Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Bullshit!
Oh, Penn Jillette: you proclaim yourself a scourge of frauds, charlatans, and idiots, but then you appear with Glenn Beck—a fraud, charlatan, and idiot than which there is none larger on telly— and blithely recite lame troglodyte talking points about Hillary Clinton. What's wrong with this picture?
Last time I checked, Quoting Out of Context was still a fallacy. Did you not know that, or was the Beck appearance just a convenient time to forget it?
Feh. The late, great Bill Hicks used to say of wealthy, big-name celebrities that still did commercial shilling that as far as he was concerned they were "off the artistic roll call." Puritanicality aside, I'm tempted to suggest something similar about so-called critical thinkers who play footsie with the likes of Glenn Beck. I cannot but admire your skills as a performer and wit, but lemme tell ya, it's going to be a LOT harder to take you seriously as a champion of critical thinking after this. Go on, go on over to the snake-oil side. They pay better, anyway.
