When Lileks Last in the Bleatyard Bloom'd
Lileks is in fine form on RAthERGATE today.
Apropos the recent sand-poundingly stupid New York Times headline:
In any case, the whole "fake but accurate" line shows how tone-deaf these people are; it’s like saying a body in a pine box is “dead but lifelike.” It boggles, it really does: the story is true, the evidence is faked, but the evidence reflects the evidence we have not yet presented that proves our conclusion – ergo, we’re telling the truth. They just can’t give it up; they just can’t say the memos were typed by the guy in the "Dude, you’re getting a Dell!" commercial and leave it be, because that that puts the knife in the story regardless of what happened. So they keep going.
And contemplating the shoe-on-the-other-foot scenario:
Imagine if the GOP had spent three election cycles trying to impugn Kerry’s service, and finally came up with a Swift Boat Vet guy who said he saw Kerry shoot himself in the foot – and within a day it was revealed that the source spent the entire war in a supply depot in San Diego. End of the entire Magic-Hat / Xmas in Cambodia / V-for-valor/ rice-shrapnel story. The fruit of the poisoned tree, baked in a nice pie, smashed in the face of the accuser.
Read the whole thing, as they say.
Apropos the recent sand-poundingly stupid New York Times headline:
In any case, the whole "fake but accurate" line shows how tone-deaf these people are; it’s like saying a body in a pine box is “dead but lifelike.” It boggles, it really does: the story is true, the evidence is faked, but the evidence reflects the evidence we have not yet presented that proves our conclusion – ergo, we’re telling the truth. They just can’t give it up; they just can’t say the memos were typed by the guy in the "Dude, you’re getting a Dell!" commercial and leave it be, because that that puts the knife in the story regardless of what happened. So they keep going.
And contemplating the shoe-on-the-other-foot scenario:
Imagine if the GOP had spent three election cycles trying to impugn Kerry’s service, and finally came up with a Swift Boat Vet guy who said he saw Kerry shoot himself in the foot – and within a day it was revealed that the source spent the entire war in a supply depot in San Diego. End of the entire Magic-Hat / Xmas in Cambodia / V-for-valor/ rice-shrapnel story. The fruit of the poisoned tree, baked in a nice pie, smashed in the face of the accuser.
Read the whole thing, as they say.
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