THE OTHER GUY'S CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE FOR LOSERS
My own view, and there are world renowned historians of national security organizations who share this view, is that there are and have been elaborate extensive conspiracies, call them secret initiatives, of various kinds and qualities, some of which have been very successful, even though later discredited by their very victims, to the joy of their original perpetrators.
My own view, and there are world renowned historians of national security organizations who share this view, is that there are and have been elaborate extensive conspiracies, call them secret initiatives, of various kinds and qualities, some of which have been very successful, even though later discredited by their very victims, to the joy of their original perpetrators.
The best modern example I can think of is the conspiracy of the Soviets, after WWI to influence and even eventually to direct from within American domestic and foreign policy.
That conspiracy was exposed both before and during the McCarthy Era, but because conspiring forces within the government fought to keep their positions and against its disclosure and validation, and because McCarthy was so inept, he was discredited, and that very real, elaborate, lengthy, and extensive conspiracy has generally not been believed here since McCarthy was discredited, to the continual joy and amazement of the USSR and later Russia.
So, I will ask you: Who is the loser?
Tell you what? Let's just start back in on Thomas L Friedman, and Paul Krugman on Ddonald Trump prior post on a truly great topic:
Tell you what? Let's just start back in on Thomas L Friedman, and Paul Krugman on Ddonald Trump prior post on a truly great topic:
Saturday, July 13, 2019
THE PUNDIT PUNDIT FALLACY AND KINSLEY GAFFE
This fallacy is committed whenever one pundit incorporates the always fallacious argument of another pundit into his own fallacious argument.
It is what one might call a fallacy on a fallacy.
See also below the post on the Kinsley Gaffe, discussed by NYT pundits, in the context of fallacies..........
See also below the post on the Kinsley Gaffe, discussed by NYT pundits, in the context of fallacies..........
One difficulty is that the average person fails to realize that the incorporated argument is fallacious.
The incorporating argument has its own, other, fallacy, as well.
What one ends up with is a regular Pig's Breakfast of Pundit Sophistry.
Here are two recent examples:
The Boomerbuster Butt is related to the Pundit Confession. Both are hard to ever recover from. Leonhardt has already committed the Pundit Confession, as I have pointed out here.
Brooks, for example, a sort of greased pig at the county fair, never committed so elementary a blunder, as far as I know, but then I read him only intermittently.
By far the most common American politician faux pas is simply to make an utterly untrue statement, but one made not out of indifference to the truth at all, as described in the Kinsley Gaffe, but rather an even more elementary failing, a statement made not knowing what the truth would be if it bit the politician in the butt...
The politician, himself, not merely his statement, then becomes a Boomerbuster Butt. It is worse than a Kinsley Gaffe, from which the politician himself perhaps, with therapy, can recover.
Here are two recent examples:
Sunday, June 23, 2019
KRUGMAN TRUMPIFYING THE FED SOME ARGUMENTS TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP MAKES THEM
Krugman is being caught in a prior Thomas L Friedman Trump gaffe:
Some things are true even if Trump says them, a false argument (All economists' arguments are false in one or more ways, to some extent or another, or in general.)
Trump is the worst possible person to be making this argument, but that doesn't mean that the argument is wrong. PK
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
SOME THINGS TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP SAYS THEM
We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue! DT
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
WHY HAVE THE LIBERALS HAD SUCH A HARD TIME SEEING WHAT EVEN TRUMP CAN SEE?
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
re THOMAS FRIEDMAN SOME THINGS ARE TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP BELIEVES THEM
Friedman clings to his philosophy here, even while he lists an exhausting list of experts who all say we have long been getting screwed by China.
Friedman still believes in free and open trade. He believes in big time trade with China. Nixon opened the door. Clinton normalized trade relations leading to the boom that never stops.
WTO bemoaned now by Friedman and his experts.
What a ridiculous long term fiasco.
He believes also that the world is flat.
Some things are false even if Trump doesn't believe them either.
Friedman clings to his philosophy here, even while he lists an exhausting list of experts who all say we have long been getting screwed by China.
Friedman still believes in free and open trade. He believes in big time trade with China. Nixon opened the door. Clinton normalized trade relations leading to the boom that never stops.
WTO bemoaned now by Friedman and his experts.
What a ridiculous long term fiasco.
WTO bemoaned now by Friedman and his experts.
What a ridiculous long term fiasco.
He believes also that the world is flat.
Some things are false even if Trump doesn't believe them either.
RE NYT LIBERACE TRUMP COHEN TAPES THOMAS FRIEDMAN TRUTH OR DARE
'Some things are true, even if Trump believes them.' TLF
Some things are false, even if Trump lies about them being false.
Almost all reported things Trump says or fails to say, true or false, are irrelevant. Boomerbuste
Almost all reported things Trump says or fails to say, true or false, are irrelevant. Boomerbuste
Thursday, April 26, 2018
RE DK CURRENT POST LEONHARDT KINSLEY GAFFE PUNDIT GAFFE
"It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, is when a politician tells the truth — or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when the spin breaks down." Kinsley Gaffe.
The Boomerbuster Butt is related to the Pundit Confession. Both are hard to ever recover from. Leonhardt has already committed the Pundit Confession, as I have pointed out here.
Brooks, for example, a sort of greased pig at the county fair, never committed so elementary a blunder, as far as I know, but then I read him only intermittently.
By far the most common American politician faux pas is simply to make an utterly untrue statement, but one made not out of indifference to the truth at all, as described in the Kinsley Gaffe, but rather an even more elementary failing, a statement made not knowing what the truth would be if it bit the politician in the butt...
The politician, himself, not merely his statement, then becomes a Boomerbuster Butt. It is worse than a Kinsley Gaffe, from which the politician himself perhaps, with therapy, can recover.
Sunday, July 21, 2019
JUST BECAUSE TRUMP GOT A NEW SPEECH WRITER DOES NOT MEAN HE WAS WRONG
James Grant. CNBC roundtable chat.........
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
PUTIN : WHO HAS BENEFITED FROM GLOBALIZATION? FT EXCERPT
To quote Thomas L Friedman: Just because Putin believes it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
BY CONNECTING GLOBALIZATION WITH POSTMODERNISM HAS FRIEDMAN COMMITTED
A Kinsley Gaffe?
Take a look at the interview, roughly the 15 minute mark and after. He supports things like LGBT rights, Amherst so called correct speech, Yale Committee stance on Halloween costumes, you name it. He's a postmodern globalist.
Monday, March 12, 2018
LEONHARDT THE PUNDIT FALLACY
Leonhardt defines his and Iglesias' fallacy, 'The tendency to confuse one's own policy wishes with good political advice' much much too narrowly.
He is talking only about the fallacies the pundit himself makes!
Matthew Iglesias: The Pundity Fallacy: “The pundit’s fallacy is that belief that what a politician needs to do to improve his or her political standing is do what the pundit wants substantively.”
My own definition of The Pundit Fallacy really includes the whole American political system:
The Pundit Fallacy is
The American Political System Fallacy, in many ways.
Americans tend to believe their pundits, regardless of which side they seem on, on any issue at all, at any one time, and to rely on them, and especially on their flawed evanescent, blinkered, myopic but kaleidoscopic pundit reasoning, for the correction and maintenance of their weak and palsied political system.
That is what I mean by The Pundit Fallacy.
Punditocracy: A society that believes its pundits.
One really good example: The Patton Slapping Story that Pearson 'broke'. Pearson was not a hero, but rather a corrupt self aggrandizing slut. The story was fed to him by Bolshevik loving FDR administration operatives under the sway of Stalin.
Looked at this way, Pearson was nothing more than a hapless Stalin stooge, much as Trump, by his own efforts, plus the media he hates, seems now to be getting painted into a Putin stooge box.
Our media however, by the way, is no less a group of stooges now, as back then.
The Kitty Genovese Story, another media fiasco leaving egg on countless faces, including Bobbitt's. Yet the author of the Genovese Story retired from the NYT, after a long and successful career, and died, a hero. The verdict of history!
Terms seearch: punditocracy, Drew Pearson fallacy, Fallows Fallacy, Brooks Fallacy, mutton busting, etc
Leonhardt defines his and Iglesias' fallacy, 'The tendency to confuse one's own policy wishes with good political advice' much much too narrowly.
He is talking only about the fallacies the pundit himself makes!
Matthew Iglesias: The Pundity Fallacy: “The pundit’s fallacy is that belief that what a politician needs to do to improve his or her political standing is do what the pundit wants substantively.”
My own definition of The Pundit Fallacy really includes the whole American political system:
The Pundit Fallacy is
The American Political System Fallacy, in many ways.
Americans tend to believe their pundits, regardless of which side they seem on, on any issue at all, at any one time, and to rely on them, and especially on their flawed evanescent, blinkered, myopic but kaleidoscopic pundit reasoning, for the correction and maintenance of their weak and palsied political system.
That is what I mean by The Pundit Fallacy.
Punditocracy: A society that believes its pundits.
One really good example: The Patton Slapping Story that Pearson 'broke'. Pearson was not a hero, but rather a corrupt self aggrandizing slut. The story was fed to him by Bolshevik loving FDR administration operatives under the sway of Stalin.
Looked at this way, Pearson was nothing more than a hapless Stalin stooge, much as Trump, by his own efforts, plus the media he hates, seems now to be getting painted into a Putin stooge box.
Our media however, by the way, is no less a group of stooges now, as back then.
The Kitty Genovese Story, another media fiasco leaving egg on countless faces, including Bobbitt's. Yet the author of the Genovese Story retired from the NYT, after a long and successful career, and died, a hero. The verdict of history!
One really good example: The Patton Slapping Story that Pearson 'broke'. Pearson was not a hero, but rather a corrupt self aggrandizing slut. The story was fed to him by Bolshevik loving FDR administration operatives under the sway of Stalin.
Looked at this way, Pearson was nothing more than a hapless Stalin stooge, much as Trump, by his own efforts, plus the media he hates, seems now to be getting painted into a Putin stooge box.
Our media however, by the way, is no less a group of stooges now, as back then.
The Kitty Genovese Story, another media fiasco leaving egg on countless faces, including Bobbitt's. Yet the author of the Genovese Story retired from the NYT, after a long and successful career, and died, a hero. The verdict of history!
Terms seearch: punditocracy, Drew Pearson fallacy, Fallows Fallacy, Brooks Fallacy, mutton busting, etc
Sunday, December 3, 2017
HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO AT NYT MULTICULTURALIST FREE PRESS AS PLAINTIFF WINS
RACIST UNIRACIALISM UNIRELIGIONISM GLOBALISM MELTINGPOTISM
Civilizationalism has become a racial slur under modern American uniracialism, which goes well beyond even the old American multiculturalism, to a whole other unheard of level, and is itself a form of racism, although still well disguised, in that it defines all racial distinctions, for whatever reasons, be they civilizational, national, religious, traditional, historical, ethnic, cultural, political, or social, other than uniracialism as racist.
That is also why uniracialism is also racist, but in a new way, and is an important implication: uniracialism actively discriminates, both religiously, socially and politically, against each and every distinct race, either now in being, or ever in being in the past.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, unirace, unitarianism, meltingpot ism"
Call it radical globalism, radical uniracialism, scientific humanism, it goes by many names, many more than this, glibalist liberalism, multiculturalism, atheism, etc., democratic globalism, a myriad of descriptive terms spring to mind, unitarian universalism, etc, Enlightenment Humanism.
Soros had called it, criticizing Popper, with reference to freedom of the press and speech, The Enlightenment Fallacy.
Civilizationalism has become a racial slur under modern American uniracialism, which goes well beyond even the old American multiculturalism, to a whole other unheard of level, and is itself a form of racism, although still well disguised, in that it defines all racial distinctions, for whatever reasons, be they civilizational, national, religious, traditional, historical, ethnic, cultural, political, or social, other than uniracialism as racist.
That is also why uniracialism is also racist, but in a new way, and is an important implication: uniracialism actively discriminates, both religiously, socially and politically, against each and every distinct race, either now in being, or ever in being in the past.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, unirace, unitarianism, meltingpot ism"
Call it radical globalism, radical uniracialism, scientific humanism, it goes by many names, many more than this, glibalist liberalism, multiculturalism, atheism, etc., democratic globalism, a myriad of descriptive terms spring to mind, unitarian universalism, etc, Enlightenment Humanism.
Soros had called it, criticizing Popper, with reference to freedom of the press and speech, The Enlightenment Fallacy.
Call it radical globalism, radical uniracialism, scientific humanism, it goes by many names, many more than this, glibalist liberalism, multiculturalism, atheism, etc., democratic globalism, a myriad of descriptive terms spring to mind, unitarian universalism, etc, Enlightenment Humanism.
Soros had called it, criticizing Popper, with reference to freedom of the press and speech, The Enlightenment Fallacy.
Saturday, July 7, 2018
SOME THINGS ARE TRUE EVEN IF DYLAN MATTHEWS BELIEVES THEM
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
re THOMAS FRIEDMAN SOME THINGS ARE TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP BELIEVES THEM
Re Dylan Matthews:
If the American rebellion had never happened, we would be better off, Matthews believes.
While this conclusion happens to be true, it is true not for Dylan Matthews' reasons.
Re Dylan Matthews:
If the American rebellion had never happened, we would be better off, Matthews believes.
While this conclusion happens to be true, it is true not for Dylan Matthews' reasons.
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