“And going by Turkey’s rhetoric about the incident and its undying love for the nation-deprived Palestinians, you’d have no idea that the Turks have been killing nation-deprived Kurds for longer than Israel has existed, and have treated them with far more cruelty than Israel would ever dream of doing.” — Jonah Goldberg in The Goldberg File, June 3, 2010.
Best sentence today (so far)
June 3, 2010 by Sven Wilson
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There are beginning rumblings among some that this was a “put up job”. We need to ask ourselves two questions.
Who benefits most from this?
Shouldnt we be more scared of the world’s knee jerk reaction against the Israelis before all the facts are known.
This Thanksgiving, we’re eating Freedom Bird.
Hypocrisy is the human condition. Besides, one’s own poor behaviour doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re wrong when they say others are behaving poorly.
Ad hominem tu quoque
BAM! Figured out what kind of logical fallacy Jonah Goldberg is making.