Tag: hyperbole
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The Apocalypse Party
Hyperbole almost always loses me. No doubt yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling was consequential, but, come on, conservatives … benshapiro@benshapiro This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration. Does that mean John Roberts is worse than Hitler? Fortunately there are some reasonable…
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Andrew Breitbart’s dead but Hitler comparisons live on
I wasn’t a fan of Andrew Breitbart’s work. Helping debunk his most infamous smear was my good deed for the year. That said, I’m not going to celebrate anyone’s death, save for the occasional jihadist mass murderer. Nor am I going to mark someone’s passing with the kind of ridiculous hyperbole that’s become a trademark…
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The culture of hyperbole
By now you’ve heard about the tarmac confrontation between President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (who sounds like she’s spent one too many nights at Johnny’s Hideaway). Brewer said Obama was “uh, a little tense”. She said she tried to show respect but that Obama acted “thin-skinned”, and complained about how she described their…
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This post may require counseling
Fresh Loaf’s Gwynedd Stuart expresses some sympathy for Luis Rivera, the obviously contrite Gwinnett County math teacher forced to resign for crafting some rather ignorant word problems. Rivera’s 20-question homework assignment used slave beatings and picking cotton to link lessons about ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass to math computation. One of the problems read: “If…
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Immoral equivalence
Comparing gay marriage advocates to the likes of Bull Connor and Kim Jong-il reaffirms a time-tested maxim: The greater the hyperbole, the weaker the rebuttal. It doesn’t get any weaker than these dispatches from World Net Falwell National Review Online. To dismiss the N. Korea analogy as beyond the pale is to deny the rational…
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Let the hate-fueled hyperbole begin
Fundamentalist Christian activists are sparing no hyperbole lamenting the repeal of DADT. Character-driven officers and chaplains will eventually be forced out of the military en masse, potential recruits will stay away in droves, and re-enlistments will eventually drop like a rock. The draft will return with a vengeance and out of necessity. What young man…
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