tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post2520719254825302582..comments2024-03-26T15:19:23.091-07:00Comments on false dichotomy by charles davis: 'Ok, so Paulson, Geithner and Summers walk into a bar . . .'Charles Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-4088672584016998272010-07-14T14:20:31.608-07:002010-07-14T14:20:31.608-07:00Oxtrot,
I know you don't like Greenwald, but ...Oxtrot,<br /><br />I know you don't like Greenwald, but comparing him to _Yglesias_? That's cold.Charles Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-81359514566157851902010-07-14T08:43:25.251-07:002010-07-14T08:43:25.251-07:00Yglesias doesn't use logic and reason. He use...Yglesias doesn't use logic and reason. He uses Ivy League-approved distraction: pseudo-academic tone, complex words where the simple would suffice, and a general attitude of authoritarian knowledge talking down to the ignorant plebe class.<br /><br />He pretends to be Our Father and plays at a collection of knowledge and experience that he simply doesn't possess.<br /><br />Of course, in America 2010, how you present yourself is far more important than what you are. And people like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias, they are the living proof of this "image is everything" canard worked upon the gullible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-59557078855801714452010-07-14T08:10:52.630-07:002010-07-14T08:10:52.630-07:00"practical experience has positioned them to ..."practical experience has positioned them to know"..."and they all think this will work."<br /><br />What are the <i>arguments</i> of people who think that this won't work? Or perhaps arguments are not really what is desired. <br />Why should the president have greater powers to seize control as opposed to the Congress legislating greater powers for him to regulate behavior and possibly (<i>hopefully</i>, as we say nowadays) prevent the creation of bubbles of fraud? Why is disaster cleanup valorized over disaster avoidance?<br />I don't know of, haven't followed Yglesias's advocacy, but his approach here seems blatantly ad hominem rather than rational.Minor Playernoreply@blogger.com