31-07-2012, 10:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 31-07-2012, 05:19 PM by Charles Drago.)
It gets better.
The EF's resident idiot savant hyphenate, Robert Charles-Dunne, has checked in there from on high to Solomon-ize on this "contretemps."
I shouldn't be surprised by Burton's churlishness, teaches RC-D, insofar as I have used "DPF as a soapbox to continually denounce Walker and Burton (and others here) for past sins, real and imagined."
Next, RC-D characterizes me as a "bully" who cannot take what I dish out, and then pronounces that Burton and I are "two individuals who through mutual antipathy cannot resist proving who is the bigger idiot."
Lastly, in a typical burst of precognitive grandiloquence, RC-D offers this little gem: "Cue the usual complaints about 'false equivalence.'"
I'll address this persiflage simply by noting that:
1. Sinners deserve denunciations.
2. My denunciations of Walker, Burton, and others at EF for "imagined" sins exist only in RC-D's imagination.
3. To imply (falsely) equivalence between my many exposés of EF-condoned and published disinformation as generated by the agents provocateur who are given free rein to frequent The Swamp with Burton's schoolyard taunts is, in a word, idiotic. Adding insult to injury, RC-D then makes ineffective, tediously ham-fisted use of an old rhetorical trick -- prevent the issuing of an argument-winning response by sarcastically predicting that it will be forthcoming.
4. I do not suffer the judgments of fools. Rather, my point in exposing Burton's stupidity is this: The EF is an asylum being run by inmates who in turn serve at the pleasure and the whim of the very individuals and institutions RC-D would have us believe he opposes.
I can't resist this: Some readers may recall the episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld in which the character Elaine is wildly impressed by a video store clerk with whom she regularly chats via telephone but has yet to meet in the flesh. As it turns out, the object of her idolatry is a pimple-faced teenager devoid of substance yet blessed with a deep, seductive voice.
False equivalence, RC-D?
The EF's resident idiot savant hyphenate, Robert Charles-Dunne, has checked in there from on high to Solomon-ize on this "contretemps."
I shouldn't be surprised by Burton's churlishness, teaches RC-D, insofar as I have used "DPF as a soapbox to continually denounce Walker and Burton (and others here) for past sins, real and imagined."
Next, RC-D characterizes me as a "bully" who cannot take what I dish out, and then pronounces that Burton and I are "two individuals who through mutual antipathy cannot resist proving who is the bigger idiot."
Lastly, in a typical burst of precognitive grandiloquence, RC-D offers this little gem: "Cue the usual complaints about 'false equivalence.'"
I'll address this persiflage simply by noting that:
1. Sinners deserve denunciations.
2. My denunciations of Walker, Burton, and others at EF for "imagined" sins exist only in RC-D's imagination.
3. To imply (falsely) equivalence between my many exposés of EF-condoned and published disinformation as generated by the agents provocateur who are given free rein to frequent The Swamp with Burton's schoolyard taunts is, in a word, idiotic. Adding insult to injury, RC-D then makes ineffective, tediously ham-fisted use of an old rhetorical trick -- prevent the issuing of an argument-winning response by sarcastically predicting that it will be forthcoming.
4. I do not suffer the judgments of fools. Rather, my point in exposing Burton's stupidity is this: The EF is an asylum being run by inmates who in turn serve at the pleasure and the whim of the very individuals and institutions RC-D would have us believe he opposes.
I can't resist this: Some readers may recall the episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld in which the character Elaine is wildly impressed by a video store clerk with whom she regularly chats via telephone but has yet to meet in the flesh. As it turns out, the object of her idolatry is a pimple-faced teenager devoid of substance yet blessed with a deep, seductive voice.
False equivalence, RC-D?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene