Finally! As the Onion “reports”, Time magazine “Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults:”
Judging by their latest cover story, this new version can’t arrive fast enough; no word yet if Newsweek might take up this idea as well.
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Meanwhile, in the world of unintentional satire, leftwing author Neal Gabler argues that conservatives don’t believe in facts; in an article appearing in the JournoList-tained Politico and paraphrasing Stephen Colbert, an actor pretending to be a television journalist on the Comedy Central cable TV network to bolster his case.
Ezra Klein, Ann Hornaday, Dan Rather, and Editor & Publisher magazine could not be reached for comment.
Leftists have two rhetorical devices.
1) Ad hominem nauseum.
2) Lies.
Okay, technically, those two are usally the same.
The question really is interesting because they seem to be selling some of these rags. Maybe not as many as before but enough to keep the presses rolling for a while. LOOK AT ONE…PUT IT BEHIND THE TOILET PAPER!
As Obama’s UCC church would be of the theology that a person’s Christian condition is known for certain only to God, I am wondering how Gabler concludes that his Christianity is independently verifiable. Neal has the inside scoop from God? Long before Obama came onto the scene the UCC was regarded as having gone off the reservation in many areas of the faith – even in comparison to the usual dispute among denominations. I grew up UCC, and they’ve certainly got some Christians and Christian teaching there, but many individuals, even entire congregations, would no longer be recognisable to Christians of any generation but ours as co-religionists. Whether this includes Trinity Church or not, I don’t know. Certainly there were alarming signs from Rev. Wright, but I don’t know the full body of work well enough to know whether this is a Christian church with some modern cultural hobbyhorses, or it has fully dropped beneath the waves.
That Obama has stated at times that he is a Christian, and attended a church which has clear connections to Christianity (regardless of its individual qualification), is insufficient information for me to express confidence he is in fact a believer.
As to Colbert’s comment, I believe it is a restatement of Margaret Thatcher’s claim that the facts are conservative. I think Gabler is just throwing this in for dramatic effect, to advance his emotional argument. Writer’s trick. If he is actually advancing this as part of the logical case, it counts as a mark against him, as it is an unsupported tangential comment, of the order of “Yeah, and they always do that. So that proves it!” Weak.
Rules of thumb:
1. When a statist (liberal, progressive) accuses a conservative or libertarian of some flaw, the former is engaged in psychological projection of his (or her) own particular flaw.
2. When a statist (liberal, progressive) is claiming a moral high ground on a subject, he (or she) is attempting to preempt a contrary counter-claim, the latter which has a high likelihood of validity.
SenatorMark4: Their “sales” are deceptive. Take away the many tens of thousands that go to library branches, doctors’ offices, and barber shops, and you don’t end up with very many people coming home from work, kicking off their shoes and relaxing with the latest issue.
Lots of copies, not many readers.
Let’s see.
1. Obama claims to have attended an Islamic school in Indonesia? Right? The pre-supposition is if you attend an Islamic school the Islamics automatically assume you are now an Islamic. Therefore any word to the contrary by that person is “Heresy” and therefore prohibited by the Koran (Islamic Law).
2. Obama claims he is Christian. Further the Koran says “if there is an Islamic Heretic all Islamics are required to kill him/her in order to cleanse the religion of heretics.”
3. Also, the Koran states that “Taqqiya” or lying is not allowed between Islamics, but is allowed with infidels.
So now I am confused.
Is Obama saying he is Islamic or Christian?
According to Islam he cannot be both, and is a Heretic to say he is Christian, and as such, is under automatic Koran Fatwah for death by any Islamic. (I think the Secret Service will have horrible nightmares over this one.)
According to Christianity he cannot be both either and then is lying if he is Islamic but not Christian. But that is OK because it is Taqqiya, only a lie to infidels.
So which lie are we to believe:
1. He is Islamic not Christian but using Taqqiya to lie to the infidels (which is us). or
2. He is Christian not Islamic.
He has put himself into this corner.
Henry Luce would be aghast at today’s Time Magazine. I don’t know about Claire Booth Luce.
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