Some on the left not immune to False Equivalency

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday March 04, 2014 · 4:10 PM PST

2014/03/04 · 16:10

We Progressives and other factions on the Left have often decried the Mainstream Media's lazy journalistic use of false equivalency to generate controversy, or in outright disseminating of disinformation. We see this in climate change, in evolution, etc. Or my personal favorite: when followers of Glen Beck try to equate socialism with national socialism (Nazis) simply because they share the term 'socialism', but in fact the two systems couldn't be more different.

So it was with great surprise that I began to read the views of some on the left equating, falsely, Putin's invasion of Ukraine with Bush's invasion of Iraq.

Poll

33 votes Show Results

What should be the response from the West to Russia?

33 votes Vote Now!

What should be the response from the West to Russia?

Do nothing

13 votes

minor diplomatic action (recall ambassadors, etc)

3 votes

Major diplomatic action (threaten to remove Russia from G8, etc)

5 votes

Economic sanctions (freeze assets)

2 votes

Economic and trade sanctions

9 votes

Military (bring Ukraine into NATO)

0 votes

Military (send equipment to Ukraine)

1 vote

Military (position NATO troops and ships for response)

0 votes

Military strike (unlikely, but an option)

0 votes

(Action) Urge NBC to tell Trump "You're fired!"

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 2:06 PM PST

2012/11/07 · 14:06

This will be a short action diary. I'm at my wits end with Donald Trump and his bullshit, so I decided to do something (albeit small) about it.

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday October 28, 2012 · 7:55 AM PDT

2012/10/28 · 07:55

I've not seen this discussed much, or at all. Everyone seems focused on the absurd and elusive reasons behind Governor Romney's desire to build 15 warships a year in this modern era. President Obama rightly called him out on it with his horses and bayonets zinger. Modern warships are vastly more powerful than their WWI counterparts, and thus one really needs fewer of them. Despite this, I've heard Governor Romney continue to speak about his 'vision' in stump speeches. Why is he so married to this idea?

Now some have made the point that Mitt's plan is a give away to the MIC, which it is. But that struck me as too easy of a reason. To me it felt like only half of the truth, though I hadn't an inkling what that other piece of the puzzle might be. But this morning, as I'm studying my new internet passion Modern Money Theory (thanks to recent diaries on DKos), it occurred to me what this other piece of the puzzle was. Namely, an admission by Governor Romney, though not explicit, that Keynesian policies work, and they are integral to his economic plans.

Continued below the orange bow wash...

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday July 27, 2011 · 1:51 PM PDT

2011/07/27 · 13:51

If in fact the debt ceiling isn't raised, and the President fails to use the 14th Amendment, does he have the authority to then selectively choose which items in the budget get funded?

It seems to me that he has this authority. Even the Tea Party crazies alluded to this when they said he'd have to cut SS, Medicare or Medicaid. But if his administration must decide what to fund, then couldn't he then cut Oil subsidies, cut funding to pet projects in Red States, cut financial support to Red states? It seems clear these Red districts don't want Government help...so let them do without it. Shift all that savings to bring us under the debt ceiling, or even shift the monies to other states and districts.

Thoughts from our learned Dkos community?

Unemployed, I owe more money to IRS than GE.

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday April 14, 2011 · 5:15 AM PDT

2011/04/14 · 05:15

Something. Is. Fucked. Up. In. This. Country.

They may be a rant more than anything, but I have to vent somewhere and I thank you for allowing it.

After nearly a year of looking for work, I'm still unemployed. UI doesn't amount to much, but it is just enough to get by here in LA. And then, last night, I finished my taxes. I nearly wept.

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday August 23, 2010 · 9:03 PM PDT

2010/08/23 · 21:03

As the Bush tax cut nears expiration, and the economy continues to struggle, I've been reading around the blogsphere many outlandish claims about how the wealthy have it so bad, and the corporations are barely eking by (despite escalating profits). But the one meme that bothers me the most is this canard that the wealthy pay 80% of the taxes. Join me below for a short lesson in fuzzy math...

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday March 31, 2009 · 6:27 PM PDT

2009/03/31 · 18:27

I've finally had it with National Public Radio. I've been contemplating starting such a series of intermittant diaries ever since their hackneyed coverage of the 2008 Presidential campaign. Several incidents nearly pushed me over the edge. Just a week or so ago Mara Liasson and her polling pundits bet on Obama's failure, then had a nice laugh about it. That was almost enough...

What pushed me to action? What has caused me to write here and encourage you all to stop supporting NPR? Below the fold...

JWK

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday March 19, 2009 · 10:48 AM PDT

2009/03/19 · 10:48

With Senator Bayh and his band of 15 playing politics, with President Barak Obama visitng California delivering a message of hope and a message of fighting politics as usual, there comes a video of deeply personal stories relating to us how this economy has impacted their lives and dimmed their futures. It is not so much a plea for help, but a plea for someone to start listening.

I'd love to see Bayh and his bandits sitting in a room, forced to watch this and then tell me WHY they feel like playing politics with President Obama's agenda.

Link to video after the fold...

Newer
Older

RSS

Some on the left not immune to False Equivalency

(Action) Urge NBC to tell Trump "You're fired!"

Romney's Keynesian Gambit: 15 ships and $2 trillion in defense spending

Does the President have de facto line item veto power?

Unemployed, I owe more money to IRS than GE.

The wealthy pay 80% of the taxes?? lolwut?

NPR Watch: Runs with the Republican Narrative that FDR caused the Great Depression

Pomona, CA Teens have Message for Pr. Obama