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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

No Obfuscation Here

"...and I'll borrow Steve's own lingo here — to obfuscate Tucker's valid point."

Feel free to borrow the lingo, but I would ask that you at least use it properly. I absolutely did not obfuscate his point. I simply removed a lot of rhetoric and represented it in its simplest terms to illustrate how invalid it was. And I think that went right by you.

Did you read my rebuttal at all? It doesn't seem like you did, because you just regurgitated Tucker's faulty argument.

"You insist that you're so infuriated by this low cost film shown on UNC-A's campus that you rhetorically fantasize about joining ranks with someone you regularly lambaste so as to not pay taxes."

Wow! You read all that emotion into my original post? Either I have acquired magical powers of secret writing or you have a pretty active imagination. I think "infuriated" might be a little strong. "Slightly disgusted" is probably closer to the mark. And I think if you read carefully you'll find what you termed my rhetorical fantasy works out to be simple sarcasm.

"Mr. Adams' editorial is just another example of the Far Right's 'rally the morality troops' gameplan/smokescreen when truly degenerative actions are taken by the very government officials they regularly..."

Hillary's "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy," huh? Don't be ridiculous. Mike Adams has never, ever commented in general on the policies of the current Administration or Congress. His focus is solely on the increasing degeneracy of the "Ivory Tower of Babel," as he terms the current cabal of academic elites. In fact, most times his focus is narrowly limited to the UNC system. I am simply amazed that the continuous stupidity of the UNC system is enough fodder to merit a nationally syndicated regular column. And you can't stick the obfuscation label on townhall.com either. Take a look at Townhall's main page (don't worry, your lefty keyboard won't melt). You'll find plenty of discourse on the Iraq war. Mostly in favor, but not always. Sorry, no obfuscation there, either.

No, I think the obfuscators here are Tucker and Strother. Leaping to the defense of a government-run education system, and ever ready to protect every activity of said system, regardless of how pointless, degenerate, or ridiculous, you two have attempted to divert the discourse into an anti-war rant. Not a chance. Dr. Adams is not part of some shadowy star chamber whose job it is to divert our attention from the war in Iraq. He is just the rarest of the rare: a conservative college professor who has actually attained tenure, enabling him to safely lambaste the moronic behavior of the university establishment. If you can't deal with him on those terms, don't bother dealing with him at all.

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