tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5571898261837087255..comments2024-03-28T08:17:14.194-04:00Comments on the daily howler: STOPPED MAKING SENSE: Sympathy for the (various) devils!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79586673369792242702015-12-05T21:49:30.360-05:002015-12-05T21:49:30.360-05:00No, she said women who claim they have been assaul...No, she said women who claim they have been assaulted "should be believed." <br /><br />No, they should not be believed. It is the accuser who should be expected to wait for her day in court, for "evidence to emerge" to prove her veracity, not the accused. The That's how America works. There is no taking her words out of context. They couldn't be plainer. You grasp at that because you recognize her stated view as wrong and dangerous, because it is. It is the view of mainstream progressives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20394691962037116942015-12-05T21:43:25.431-05:002015-12-05T21:43:25.431-05:00She was asked whether Bill's rape accuser shou...She was asked whether Bill's rape accuser should be believed, since she previously said rape accusers have the right to be believed, and answered “I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence."<br /><br />A statement more ignorant and dangerous than anything Trump has said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41826865297263238532015-12-05T21:11:26.591-05:002015-12-05T21:11:26.591-05:00Most published research findings are false
http:/...Most published research findings are false<br /><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/<br /><br />http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(15)60696-1.pdf<br /><br />"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89751065587549302392015-12-05T16:20:24.385-05:002015-12-05T16:20:24.385-05:008:59, I feel it's safe to assume that whatever...8:59, I feel it's safe to assume that whatever your are attempting to accuse Clinton of is false, and would be easily identifiable as false given any context. Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54445917371916494822015-12-05T15:36:30.499-05:002015-12-05T15:36:30.499-05:00You addressed that question in the way you did bec...You addressed that question in the way you did because you tried but found you could not put forth an example.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-6144278654763563882015-12-05T09:28:34.424-05:002015-12-05T09:28:34.424-05:00She said women who have been assaulted should be t...She said women who have been assaulted should be taken seriously. She hasn't said that the men who assault them don't deserve their day in court. Taking a person's words out of context like that and pretending they have made a generalization about how to evaluate truth of a factual statement is mendacious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89891896244805070172015-12-04T23:27:28.477-05:002015-12-04T23:27:28.477-05:00Don't take the word of pundits and politicians...Don't take the word of pundits and politicians.<br />Instead, try scientists or Exxon's internal studies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24771786976403821832015-12-04T23:26:09.273-05:002015-12-04T23:26:09.273-05:00To address your question: Everything.To address your question: Everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46274215091351590432015-12-04T21:46:35.794-05:002015-12-04T21:46:35.794-05:00Climate change is a much more complex issue than K...Climate change is a much more complex issue than Krugman and Bob Somerby claim. There's no space to go into it here, but there are lots of problems with most politicians' and pundits' understanding of climate science. David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37067206388037962332015-12-04T20:59:11.397-05:002015-12-04T20:59:11.397-05:00What has Trump said that approaches the stupidity ...What has Trump said that approaches the stupidity and dangerousness of what Hillary Clinton said when she directed "everybody" to reflexively believe those accusing others of serious crimes, until the accused is proven innocent?<br /><br />“I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13271137515545138002015-12-04T20:14:31.076-05:002015-12-04T20:14:31.076-05:00If we take "progressives" like Hillary C...If we take "progressives" like Hillary Clinton at her word when she says we should regard the accused as guilty until "evidence emerges" proving their accusers wrong, or "progressives" like Loretta Lynch at her word when she says "We will take action" against anti-Muslim speech, there is far more to worry about in the immediate than skeptical climate change speech. A planet on which views like theirs prevail isn't one fit to live on.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61949913452331289822015-12-04T19:34:54.047-05:002015-12-04T19:34:54.047-05:00The consequences of believing the nonsense about w...The consequences of believing the nonsense about word definitions are far less serious than the consequences of believing that climate change is a myth. If we fail to address climate change soon, the planet will be unfit to live on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58441825042746767432015-12-04T16:59:13.504-05:002015-12-04T16:59:13.504-05:00The comments section just keeps getting results!
...The comments section just keeps getting results! <br /><br /> Bob wisely backs off from trying to compare anything much on the left to Trump and Hewitt. If he worked a little harder, he probably COULD find something in that class(lessness), it's just not as pervasive on the left, you wouldn't find it in one of our candidates for the Presidency. You would and will find a lot of, well, trumped up attempts to compare something like Benghazi or even a bit of actual Hillary bragging about this or that. But that's lame. <br /> There are, obviously, examples of very stupid journalism. The supposed over glorification of the white victim goes back to stuff written and said about white civil rights workers killed in the south. The people who pimp this kind of thing are not exactly original. Yet, it can fairly be argued, their real object of their ire is the liberal establishment anyway, so we are back to, yes, false equivalencies.....Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-6893745565743855142015-12-04T14:56:33.744-05:002015-12-04T14:56:33.744-05:00"That said, our own all-too-human tribe is bu..."That said, our own all-too-human tribe is busily playing catch-up. We love to tell our own treasured tales—and most of our treasured tales concern matters of gender and race."<br /><br />Yep. And it takes a more gullible, less rational mind and more severely atrophied brain to believe those crippling and damaging tales than to be skeptical of climate change orthodoxy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63785933283209612222015-12-04T13:16:09.626-05:002015-12-04T13:16:09.626-05:00The comments, many from black people, nearly all d...The comments, many from black people, nearly all disagreed with that premise. It was very silly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32512687447270988592015-12-04T13:06:22.026-05:002015-12-04T13:06:22.026-05:00The new Salon (not so new anymore, for David Talbo...The new Salon (not so new anymore, for David Talbot still uses it to pitch his latest conspiracy books) can scarcely run a story unless there's some anti-white angle. It's shouldn't be surprising when they disapprove of stories lionizing a fallen officer who is white. No doubt the Times was eager to push the story as a balance to all the lousy white cops they've been covering the past couple of years, and I'm sure they would have been all the more delighted had the fallen officer been of black. Unhappily, facts can often step in the way of good, ideologically pure journalism.<br /><br />When they're not painting white people, or white men, or old white men, with a ridiculously broad brush, they're bitching about how Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins & Co., are giving similar treatment to all Moslems for the behavior of some Moslems. You see, over at Salon.com calling superstitious nonsense superstitious nonsense is racist, especially if you're white. (I was going to say "white and privileged," but that would be a pleonasm.)<br /><br />I didn't see their article on how use of the verb "to bitch" was a symptom of sexist white male psychosis, but I hear it was "brilliant" and "devastating."<br /><br />Jeeves Stumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17716700263908484003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8979441716348374352015-12-04T12:42:33.144-05:002015-12-04T12:42:33.144-05:00Yep.Yep.Somenoreply@blogger.com