 |
SwiftVets.com
Service to Country
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
shawa
CNO
Joined: 03 Sep 2004
Posts: 2004
|
 Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:53 pm Post subject: In Defense of Durbin?? |
 |
|
What convoluted thinking by these editors defending Durbin!! They just don't get it. DURBIN WAS SMEARING OUR MILITARY!!
| Quote: | Why debate? Attack the critic
By REGISTER EDITORIAL BOARD
June 24, 2005
We have just one question for people who disagree with our editorials.
Why do you hate America?
Pretty good comeback, eh?
We're trying to modernize our operation. The editorial page's fuddy-duddy old techniques of persuasion - marshaling the facts, trying to make a logical argument - are way behind the times. The new mode of persuasion is ad hominem attack to squelch even the tiniest dissent.
We take our cue from the Bush administration, which has elevated to an art form the technique of deflecting criticism by attacking the critic.
The other day, for instance, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said descriptions of the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo sounded like what you might expect from a totalitarian government.
The White House immediately accused Durbin of doing "a real disservice to our men and women in uniform."
Of course, Durbin did no such thing. His remarks included a poor choice of metaphors (for which he apologized), but his criticism was not of the troops, it was of the administration. By accusing Durbin of disrespecting the troops, the administration neatly avoided answering the criticism of itself.
See how it works?
Republican congressional leaders pulled the same stunt on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi after she described the invasion of Iraq as a "grotesque mistake." She was accused of failing to support the troops and lending comfort to the insurgents. She did no such thing, but by saying that Pelosi did something she didn't do, and then feigning outrage over it, GOP leaders neatly ducked the underlying question: Was invasion a mistake?
A majority of Americans have concluded it was a mistake, according to the polls. That being the case, how much longer can the administration and its supporters avoid accountability for their conduct of the war by pretending any question somehow undermines the troops?
The answer: as long as the public lets them get away with it. |
_________________
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” (Thomas Paine, 1776) |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Me#1You#10
Site Admin
Joined: 06 May 2004
Posts: 6503
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | His remarks included a poor choice of metaphors (for which he apologized), but his criticism was not of the troops, it was of the administration. By accusing Durbin of disrespecting the troops, the administration neatly avoided answering the criticism of itself.
See how it works? |
Yeah, we see how it works...and we saw how it worked in '71.
Dismiss the outrageous, obscene comment as merely a "poor choice of metaphor" and then return to producing anti-American sentiment by the bucketful.
"Poor choices of metaphor" are distributed in a nanosecond to the enemies of this country to be banner-headlined in their propaganda factories. That translates into more American blood being spilled.
Yeah, we see how it works. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
blue9t3
Admiral
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
Posts: 1246
Location: oregon
|
| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
 Please entertain me! show me how it works!!!!!
of course, the check is in the mail! 
_________________
MOPAR-BUYER |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
