Comments on: Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News *UPDATED* http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/10/27/thomas-franks-weird-defense-of-obamas-attack-on-fox-news/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bookworm Room » “I know you are, but what am I” http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/10/27/thomas-franks-weird-defense-of-obamas-attack-on-fox-news/comment-page-1/#comment-81361 Bookworm Room » “I know you are, but what am I” Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:44:27 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9307#comment-81361 [...] week, I commented on Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on the media.  Basically, Frank’s [...] [...] week, I commented on Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on the media.  Basically, Frank’s [...]

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/10/27/thomas-franks-weird-defense-of-obamas-attack-on-fox-news/comment-page-1/#comment-80478 Danny Lemieux Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:17:42 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9307#comment-80478 At first, I thought the WSJ began publishing Thomas Franks as a token liberal /Left columnist, much like the roles that William Safire or Bill Kristol played for the NYT. More and more though I am beginning to think that the WSJ publication of Franks' column is a satirical jab at Alinksy, as in...freeze your opponent (fit the Liberal/Left template), personalize your opponent (pick an anti-war Liberal/Lefty with the same name as one of America's most famous modern-era generals), mock your opponent and use their own rules against them (publish Frank's columns as a parody of critical thinking). At first, I thought the WSJ began publishing Thomas Franks as a token liberal /Left columnist, much like the roles that William Safire or Bill Kristol played for the NYT.

More and more though I am beginning to think that the WSJ publication of Franks’ column is a satirical jab at Alinksy, as in…freeze your opponent (fit the Liberal/Left template), personalize your opponent (pick an anti-war Liberal/Lefty with the same name as one of America’s most famous modern-era generals), mock your opponent and use their own rules against them (publish Frank’s columns as a parody of critical thinking).

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/10/27/thomas-franks-weird-defense-of-obamas-attack-on-fox-news/comment-page-1/#comment-80471 Ymarsakar Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:22:08 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9307#comment-80471 They never mention what Nixon did about the people on his "Enemies List" vis a vis what obama does. Nor did they mention their hero in the FBI was a direct product of the corruption and illegal search, seizure, and surveillance history of the FBI's most notorious director. These true facts of history would conflict with the liberal narration of American guilt. In circumstances where they lack war atrocities to trumpet, they will make them up as they go along. This is no different. They never mention what Nixon did about the people on his “Enemies List” vis a vis what obama does. Nor did they mention their hero in the FBI was a direct product of the corruption and illegal search, seizure, and surveillance history of the FBI’s most notorious director.

These true facts of history would conflict with the liberal narration of American guilt. In circumstances where they lack war atrocities to trumpet, they will make them up as they go along. This is no different.

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