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Showing posts with label Dinesh D'Souza. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
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Dinesh D'Souza on BookTV (After Words) and Jonathan Alter's Destructive Agenda...
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Johnathan Alter gives a lesson in how to argue with an intellect beyond his own. He recognizes that D'Souza's arguments are complex and frequently subtle. As such they require many foundational points to be laid before the final conclusion is laid bare. He uses this against D'Souza.
Alter's method is to avoid arguing D'Souza's final conclusion, and instead disagree with each point as each argument is building to its conclusion. The result is two fold. First, it disrupts the flow of thought from the individual making the argument, in this case making D'Souzas job far more difficult (D'Souza handled himself beyond well), and second, it clouds the overarching argument being made with numerous small disagreements which in the end serve only as a barrier between D'Souza and his audience.
I believe this second result is the most important to Alter, as becomes clear that his true agenda is to separate D'Souza from his audience. Johnathan Alter is both sloppy and contentious in his effort to obfuscate what he sees as opposition thought and in the process makes the whole NPR / Juan Williams affair appear a Shakespearean beauty in contrast.
How an extremist flake like Johnathan Alter can be the editor of Newsweek a news magazine, and aven be considered to do what Brian Lamb once did with grace is beyond me. Johnathan Alter besmirches BookTV by putting himself between selected authors' ideas and their audience.
Alter even claims, "This is my interview!" at one particularly contentious point when the two disagree over a quote D'Souza takes from an Alter book on Obama. It's his way of saying, 'I can and will stand between your ideas and your audience'.
Allowing Johnathan Alter to refer to his constant changing of the basis of various arguments in an effort to get between the audience and his guest as "vigorous argument" diminishes CSPAN2 to NPR/PBS like partisan drivel.
Enjoy the video below if you can assemble the shards of Dinesh D'Souza's fragmented arguments.
C-Span2 link to video of the non interview.
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Johnathan Alter gives a lesson in how to argue with an intellect beyond his own. He recognizes that D'Souza's arguments are complex and frequently subtle. As such they require many foundational points to be laid before the final conclusion is laid bare. He uses this against D'Souza.
Alter's method is to avoid arguing D'Souza's final conclusion, and instead disagree with each point as each argument is building to its conclusion. The result is two fold. First, it disrupts the flow of thought from the individual making the argument, in this case making D'Souzas job far more difficult (D'Souza handled himself beyond well), and second, it clouds the overarching argument being made with numerous small disagreements which in the end serve only as a barrier between D'Souza and his audience.
I believe this second result is the most important to Alter, as becomes clear that his true agenda is to separate D'Souza from his audience. Johnathan Alter is both sloppy and contentious in his effort to obfuscate what he sees as opposition thought and in the process makes the whole NPR / Juan Williams affair appear a Shakespearean beauty in contrast.
How an extremist flake like Johnathan Alter can be the editor of Newsweek a news magazine, and aven be considered to do what Brian Lamb once did with grace is beyond me. Johnathan Alter besmirches BookTV by putting himself between selected authors' ideas and their audience.
Alter even claims, "This is my interview!" at one particularly contentious point when the two disagree over a quote D'Souza takes from an Alter book on Obama. It's his way of saying, 'I can and will stand between your ideas and your audience'.
Allowing Johnathan Alter to refer to his constant changing of the basis of various arguments in an effort to get between the audience and his guest as "vigorous argument" diminishes CSPAN2 to NPR/PBS like partisan drivel.
Enjoy the video below if you can assemble the shards of Dinesh D'Souza's fragmented arguments.
C-Span2 link to video of the non interview.
Update:
Mike Francesa explores Alter's hypocrisy in reference to Alter's accusation that D'Souza based his book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage”, on "pop psychology" when Alter did exactly that previously:
Yet the hypocritical Alter did just that in the February 5, 2007 issue of New York Magazine in which he wrote a short piece entitled, “Dad, the Bottle, and Vietnam” by Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter. In this piece, there was a picture included of President Bush on a Freud inspired psychotherapy couch.
Yet another example of hypocrisy and liberalism working hand in hand to shut down right thinking people.
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