Rush and Sean both like to battle imaginary "Liberal" stances

Sometimes I just have to indulge a masochistic urge and listen briefly to Sean and Rush as I drive about. Which I did today. They both argued eloquently against imaginary viewpoints of imaginary "liberals". Most of which were specious variations of how Liberals would be unhappy about al-Zarqawi because the US accomplished a military goal today which set back their agenda. They both kept offering variations of "I'm sure Liberals can't wait to ask . . .argue . . . and then inserted their stupidest talking points that they WISH some Democrat or "Liberal" will say.

SOP for wingnut "pundits."

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

Description of Straw Man
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:


Person A has position X.
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
Person B attacks position Y.
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person.

Examples of Straw Man

Prof. Jones: "The university just cut our yearly budget by $10,000."
Prof. Smith: "What are we going to do?"
Prof. Brown: "I think we should eliminate one of the teaching assistant positions. That would take care of it."
Prof. Jones: "We could reduce our scheduled raises instead."
Prof. Brown: " I can't understand why you want to bleed us dry like that, Jones."

"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

Bill and Jill are arguing about cleaning out their closets:
Jill: "We should clean out the closets. They are getting a bit messy."
Bill: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do we have to clean them out everyday?"
Jill: "I never said anything about cleaning them out every day. You just want too keep all your junk forever, which is just ridiculous."

WMDs?

Saddam =9/11?

Terry Schivo (a hoax)?

Bush can protect us (See katrina & 9/11)?

No, I dont think they can. That goes for most Republicans.

I would tell Rush or Sean to call me back once they can get one single assetion right.

They should each open up a factory.

I keep wondering when I'll meet one of these "libruls". They're nothing like what I am.

I'm glad Al Zarqawi is dead. He was a real bad guy and deserves what he got. I sure hope this doesn't upset hannity and limbaugh. You know, some crazy liberal glad that a criminal is dead. The thing is, it really doesn't change anything. The "insurgency" will likely be determined to kill more Americans because their leader will be a martyr, in their minds. That is not good.