Bonehead Du Jour: THOMAS SOWELL
Conservatives sometimes confuse us. Never with their brilliant logic, but usually with obfuscation and buzz-words. They like to create clever catch-phrases that sound interesting, but have no real meaning, other than to make liberals sound bad.
“America, love it or leave it.” This phrase is delightful. It implies America is perfect, and any changes would be bad changes. Conservatives love that one.
Thomas Sowell of the Creators News Service recently wrote an article with a number of ‘bullet point’ observations about various issues. The bullet-point article is a trick for the mentally lazy writer, when they don’t have a whole lot to say about anything in particular. (We should know, we use this trick all the time!)
His amazing bullet point observations earned him a nomination for Bonehead Du Jour.
Sowell Gem #1: “How can a president of the United States be re-elected in a landslide after four years when unemployment never fell below 15 percent for even one month during his first term? Franklin D Roosevelt did it by blaming it all on the previous administration. Barack Obama may be able to do likewise.”
Our comment: Roosevelt wasn’t re-elected because he blamed anybody. He was re-elected because he lowered unemployment from 25% DOWN TO 15%. Way to conveniently ignore THAT little detail, bonehead.
Sowell Gem #2: “Democrats could sell refrigerators to Eskimos before Republicans could sell them blankets.”
Our comment: What the hell does THAT mean? That Eskimo’s are morons? That Democrats are smooth talkers?
We have decided to translate Gem #2 as follows: The Republicans have screwed things up so badly, and lied to us so many times over the last eight years, that nobody wants to believe a damned thing they say.
Does that work for you too, Mr. Sowell?
CONGRATULATIONS THOMAS SOWELL, BONEHEAD DU JOUR !
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