Euphoric Reality – What NOT To Do:
How do you know when you’re senile, incompetent, and completely irrelevant? When your Iraq Study Group is dubbed the Iraq Surrender Gran’pas – and the name sticks.
The ISG – a study in what NOT to do.
That’s Heidi Thiess all over: when the thought of a rational discussion is just TOO TOO SCARY, call someone a name and pretend you’ve “won” an “argument”.
Stay stupid, Heidi.
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December 11th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Warwitch
You’re funny. What do you think your entire blog is based on? You don’t even try to pretend to know what you’re talking about. You just call people liars, hypocrites, etc – apparently you can’t be bothered to come up with something half-way original or witty. You just call ‘em a name and call it a day. Dull boy.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:47 am
meatbrain
When people lie, what word describes them more precisely than “liar”?
December 11th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Warwitch
Maybe the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani should “stay stupid”, too, huh? The Iraqis have rejected the report in toto.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
meatbrain
If all Talabani did was to call the authors names, then he’d be no better than Heidi. But that’s not what he did. No comparison, WW. Try again.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Warwitch
Perhaps you need to brush up on your reading comprehension. Heidi’s post was referring to a columnists’ dubbing of the ISG, not her own. The report has received wide ridicule for being simplistic, short-sighted, and full of misplaced hubris. But you probably didn’t follow any of the links referenced in that post, so nevermind.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
meatbrain
“Heidi’s post was referring to a columnists’ dubbing of the ISG, not her own.”
And Heidi’s claim is that because the authors of the study were called a name, they were therefore “senile, incompetent, and completely irrelevant”.
No matter how many times she uses an ad hominem argument, it’s still a fallacy. Perhaps you need to become familiar with the concept of a logical fallacy, WW.