re: #63 Talking Point Detective

A fascinating interview - between the two of them, they really dug into the meat of the issue; when does advocacy become essentially the partisanship-distorted logic that you’re fighting against.

As much as I want to agree with Maddow in this interview, I think that Stewart absolutely nails it. As much as I agree with Maddow on literally every issue, and as good as she is when taking down frauds like Rand Paul, her credibility will be undermined unless she shifts the paradigm and begins dismantling Democratic Party hypocrisy proportionately, and calling Tea Partiers “tea baggers” and “nazis” will not advance the left cause.

democrats tend to feel, rightly or wrongly, that they are unfairly overwhelmed with a torrent of lies and chop logic from the right. unfortunately, in an extraordinarily partisan environment like we have now, every voice that attacks non-republican policies seems to democrats to come out of a giant poorly differentiated mass

we feel that our attempts to overcome this blizzard by painstakingly correcting false assertions and pointing out flaws of logic are pitiful weapons to weild against lies and illogical emotionalized appeals

one of the things i like about this place is that there are reasonable, intelligent republicans to debate with

but if you are a democrat these days, these kind of republicans seem very few and far between