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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I noticed exactly the same thing that Glenn is talking about (in his Update Two) and I left a note at Abu Muqawama saying:
"I find your rhetorical method so peculiar here that, unless it is subject to instant bloggy-right, I think I shall paste it over to my place. What you do is, first, create a spurious air of scepticism, with the long paragraph about echo chambers, then blithely discount your own scepticism and say you think it’s probably pretty much true regardless. The elegance of this swerve is presumably supposed to dispense you from any responsibility for due diligence regarding the claim. There’s a formula here — I’ve seen this done before."
"Dr. iRack" came over and let off a smoke bomb or two, natch.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
