tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post3698051118727548480..comments2023-10-10T10:34:10.843-06:00Comments on The Nexus of Assholery: Further Evidence that Heather Mallick is Utterly CrazyPatrick Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-72320135929828253722009-04-04T18:39:00.000-06:002009-04-04T18:39:00.000-06:00I think there are few personalities in the world t...I think there are few personalities in the world that demonstrate the perils of <I>ad hominem</I> thinking nearly so well as Mallick.<BR/><BR/>Her supporters during <I>l'affaire</I> Mallick -- as I'll emulate you in labelling it -- clung to her supportively because Sarah Palin's supporters didn't like her, and if Palin's supporters didn't like her, then she must be good.<BR/><BR/>Just like Mallick is now clinging to Galloway because conservatives don't like him, and if conservatives don't like him than he must be good.<BR/><BR/>It's the same kind of thinking that led left-wingers to defend Saddam Hussein, and in the most hilarious example I've ever encountered, led a very tenacious commenter on this site to label Gary Kasparov as bad because he doesn't like Vladimir Putin -- and because so many conservatives don't like Putin, <I>he</I> must be good.Patrick Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-73315501490500429052009-04-04T15:26:00.000-06:002009-04-04T15:26:00.000-06:00I have taken exception to an aspect of a comment y...I have taken exception to an aspect of a comment you left at my web lodge, but this essay of yours is brilliant.<BR/><BR/>Heather Mallick's column is a font of stupidity and gullibility, a seamless regurgitation of bourgeois idiocies. It would excruciating to read, because of its pathetically incompetent journalism alone, but the skin-crawling is relieved by how uproarious it is; it would be nearly impossible to write a parody of a Heather Mallick column that would be this funny.<BR/><BR/>I winced, I recoiled, I laughed out loud.Terry Glavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888372152979226013noreply@blogger.com