“Always attack their strengths, not their weaknesses” Those aren’t my words, they’re Karl Rove’s. Since he first slithered onto the national stage 40 years ago, this has been his trademark modus operandi – to ignore his opponent’s weaknesses, and go right for the throat by attacking their strengths. Starting in Texas in the early 1970′s, and [...] [...]
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A recent “discussion” on a friend’s Facebook wall caused me to focus some energy on some ways that the political right (particularly commentators like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh) use flawed rhetoric to make weak arguments seem stronger. Since making Straw Man Arguments and being Disingenuous are probably already quite familiar, [...] [...] Wow! Even Karl Rove agrees that it’s stupid not to answer the census. Doesn’t Michele Bachmann know that the census is used to proportion congressional districts, and Minnesota stands to lose one? And that census results may well determine whether Texas gets three extra congressional seats or four? Surely causing red [...] [...] Well, we may as well try to beat Fox News to the punch on this one: Karl Rove‘s new book claims that Bush’s lies about Iraq and Al Qu’eda, Saddam and Osama, were “substantiated by available intelligence.” No they weren’t. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Note that Rove’s book specifically waffles when it refers [...] [...] |
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