tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6147243503856718638..comments2024-03-29T02:22:59.827-04:00Comments on the daily howler: STOPPED MAKING SENSE: Latest award-winning series postponed!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-53994859937806622652015-12-02T09:21:17.075-05:002015-12-02T09:21:17.075-05:00Three bears. Three Billy Goats Gruff. Three Basi...Three bears. Three Billy Goats Gruff. Three Basic Plays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1811692036447355812015-12-01T15:13:21.493-05:002015-12-01T15:13:21.493-05:00Looking forward to it. Will do the assigned readi...Looking forward to it. Will do the assigned reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91126698162718112632015-12-01T14:58:46.632-05:002015-12-01T14:58:46.632-05:00No, "moral equivalence" as in:
conserva...No, "moral equivalence" as in:<br /><br />conservatives via fox news distort the truth therefore it's okay (or required) for msnbc to do the same on behalf of liberals. <br /><br />or:<br /><br />conservatives say nasty things online therefore it's okay for liberals to do the same.<br /><br />"I can use misogynist language to criticize a conservative, because a conservative would have no problem doing the same to a liberal (and everybody can do so when the target is Hillary because we all haaaaaate her!)" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70414178487860501922015-12-01T12:12:36.763-05:002015-12-01T12:12:36.763-05:00I think the phrase is "false equivalence"...I think the phrase is "false equivalence". Because that's what I hear whenever I say something like "a hamburger is similar to a cheeseburger". I will then get told that since they are not EXACTLY the same that I have clearly made a false equivalence.Dr. Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86664632787422048252015-12-01T12:04:35.506-05:002015-12-01T12:04:35.506-05:00I think we are supposed to extrapolate from the wa...I think we are supposed to extrapolate from the way Coppins was treated to the other Trump vendettas. Coppins knows what's true in his own case. If this happened to him, perhaps there is as little truth and as much spite in Trump's other statements. Coppins seems to have taken Trump more seriously than liberals do, initially, to believe he needs such exposing.<br /><br />I'm not sure what Somerby's complaint about the left will be, since the 9/11 truthers have never had any traction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15192736040060441782015-12-01T12:03:09.149-05:002015-12-01T12:03:09.149-05:00The Coppins piece, which I would have missed, than...The Coppins piece, which I would have missed, thanks, *does* have some good information on the Trump machine.<br /><br />This line, from the NY schools piece, had me banging my head on the keyboard: "they intended to set the grading so the same number of students passed as had before"Sending You The Billnoreply@blogger.com