[MD] Free Speech

[david buchanan]

Platt said:
Your version of intellect. I like Coulter's and Horowitz's and Friedman's 
version better.

Arlo replied:
Relativism. No?

dmb says:
Yes. And really, really bad taste too. Coulter has publicly advocated the 
murder of her political enemies. Wants to bring back McCarthyism. I'm not 
making this up. Somehow, her fans think this is bold and funny rather than 
wreckless and immoral. She's like a clown from hell. And Horowitz. I 
sincerely doubt the man's sanity. He's off the chart. Thinks the lack of 
conservatives in academia is a conspiracy or some kind of lefty plot and 
wants legal remedies. He is the return of McCarthyism personified. They're 
both profoundly anti-intellectual, hateful and fearful.

Even on that level of public discourse, in terms of ordinary common sense 
media conversations, these guys are hacks. Al Franken, a comedian of 
Saturaday Night Live fame, has a talk show on Air America, the liberal 
answer to right-wing talk radio, in which he regularly checks the facts and 
statements made by folks like Coulter and Howowitz as well as Limbaugh, Fox 
News, the NeoCons and others on that team. They do this for three hours a 
day, five days a week and there is never a shortage of material to debunk. I 
mean, the bulk and weight of this nonsense would have to be measured by the 
ton.

I mean, its not just a matter of taste. Sometimes the low intellectual 
quality can be demonstrated without much difficultly by a comedian, an 
entertainer. I'm sure Al's I.Q. is well above average, but he's just a 
regular guy. He's not a philosopher or a political scientist or whatever. 
Its just not that hard to detect a lie or a steaming pile of look at me, 
look at me. Facts can be checked. People can be proven wrong, exposed as 
frauds and such. These things are not magic.

Jeff Ganon for President!

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