{"id":2822,"date":"2004-08-11T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/08\/fine-example-of-delusional-reasoning\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T18:56:41","slug":"fine-example-of-delusional-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/fine-example-of-delusional-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine example of delusional reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe generally vitriolic anti-Bush blog Notes in Samsara<\/a> (“samsara” is Sanskrit for “delusion”) cites an interesting lefty blog as a definitive source debunking the Swift Boat Vets charges against Senator Kerry. To check out its reliability, take a look at its treatment of the Cambodia charges here<\/a>. You’ll find supporting evidence confined to generalities about American presence in Cambodia, and no mention of the back-tracking the Kerry campaign is doing on the story, trying to re-write history to the effect that Kerry only said he was “close” to Cambodia<\/a>, not that he was there:<\/p>\n

The Kerry campaign first asserted that the Massachusetts senator never said that he was in Cambodia, only that he was near the country. But when presented with a copy of the Congressional Record and asked about Kerry’s letter in the Boston Herald, the campaign said it would come up with an explanation. After repeated phone calls, there was still no clarification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s now becoming evident that Kerry made up his Cambodia story<\/a> after seeing the movie Apocalypse Now<\/em>, which makes Kerry look a little Reaganesque. I wonder how many of the Reagan Democrats he can win over with this strategy?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The generally vitriolic anti-Bush blog Notes in Samsara (“samsara” is Sanskrit for “delusion”) cites an interesting lefty blog as a definitive source debunking the Swift Boat Vets charges against Senator Kerry. To check out its reliability, take a look at its treatment of the Cambodia charges here. You’ll find supporting evidence confined to generalities about … Continue reading “Fine example of delusional reasoning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Jw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}