Does this pass for journalism today?
Why do I do it to myself? Why do I get so inquisitive and curious when I see a headline like: "Conservative Doesn't Mean Anti-Conservationist". It does not matter who it was written by or what kind of individual the chap is. The matter is that the article is pure and utter poppy-cock. For starters (and I don't think many more examples are necessary) the brilliant mind that thought up the angle for this article cites Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as an example of a conservative politician. What? As opposed to who? Nancy Pelosi, maybe.
I have perhaps already thought too long on this waste of newsprint. But, the thing that takes the prize for the most asinine example of puerile, liberal mind-trash is the line where the writer states that, (I am paraphrasing) even if the dooms-day, scientific predictors are wrong, the prudent thing for us to do would be to initiate curbs and taxes on our industry, our economy, and our lifestyle anyway. WHAT!? If the scientific predictions of liberal professors, who are angry at the U.S. for being unfair on the global market for being so successful, are wrong to begin with why would we tax and restrict ourselves just in case and call it prudent? Who thinks this way. I have taken logic in college and this ain't it.
I think Mr. Ferguson knows what he is arguing for and why. Just look at what he thinks of the Kyoto Protocol when he writes, "...the Kyoto Protocol...would not have done the job because it does not bind the booming economies of Asia". Do you see it? Not only is this writer for stifling our economy, he is for stopping progress globally.
One final punch to this writer's intellectual mid-section is needed. In the opening paragraphs of this putrid piece of journalistic nonsense the author references Marx's Communist Manifesto, like every good liberal should ol' Uncle Karl needs to be paid homage. But the funny thing is the citation this Harvard educated writer uses to express his belief that anti-conservationism has its roots in Communism is wrong. The writer uses the incorrect German to English translation, "the idiocy of rural life". That translation is incorrect, that is not what Marx meant see here (next to last paragraph).
To wrap this post up with a nice tidy Mere Conservative bow, Newsweek came out in their latest issue with an apology for a story that was written 31 and a half years ago predicting what scientists of the day believed to be a coming Ice Age. No, we should never doubts scientists, and of course we should never doubt liberals. When have they been known to be wrong? (Excuse me while I remove my firmly planted tongue from my cheek.)
I have perhaps already thought too long on this waste of newsprint. But, the thing that takes the prize for the most asinine example of puerile, liberal mind-trash is the line where the writer states that, (I am paraphrasing) even if the dooms-day, scientific predictors are wrong, the prudent thing for us to do would be to initiate curbs and taxes on our industry, our economy, and our lifestyle anyway. WHAT!? If the scientific predictions of liberal professors, who are angry at the U.S. for being unfair on the global market for being so successful, are wrong to begin with why would we tax and restrict ourselves just in case and call it prudent? Who thinks this way. I have taken logic in college and this ain't it.
I think Mr. Ferguson knows what he is arguing for and why. Just look at what he thinks of the Kyoto Protocol when he writes, "...the Kyoto Protocol...would not have done the job because it does not bind the booming economies of Asia". Do you see it? Not only is this writer for stifling our economy, he is for stopping progress globally.
One final punch to this writer's intellectual mid-section is needed. In the opening paragraphs of this putrid piece of journalistic nonsense the author references Marx's Communist Manifesto, like every good liberal should ol' Uncle Karl needs to be paid homage. But the funny thing is the citation this Harvard educated writer uses to express his belief that anti-conservationism has its roots in Communism is wrong. The writer uses the incorrect German to English translation, "the idiocy of rural life". That translation is incorrect, that is not what Marx meant see here (next to last paragraph).
To wrap this post up with a nice tidy Mere Conservative bow, Newsweek came out in their latest issue with an apology for a story that was written 31 and a half years ago predicting what scientists of the day believed to be a coming Ice Age. No, we should never doubts scientists, and of course we should never doubt liberals. When have they been known to be wrong? (Excuse me while I remove my firmly planted tongue from my cheek.)
posted by Daedalus at 10/24/2006 04:13:00 PM
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