Conclusions justify premises?
Unpacking Newmark's errors: KTK (13-
Valuable analysis from KTK concerning the error-prone postings authored by Betsy Newmark, a right-wing commentator who blogs, editorializes and teaches high-school. KTK's essay should be linked to Mrs. Newmark's Wikipedia profile.
"But in the inverted logic of the right [and of Betsy Newmark], conclusions justify premises: any argument that produces the conclusion you want to hear is, ipso facto, a sound argument."
"That's a lot of wrongness [for Betsy Newmark] to pack into what started out as a totally unsourced three-sentence crib of someone else’s Web site. And since – after parsing the falsehoods, the retractions, the falsehoods among the retractions, and the non-sequiturs – what it amounts to is "An American firm used its Labour-Party contacts to get UK business contracts under the normal award process while paying its normal salary to its well-educated employees", one is entitled to wonder what prompted this mess in the first place?"
Keep a watchful eye on Betsy Newmark – celebrated right-wing school teacher.
Posted by 3Dsound at Sunday, January 14, 2007 12:04 PM 
Categories: Republican hectoring, conservative politics, Betsy Newmark
Categories: Republican hectoring, conservative politics, Betsy Newmark
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