tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post856147394322848972..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Ignorance Is BlissSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-12562937991631064852010-09-29T00:19:54.419-05:002010-09-29T00:19:54.419-05:00AWS: I had the same question. My list of conservat...AWS: I had the same question. My list of conservative intellectuals would have to include:<br /><br />david horowitz<br />michael savage<br />randall terry<br />bill kristol<br />Rev. Glenn Beck<br />bill o'reilly<br />rush limbaugh<br />rep. mike pence<br />rep. stephen king<br />John Podhoretz<br />Ann Coulter<br />Michell Malkin<br />Michael Reagan<br />new gingich<br />Dinesh D'Souza<br />daniel lapin<br />mark levin<br />Franklin graham<br />christine O'Donnell<br />sarah palin<br />sharron angle<br />david frum<br />steve forbes<br />phyllis schafly<br />michelle bachman<br />sean hannity<br />jonah goldberg<br />david vitter<br />ted haggard<br /><br />I couldn't include everyone or I would have typing all night.<br /><br />The conservative movement has an embarrassments of richs, so many great conservative intellectuals gives them a competitive edge and ideas that, if implemented could save the US from the doom of marxism.<br /><br />- mickster99Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-34421515131372238752010-09-28T15:04:55.895-05:002010-09-28T15:04:55.895-05:00Oh, god.
I waded into the comments and ended up w...Oh, god.<br /><br />I waded into the comments and ended up with some moron who thinks Social Security is a zero sum game, because baseball. <br /><br />And the other morons love him.<br /><br />Also too, they have never heard of underfunded defined benefit plans, ERISA, or PBGC, but are willing to educate me.<br /><br />Time to play some chess.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-27584028427377843252010-09-28T14:22:58.762-05:002010-09-28T14:22:58.762-05:00But the majority of Americans didn't like the ...But the majority of Americans didn't like the plan!!!!!! because it means more government!!!<br /><br />report recently that a lot of discontent was because a lot people didn't think it went far enough<br /><br />where is megan on this topic?<br /><br />nowhereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-68611541649044348472010-09-28T13:42:31.301-05:002010-09-28T13:42:31.301-05:00My favorite polling anomaly was back when Clinton ...My favorite polling anomaly was back when Clinton was trying to pass health care. When the proposed program was described to people, they liked it about 3-1. When they were described the program similarly but added the qualifier that it was the Clinton plan, support fell to 40%Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01925858630822311395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-88276593906915204182010-09-28T12:39:26.698-05:002010-09-28T12:39:26.698-05:00The Teapartyers are grassroots because the Teapart...The Teapartyers are grassroots <i>because the Teapartyers are grassroots.</i><br /><br />There, just like McMegan would put it.brother yamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11680958644952778991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-68074432727488808782010-09-28T12:07:18.332-05:002010-09-28T12:07:18.332-05:00You have a persistent tendency to define yourself ...<i>You have a persistent tendency to define yourself as part of the "reasonable" sphere, which amazingly skews much farther to the left than the American polity.</i><br /><br />1. Facts and reality have a liberal bias. Sorry, Megan.<br /><br />2. When asked about policies and programs as opposed to buzzwords like "socialism", Americans are much more liberal (progressive? socialist?) than idiots like McBlargle think. For instance, by a margin of 2-to-1, they think that <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/25/politics/main6899989.shtml" rel="nofollow">Obamacare doesn't go far enough</a>.<br /><br />3. "Polity"? I don't think that word <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polity" rel="nofollow">means</a> what you think it does. It is NOT a synonym for "body politic" (I think that's what she wants it to be).<br /><br />Well, at least she didn't blame it on her calculator this time.David in NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00493832668051350697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-77786335063355279432010-09-28T09:33:15.141-05:002010-09-28T09:33:15.141-05:00"where I find the ratio of sheer elitist snob..."where I find the ratio of sheer elitist snobbery to actual content distressingly high."<br /><br />Thank you, Megan, for putting, in your own words, exactly why I abhor your writing so [expletive] much.Clever Pseudonymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00782313892753904678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-20349709916465227972010-09-28T07:33:25.001-05:002010-09-28T07:33:25.001-05:00"If you have to resort to ad hominem, you'..."If you have to resort to ad hominem, you've lost the argument!"<br /><br />"If you are disagreeable, I am more likely to hold the opposite opinion as a disagreeable person"<br /><br />"such is blogging"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4950251933491747422010-09-27T23:24:12.806-05:002010-09-27T23:24:12.806-05:00The only thing that matters is having enough money...<i>The only thing that matters is having enough money and power to get away with all your lies. </i><br /><br />"Same as it ever was..."<br />--David Byrne<br /><br /><br />Say, isn't about time for another intellectually intimidating 973-word essay on macaroni & cheese?freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-34389672738586333392010-09-27T22:48:57.612-05:002010-09-27T22:48:57.612-05:00In McAddled's world, "Wishing makes it so...In McAddled's world, "Wishing makes it so". This explains why she can work so hard to explain SHUT UP!<br /><br />I would say the difference between McAddled and prostitutes, is that one is a highly trained, hard-working professional, and Megan is a well-compensated idiot. But NOT an idiot-savant, cause those people have principles, integrity, and also tend to be REALLY good with figures, none of which anyone has ever accused Megan of having.stackozonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50217277790598469012010-09-27T22:07:51.849-05:002010-09-27T22:07:51.849-05:00"All of the conservative intellectual figures..."All of the conservative intellectual figures I know...", <br /><br />including [citation needed]<br /><br />The irony that Susan works harder* to point out McArgleBargle's failings for free than McArgleBargle gets paid good money by a (formerly, as they say) well-respected magazine to produce them is... well, it's darn near fatal, is what it is. <br /><br />*and is funnier, more enlightening, more likable, etc., etc.natenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-45604430586440988332010-09-27T22:06:36.321-05:002010-09-27T22:06:36.321-05:00In addition, the Tea Parties are completely non-pa...In addition, the Tea Parties are completely non-partisan. So if a Democrat wants to run as a TPer then surely he/she could do so without accusations of impropriety, right?Morbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-66590455824845962302010-09-27T18:53:37.231-05:002010-09-27T18:53:37.231-05:00But one could equally say that the antiwar protest...<i>But one could equally say that the antiwar protesters lacked a coherent theory of international relations.</i><br /><br />One could equally say bullshit. This is false equivalency for toddlers. The anti-war protesters, from Viet Nam to Afghanistan, had and have cogent answers to questions put to them about American imperialism, the limits of power, the futility of fighting a guerrilla insurency on its home turf (esp. if the turf is jungle or mountain), and the systematic mendacity that gets us into these hell-holes.<br /><br />I have yet to see a tea party demonstrator give a single answer to the simplest question (e.g., "Why are you doing this?" or "What are you protesting?") that doesn't immediately--and I mean immediately--collapse into either received lunatic cliches ("Obama is a socialist") or a nervous retreat into "well, I'm not an expert."<br /><br />The tea parties HAVE no program. All they have--like dutiful listeners of Rush, Beck, and Palin always, and only, have--is anger and indignation. The charitable thing to say is that those feelings are prompted by legitimate fears. But their behavior alternates between comic and bigoted. So the last thing I feel when I see them is charitable.Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-70905273284632810612010-09-27T18:26:21.443-05:002010-09-27T18:26:21.443-05:00For a long time, I didn't consider McMegan wil...For a long time, I didn't consider McMegan willfully dishonest. I figured she was just a true believer, drunk on her glibertarian fantasies. But when she writes posts like this - with her husband sitting beside her proving the lie - one is forced to accept that McMegan has not a shred of integrity.<br /> <br />Susan, I salute your yeoman-like work in exposing this fraud.<br /> <br />/saluteSyznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-35578257994504310482010-09-27T14:32:53.091-05:002010-09-27T14:32:53.091-05:00I tried to wade into the comments over there re: t...I tried to wade into the comments over there re: the Wealthy getting the "worst" out of Social Security. Spy Hill is right. I will take my doses of McMegan from a distance from now on.<br /><br />AWSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-39067201206307526342010-09-27T13:03:15.713-05:002010-09-27T13:03:15.713-05:00Upton Sinclair said "It's difficult to ge...Upton Sinclair said "It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."<br /><br />This is why debating anything with McArdle is pointless. All you can do is point out Megan's dishonesty, willful blindness and outright stupidity, as Susan does so ably.Spy Hillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-14522573696107881042010-09-27T13:01:19.215-05:002010-09-27T13:01:19.215-05:00Also, is it just me or do her defenses of the Tea ...Also, is it just me or do her defenses of the Tea Party sound an awful lot like Douthat's in the post below this one?<br /><br />Is it possible there's some kind of conservoglibertarian journolist?<br /><br />AWSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-18709721389294791342010-09-27T12:54:17.236-05:002010-09-27T12:54:17.236-05:00"All of the conservative intellectual figures..."All of the conservative intellectual figures I know..." <br /><br />A very short list of perhaps one?<br /><br />-AWSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com