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:: Friday, February 25, 2005 ::
It’s Feelings, Stupid!
The fuel for the busy engines generating the left-wing spin that corrupts public discourse today is ably described in a column by LA Talk Show Host/Writer Dennis Prager.
"With the ascendancy of leftist values that has followed the decline of Judeo-Christian religion, personal feelings have supplanted universal standards. In fact, feelings are the major unifying characteristic among contemporary liberal positions…The entire edifice of moral relativism, a foundation of leftist ideology, is built on the notion of feelings deciding right and wrong."
Once you buy into this you see nothing irrational, as Prager points out, in spinning “terrorists” into “freedom fighters.”
Forget about logic, right and wrong and absolute evil. Do whatever makes you feel good. It’s OK to open the downward path to Thomas Hobbes’ war of all against all. Just make sure you use plenty of spinspeak to describe it. That way everyone will feel comfy along the way.
:: James Baar 2/25/2005 11:40:00 AM [+] ::
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:: Monday, February 21, 2005 ::
Spinning Death at the UN
Don’t think just because the Sudanese government is conducting what some spoilsport observers are calling mass murder of the population in Darfur that it comes under the heading of genocide around the UN.
Call it a plain old vanilla massacre if you like. That’s OK with the UN spindocs. Just don’t use the “G” word. It turns out to be a trigger. Under the UN’s arcane rules, it can ignore mass murder. It can ignore massacres. But call it genocide and the UN is supposed to do something about it rather than just make compassionate noises.
:: James Baar 2/21/2005 02:36:00 PM [+] ::
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