On David Brooks Battered
Maybe I'm missing some sort of dog-whistle intended for the left or the right, but I think it's perfectly clear what brooks is saying: That America is racist and that Obama is unable to fix that fact. Therefore, if he wants to win in 2012, he has to play into a racist frame.
I don't buy his argument, but this "takedown" sounds like somebody deliberately misreading him.
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On Real America: MoveOn Sold Out the Gays, While Target CEO's Church Celebrates "Recovery" From Gayness
Really? He makes it pretty clear in this article, for example, that:
- If you're a gay republican, you're perforce anti-gay.
- If you belong to an evangelical church, you are not only anti-gay, you are so anti-gay that it must pervade the very essence of your being and dictate your corporate strategy.
I'm glad the world is so uncomplicated. Good god, Sauer bashes Paul Fucking Wellstone as insufficently pure!
And the last line of this article is so upsetting I don't know what to say about it. Sounds like it was ripped from the mouth of Ann Coulter talking about the Lower Manhattan Mosque.
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On Real America: MoveOn Sold Out the Gays, While Target CEO's Church Celebrates "Recovery" From Gayness
Jeez, I sure hope nobody holds you to the same standards you seem to hold, Sauer.
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On Real America: Dan Baum's Sexy Gun
Don't get me wrong, gun people are wacky, but this post is a master class on rhetorical fallacies. It isn't so much a critique as a list of reasons not to like Dan Baum.
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On Why The Not-Rich Vote and Think Like The Rich
The argument in this article is... mass educational and/or investment attainment is a myth, and therefore we shoudn't encourage them? We should be spending our time ensuring high wages for uneducated workers and praying that the world doesn't pass us by?
Don't get me wrong, clearly a lot of pitches for both higher education and investment are total crocks and meant to create an illusion of attainment without the substance. But the conclusion reads like a recipe for utter disaster.
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On Real America: Target CEO Chooses "Business" over Gay Rights
Company puts self-interest above all else, film at 11.
I'm all for holding their feet to the fire on this and making sure they're accountable, but I'd bet that the net effect here is that fewer companies will push to be gay-friendly. Not sure what that means in terms of optimal strategy, though.
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On David Brooks Battered
I don't buy it. Acknowledging it as a fact is not forgiving it. And without that (stretched) equivalence Junod's argument falls apart.