tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776375569387669394.post8121608136815499516..comments2023-10-19T10:43:38.825-04:00Comments on Free Advice: Glenn Greenwald GoofsBob Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04001108408649311528noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776375569387669394.post-66571339482431273342009-09-19T11:53:21.464-04:002009-09-19T11:53:21.464-04:00Bob,
Here's a question I have, and maybe you ...Bob,<br /><br />Here's a question I have, and maybe you can help me out with it:<br /><br />Okay, so most of the people protesting are racists. Now what?<br /><br />Can you reason with an irrational racist? Is there any possible hope of demonstrating their own ignorance to them in such a way that they'll transcend it? Could you just pass enough laws that you might legislate racism out of existence (make it illegal to protest out of racial hatred, just as it is illegal to kill someone out of racial hatred ala hate crime bill)?<br /><br />Or should we just round up the evil racists and deport them/send them to prison camps where we can keep a close eye on them, since they're too bigoted to ever contribute anything positive to the political dialogue and society as a whole?<br /><br />I mean, seriously, what is the 'end game' here when a large part of your polity consists of big, dumb racists? Can democracy work with those kind of people at the polls?Taylor Conanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18270678440957992085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776375569387669394.post-76449525074748340852009-09-19T11:32:39.329-04:002009-09-19T11:32:39.329-04:00Greenwald keeps up his same narrative here bemoani...Greenwald keeps up his same narrative <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/17/acorn_hysteria/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> bemoaning that ACORN hysteria is distracting attention from crony capitalism.<br /><br />I suppose I can agree that the media is surely doing this, but exactly HOW are they doing it? By totally suppressing OUR AUSTRIAN ANALYSIS. By almost totally suppressing Ron Paul’s analysis in “End the Fed”. <br /><br />We can all agree that neither Limbaugh nor Hannity nor Fox News in general (not counting Judge Napolitano) ever report on or discuss crony capitalism or blowback from perpetual war. <br /><br />Greenwald’s argument amounts to saying that because these crazy red staters don’t protest war, torture or crony capitalism, and they are therefore fools, that their arguments against Obamacare and ACORN are also foolish, irrational and unfounded. <br /><br />Greenwald is nothing more than a reverse Limbaugh. Limbaugh’s usual schtick is to describe a few liberal lunacies and then announce that these same crazies oppose torture, war and the police state. And therefore, only a crazy would oppose torture, war and the police state. <br /><br />Certaintly Floyd Norris' ignorant response to Bob Murphy's "Fiat money causes war" post is just another example of the ongoing scandal of suppressing Austrian and libertarian ideas in the media. Where is Greenwald on that one?Bob Roddisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776375569387669394.post-39435610174789446882009-09-19T09:22:21.935-04:002009-09-19T09:22:21.935-04:00For all of Mr. Greenwald’s brilliance on matters o...For all of Mr. Greenwald’s brilliance on matters of torture and government spying, he remains a complete liberal noodle-brain when it comes to economics. To Greenwald, there can be no logical basis for opposing Obamacare. Therefore, its opponents must necessarily be ignorant, crazy, irrational and/or racist. <br /><br />Further, by definition as a liberal, Greenwald has no familiarity whatsoever with Austrian economics. Aren’t protests of the Fed necessarily protests against the financial elite? And can’t there be a simultaneous protest against the Fed (including financial bailouts) and Obamacare? <br /><br />Because Greenwald does not understand economics, he wrongly assumes that the protesters don’t either. <br /><br />Of course, if Greenwald were ever to learn economics, he might not be long for Salon. There's big money to be made in spouting anti-Capitalism.Bob Roddisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776375569387669394.post-43396824595435414222009-09-19T09:16:06.916-04:002009-09-19T09:16:06.916-04:00Good catch teqzilla.Good catch teqzilla.Bob Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001108408649311528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776375569387669394.post-5868098886606528282009-09-19T07:03:58.327-04:002009-09-19T07:03:58.327-04:00The worst part of this happens right at the beginn...The worst part of this happens right at the beginning with Greenwald's first quote from Douthat:<br /><br />"This August’s town-hall fury wasn’t just about the details of health care. Neither were the anti-Obama protests that crowded Washington over the weekend. [b]They were about the Wall Street bailout, the G.M. takeover, the A.I.G. bonuses[/b], and countless smaller examples of middle-income Americans’ "playing by the rules," as [GOP pollster Frank] Luntz puts it, "and having someone else benefit.""<br /><br />So, He quotes Douthat citing the wall street bailout, the G.M take over and A.I.G bonuses as examples of the someone else benefiting at the expense of middle-income Americans which has fueled the anger at the teaparties, Alleges that the someone else is actually a coy reference to black people, and then proceedes to rip Douthat and the tea party protestors for the remainder of hid blog post for not caring about stuff like the Wall street bailouts, the G.m take over and the A.I.G bonuses.teqzillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10644136551384385125noreply@blogger.com