False equivalency.

August 31, 2004

There are a lot of people who like to pretend that “both sides are just as bad.” Michael Moore, for example, is the left-wing Ann Coulter. Right? Well, consider these excerpts. One is from “Ann Coulter’s Rejected USA Today”:http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2004/072604.htm Democratic convention coverage, the other is from “Michael Moore’s published USA Today”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2004-08-30-moore-gopamerica_x.htm Republican convention coverage.

It’s also worth pointing out that Michael Moore was denounced from the podium, pointed at, and booed last night.

|*Ann Coulter* | *Michael Moore*|
|Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. | Welcome, Republicans. You’re proud Americans who love your country. In your own way, you want to make this country a better place. Whatever our differences, you should be commended for that…|
|My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call “women” at the Democratic National Convention. | Hanging out around the convention, I’ve encountered a number of the Republican faithful who aren’t delegates. They warm up to me when they don’t find horns or a tail. Talking to them, I discover they’re like many people who call themselves Republicans but aren’t really Republicans. |
|Democrats are constantly suing and slandering police as violent, fascist racists — with the exception of Boston’s police, who’ll be lauded as national heroes right up until the Democrats pack up and leave town on Friday, whereupon they’ll revert to their natural state of being fascist, racist pigs. | I’ve often found that if I go down the list of “liberal” issues with people who say they’re Republican, they are quite liberal and not in sync with the Republicans who run the country. Most don’t want America to be the world’s police officer and prefer peace to war. They applaud civil rights, believe all Americans should have health insurance and think assault weapons should be banned. Though they may personally oppose abortion, they usually don’t think the government has the right to tell a women what to do with her body.|

That, people, is what we call a “false equivalency.”

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