A few days ago I posted this about Obama science czar John Holdren, including a link to Michelle Malkin’s blog.
I respond to the commenter thusly:
Michelle Malkin puts dead or irrelevant links in her posts, and do you ever wonder why?
Hint: The links don’t support her extremist conclusions
For starters, it doesn’t help the allegedly fact-based argument you’re attempting to make when the second sentence includes accusations about “extremist conclusions.”
But back to the facts. I went back to Malkin’s post and clicked through to all the links. One, indeed, did not work. The other 7 did. Doesn’t exactly prove your 1st point.
Here is the quote by Harrison Brown that Malkin says reveals Holdren’s reverence for the gurus of population control authoritarianism.
*SNIP*
This is what John Holdren said about Harrison Brown in 2007:
The commenter provides the full text of both direct quotes, suggesting that Malkin did not do so. And she didn’t…in this post, which was her syndicated column for the week. She does, however, provide a link to a previous post on the subject, which includes both quotes in full, in an image from Holdren’s own PowerPoint presentation.
Is that so bad? Notice that in her article today, Malkin refers to Holdren’s “preoccupation” with “the rates at which people breed”, but what he actually said was that he was preoccupied with science and tech.
May I recommend not correcting someone’s quote pull with an incorrect one of your own? Holdren doesn’t say he’s “preoccupied with science and tech” — he refers to his “pre-occupation with the great problems at the intersection of science and technology with the human condition.”
Slide 10 of Holdren’s presentation from the AAAS meeting is titled “Impediments to sustainable well-being” — in other words, the great problems at the intersection of science and technology with the human condition. Slide 11 offers “Factors driving or aggravating the impediments,” and the 4th bullet is “continuing population growth.”
So Holdren is saying that continuing population growth is a factor in the great problems with which he has a self-described pre-occupation.
Holdren has now made it clear that he never supported any kind of forced sterilization, even 32 years ago. If you read the longer excerpts at prisonplanet, you will see that is probably true.
The commenter would like us to visit prisonplanet, but doesn’t provide a link to the proper article, so we can see for ourselves that it is “probably true” that “Holdren has now made it clear that he never supported any kind of forced sterilization.” Not exactly an inspiring rebuttal.
And to many of us, even the mention of forced sterilization and government-mandated abortions as an option goes beyond the pale. You don’t have to don a skirt and sweater with a big “E” on the front and pick up a pair of pom-poms to set off alarm bells.
When Commenters are Wrong
Not to mention this adamant and lengthy about it, I feel the need to respond right on the front page.
A few days ago I posted this about Obama science czar John Holdren, including a link to Michelle Malkin’s blog.
I respond to the commenter thusly:
For starters, it doesn’t help the allegedly fact-based argument you’re attempting to make when the second sentence includes accusations about “extremist conclusions.”
But back to the facts. I went back to Malkin’s post and clicked through to all the links. One, indeed, did not work. The other 7 did. Doesn’t exactly prove your 1st point.
The commenter provides the full text of both direct quotes, suggesting that Malkin did not do so. And she didn’t…in this post, which was her syndicated column for the week. She does, however, provide a link to a previous post on the subject, which includes both quotes in full, in an image from Holdren’s own PowerPoint presentation.
May I recommend not correcting someone’s quote pull with an incorrect one of your own? Holdren doesn’t say he’s “preoccupied with science and tech” — he refers to his “pre-occupation with the great problems at the intersection of science and technology with the human condition.”
Slide 10 of Holdren’s presentation from the AAAS meeting is titled “Impediments to sustainable well-being” — in other words, the great problems at the intersection of science and technology with the human condition. Slide 11 offers “Factors driving or aggravating the impediments,” and the 4th bullet is “continuing population growth.”
So Holdren is saying that continuing population growth is a factor in the great problems with which he has a self-described pre-occupation.
The commenter would like us to visit prisonplanet, but doesn’t provide a link to the proper article, so we can see for ourselves that it is “probably true” that “Holdren has now made it clear that he never supported any kind of forced sterilization.” Not exactly an inspiring rebuttal.
And to many of us, even the mention of forced sterilization and government-mandated abortions as an option goes beyond the pale. You don’t have to don a skirt and sweater with a big “E” on the front and pick up a pair of pom-poms to set off alarm bells.
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