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| ARCHIVE | ARCHIVE | ARCHIVE |
| Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
Instapundit disapproves of tendentiousness. At the same time he grows weary of engaging in the reasoned, balanced and intellectually honest debating style known as "Fisking". Fortunately it looks like he won't need to resort to either of those methods any longer, as he has now perfected the next-generation unstoppable rhetorical technique:
But, you know, when you write stories that uncritically recycle advocacy-group claims, people will say that you're in the tank, and I don't think there's anything unfair about that.
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He don't need no stinking logic. The professor used his new unstoppable debating technique against TAPPED today in conjunction with a brilliant verbal jiu-jitsu move, the declaration that a TAPPED article rebutting him was self-Fisking. With that assertion, an anti-idiotarian's version of "I know you are, but what am I?", he thoroughly annihilated TAPPED's case, he negated, nullified and obliterated it, and he did so with virtually no expenditure of mental energy. Or logic. Advantage... oh, you know.
But in the same article, an attempt to argue based on actual facts was less successful. Instapundit says that unlike the U.S. Air Force, he's not worried about .50-caliber rifles, weapons that can shoot down an airliner and are available for purchase at American gun stores, because Osama bin Laden already has tanks and howitzers in Afghanistan. So why, contra Instapundit, would a terrorist want to buy a .50-caliber rifle in the U.S.? Because, you know, it's a lot easier than bringing in those tanks and howitzers from Afghanistan, what with the strict baggage inspection nowadays and all that.
Duh. You'd think the professor would've figured that out.
| Monday, January 13, 2003 |
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| Wolf Blitzer |
FRUM: ... I think there is a story to tell about the president.Blitzer does not specify who are these many people who know Bush quite well, and still find him so likable. But some of them must work at CNN, because how else can you explain why the network practically buried it's own poll, which shows Bush's ratings slipping badly? If you don't know where to look - the transcript of today's Inside Politics - you wouldn't find a story about it, or even a hint of it, by searching the CNN site. As Liberal Oasis predicted yesterday, they're still resisting.My response to him was discovering the better I knew him, the more I liked him. And I think a lot of people will have that response too and I hope they'll get to know him better through "The Right Man."
BLITZER: I think a lot of people feel the way you do, the more you know George W. Bush, the more you probably like him. At least that's the impression I get from a lot of people who know him quite well.
* - Just kidding about the last two titles.
The poll itself is rather encouraging, though.
WOODRUFF: It was almost a week after unveiling his economic stimulus package. Our new poll is showing the president's approval rating has moved in a direction all too familiar in the financial markets, down; 58 percent of Americans now say they approve of the way Mr. Bush is handling his job. Now, that is a five-point drop since just late last week.And there's more good news, according to CNN analyst Bill Schneider:
WOODRUFF: Well, Bill, you're not saying the president has problems for reelection, are you?Even the class warfare bit may not be working out quite the way Karl Rove planned:SCHNEIDER: Could be. Just over a third of registered voters now say they will definitely vote to reelect President Bush. About one-third say they would definitely vote against him. And a third say they could vote either way. The economy has now eclipsed the war on terrorism as the country's major concern.
SCHNEIDER: ... Do people think this President Bush is out of touch with the problems ordinary Americans face? Uh-oh. Half the country says yes. Just under half say no. That's not a good sign.I completely agree with Dwight Meredith of PLA - the Democrats had better start using the mojo they've been handed thanks to the Bush clique's arrogance. It's more a matter of momentum than magic, and with people starting to get wise to the pretender in the White House, now is exactly the time to take stands, and risks, and to generally behave like an opposition party. The screw won't keep turning by itself for long.The president's economic plan may have sent a damaging message; 56 percent, 56 percent of Americans -- that's a clear majority -- now say President Bush favors the rich -- Judy.
[Uh-oh. As it turns out, the non-specific poll discussed by Woodruff and Schneider was actually a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll and the full story is posted at USA Today (link via Atrios). Still an almost-invisible story at CNN, though.]
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