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		<title>By: Dave Price</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163784</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Price</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;. In fact the post I began with did no such thing.&lt;/em&gt; 

Right, Aziz, becauseÂ Frederick totally said Obama had &quot;ties&quot; to bin Laden.Â  You just accidentally mis-used a synonym! And it just happened to completely alter the meaning to make Frederick sound crazy!  An innocent mistake!

&lt;em&gt;. But ok, youâ€™re the victim here, fine.&lt;/em&gt;

Your victim and bete noirÂ is reality, not me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>. In fact the post I began with did no such thing.</em> </p>
<p>Right, Aziz, becauseÂ Frederick totally said Obama had &quot;ties&quot; to bin Laden.Â  You just accidentally mis-used a synonym! And it just happened to completely alter the meaning to make Frederick sound crazy!  An innocent mistake!</p>
<p><em>. But ok, youâ€™re the victim here, fine.</em></p>
<p>Your victim and bete noirÂ is reality, not me.</p>
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		<title>By: Aziz Poonawalla</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163780</link>
		<dc:creator>Aziz Poonawalla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Except the conversation started with you insulting Republicans by claiming they are bigots and liars,&lt;/em&gt;

ah, heres the fundamental error in your comprehension. In fact the post I began with did no such thing. But ok, you&#039;re the victim here, fine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Except the conversation started with you insulting Republicans by claiming they are bigots and liars,</em></p>
<p>ah, heres the fundamental error in your comprehension. In fact the post I began with did no such thing. But ok, you&#8217;re the victim here, fine.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Price</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163766</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Price</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;*sigh* here we go again. Youâ€™re quite eager to quote the SCLM when it supports your argument. when it doesnâ€™t, they are suddenly avatars of bias. &lt;/i&gt;

Again, this is very poor reasoning.  I could cite one article from The Nation if it supported my point (esp. as they share your bias, making it harder for you to dismiss them), but that doesn&#039;t mean I think they&#039;re unbiased or that I then accept everything else they&#039;ve written.  You really need to have some basic grasp of logic if you&#039;re going to attempt to debate.

&lt;em&gt;as far as standards of debate go, &quot;poor reasoning&quot; .. &quot;dishonest&quot; â€¦ &quot;hackery&quot;. Have I used any comparable terminology to attack you? &lt;/em&gt;

If you&#039;d stop using poor reasoning and being dishonest, I wouldn&#039;t have to keep pointing it out.

&lt;i&gt;Our conversation alone seems a good counterexample to the argument that the left universally engages in insults and the right is unfailingly civil.&lt;/i&gt;

Except the conversation started with you insulting Republicans by claiming they are bigots and liars, using various poorly reasoned and dishonest means to make that claim.  Yes, you&#039;ve perfectly demonstrated who is not civil -- and who whines about civility after being the first to violate it.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>*sigh* here we go again. Youâ€™re quite eager to quote the SCLM when it supports your argument. when it doesnâ€™t, they are suddenly avatars of bias. </i></p>
<p>Again, this is very poor reasoning.  I could cite one article from The Nation if it supported my point (esp. as they share your bias, making it harder for you to dismiss them), but that doesn&#8217;t mean I think they&#8217;re unbiased or that I then accept everything else they&#8217;ve written.  You really need to have some basic grasp of logic if you&#8217;re going to attempt to debate.</p>
<p><em>as far as standards of debate go, &quot;poor reasoning&quot; .. &quot;dishonest&quot; â€¦ &quot;hackery&quot;. Have I used any comparable terminology to attack you? </em></p>
<p>If you&#8217;d stop using poor reasoning and being dishonest, I wouldn&#8217;t have to keep pointing it out.</p>
<p><i>Our conversation alone seems a good counterexample to the argument that the left universally engages in insults and the right is unfailingly civil.</i></p>
<p>Except the conversation started with you insulting Republicans by claiming they are bigots and liars, using various poorly reasoned and dishonest means to make that claim.  Yes, you&#8217;ve perfectly demonstrated who is not civil &#8212; and who whines about civility after being the first to violate it.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Price</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163765</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Price</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Thatâ€™s called the process working precisely as it should, yet for some reason&lt;/em&gt;

Uh, right.Â  When the first 2100 forms submitted are rejected, that&#039;s not &quot;working precisely as it should.&quot;Â  That&#039;s massive, criminal fraud designed to undermine democracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Thatâ€™s called the process working precisely as it should, yet for some reason</em></p>
<p>Uh, right.Â  When the first 2100 forms submitted are rejected, that&#8217;s not &quot;working precisely as it should.&quot;Â  That&#8217;s massive, criminal fraud designed to undermine democracy.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Price</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163764</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Price</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Dont forget that voter registration fra&lt;em&gt;ud is not the same thing as voter fraud. It is fine if ACORN registers Mickey Mouse to vote, but on election day no Mickey Mouse is going to show up at teh polls.&lt;/em&gt;

Bullshit.Â  I live in Chicago.Â  I know better.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dont forget that voter registration fra<em>ud is not the same thing as voter fraud. It is fine if ACORN registers Mickey Mouse to vote, but on election day no Mickey Mouse is going to show up at teh polls.</em></p>
<p>Bullshit.Â  I live in Chicago.Â  I know better.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Price</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163763</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Price</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Imagine if Barack had sat down with the bin Ladenâ€™s and did business with them both before and after 9/11&lt;/em&gt;

Nice try, but everyone does business with the bin Ladens.Â  They&#039;re billionaire construction tycooons.Â  Osama was disowned by them many years ago.

Not everyone works with &lt;b&gt;actual terrorists&lt;/b&gt;, like Obama did.

&lt;em&gt;except that Obama didnt host a campaign &quot;event&quot; at his house, and they didnt spend years &quot;working together&quot;.&lt;/em&gt; 

Except they clearly did.Â  You can&#039;t just make up your own facts.Â  He and the terrorist worked together reviewing proposals at Annenberg for years, and they hosted a coffee at the terrorists&#039;s house.

This is the dishonest left, trying to just edit out any facts about Obama they don&#039;t like.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Imagine if Barack had sat down with the bin Ladenâ€™s and did business with them both before and after 9/11</em></p>
<p>Nice try, but everyone does business with the bin Ladens.Â  They&#8217;re billionaire construction tycooons.Â  Osama was disowned by them many years ago.</p>
<p>Not everyone works with <b>actual terrorists</b>, like Obama did.</p>
<p><em>except that Obama didnt host a campaign &quot;event&quot; at his house, and they didnt spend years &quot;working together&quot;.</em> </p>
<p>Except they clearly did.Â  You can&#8217;t just make up your own facts.Â  He and the terrorist worked together reviewing proposals at Annenberg for years, and they hosted a coffee at the terrorists&#8217;s house.</p>
<p>This is the dishonest left, trying to just edit out any facts about Obama they don&#8217;t like.</p>
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		<title>By: Aziz Poonawalla</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163752</link>
		<dc:creator>Aziz Poonawalla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dont forget that voter registration fraud is not the same thing as voter fraud. It is fine if ACORN registers Mickey Mouse to vote, but on election day no Mickey Mouse is going to show up at teh polls.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dont forget that voter registration fraud is not the same thing as voter fraud. It is fine if ACORN registers Mickey Mouse to vote, but on election day no Mickey Mouse is going to show up at teh polls.</p>
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		<title>By: Bad</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163750</link>
		<dc:creator>Bad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Somehow, people always forget to mention that groups like ACORN are required &lt;em&gt;by law&lt;/em&gt; to turn over every single registration form they receive from their canvassers, regardless of whether they appear to be fraudulent or not.Â  

ACORN flags any suspicious forms they get all the time, encouraging election boards to follow up on them.Â  They generally hand in these suspicious forms all in one go, at which point they can all get investigated and tossed out.Â Â  That&#039;s called the process working precisely as it should, yet for some reason (McCain and his disaster VP sucking wind, cough cough) its being played into a scandal.

Still no evidence whatsoever that any of these things are part of any organized effort to commit actual voter fraud.  And indeed, these are the same trumped up charges that many Republican US attorneys were pressured to make a big deal out of: and when they investigated and found the same non-story there, and wouldn&#039;t bring sham prosecutions, they were fired.

In other words, this point is as inflated and asinine as everything else Price says.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somehow, people always forget to mention that groups like ACORN are required <em>by law</em> to turn over every single registration form they receive from their canvassers, regardless of whether they appear to be fraudulent or not.Â  </p>
<p>ACORN flags any suspicious forms they get all the time, encouraging election boards to follow up on them.Â  They generally hand in these suspicious forms all in one go, at which point they can all get investigated and tossed out.Â Â  That&#8217;s called the process working precisely as it should, yet for some reason (McCain and his disaster VP sucking wind, cough cough) its being played into a scandal.</p>
<p>Still no evidence whatsoever that any of these things are part of any organized effort to commit actual voter fraud.  And indeed, these are the same trumped up charges that many Republican US attorneys were pressured to make a big deal out of: and when they investigated and found the same non-story there, and wouldn&#8217;t bring sham prosecutions, they were fired.</p>
<p>In other words, this point is as inflated and asinine as everything else Price says.</p>
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		<title>By: mikeca</title>
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		<dc:creator>mikeca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The head of Obama&#039;s transition team was a lobbyists for Saddam Hussein, a leader of a terrorist state. Two of his assistants have pleaded guilty to acting as unregister lobbyists for a foreign government. Now there is a clear link to terrorism. 

Oooops. That was the head of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;McCain&#039;s transition team that was a lobbyist for terrorist state of Iraq and Saddam Hussein.&lt;/a&gt; Sorry, no big deal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The head of Obama&#8217;s transition team was a lobbyists for Saddam Hussein, a leader of a terrorist state. Two of his assistants have pleaded guilty to acting as unregister lobbyists for a foreign government. Now there is a clear link to terrorism. </p>
<p>Oooops. That was the head of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html" rel="nofollow">McCain&#8217;s transition team that was a lobbyist for terrorist state of Iraq and Saddam Hussein.</a> Sorry, no big deal.</p>
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		<title>By: memory hole</title>
		<link>http://deanesmay.com/2008/10/14/derangement-or-dishonesty/#comment-163738</link>
		<dc:creator>memory hole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like the one about Obama and Osama &quot;ties&quot; - afterall - The Bush family ties to the Bin Laden family is more than well documented.Â  

Imagine if Barack had sat down with the bin Laden&#039;s and did business with them both before and after 9/11?

Then, secretly flew the Bin Ladens out of the country after 9/11 when all aircraft were grounded!

The Republicans would have LOVED him!!!Â  

Afterall, they loves them some Bush! (For the Republicans - B/C those are all the things Bush has done......Mr. 22%, ROFLMAO!!!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the one about Obama and Osama &quot;ties&quot; &#8211; afterall &#8211; The Bush family ties to the Bin Laden family is more than well documented.Â  </p>
<p>Imagine if Barack had sat down with the bin Laden&#8217;s and did business with them both before and after 9/11?</p>
<p>Then, secretly flew the Bin Ladens out of the country after 9/11 when all aircraft were grounded!</p>
<p>The Republicans would have LOVED him!!!Â  </p>
<p>Afterall, they loves them some Bush! (For the Republicans &#8211; B/C those are all the things Bush has done&#8230;&#8230;Mr. 22%, ROFLMAO!!!)</p>
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