Michael Medved Loses His Cool Over North America Union (Corsi's Response)

Human Events ^ | 1/2/07 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Kimberly GG]

"Film critic and talk show host Michael Medved has decided to put in print on Townhall.com the attack he has frequently broadcast on radio against those of us who are opposing the North American integration being pursued by the Bush Administration activity under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America."....

....."Serious readers for centuries are alert to recognize that ad hominem attacks generally mask an inability to counter an argument on logical or evidentiary grounds. In the days of Lenin, communist agitators took the ad hominem attack to a new level, perfecting techniques to discredit their opponents with the intent to discourage the public from listening to arguments that were serious and potentially fatal criticisms of communism. Medved appears to be taking the advice of the radical socialist activist Saul D. Alinsky, who articulated on page 128 of his 1971 book “Rules for Radicals” his rule No. 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”"....

...."Studying the tone of Medved’s recent piece in Townhall.com, I was reminded of the abuse my co-author John O’Neill suffered on Oct. 22, 2004, when MSNBC senior political analyst Lawrence O’Donnell began screaming “Liar! Liar!” at O’Neill during an appearance on “Scarborough Country.” Reading the transcript of that show, O’Donnell appeared to have lost his composure when he was unable to refute O’Neill’s defense of what we wrote in “Unfit for Command.” Similarly, Medved has reduced himself to spewing forth various strings of derogatory language boldly proclaiming, for instance, that “there’s no reason at all to believe in the ludicrous, childish, ill-informed, manipulative, brain dead fantasies about a North American Union.”

Who then, besides myself, are those who Medved calls on his readers to treat “with the derision and contempt they so richly deserve” for propounding “this paranoid and groundless frenzy” over the North American Union?"....

[Toddsterpatriot]

Thanks for explaining that in a way that even a Corsi supporter can understand. I hope.

[jmc813]

Thanks for posting this. For somebody such as myself who is undecided if this is a real threat or not, I have definitely taken note of the contrast between this calmly-written piece and the hysterical bitching which comprised Medved's article. Interesting stuff on the Alinsky method in this article too.

[The_Eaglet]

"I invite Medved to a public debate on these questions. In making this invitation, I am willing to take the risk that Medved’s tone in his Townhall.com piece does accurately reflect his true emotional state. I do not recall ever before reading a piece from a person who likes to represent himself as a responsible political commentator that contained so many vituperative epithets or such extended strings of invective, including invented words that are nowhere to be found, not even in a dictionary of slang."

"If Medved is getting close to the Larry O’Donnell “liar, liar” stage when discussing North American integration, I will take even that risk in issuing a challenge to debate."

They would need to hire a moderator to keep Medved from regressing into his baseless liberal smear tactics (that Corsi identified in his article).

[Pelham]

Medved routinely resorts to ridicule, apparently in the belief that it's a persuasive form of argument. He needs to sue Yale for his money back.

[The_Eaglet]

The "ridicule" was probably an extracurricular project of his.

[ActionNewsBill]

I don't know anout you, but I'll wait until that other movie critic and expert political analyst Roger Ebert to weigh in (no pun intended) with his views on the SPP/NAU.

I'm sure I will give just as much credence to him as I do Medved.

[Quix]

Do you still feel the same way?

Have you read even 10% of the quotes from our leaders of the last 109 years ref’d in my tagline?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81

[Quix]

Some folks just can’t bother to read even 10% of the quotes ref’d in my tagline . . .

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81

or maybe their reading comprehension just isn’t quite up to managing that task fruitfully???

Given OThuga’s rush toward the NAU and the destruction of the USA as much as he can manage . . . I wonder how many clueless ones still feel it’s all tinfoil stuff.

[Quix]

Given OThuga et al . . .

Do you still think & feel the same way on this topic?

[Quix]

Given how much the globalist oligarchy has shredded the Constitution the last 60+ years . . .

and how much OThuga has additionally shredded it in a few months . . .

your assertion in that post seems to me to be

exceedingly hysterically laughable to the max.

Sadly.

[Quix]

I see the Medved fans jumped on this thread like flies on a chit wagon. It’s not that they think the NAU is a conspiracy freaks wet dream, it’s because the NAU is theirs.

= = =

INDEED.

Have you seen the new NAU currency photos?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/federaljack/sets/72157619942099088/

[BenLurkin]

Who are those guys?

Wouldn't the money have recognizable persons on it — Michael Jackson would be perfect for the twenty!

[wolfcreek]

What you doing on this old thread. I read half before I figured out when it was dated. LOL!

Wonder if most of those deniers still think the same?

Those folks on the NAU currency....they wouldn’t happen to be the fellas mentioned in this link, would they?

http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn02-2

[Quix]

I’ll try and check later.

Falling asleep in my chair.

They are bankers, imho . . .

the ruling oligarchy.