Do you support Rush Limbaugh's proposal?

[Tupac Shakur]

I'm in favor of hot celebrity sex tapes. This Fluke chick ain't much to look at.

I'd prefer to wait for the video evidence before I make a call.

Kowtow with a 'k'. It's not the act of towing a cow around.

QFT. OIAW.

[Hauldren Collider]

This is all for show. By publicly pulling support for his show after he makes offensive comments they can make themselves look good. They won't lose much by choosing to advertise elsewhere and other advertisers can easily take their place.

Hm, good point.

[loinburger]

Is this some kind of moral relativism?

Godwin's law aside, yes.

[Tupac Shakur]

Apropos of nothing, my delightful bride believes that Rick "Santorum" Santorum looks like one of the "Hardly Boys" from that South Park episode about 9-11 Truthers:

Oh em gee. She's totally right.

[PLATO]

Is this some kind of moral relativism? You wouldn't say "look, I certainly don't want national socialism, but what gives you the right to belittle Nazis? I'm sure they're just as convinced as you are. I think an attack of the issues does more in the long run than personal attacks on Hitler do."

I do believe that the best way to attack nazism is to attack its principles and not its supporters, Mr. Godwin.

[loinburger]

I do believe that the best way to attack nazism is to attack its principles and not its supporters, Mr. Godwin.

Good luck with that

Nazi: I hate Jews.
Non-Nazi: Allow me to explain the inconsistencies of your ethos...
Nazi: **** off, Jew-lover.
Non-Nazi: I am slain

[kentonio]

I do believe that the best way to attack nazism is to attack its principles and not its supporters, Mr. Godwin.

So you'd have given Hitler a free pass and criticised people for criticizing him? Seriously?

[PLATO]

So you'd have given Hitler a free pass and criticised people for criticizing him? Seriously?

I didn't mean to imply that attacking ideas instead of people was giving anyone a "pass". I do believe that discrediting an idea has a better longterm effect than discrediting a person.

[loinburger]

Depends if somebody's following an idea or if they're following a person. It probably would have been more beneficial to have discredited Jim Jones as a lunatic than to have discredited his ethos

[kentonio]

Depends if somebody's following an idea or if they're following a person. It probably would have been more beneficial to have discredited Jim Jones as a lunatic than to have discredited his ethos

Exactly.

[DaShi]

No, huntsman was doomed because he entered late and had no charisma.

Huntsman has ten times the charisma of Romney, if not more.

[DaShi]

I didn't mean to imply that attacking ideas instead of people was giving anyone a "pass". I do believe that discrediting an idea has a better longterm effect than discrediting a person.

What was that Vonnegut story about the Nazi propagandist who wrote such absurd lies about the Jews that he was certain no one would believe them? Of course, to his dismay, people did.

[loinburger]

Mother Night?

[Guynemer]

Did I stroke out earlier this thread, or did HC actually claim that Romney is as charismatic as Obama?

Because that is all kinds of nuts, that is.

[Tupac Shakur]

Struth. In terms of charisma, 2012 Obama is to 2008 Obama what 2012 Romney is to 2012 Obama.