Comments on: Frank Rich: ‘truthiness’ quotient trumps actual truth http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/ Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:26:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: nagu http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-400 nagu Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:26:05 +0000 http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/#comment-400 <p>We've only been sporting the look for a few days. Thanks for the catch: It's been fixed.</p> We’ve only been sporting the look for a few days. Thanks for the catch: It’s been fixed.

]]> By: Jon Koppenhoefer http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Jon Koppenhoefer Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:46:13 +0000 http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/#comment-397 <p>wThis entire post was displayed about an inch past the left margin.</p> <p>This is the first time today (and ever?) that I've received a website page that ran off the left side of my display.</p> wThis entire post was displayed about an inch past the left margin.

This is the first time today (and ever?) that I’ve received a website page that ran off the left side of my display.

]]> By: JS Narins http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-395 JS Narins Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:27:33 +0000 http://mindtangle.net/2006/01/22/frank-rich-truthiness-quotient-trumps-actual-truth/#comment-395 <p>I have never liked framing.</p> <p>For one thing, like any rhetorical trick (and it is that, simply a trick) it can <i>as easily be used against the truth as for it</i>. </p> <p>In fact, since we are certainly outclassed in the media game at this stage (the left, I mean) it is <i>more likely to be used against us than for us.</i></p> <p>The facts are a cudgel. Beat them with facts. </p> <p>Learn facts.</p> <p>And also beat them at their own game.</p> <p>Foolish and incompetent right wingers like to pretend that they have some sort of "original" or "strict" view of what the Constitution says. They are spitting in the wind. They like Hamilton and Locke. They can't stomach the <em>real</em> guys. The actual guy who wrote the Constitution, the "Penman of the Constitution" was Gouvernor Morris. They'll <i>never</i> mention how he sees language. Other writers who right wingers (who pretend to be authentic) will avoid like the plague includes the #1, the "Oracle of the American Republic," Charles de Secondat, Baron of Montesquieu.</p> <p>Beat them with facts, though. Smash their heads open with facts.</p> I have never liked framing.

For one thing, like any rhetorical trick (and it is that, simply a trick) it can as easily be used against the truth as for it.

In fact, since we are certainly outclassed in the media game at this stage (the left, I mean) it is more likely to be used against us than for us.

The facts are a cudgel. Beat them with facts.

Learn facts.

And also beat them at their own game.

Foolish and incompetent right wingers like to pretend that they have some sort of “original” or “strict” view of what the Constitution says. They are spitting in the wind. They like Hamilton and Locke. They can’t stomach the real guys. The actual guy who wrote the Constitution, the “Penman of the Constitution” was Gouvernor Morris. They’ll never mention how he sees language. Other writers who right wingers (who pretend to be authentic) will avoid like the plague includes the #1, the “Oracle of the American Republic,” Charles de Secondat, Baron of Montesquieu.

Beat them with facts, though. Smash their heads open with facts.

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