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SHOUTING POINTS MEMO

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SHOUTING POINTS MEMO

: Ed Cone has a downright brilliant column giving into the trend in political discourse these days with a SHOUTING POINTS MEMO. An excerpt of his advice:

I am right, and you are wrong.

You are not just wrong, you and those like you are intellectually insufficient and morally suspect. Why do you hate our country? Think of the children….

You speak in cliches, slogans and sound bites. I speak in pithy phrases and time-tested words of wisdom. You call names, I tell it like it is. You are vulgar, I am colorful.

My candidate is a hero. Yours is a zero. One cannot compare the youthful hijinks of my guy with the youthful wantonness of yours. My guy makes mistakes, yours commits sins of the worst kind. And likes it. My guy was misquoted, or simply misspoke, while your guy was caught on tape saying exactly what I expected him to say….

Your attempt at humor reveals your narrow-minded bigotry. Your reaction to my own attempt at humor shows that you cannot take a joke.

I disagree with what you say, and I will defend to the death my right to tell you so. Jerk.

Enjoy the rest. Mark my words: This is going to be a classic.

If we in this supposedly conversation medium will not stand up for a higher level of discourse, who the hell will?

5 responses to “SHOUTING POINTS MEMO”

  1. Kat Avatar
    Kat

    Investors Business Daily has a good read, too, on this topic.
    http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=8/23

  2. Taft Avatar
    Taft

    It’s a little too obvious, far too un-funny, to ever rise to “classic” status.

  3. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Well, everybody’s a critic.

  4. dean Avatar
    dean

    Hey, don’t make fun. I posted a comment on BuzzMachine the other day and got an irate email from someone who basically was trying to argue with my comment although all he really wanted to do was shout at me about all those things. If I cite a professional source (govt agency) for the information, wouldn’t you think most reasonable people would contact the source if they have some problem with it as opposed to just dismissing the source as demonic and biased and me as an idiot because I relied on the info without doing the actual same study myself? Is it the Luddites all over again, or all too many people doing home schooling from each other? Now I know know what’s going to happen after we have several generations of ‘creation’ science.

  5. tom scott Avatar
    tom scott

    “If we in this supposedly conversation medium will not stand up for a higher level of discourse, who the hell will?”
    Uh-h-h-h, Howard Stern??