A little too ironic…
Okay, so Alanis Morissette doesn’t seem to know what irony means. Here’s a better example.
A guy who criticizes Harding University for its loose and long ago association with right wing undesirables also posts a link on his blog to a video.
The point of the video is to deny the plain fact that Muslim fanatics murdered 3,000 Americans.
Four times the video cites The American Free Press as an authoritative source. That newspaper is “brought to you by the former staff of The Spotlight” — a publication of The Liberty Lobby and its founder Willis Carto, who spent a great deal of his life trying to deny the plain fact that Nazi fanatics murdered six million Jews.
All of this is done in apparent ignorance — thus the irony. Done with knowledge, it would be outright hypocrisy.
I know I shouldn’t care, but it is just too delicious not to notice.
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Yes, it is quite delicious.
I’m sure he’ll issue an apology, a retraction, or perhaps a clarification. At the very least, an explanation.
I’m sure he’s working on it right now.
I sat in a coffee shop listening to (on headphones) and watching Loose Change and I was left shivering in despair. It is hard for me to imagine not that someone could believe this sort of theory, but that someone as astute as KB could permit himself to view it so (apparently) uncritically. I posted my own terse response to KB, mentioning Occam’s Razor, but I got nothing more than a somewhat snarky reply from someone else. Does anyone REALLY believe that a conspiracy can be perpetuated by thousands of people? Yes, of course; in fact it is the same sort of person easily convinced that Christianity itself is one grand conspiracy. The spirit of the DaVinci Code, which is really the gnostic spirit, pervades not merely Loose Change, it pervades the entirety of American life. It is about “knowing” against all contradicting evidence. Indeed, it is a knowing that is suspicious of facts, of evidence; it is knowledge to spite evidence.
I am glad you have posted about all this. We are in for dark days. There is something biblical about it all, no? You know, in the last days there will a delusion?
“There was a cloud on the mind of men, and wailing went the weahther.”
Peace.
BG
Having worked in the federal government I know that a dozen people in that realm can’t even agree on one opinion without its leaking to the press and so thinking the federal government could pull of such a conspiracy is laughable, at best.
As for KB, maybe once he gets a real job he won’t have so much time on his hands to obfuscate.
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