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February 16, 2007

Dangerstein: Master of Bad Analogies

by AltHippo @ 4:16 pm. Filed under hacks, 2006 elections

Today on Politico Joementum lacky Dangerstein compares Edwards bloggers to Allen’s Maca moment, sez the bloggers are worse:

Throughout the course of the controversy, the left’s bigger digital diatribers never stopped to address the substance of what the Edwards bloggers actually wrote before joining the campaign. Had the bloggers done so, they might have found the postings were widely deemed by Democrats and Republicans alike as bigoted and patently offensive to many Christians, not just devout Catholics or evangelicals.

Nor did they ever stop to think how hollow and hypocritical it sounded for the same people who ravaged George Allen, for his “macaca” moment in last year’s Virginia Senate campaign to cry “free speech” when confronted with a far more nasty, vulgar, and hurtful display of prejudice from two of their own.

This is actually a pretty revealing bad analogy. Dangerstein knows the bloggers aren’t themselves candidates, knows that the Macaca Moment had nothing to do with offending the sensibilities of a particular group. It was about revealing Allen’s essential prejudices in an unguarded moment.

This is really about throwing mud in the direction of those he dislikes for the level of influence they wield. I’m sure that it was embarassing to be on the losing side in Joe’s primary campaign. And, it’s probably easier to disparage an influence he can’t otherwise effect: the lefty blogosphere.

Still, all in all, this is a pretty hacky piece.

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