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Bully Pulpit

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.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

RE: RE: The University of Nude Copulating Asians

Poor argument easily reduces to this:

Porn doesn't kill anyone, this pervert's activities are cheap compared to the war, therefore no one has a right to complain about it.

Poor argument easily refuted by this:

Whether or not porn kills anyone is beside the point. It is not germain, it can be discarded. The cost of the pervert's activities are beside the point. It is not germain, it can be discarded. The point is that the pervert's activities are inappropriate under any setting of higher learning, but especially so in the setting of taxpayer funded higher learning.

Instead of formulating an argument to defend the pervert's activities, which are socially and morally indefensible, your argument solely addresses the presenters of the original point and not the point itself. The point made by MR and Dr. Adams has not been directly or effectively refuted.

Everyone takes up issues within their domain of effect. MR and Dr. Adams are obviously not going to be doing much about the conduct of the war. MR and Dr. Adams have rightly surmised that quite a few people would object to this pervert getting his jollies under the twin auspices of higher education and taxpayer funding. In an effort to raise awareness of the deplorable state to which our publicly funded education institutions have sunk, MR and Dr. Adams have presented the information in a calm and objective manner.

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