Monday, April 29, 2013

Expertise

John Ransom is the Finance Editor for Townhall:
I got an email from a reader yesterday that went something like this: "Hey, the American Cancer Society says you're full of it on the link between breast cancer and abortion. Trust me I'm an expert and a scientist, and you're being less than honest. So do us all a favor and shut up and stick to finance."

To which I reply: "Hey, if you're an expert and scientist why are you citing a lobbying orginization like the American Cancer Society? Thanks for proving one of the points in the email/hate mail column."

And the point was: People, especially conservatives, are distrustful of experts. As they should be.
Dirty orginizations! Don't trust experts, trust NON-experts, like John Ransom, who doesn't purport to know anything about anything.

Down the page we interrupt an anti-tax rant in mid-spittlefleck:
And then I’m thinking “What spending cuts?” Don't spending cuts require government spending to actually go down?

Only with DC’s dishonest budget math- thank you Dan Mitchell- can politicians, journalists and other "experts" claim that spending that will rise year-over-year for forever, is somehow a spending cut.

And so lastly I’m thinking “Thank God I have a gun.”

My gun makes me the expert on so much.
I've gotta get me one of them things.

12 comments:

Smut Clyde said...

So the message from Townhall is not to trust lobbying organisations?

tigris said...

Expert, government opinion? It’s been king for 70 years and it has a very spotty record.

It’s created wars and rumors of wars and real-life tragedies like communism and fascism and vegans.


Thank God only the vegans are armed, otherwise those wars and -isms could have been so much worse!

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Sometimes, a cucumber is just a bazooka.
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Dragon-King Wangchuck said...

Wait. What if the doctor also has a gun? Wait. OMG - there's that pic of Kenyan Usurper Blacky Hussein X shooting skeet, which means that he's got a gun. Wait. When is Kristin Dattilo going to be appointed as the official "Expert On So Much".

You do have to admit though, the "truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition" standard would make peer review a whole lot more interesting.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

"I'm right because I can kill you"?

M. Bouffant said...

"I'm right because I can kill you"?
Discussion over!

El Manquécito said...

God is a bullet.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Speaking of expertise....

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Here's the design for the Atlanta Falcons' new stadium.
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Substance McGravitas said...

Fuckers have been stealing my gifs.

tigris said...

Can't have, there's no ring.

mikey said...

My guns will allow me to survive the collapse of the American government by shooting holes in idiots with guns and food and taking their guns and food.

I don't see a problem - I consider this the pinnacle of post-apocalyptic productivity...

Smut Clyde said...

shooting holes in idiots

Secure in the knowledge that they are a renewable resource.