My last post on strawmen and dishonesty (ok, so probably not)

Basically, it seems fine these days to argue against what you wish your opponents were saying, as opposed to what taking the time to counter what they actually are saying. Weak-sauce. Get over it you say? Fine, we expect from party apparatchiks, but from actual journalists, come on:

Derided by her critics as someone who comes from a town of fewer than 10,000 people, she went after Obama for his famous "bitter" comment about small-town residents, made at a San Francisco fundraiser.

Who are these critics? Obama has been derided "by his critics" for being black, but I didn't know he was supposed to be having an argument with Stormfront. Come on. That is just fucking lazy.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/09/my-last-post-on-strawmen-and-dishonesty-ok-so-probably-not/5820/