Posted on 11/15/2002 7:26:29 AM PST by Mia T
clinton Complex-Question Fallacy Scheme Results in Grotesque Media Deformation But No clinton Legitimacy
"What the hell is this moribund loser doing in the political arena, anyway?" |
EW YORK, November 15 -- Employing the "When did you stop beating your wife?" complex-question type of fallacy, the clinton "infrastructure" has ordered Barbara Walters, Chris Matthews, Larry King and the rest of the media myrmidons of the left to ask hillary clinton the requisite "Will you run for president in '04?" question no less than three (3) times per "interview."
A subset of the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme , the clinton "infrastructure" complex-question fallacy scheme is intended to confer legitimacy on an otherwise loony concept: Another clinton--uh--presidency.
The clinton "infrastructure" is operating on the theory that the implicit question ("Why in the world would the zipper-hoisted wife of an impeached utter failure ex-president be qualified to be president anyway?") will be rendered, if not moot, certainly disremembered.
Alas. The clinton "infrastructure" complex-question fallacy scheme does not appear to be working. According to last month's Marist Institute poll -- and this month's election -- nary a soul wants hillary (rodham) clinton back in the West Wing.
"What the hell is this moribund loser doing in the political arena, anyway?"
While 70% of the electorate get it, only one pundit, Bill Bennett, has been sharp enough to see through this clinton "infrastructure" complex-question fallacy scheme. When Sean Hannity (Hannity and Colmes, FoxNews) asked Bennett whether "she would run," Bennett first asked Hannity to clarify who the "she" was, and, when told, delivered the coup de grâce, "Run for what?"
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE [YOU KNOW] 'UPDATED'
GREENFIELD: Tonight, a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the nation and the world after September 11, on GREENFIELD AT LARGE.
THE COMPLETE ANNOTATED INTERVIEW (NB: a very long, you know, download because of the, you know, clinton criminal, you know, redundancy.)
The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.
hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...
In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."
(More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")
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Speaking of firings, Stuart Taylor was fired from PBS's News Hour after he reported in too objective a fashion on the Paula Jones case and Monicagate. Ken Bode was fired as host of PBS's Washington Week in Review (and the show's producer was also fired) a couple of days after the show aired a segment on the Juanita Broaddrick rape charge. The discussion of the charge was skeptical, but it was apparently a mortal sin to air the matter at all.
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Q ERTY2 BUMP! Thx for the information. But then we already knew that the clintons "operated like a crime family, expecting friends and aides to protect them even against their own best interests." |
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Clearly someone should notify America's founders that they have erred... men are not deserving of self goverment, because clearly self government is nothing more than the aggregation of all our psychic traumas and libidinal confusions.. and look where that has gotten us...one Clinton leaving the white house and one aiming for the US Senate for the State of New York... perhaps the liberals ARE onto something? But no, study the last two Clinton elections carefully... this most shameless and shameful American President is the product of plurality (less than majority) votes obtained through the gile and intrigue of an elitist cabal of intellectually impaired and ethically corrupt media manipulators aligned in effect with the electoral tampering of one man, H. Ross Perot, who although he occasionally gave a good speech was still intelligent enough to know his only role was to twice deny the conservative majority of American voters a first choice for President. Gail Wynand, "Be Liberal, Live in Ignorance and Servitude"
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"Be Liberal, Live in Ignorance and Servitude" by Gail Wynand liberals have always had problems figuring out causation. they believe for example that because people who smoke (sometimes) have higher rates of cancer than people who don't that smoking CAUSES cancer, worse, they believe that if people get cancer it is the fault of the "tobacco companies" (ie caused by the manufactures of tobacco products). They further believe that the remedy for this fault is that billions of dollars in "damages" should be transferred from the wealth of stockholders in tobacco companies to a handful of plaintiffs lawyers including the First lady's relatives and others closely associated with the Democratic party. And they believe, apparently, that if young people are now experimenting with sex at early ages and with more profoundly explicit practices than in past years, and that if the President of the United States decides to enroll a young intern in rendition of such services to his middle aged libido resultantly staining both her dress and Americas reputation, that a spontaneous wave of teenage sex experimentation, sucked (sorry) the poor middle aged chief executive into its vortex. deducing causation in most events takes deliberate, focused, thought, insight, and a disciplined intelligence that doesnt skip foundational indoctrination (aka actually studying in school). Causation of the diseases associated with cancer is highly complex and to a large degree still unknown. That smoking is probably not healty for you is well known. That a middle aged chief executive, Yale Law School graduate, former professor of Constitutional Law and State Attorney General should be responsible and accountable for his own actions including HIS perjury and obstruction of justice would seem axiomatic to all but a liberal who has the capacity to adopt causationally convenient theories based solely on tangential proximity to the event under examination rather than through any rational analysis of the importance or significance of the asserted cause to the event. Thus, "guns" are used in some murders therefore, to a liberal all "guns" should be either banned or kept in locked safes with trigger locks so as to disarm the law abiding public and eviscerate their legally recognized right to effective self defense. Quite simply, one has to be pretty stupid or very corrupt or both to be a liberal, at least and for sure to be a Clinton supporter. But it is worse than that, one also has to deny the importance of human conciousness and free will. That is, a Clinton defending liberal apparently believes that childhood psychic trauma, teenage sex trends (remarkably and largely only rampant among the social classes targeted by liberals for social intervention for the past 40 years) and the power of "addiction" which used to be considered merely "habituation" in more stalwart times, are more significant than free will in determining human conduct.
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While 70% of the electorate get it ,only one pundit, Bill Bennett, has been sharp enough to see through this clinton " infrastructure " complex-question fallacy scheme. When Sean Hannity ( Hannity and Colmes , FoxNews) asked Bennett whether "she would run," Bennett first asked Hannity to clarify who the "she" was, and, when told, delivered the coup de grâce, "Run for what? clinton Complex-Question Fallacy Scheme |
by Mia T, 2.16.03 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ex-Clinton political aide Bob Weiner is slamming the D.C. downtown Renaissance Hotel's new presidential photo sports bar as a ''deification of Bush, anti-Clinton, and thereby partisan.'' ...Weiner said, ''I saw an entrance corridor of four dramatic George W. Bush photos, another Bush photo on a wall, and one Clinton photo -- buried in a corner inside the actual bar, of him playing pool. To me, and to several hotel employees with whom I spoke, the Bush photos were disproportionate considering that Clinton is our most recent and an eight-year president. The one Clinton photo denigrates the spirit of enthusiastic leadership he conveyed, and the photos of everyone else -- including Reagan and Bush I both riding horses over fences show vitality and high adventure.'' "Clinton's sports love, as everyone knows, was running -- he told me himself that he ran 25-30 miles a week..." EX-CLINTON AIDE: DC Renaissance Hotel's Sports Bar is Deification of Bush, Anti-Clinton Bob Weiner, ex-clinton political aide and current coconspirator in the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme, may not be far off as to clinton mileage. Pasty thighs and piano legs notwithstanding, both clintons always were, and are to this day, reflexive--some would even say perpetual--runners. See them run...
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