House of Eratosthenes

My comments at Gerard’s site speak for themselves. This shouldn’t be a conservative/liberal thing, and yet it is quickly becoming one. Because of what’s being defended, and the methods used.

Had another thought though:

A while back, Republican Senator Larry Craig pled guilty to trolling for sex in a mens’ bathroom in a Minneapolis airport. Conservatives came out in defense and liberals came out fightin’. I’m reasonably sure I heard all the arguments on both sides…not that this means very much. You’d have to have been living on Mars to miss anything.

To the best I can recall, the conservatives all made note of the idea that the law was absurd…but not a single one of them made too much of it. Going by their words, they all would have gone along with the suggestion — if indeed he was guilty, and if indeed whatever punishment’s on the table would also be applied to you or me in the same set of circumstances…well then, the conversation’s over. See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.

Whoopi acts like no matter how many layers you peel off the onion, there’s always some other infinitesimal, crucial distinction to be made that changes everything. Perhaps she’s convinced herself this is the case. But look at all that time that was given to her to define why exactly this wasn’t “rape-rape,” and her teeny brain couldn’t come up with a single salient point. She just threw out a big fact-salad to confuse people, and when it was all over, nothing had changed. Nothing had been argued. She just went through the motions.

Is she laying down some protocol of justice to be applied to the esteemed director, that would also apply to everyone else? Heh. The question is too ludicrous to even be asked.

When liberals can come up with any rationalization of anything they don’t like and equate it to “rape”…. “mental rape” and then wandering farther and farther from the definition from there… I can’t believe that one would say “oh, but this wasn’t ‘rape’ rape” … unless they were defending a liberal, of course.
- philmon | 09/30/2009 @ 10:13
Wow. Then I watched the video.

“Where’s the mom on this?”… while a good question that may even have a good answer … is a diversionary tactic to deflect blame from Roman. It’s “democratic” blame. “We’re all to blame, so nobody should be punished (except for everyone to pay more into the health care till)”. I think we’re all better off, if, you know, we spread the blame around. Same mindset.

The question is, should he be prosecuted? Where the mother was has no bearing on the question. Mom not being there to protect her doesn’t give a man the green light to drug and molest the girl, be she 13 or 45.
- philmon | 09/30/2009 @ 10:29
“A while back, Republican Senator Larry Craig pled guilty to trolling for sex in a mens’ bathroom in a Minneapolis airport. Conservatives came out in defense”

I don’t remember Cons defending Craig, could be wrong, just don’t recall that many saying Craig was cool in their book.

Also, we Cons will call a spade…, or in this case a creep a creep but Libs will defend and actually champion their losers. See Carter, Clinton, Kerry, Gore and the best John Shiny Pony Hair, Your Child Got Cerebral Palsy From the Dust in the Delivery Room Edwards.

This post makes my point.

Lastly, I like when these clowns speak, it let’s us all see who they really are. Keep talking, keep talking…rape is cool, yup…13 yrs. old…no big deal…

They have no idea how much they are helping the Conservative cause, no idea.
- tim | 09/30/2009 @ 11:26
Not so much defending. The way I recall it, the libs were out for blood and the conservatives were keeping a much cooler head about it. There was some incredulity about the patrolman’s assigned duty, some bewilderment about who a cop would have to get ticked off at him in order to get that assignment.

Contrast this with the witch-hunt the liberals wanted to get started. Ah HAH! A family values guy trolling for a homosexual tryst! They’re all like this, those Republicans! Nothing but a bunch of no good queers!

Yup…unabashed homophobia, from those who claim to be progressives and princes of tolerance. Get a noose out for Sen. Craig, he’s a homo. The crux of my point, though, is that I never heard of anyone trying to argue for special privileges for the Senator. When a Hollywood celeb or a left-wing luminary gets into trouble, it seems all you hear about from that side is how amazing and awesome he is and there should be some kind of special dispensation. I saw it with Ted The Swimmer Kennedy, I saw it with Michael Jackson, and I saw it with Bill Clinton. Just this vague super-awesomeness, let’s forget all about it and “move on.”
- mkfreeberg | 09/30/2009 @ 11:53
Hmmm…. Where can I get a +10 Super Awesomeness Card?
- philmon | 09/30/2009 @ 13:52
But look at all that time that was given to her to define why exactly this wasn’t “rape-rape,” and her teeny brain couldn’t come up with a single salient point. She just threw out a big fact-salad to confuse people, and when it was all over, nothing had changed. Nothing had been argued. She just went through the motions.

That sounds an awful lot like listening to Richard Dawkins try to advance atheism as a viable philosophy. He goes around and around, throwing spaghetti at the wall, hoping something will “stick.” I saw him do his thing on Stephen Colbert’s show the other night, and all I could think about is how he was utterly destroyed and humiliated in an earlier interview with Ben Stein.

Left wingers are all the same. They can’t defend the indefensible, so the answer instead lies in obfuscation.
- cylarz | 10/03/2009 @ 22:15

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