Sniper One Says:
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
You’d think someone like Malkin could afford to get someone (less of an asshat) better than Moran to moderate.

Maybe ASSHATS work cheap…

It is interesting that they would take issue with a term such as “asshat” considering some of the things they call President Bush and other government officials they do not like. (Not defending Bush with this comment but frankly, Bush-Hitler is a worse thing to say than asshat and I doubt you would be banned from that blog for the latter term.)

Obviously on their blog they can do what they want but it is interesting some of the terms that people take special offense to. As far as I am concerned, as long as it is not one of the two or three words that many people cannot go a conversation without using, leave it be. Yes it is a bit of ad hominem but as I noted recently in a blog posting{1}, there are valid and invalid uses of that method. And one valid (even if some do not like it) approach is to throw it in amidst a series of rational arguments opposing a person’s position. To use it as an argument by itself would not be appropriate but if you refute someone’s arguments root and branch and then happen to call them an “asshat” to boot, as far as I am concerned, no autopsy no foul

Note:

{1} On Ad Hominem, Revisiting Argumentum Ad Vericundiam, and Considering the Core Principle That Is Behind Any Argumentation/Logical Fallacy (circa June 1, 2007)

Welcome to my nightmare…

By the way, where is the door in here?

LMAO!