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The Filibuster uses the Chewbacca Defense?

And over at the (completely non-partisan) Filibuster, Justin Slaughter takes Orson Scott Card to task for an article calling some Democrats unpatriotic:

Shorter version: If a Democrat is elected president, the country will be destroyed.

I won't even dignify his column with a response.

Extra points for claiming the overwhelming liberal bias of the media (Apparently he hasn't read a paper, listened to the radio, or watched TV for twenty years) and writing in the Wall Street Journal!

Note to Justin: didn't you just dignify the article with a response? Or is a response in the (non-partisan) Filibuster simply undignified?

Posted by Anthony on December 17, 2003 3:51 AM | Permalink

Comments

"I won't even dignify his column with a response." You're right. This sentence is an oxymoron. Have you really never written one? However having read the article I would like to offer a response of my own. Orson Scott Card appears to be a paranoid delusionist living in a world of his own imagining. I think that just about covers it.

Posted by: martin | December 17, 2003 4:35 AM

The phrase itself is an oxymoron, of course. But generally, it's used as a final gesture of dismissal. Following it up with an argument seems to contradict the oxymoron itself. Perhaps that was the point, but it certainly doesn't seem so.

Posted by: A. Rickey | December 17, 2003 9:55 AM

I suspect its just bad writing.

Posted by: martin | December 17, 2003 12:53 PM

No doubt. But heck, it's exam week, I'm stressed, and I can use the cheap thrills of poking fun at the (non-partisan) local blawg.

Posted by: A. Rickey | December 18, 2003 1:38 AM

Well Orson Scott Card appears to be a paranoid delusionist living in a world of his own imagining. Card is a Democrat, you know, so you probably have part of that correct.

Posted by: law anon | December 21, 2003 5:54 PM

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