[Kimberly GG]

Excellent rebuttal by Jeromi Corsi and full article is full of detailed information.

*bookmark* for reference.

[Kimberly GG]

*Jerome*

[Lunatic Fringe]

BREAK OUT THE TIN FOIL HATS!!!!!!!

[Ouderkirk]

Corsi is a sharp guy. I don't always agree with him, but his arguements are well constructed, and in this piece he runs rings around Medved.

[Dog Gone]

Excellent rebuttal by Jeromi Corsi and full article is full of detailed information.

The gist of his "rebuttal" is that he was ATTACKED.

He didn't rebut anything.

[Kimberly GG]

I would appreciate an explanation as to why the original piece on this exact subject, written by Mr. Medved, remains in the News/Activism section of Free Republic, as shown here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759457/posts

while you have seen fit to immediately, MOVE Mr. Corsi's rebuttal to Chat?

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[Toddsterpatriot]

....."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.

Funny to see Corsi use the word evidentiary. I thought he was allergic to evidence?

[Toddsterpatriot]

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”".

Especially against the ridiculous.

[Kimberly GG]

Excellent rebuttal by Jeromi Corsi and full article is full of detailed information.

*bookmark* for reference.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18721

[Prince Charles]

I never could get into listening to Medved's lame show. If I wanted to hear liberals for 3 hours straight, I could tune into Air America, FPS.

[Kimberly GG]

"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. On the questions that Medved shrilly characterizes as hysteria over a North American Union chimera, I am willing to stand by the research and study that have carried me through multiple decades of multiple careers, even if Medved is reaching the point where he is “Unfit for Debate.”"

[wolfcreek]

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.

[muir_redwoods]

"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.”

Just a point of logic but, as I read this example of the supposed "Ad Hominem" attack, who is the "Hominem"? I see no one named. I see no one referred to even obliquely. I see an idea ridiculed not a person.

It's a weak argument that can be disproved by a simple reference to the example given.

[Xenalyte]

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.

I'm a pretty serious reader, but even I cannot claim to have been one for centuries.

[The_Eaglet]

Excellent rebuttal by Jeromi Corsi and full article is full of detailed information.

It is, indeed. Thanks for posting this.

[SunkenCiv]

"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon."

...which is exactly why Corsi is engaging in it here -- equating Medved with leftists pretty much defines an ad hominem attack.

[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.

[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.