Monday, January 10, 2011

On Their Hands

I'm really not a Palin fan, but after this current attack on her I'm almost ready to give her a sympathy vote.

The claim that she has "blood on her hands" over the Arizona shooting is deeply disconnected from reality.

The people who spread it, for sure,
have stuff on their hands - manure.

There's a famous philosophy article by Harry Frankfurt, provocatively titled: "On Bullshit".
While liars need to know the truth to better conceal it, bullshitters, interested solely in advancing their own agendas, have no use for the truth. Thus, Frankfurt claims, "...bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are"
They claim to have the scoop
but all they give you is poop.

2 comments:

  1. In my mind it was a stroke of luck for Palin that the guy happened to be a non-affiliated whackjob and not a Palinite whackjob.

    For the free-speech crowd to rally to her defense makes me gag. Did she not call for Julian Assange's head?

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  2. I don't follow her pronouncements, but at first glance she didn't call for him to be killed. Each seems to have accused the other of having bloody hands at this point.

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