Awesome argument. You always lay out your views well. On 7/24/08, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:24 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: McCain admits to being a technological illiterate > > > > >Crap or not, the rating is quoted all over the place, from MSM to > > >fringe blogs. What burns your ass is that it sticks because it's true. > > > > > > > So let me get this straight, you admit that the ranking is pure BS and > > largely fictional, yet you still follow it. Tell me you still think > > that the world is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth? > > > No - he's clearly saying that even if it was a bald-faced lie, enough > people > have now said it. Which makes it true. Because anything that's repeated > enough must have some value. > > Essentially it's the same complex lie being using by the anti-evolutionists > and the anti-vaccinationists: > > 1) Create and then publicize an outlandish statement. > > 2) With that statement create a political and/or social controversy where > none existed. > > 3) Claim that the existence of the political and/or social controversy > proves that the claim should be taken seriously factually or > scientifically. > > 4) When the claim is ignored factually or scientifically (you know, because > it's a lie) claim that some entrenched establishment is "suppressing the > truth" (usually for some tenuously-linked monetary gain). I don't believe > that we've made it here with the lie about Obama's voting record. > > It's a self-fulfillment fallacy: There must be truth in this controversy > we've invented because there's a controversy. Really just a complex, more > directly devious version of the Argument from Consensus, the "Bandwagon" > fallacy. > > The fallacy considers truth a product of democratic processes. If enough > people say it, it must have merit... so all you have to do to GIVE > something > merit is get it said a lot. Of course that's clearly insane thinking but > it's a technique made art by the Republican campaign machines in recent > years. > > Jim Davis > > > >
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