2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My Endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)One of them is simple hypocrisy, and the other is your refusal to attach yourself to any system of logic that is based on universally accepted baseline rules. In other words, you argue a point precisely the way your friends at Fox News do. There's NOTHING, NOTHING that can't be restated, redefined, explained in other contexts, or otherwise shuffled around until you get to the outcome you're looking for. This is the domain of AM radio and Fox News. And for the people who use this sort of trickery and deceit, there are no bottom-line truths. Everything is negotiable. Nothing you've ever said can possibly be used against you, because you can simply redefine it.
The people who permit themselves to be persuaded by linguistic sleight-of-hand like this are sheep, and I want nothing to do with them, because I have no respect for anyone who willingly agrees to be lied to in order to get to the reverse-engineered place that makes them feel comfortable. And the Republican media that perfected this style of nonsense are filth to me. We are Democrats. We are liberals. We have no business swimming in that lying filth, and we DO have some bottom line truths, and some baselines on which we must agree. This is the basis of rhetoric and of civilized society. What you're pushing is a version of insanity, and I'll have nothing charitable to say about that ever.
Your two articles on Joe Lieberman are completely opposed to one another, with no explanation of how you completely flipped from one position to another. That's not nuance.
Your completely changed stance on Hillary Clinton shows no arc of progression from one stance to another (as opposed to, say, Will Pitt's well-documented souring on Obama's Presidency). That's not nuance--that's how Fox rolls. I want nothing to do with what you're calling journalism. I know journalism as something else, and you in no way display the hallmarks associated with actual journalism. Journalism requires truth and accountability; it does not require a reframing of everything you've ever said on a particular subject so that you can now make an opposite claim. You're free to do all of this, of course, but don't expect self-respecting people to accept what they know to be wrong.