http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/22/reestablishing-my-liberal-credentials/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/22/reestablishing-my-liberal-credentials/comment-page-1/#comment-1859 mark Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:07:41 +0000 /?p=505#comment-1859 It's a good thing our friends at FrontPageMag are keeping a tab on you dangerous leftist revolutionaries. Here I was about to vote for John Kerry, but now that I know he's connected to Leninists by a mere four degrees of separation, I'll have to reconsider! It’s a good thing our friends at FrontPageMag are keeping a tab on you dangerous leftist revolutionaries. Here I was about to vote for John Kerry, but now that I know he’s connected to Leninists by a mere four degrees of separation, I’ll have to reconsider!

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/22/reestablishing-my-liberal-credentials/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 Scott Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:29:09 +0000 /?p=505#comment-1852 Welcome back to the left-wing insurgency. I always knew you were a Red under that Brooks Brothers' suit you're always wearing. But I thought you were more Trotsky than Stalin . . . Welcome back to the left-wing insurgency. I always knew you were a Red under that Brooks Brothers’ suit you’re always wearing. But I thought you were more Trotsky than Stalin . . .

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/22/reestablishing-my-liberal-credentials/comment-page-1/#comment-1850 Ian Bogost Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:44:05 +0000 /?p=505#comment-1850 An impressive specimen! Say what you will about the mad positions in this or other similar pieces, it does strike me that the right (not even necessarily the far-right) sometimes has a much firmer grasp on the rhetoric of public communication then the left or left-center. Sensationalist and rich with fallacy as this is, doesn't this communication seem quite adept in its weilding of that particular strategy? An impressive specimen! Say what you will about the mad positions in this or other similar pieces, it does strike me that the right (not even necessarily the far-right) sometimes has a much firmer grasp on the rhetoric of public communication then the left or left-center. Sensationalist and rich with fallacy as this is, doesn’t this communication seem quite adept in its weilding of that particular strategy?

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