Stupid Vogue (Angry Little Man on lewrockwell.com Rips FR, et al.)

www.lewrockwell.com ^ | 1/6/04 | Jeffrey Tucker

[BroncosFan]

Fire away. Have fun!

[highlander_UW]

He's too easy a target. Who cares what some snobbish, arrogant dim thinks of the majority of the American population. He can sit in his little viper pit and rail against the world and go on about alien invasions and anything else he'd care to go off the deep end about.

[sweetliberty]

"Among this crowd, not only is reading in history and libraries not undertaken; it is not encouraged and is even actively discouraged."

Apparently he is one of those people who figures that if someone says something that goes over his head, that means the person saying it must be stupid. This guy is about as sharp as a bowling ball.

[BroncosFan]

The intellectual calibur of that site was much higher a few years back. They were still nutty on occasion, but used better reasoning. This ranks with something on democraticunderground.

[sweetliberty]

Histrionic girlie man puffs and preens before the mirror not realizing that he is describing his own reflection.

[DB]

This guy must get paid by the word... What a waste of space...

[Swordmaker]

" there is also the nonlethal version of stupid, which is based entirely on ad hominem insult.

It is interesting to find this little gem inside this ad hominem insult against every conservative.

Do you think the irony escapes the author?

[Just another Joe]

The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one. == Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead?" essay

[GeronL]

He ain't the first in the LEW to attack FR... I guess they just need readers badly

[BCrago66]

1 - You screwed up the link; it doesn't go to the article, just the website.

2 - You falsified the headline, which is against FR policy.

It just takes a minute to do it right, so why insist upon getting it wrong?

[BroncosFan]

. . . seems like they need authors worse.

[GeronL]

This man is proof that Moron is in Vogue in the guise of 'Intellectualism'.

[BroncosFan]

I didn't "insist" on getting it wrong.

Here's the correct link: http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker42.html

As for the title, "Stupid Vogue" tells one nothing. Perhaps I was a bit pointed, though.

[11B3]

This article only proves what many of us have been saying about LR - he's not much better (or different) than DU. It is this characterization of the LP - that they have become 'commie lite' - that has driven many of them out of that asylum once they see it is true.

[Miss Marple]

This is the second article that I have seen on stupid people who support the president and the war. There was one posted a day or two ago from one of the San Francisco papers...not as long, but along the same lines.

I guess the new mantra isn't that "Bush is stupid." It is that "Bush supporters are stupid."

[MissAmericanPie]

He's kind of overlooking the actions of his thoughtful well reasoned "enlightened" compatriots that are burning down forests and new housing additions, breaking into labs and freeing test animals, spray painting ladies wearing fur, rioting at global meetings around the world, spiking trees in the forest, and the list goes on.

Good thing for the nation that the average stupid, angry, illiterate American slob still thinks the nations laws are for observing.

[nightdriver]

Tucker spends the first half-dozen paragraphs using half-truths to set up his straw man arguments then ends up with nothing more substantive than an apologetic for libertarianism.

Sounds sorta stupid to me.

[polemikos]

This is what comes from expanding college loan programs.

[CWOJackson]

How do these people stay in business?

[justa-hairyape]

the blathering lunacies of political activists who consider a criticism of Bush to be the equivalent of treason.

"Its the economy (of the criticism), Stupid"