Wednesday, September 29, 2004

God Damn Sean Hannity!

So I was watching Hannity and Colmes the other night, and they had a Kerry spokes person on talking about the bad stuff going on in Iraq. First, Sean just asserted that this guy was one of the "Clinton people", and so I guess was suggesting that this guy would dodge questions in the same way that Clinton did with the whole "that depends on what 'is' is" thing. Anyway, I was just amazed when he brought out one of his old rhetorical tricks that sucked when he was using it prolifically, and it sucks even more now. Specifically, I'm talking about the old "Is the world better off without Saddam? Yes or no?". Amazingly, they dummbass that they had on couldn't give a decent answer.
The answer to this is that by merely framing the question in the way that he did, Hannity has demonstrated the simple-minided thinking on the issue insofar as he is asking you to look at the situation in a vacuum. You can't give a yes or no answer. Sure, if everyone stops fussin' and a fuedin' in Iraq and democracy is able to develop, then I think the answer would be right. But, on the other hand, if civil war breaks out, and maybe someone like Sadr comes to power, things could be so much worse.