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Old 05-03-2014, 08:41 AM
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Hmmm, nothing but a bunch of whataboutery

Hey Don, are you going to stand for all this fallacy of relative privation

Yeah lets make it against forum rules to call out right wingers on their hypocrisy. That will make things a lot easier on ya'll.

Too bad you can't do like Bill O'Reilly does on his show, and just talk over me.
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Old 05-03-2014, 08:59 AM
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Naw Tom, no need to change the rules for me, just looking for consistency from my friends on the left.

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Whataboutery is the general class of 'defense' in which one responds to criticism for misdeeds by saying, in effect, 'Well, whatabout this totally unrelated misdeed of the other guys?'

Well, here's whatabout it:

1. If the other wrong thing was done, it doesn't make your wrong thing OK.
2. You're just using tactics to try to make the discussion be about the other guy's supposed wrong thing, so it won't be about yours.

Whataboutery is always bullshit, and a sign that no real defense is available for the original accusation.
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Old 05-03-2014, 10:51 PM
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But 'The President Orders an Unjustified Invasion' is surely a different, and much bigger thing than 'The President Fudges His Talking Points.' And attaching even four dead bodies to the latter is, in my view, much more manipulative, dishonest, and ultimately insulting to me that the talking points stuff.
Pure whataboutery
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Pure whataboutery
Thank-you for your silly opinion.
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Like the new word JBS

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Like the new word JBS

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Credit for the word goes to the poster known (elsewhere) as Zandeman.
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I respectfully withdraw my kudos I change it to thanks for bringing it to our attention

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I just watched Gen. Colin Powell's former COS, Col. Wilkerson (a Republican), give this whole fake scandal and this ninth congressional committee both barrels full of rock salt.
He went on to criticize the Obama administration for dropping the ball on investigating Dick Cheney for torture and lying about Iraq.

Anyone who believes that the murder of our people in Benghazi was used simply as a political football by the Obama administration is either dumber than a rock or they are a single news source consumer of faux noise.
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Old 05-06-2014, 11:28 AM
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Naw Tom, no need to change the rules for me, just looking for consistency from my friends on the left.
Consistency my ass.

3,000 Americans died on 9/11 your boy's watch and you made him a hero for it.

Don't preach to me about consistency.

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Old 05-06-2014, 02:45 PM
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Consistency my ass.

3,000 Americans died on 9/11 your boy's watch and you made him a hero for it.

Don't preach to me about consistency.
Well, IMO that's not half as bad as what he did later...trodding all over the 3,000 dead to pitch his personal little war of presidential legacy building and financial gain for his old man's business partners.

Not like any of the Obamacare haters and Kenyan anti-colonialist jungle bunny witchdoctor bleaters cared much about that, eh?

And why is the State Department under attack for responsibility for security, when it was the CIA that was the "commanding agency" at the "embassy"? It was not an embassy at all but a CIA opertavtive station. Any State Department officials at the embassy were window dressing for the actual covert operations in Benghazi. The only problem for Clinton, Obama and other Democrats is they can't confirm it...which makes the GOP so very happy.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/...4771351839600/

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