May 27, 2009

A Revolutionary Way Of Looking At The Illogic Of The Left

BACKGROUND
Most conservatives have noticed with confounded puzzlement that the majority of the arguments of the left are wildly in contradiction to logic.

• Carrie Prejean is to be attacked viciously for saying marriage is between a man and a woman, when Obama espouses the same view.
• Obama argues that a tax policy that harms the economy and lowers tax revenues is preferable to one that raises revenues and strengthens the economy.
• Pelosi calls waterboarding torture after previously approving it.
• Cultures that bring health and prosperity are no better than those that bring death and misery.
• ...and on and on and on and on.
  

We have all bashed our heads against the wall, as it were, trying to explain it. We have plumbed the depths of the thinking of the left, only to find that beneath the surface illogic, is only more profound illogic. (See especially Evan Sayet and Victor Davis Hanson).

But the leaders of the left aren't dumb.  They surely know that their arguments are illogical and not based on the facts. This has only puzzled us more. What is the explanation?

A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT IT
I suggest that the apparent illogic of the left is not based on a differing worldview with its own rules and rationalities - but is in fact an intentional use of illogic as a weapon.  By intentionally using illogic in debate with the opposing side, meaningful debate is destroyed.  The public, unable to tell who's winning the argument, is puzzled.  The benefit to the left is that they are saying to all, "Join us and win power and money. Nothing else is relevant."

Yes, there are those who are fooled by the illogic of the arguments - e.g. many high schoolers and college students to whom these arguments have been preached by liberal teachers - and who fall for it. But that's not the case with the intellectual leadership of the left, many of whom are too smart to be fooled. The more profound thinkers on the left understand that the illogic is being used intentionally, to achieve a given goal, namely to confound all logical debate, and issue a siren call saying, "join us, and we will help you, and nothing else matters."

HOW TO FIGHT BACK
The counter strategy may be to reach out to Republicans and Democrats who are less active in the party.  On a grass roots level, Americans are approachable and interested in separating sense from nonsense. We have to cut into the communication channels between the liberal leadership and the American people - providing the people with all the good info and documentation that the conservative blogosphere produces; revealing to them what is being hidden from them by the MSM; and offering them a choice between logic and illogic, between fact and fiction, between what strengthens the economy and what weakens it, between what keeps America safe and strong and what endangers it.

This can be a grass roots action, conducted in every city.

I propose that the winning approach is to organize cross-party events focused on key issues like the economy, big government, national security, health care - events that welcome people regardless of party affiliation, and just seek to examine the facts. Small rooms in houses and restaurants can be used to bring in guest speakers.  Larger political issues should not be discussed - only the facts of the issues at hand - with the goal of making Americans safer, stronger, healthier, and more prosperous. Like Obama or dislike him? Leave that at the door. These days Republican leadership is also not acceptable on many of these issues. E Pluribus Unum should be the motto - out of many, one. It can all be hooked up with, and perhaps even organized by, the burgeoning Tea Party movement, which also rejects current Republican leaders in many instances.

This strategy can separate the illogic of liberal leaders, from the support of the people.

May 14, 2009

Attention Los Angeles: Evan Sayet’s Right to Laugh Show, Live at the Laugh Factory, Tuesday May 19th

My friend, the very funny Evan Sayet, whose YouTube videos have been seen 500,000 times, is at the Laugh Factory this coming Tuesday, May 19th.

May 11, 2009

What’s *Really* Shocking About the White House Correspondent’s Dinner

Mike Lupien has an excellent article in today's Daily News talking about the tasteless jokes at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. But the tastelessness of the jokes isn't the real shocker about this.

In the past this dinner has always been a roast, i.e. an occasion where people make good-natured, self-deprecating jokes about the guest of honor (in this case Obama).

For example, from 2007:

Before Bush and Little spoke, CBS star David Letterman made a video appearance from his studio with a Top 10 list of taped vignettes showing some of the funniest Bush flubs of the last year.

From 2002:

President Bush gave reporters here a look Saturday at "what life is really like inside the Bush White House," showing off his collection of "actual, never-seen-before photos."

Bush and top members of his administration mingled with reporters and other Washington insiders at the annual White House Correspondents dinner.

The correspondents dinner, in its 88th year, has become an occasion for self-deprecating humor from presidents. Last year, Bush presented a slide show of his family accompanied by a joke-riddled speech about the 2000 presidential election recount.

What's really shocking isn't just the tastelessness of the jokes - it's that Obama used these jokes and this platform to attack his  political opponents:

Obama Likes Wanda Sykes Joke About Rush Limbaugh — ‘I Hope His Kidneys Fail’

Wanda Sykes Makes Fun Of Absent Sarah Palin With Abstinence Joke

Obama Mocks GOP Chair Michael Steele’s Use Of ‘Street Slang’

Far from being a uniter, the divisive Obama misuses the power of his office to bully all those who oppose him.

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