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A standard for Obama’s critics, set by conservative blogger


I’m very glad to read this post at Hot Air:and I hope that Ed Morrissey works at enforcing the standard he sets:

If we plan to offer a rational alternative to the coming debacle of the next two years, then we’d better stick to facts and eschew hyperbole.  We need to oppose the reality of the radical agenda proposed by Obama and the Democratic majorities in Congress, not fantasies spun out of context-free snippets of speeches.  The more critics invoke Hitler and Stalin instead of Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, the better the reality of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi will seem in 2010.

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Update: I’m going to add this here rather than reposting it every 50 comments or so in the thread.  Nothing in this post says we should refrain from criticizing Obama.  I’m just arguing that we have to stick to the facts rather than screeching historically inaccurate references to Nazis every time we disagree with Obama.  No one will have any credibility left if we all give into the impulse to act like the Kos Kiddies for the next two years.

Cut the conclusory crap is how I read what he says, support your concerns with facts – remember those?  Okay – well, maybe some pundits don’t but Morrissey saw how McCain and Palin lost credibility in exponential quantities as their inaccurate references and hyperbole amped up.  And hey, if that reference to having someone think you’re a Kos Kiddy isn’t enough to put a right-wing pundit on the straight and narrow, then all really will be lost for them.

Hattip this tweet from Jay Rosen.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:29 am November 12th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Blogging, Politics, Republicans, Writing, conservatives 

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