The New Partisan "Logic"
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:02 pm
The new partisan "logic".
1) Make an unsupported accusation of bad behavior
2) Get called on it
3) Instead of backing off, ask the person who caught you making the unsupported accusation if they approve or disapprove of the behavior that cannot be proved to have actually occurred.
Actual proof that the behavior occurred is now no longer required to render judgment against the person or persons who were accused of performing the behavior.
I posted this because tonight there's an e-mail going around saying that there were near-riots during early voting in Sarasota as Obama supporters who vastly outnumbered McCain supporters harassed and heckled them, among other various bad and riotous behaviors on their part.
On one site, I showed how a poster (who claimed the e-mailer was "his friend") pilfered said e-mail from another site, and this is the "logic" I was subjected to. They did not back down from the unconfirmed report, but asked me to judge whether I thought such behavior was bad or not.
Partisanship itself is getting UGLY in this country...if anyone thinks I'm "snarky", I can show you what I was subjected to on that site.
PS I've seen "the other side" use this "logic" too- it most certainly is not confined to one party.
1) Make an unsupported accusation of bad behavior
2) Get called on it
3) Instead of backing off, ask the person who caught you making the unsupported accusation if they approve or disapprove of the behavior that cannot be proved to have actually occurred.
Actual proof that the behavior occurred is now no longer required to render judgment against the person or persons who were accused of performing the behavior.
I posted this because tonight there's an e-mail going around saying that there were near-riots during early voting in Sarasota as Obama supporters who vastly outnumbered McCain supporters harassed and heckled them, among other various bad and riotous behaviors on their part.
On one site, I showed how a poster (who claimed the e-mailer was "his friend") pilfered said e-mail from another site, and this is the "logic" I was subjected to. They did not back down from the unconfirmed report, but asked me to judge whether I thought such behavior was bad or not.
Partisanship itself is getting UGLY in this country...if anyone thinks I'm "snarky", I can show you what I was subjected to on that site.
PS I've seen "the other side" use this "logic" too- it most certainly is not confined to one party.