those who do not vote ‘no’ have cast a vote equivalent to ‘yes’. The third option of voting ‘present’ exists, and is used by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Note that of the twelve individual Democrats Clay named, only four can be said to be in favor of anything resembling the viewpoint that Clay claimed is universal amongst Democrats. Thirty-three percent is a failing grade in most college courses. And I will note that, since Crybaby Clay could not present these facts when first asked six days ago, it is obvious that at that time Crybaby Clay did not have any facts. Crybaby has thus confirmed that he’ll shoot his mouth off first, and only later go back to find out if reality matches his claims. That’s the mark of dogma, not reason.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Clay
meatbrain has demonstrated that not only is name calling his only tactic, but when you do give him what he wants, it is never enough. In other words, he is incapable of debate and just wants attention. Poor little liberal.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
meatbrain
“meatbrain has demonstrated that not only is name calling his only tactic”
False. I have demonstrated that there are facts that contradict Crybaby Clay’s views. He cannot argue the facts, of course… so he declares himself victorious and flounces off.
Oh, and as for “he… just wants attention”... I would remind Crybaby that he came to my blog and started this comment thread — and he’s been posting to it ever since, in spite of making several tearful threats to take his ball and run home. It’s pretty clear who it is that needs the attention, little one.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Clay
See what I mean? meatbrain is just incapable of any real debate. It’s interesting how he tries to label my reasoning “classic either/or fallacy” aka “false dilemna” when he himself uses the “fingers in his ears, name calling, and repeating the same thing over and over and over again” tactic.
Instead of demonstrating why the democrats are right in their assertion that we cut and run from Iraq, meatbrain keeps pretending that they don’t hold that position and that I’m just making it up. Even when being provided examples of democrats calling for that very thing.
He also seems to think that because the republicans called the democrats out on their demand that we pull the troops out of Iraq with HR 571 it’s somehow a political trap. So, I guess democrats can whine all they want but should never be called upon to put their money where there mouths are?
meatbrain spouts:
“Oh, and as for “he… just wants attention”... I would remind Crybaby that he came to my blog and started this comment thread — and he’s been posting to it ever since…”
and meatbrain keeps being strung along with each and every comment. At first I foolishly tried to reason with him, but after he started coming unhinged and resorted to becoming more and more childish it became more amusing to just keep stringing him along.
It’s pretty easy to just put your fingers in your ears and call everyone else liars and all kinds of other names, and then claim that it’s never good enough when provided what you ask for. To actually present well thought out reaons to support you viewpoint is quite another.
But, as we have seen, that is not how meatbrain “thinks”.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
meatbrain
“It’s interesting how he tries to label my reasoning “classic either/or fallacy” aka “false dilemna”“
When Crybaby Clay uses a known logical fallacy, I will call him on it.
“Instead of demonstrating why the democrats are right in their assertion that we cut and run from Iraq…”
Crybaby Clay has yet to demonstrate that ‘the Democrats’ monolithically hold this view. This is the classic ‘straw man’ fallacy, yet again. Crybaby makes a claim (that Democrats uniformly want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq) that is patently untrue, and pretends that since this fabricated viewpoint is indefensible, he has therefore somehow proven his point.
“Even when being provided examples of democrats calling for that very thing.”
Crybaby Clay didn’t assert that there were only examples. Crybaby Clay claimed that this was the view held by all Democrats. He lied.
“He also seems to think that because the republicans called the democrats out on their demand that we pull the troops out of Iraq with HR 571 it’s somehow a political trap.”
Crybaby Clay should learn the skill of reading for comprehension. HR 571 was a direct reaction to Murtha’s letter, but it did not reflect Murtha’s views.
Actually, it is most probable that Crybaby has never read either HR 571 or Murtha’s letter.
“At first I foolishly tried to reason with him…”
False. Crybaby Clay has never attempted reason. He has employed nothing but lies and empty assertions.
“To actually present well thought out reaons to support you viewpoint is quite another.”
And it is a skill that Crybaby should try to learn some day. Lying and backpedalling do not qualify as “present[ing] well thought out reaons”.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Clay
“Crybaby Clay didn’t assert that there were only examples. Crybaby Clay claimed that this was the view held by all Democrats. He lied.”
Now that is a lie. I never said every single democrat held that view point. Every republican is not necessarily in favor of staying the course in Iraq, but the majority are.
“Lying and backpedalling do not qualify as “present[ing] well thought out reaons”.”
Exactly, and that is precisely what meatbrain is good at, along with namecalling.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
meatbrain
“Now that is a lie. I never said every single democrat held that view point.”
False:
“As for which democrats are calling for re-deployment of troops out of Middle East, insert any name you wish.”
I do hope Crybaby Clay continues to lie. It’s so much easier to discredit him when he is so eager to help with the process.
October 11th, 2006 at 12:22 am
Clay
yawn