Ok so Dennis K over at the "the Flying Monkey-Right" blog believes that a recent New York Times story which published
the fact that both Vice-President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld have homes in the village of St. Michael's, Maryland is actually a call to assassinate these officials.
Yes..I know...Glenn Greenwald does a good job at showing the fallacies in this but lets walk through the right-wing logic tree.
Supposedly publishing this story is providing info to terrorists to act on and so as a solution, Dennis K is now advocating that the locations of the homes of the editors and reporters also be published. Here is the problem: IF Dennis K truly believes that the NYT article is an implicit call to assassination and or is intended to endanger the VP/Defense Secretary, then it naturally follows - by his own argument, that his posts are intended to harm the NYT workers and their families.
WTF? What kind of madness would prompt someone to a) believe the original "story as call to harm" theory and b) then explicitly write your own "call to harm" as a counter-argument?
Update: It seems that Dennis K has deleted his blog. I guess thats one way to concede a point.
the fact that both Vice-President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld have homes in the village of St. Michael's, Maryland is actually a call to assassinate these officials.
Yes..I know...Glenn Greenwald does a good job at showing the fallacies in this but lets walk through the right-wing logic tree.
Supposedly publishing this story is providing info to terrorists to act on and so as a solution, Dennis K is now advocating that the locations of the homes of the editors and reporters also be published. Here is the problem: IF Dennis K truly believes that the NYT article is an implicit call to assassination and or is intended to endanger the VP/Defense Secretary, then it naturally follows - by his own argument, that his posts are intended to harm the NYT workers and their families.
WTF? What kind of madness would prompt someone to a) believe the original "story as call to harm" theory and b) then explicitly write your own "call to harm" as a counter-argument?
Update: It seems that Dennis K has deleted his blog. I guess thats one way to concede a point.
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