5 Feet of Fury

Not ALL Chilean rugby players are cannibals! – a defence of generalizations

From my latest post at David Horowitz’s NewsReal:

You can tell the writers at Mediaite are young lefties, too. Not because they swear a lot, but because (when they aren’t larding on the snarky snide) they dutifully parrot all the rhetorical tropes they learned in college.

One of their lessons was: “When stuck for a response, accuse your debate opponent of ‘using generalizations.’”

You’ll notice that leftists have recently rediscovered the phrase “glittering generalities” and enjoy using it to, er, generalize about Republican “propaganda.” (They must be getting bored with “the paranoid style” already…)

And so we have Glenn David at Mediaite reporting on a recent exchange between Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter…