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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Al Franken
He's a funny guy. Read his response to the criticism that he doesn't hire black people.
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I know I shouldn't. I know I really, really shouldn't, but it's like picking scabs. I can't help myself. I... I sometimes browse through right-wing blogs.
So I clicked through to the NRO columnist's blog to see if she had a response. Of course she did. Did she miss the point? Spectacularly. She had a link to Schweizer's response. This, too, missed the point by a country mile; nor does he deny his underhanded tactic of counting Franken numerous times in order to inflate the number of "white employees." She also linked to a blog that (she claimed) "sums up the disagreement nicely", but which seems utterly befuddled by Franken's use of humor. And by the English language in general, I guess (quote: "Then he does some weird math where he counts himself as a writer...").
See, I often read right-wing blogs in order to challenge myself. I'm often seized by self-doubt in all areas of my life: "holy shit, what if I'm wrong about everything?" So I go to sites that contradict me to see if their model fits the extant data better.
Other times I go to right-wing blogs to laugh at the freaks and shake my head at how utterly spectacularly they fail to comprehend the world around them.
Guess which times I'm more successful in my mission?
4:44 PM, August 30, 2006
Given that this is give up blog, I'd guess the first task is more likely to work, given a conservative couldn't use data to his advantage without fudging it, misunderstanding it, or just outright lying. But I could see how it might be fun to go laugh at the freaks too, but it wouldn't work for me, I'd just get too pissed.
6:59 PM, August 30, 2006
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