Sunday, January 08, 2006
It's Happened Once Again
I've seen it happen with everything from discussions of science to theology to politics. Some right-winger, usually well-subsidized by some Scaife/Murdoch/Moon-like sugar daddy foundation, manages to use words of more than one syllable in a sentence -- and spell them correctly, too! -- and he or she is hailed by his/her fellow cons as a leading intellectual light of the conservative movement. Then some lefty comes along, and without even breathing hard, dismantles the right-winger's verbal sandcastles in a handful of concise, cogent, well-written and well-sourced paragraphs -- and does it for free. In this case, the righty that swallowed a dictionary is Harvey Mansfield, as cited disapprovingly by Glenn Greenwald and by Steve Gilliard. The lefty who disembowels him and his arguments is Bellatrys, a frequent commenter in the comments threads on Gilliard's blog.
(Yes, this is a joke.)
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