Boy it's slow out there, huh?
I was going to point out that anybody with a law license is now apparently under consideration to be the next United States Senator, but I see my friends over at Riptide beat me to it.
So let's talk Glenn Garvin.
It's certainly a legitimate political and rhetorical tool to point out when the other side is being hypocritical.
But how far does the observation get you?
It happens so often and with such stunning frequency that -- standing alone -- a charge of hypocrisy in politics is like getting excited over spotting an iguana in your South Florida neighborhood. It just doesn't resonate that much anymore.
So in today's column Glenn observes that economic boycotts used to be bad when they were directed to the Dixie Chicks, but now liberals like them when they are directed to Glenn Beck.
I think he has a point, but an infinitesimally small one.
In addition to the legitimacy of economic boycotts as a tool of political expression, isn't there also a component of whether or not -- in a particular case -- the economic boycott is appropriate?
To equate the Dixie Chicks, who criticized the President once while on foreign soil (a bugaboo that Glenn Greenwald has recently been discussing at length), with the repeated stream of corrosive crazy talk from Beck, is a bit unfair.
Doesn't it matter at all what you are boycotting?
Glenn also conflates corporate punishment with economic boycotts. Bill Maher wasn't fired because he was the subject of a popular protest movement - his bosses fired him because he made comments deemed too controversial. Entirely different thing.
That said, Glenn does devote his entire column to making an exceedingly minor rhetorical point, and I actually agree with him.
So I'm sure back when the Dixie Chicks were being vilified the way Garvin's buddy Beck is today, Glenn was writing similar columns condemning the outrage and pointing out the hypocrisy just like he's doing today, right?
Umm, the Herald must not have archived that column.
But look at this -- Garvin did accuse the Chicks of "embracing their First Amendment martydom"!
See how hypocrisy works, Glenn?
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A thorough thrashing, SFL. Why won't Garvin come here and defend himself? To ask the question is answer it.
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"Ashamed by the president" v. "the president is a racist," among all the other lunacy the guy says...
No contest...
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I have yet to ever call the Shumie, but today seems like an appropriate first. so, without further ado...SHUMIE TIME!!!
Glenns' pic looks like he should be out on an archeological dig.
Shumie Time @ 4. Everybody Wang Chung Tonight.
Shumie time at 1pm? On a Tuesday no less? Even Shumie has his limits. Try working for another hour and a half and then see what happens.
Where is the Shumie handbook?
Like the British Constitution, the Shumie handbook is unwritten. But basically, working your way backwards from Friday, where a Shumie at 3 is OK (1:30- if it's along weekend) 3:30 on Thursday, 4pm on Wednesday, 4:15 on a Tuesday and 4:30 on a tough Monday.
Your mileage may vary (YMMV as we say on the Shumie bulletin boards) and certainly circumstances can change everything. For instance opening a n envelope with a check for anything over 100K allows a shumie for the rest of the day once you bring it to the bank. A favorable jury verdict, even at 10Am entitles you a Shumie for the rest of the day as well.
But for a regular workday, the above schedule seems to fit.
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Glenn Garvin is a douche. An intellectually dishonest douche.
"That said, Glenn does devote his entire column to making an exceedingly minor rhetorical point...."
What else? I mean, the man's a teevee critic. A professional couch spud. Somebody actually pays this asshat a salary to create commentary on the least imaginative, lowest-brow entertainment media in creation. That the Miami Hurled elevated him to columnist speaks worlds about all parties involved. Bizarro Worlds.
Yeah, he's right. Economic boycotts are a perfectly valid tool to register displeasure. He read that in DUH magazine and appropriated it. I'm so impressed.
Nice one, squathole.
It's interesting to think about in the context of consumer preference. We are often told by advertisers-- implicitly and sometimes explicitly -- that you are what you buy.
Many times "democracy" is equated with the right to make a purchasing decision -- whether to buy Tide or Gain. It's freedom, baby.
Yet here the use of your money as a political tool is questionable because some people thought the Dixie Chicks were mistreated. somehow.
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