Comments on: O’Hanlon Rips GAO Report: It Is ‘Flat-Out Sloppy’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:15:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kilo http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4064842 Kilo Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:24:55 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4064842 <strong>“Typical Troll Tactic #27: take the most extreme statements ever made by anyone and ascribe them to the “mainstream” of the group you wish to denounce. Then laugh at them.” Sigh. And we in the realism team can’t do that, because the most extreme statements are immediately made into policy by this madministration, and repeated ad infinitum by the “Mighty Wurlitzer.” We can’t win using their tactics. Comment by Ed Drone — September 7, 2007 @ 4:33 pm</strong> Was that supposed to be funny ? What is the longest period you have ever spent reading comments on this blog without reading the words "Hitler" or "Nazi" ? 5 minutes ? 6 ? “Typical Troll Tactic #27: take the most extreme statements ever made by anyone and ascribe them to the “mainstream” of the group you wish to denounce. Then laugh at them.”

Sigh. And we in the realism team can’t do that, because the most extreme statements are immediately made into policy by this madministration, and repeated ad infinitum by the “Mighty Wurlitzer.” We can’t win using their tactics.

Comment by Ed Drone — September 7, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

Was that supposed to be funny ?
What is the longest period you have ever spent reading comments on this blog without reading the words “Hitler” or “Nazi” ?
5 minutes ? 6 ?

]]> By: Kilo http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4064826 Kilo Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:20:19 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4064826 <strong>“Overly rigorous”? Seriously? They were too rigorous? But then, also “flat-out sloppy”? I can userstand how, say, pornography can be both vigorous and sloppy, but statistics? This is Colbertesque. - Chris Comment by Chris Cunningham — September 6, 2007 @ 2:51 pm</strong> Why ? Does Colbert post here a lot ? Impersonate most of the commenters here ? What do you think you are criticising when you moan about the Pentagon declaring that the 40 people they just bombed were all al Qaeda ? That's right, you're making the same valid criticism O'Hanlon does here about statistics relating to who was killed and why. “Overly rigorous”? Seriously? They were too rigorous?
But then, also “flat-out sloppy”? I can userstand how, say, pornography can be both vigorous and sloppy, but statistics?
This is Colbertesque.
- Chris
Comment by Chris Cunningham — September 6, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

Why ? Does Colbert post here a lot ? Impersonate most of the commenters here ?
What do you think you are criticising when you moan about the Pentagon declaring that the 40 people they just bombed were all al Qaeda ?
That’s right, you’re making the same valid criticism O’Hanlon does here about statistics relating to who was killed and why.

]]> By: Kilo http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4064813 Kilo Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:13:17 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4064813 <strong> In an analysis only he could offer, O’Hanlon rips the GAO report for being both “overly rigorous” and “flat-out sloppy”: "In addition, for the GAO to decline to judge whether attacks are sectarian or not is to take an overly rigorous approach to the numbers", says the Brookings expert.</strong> No, a lot of people could offer you the same anaylsis, many of them commenting right here. What do you think you are talking about when you complain about the Pentagon declaring the 40 people they just bombed as being "al Qaeda" when no definitive assessment of this is possible ? That's right, you're making the same valid critcism O'Hanlon is. In an analysis only he could offer, O’Hanlon rips the GAO report for being both “overly rigorous” and “flat-out sloppy”:

“In addition, for the GAO to decline to judge whether attacks are sectarian or not is to take an overly rigorous approach to the numbers”, says the Brookings expert.

No, a lot of people could offer you the same anaylsis, many of them commenting right here.
What do you think you are talking about when you complain about the Pentagon declaring the 40 people they just bombed as being “al Qaeda” when no definitive assessment of this is possible ?
That’s right, you’re making the same valid critcism O’Hanlon is.

]]> By: Ed Drone http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4064040 Ed Drone Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:33:11 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4064040 From above: "Typical Troll Tactic #27: take the most extreme statements ever made by anyone and ascribe them to the “mainstream” of the group you wish to denounce. Then laugh at them." Sigh. And we in the realism team can't do that, because the most extreme statements are immediately made into policy by this madministration, and repeated <em>ad infinitum</em> by the "Mighty Wurlitzer." We can't win using their tactics. Ed From above:

“Typical Troll Tactic #27: take the most extreme statements ever made by anyone and ascribe them to the “mainstream” of the group you wish to denounce. Then laugh at them.”

Sigh. And we in the realism team can’t do that, because the most extreme statements are immediately made into policy by this madministration, and repeated ad infinitum by the “Mighty Wurlitzer.” We can’t win using their tactics.

Ed

]]> By: reverter http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4063700 reverter Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:26:46 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4063700 I vote for Eraserhead. Eraserhead guy to Ringo: "Oh, you really are sick!" I vote for Eraserhead.
Eraserhead guy to Ringo: “Oh, you really are sick!”

]]> By: toasterhead http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062856 toasterhead Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:25:59 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062856 <i>toasterhead = terrorist Comment by mrp — September 6, 2007 @ 11:36 pm</i> Whatever. toasterhead = terrorist

Comment by mrp — September 6, 2007 @ 11:36 pm

Whatever.

]]> By: O’Hanlon Is A Hack http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062765 O’Hanlon Is A Hack Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:24:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062765 hey o'hanlon you irish piece of shite !!! find a different barber !!! your 'hairstyle' looks like a rabid beaver is attacking your pointy skull !!! hey o’hanlon you irish piece of shite !!!

find a different barber !!!

your ‘hairstyle’ looks like a rabid beaver is attacking your pointy skull !!!

]]> By: Ira Einhorn http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062739 Ira Einhorn Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:44:19 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062739 Hey O'Hanlon, nice hairdo. I'd ask if you just woke up but your opinions indicate you're still sound asleep... Hey O’Hanlon, nice hairdo. I’d ask if you just woke up but your opinions indicate you’re still sound asleep…

]]> By: dude http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062714 dude Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:13:55 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062714 How rich of the first poster. As if O'Hanlon wan't immediately attacked once he strayed off the reservation by the same posters here. Hilarious. How rich of the first poster. As if O’Hanlon wan’t immediately attacked once he strayed off the reservation by the same posters here. Hilarious.

]]> By: AlanDownunder http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062710 AlanDownunder Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:09:27 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062710 O'Hanlon. Flat-out selectively credulous. When's he leaving Brookings for AEI? O’Hanlon. Flat-out selectively credulous. When’s he leaving Brookings for AEI?

]]> By: mrp http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062641 mrp Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:36:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062641 <blockquote> <i>Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11? I guess we know which side you’re on. Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm </i> I did, because we did. Prove me wrong. Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm </blockquote> http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371 toasterhead = terrorist

Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11?

I guess we know which side you’re on.

Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

I did, because we did. Prove me wrong.

Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371

toasterhead = terrorist

]]> By: mrp http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062639 mrp Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:36:21 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062639 <blockquote> <i>Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11? I guess we know which side you’re on. Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm </i> I did, because we did. Prove me wrong. Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm </blockquote> http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371 toasterhead = traitor

Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11?

I guess we know which side you’re on.

Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

I did, because we did. Prove me wrong.

Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371

toasterhead = traitor

]]> By: mrp http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062637 mrp Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:35:01 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062637 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371 toasterhead is absolutely a traitor to the US. <blockquote> <i>Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11? I guess we know which side you’re on. Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm</i> I did, because we did. Prove me wrong. Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm</blockquote> http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371

toasterhead is absolutely a traitor to the US.

Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11?

I guess we know which side you’re on.

Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

I did, because we did. Prove me wrong.

Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062577 big papa Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:42:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062577 Caption Contest: "After Gannon's and Bush's frat-nite party I threw up on it!" Caption Contest:

“After Gannon’s and Bush’s frat-nite party I threw up on it!”

]]> By: WHT http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062561 WHT Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:36:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062561 O'Hanlon looks like a young Soviet-era apparatchik. Curious O’Hanlon looks like a young Soviet-era apparatchik. Curious

]]> By: ipod http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062553 ipod Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:30:56 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062553 does o'hanlon actually get paid for shooting his mouth off? - man,get me a job at brookings!!! does o’hanlon actually get paid for shooting his mouth off? – man,get me a job at brookings!!!

]]> By: CaptainVideo http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062547 CaptainVideo Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:25:37 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062547 Romney Senior, who was an honest politician explained the situation very well with respect to Vietnam. He said when you go over there they brainwash you. He indicated that this time he would seek to find out what is going on. This got him labeled as the "brainwashed candidate" and helped do his nomination bid in. In Iraq its deja vu all over again. People whe go over there get systematically brainwashed by the military, and all too many are naive enough to buy the propaganda. I guess that O'Hanlon should be called the brainwashed analyst. Romney Senior, who was an honest politician explained the situation very well with respect to Vietnam. He said when you go over there they brainwash you. He indicated that this time he would seek to find out what is going on. This got him labeled as the “brainwashed candidate” and helped do his nomination bid in.

In Iraq its deja vu all over again. People whe go over there get systematically brainwashed by the military, and all too many are naive enough to buy the propaganda.

I guess that O’Hanlon should be called the brainwashed analyst.

]]> By: CaptainVideo http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062542 CaptainVideo Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:19:02 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062542 "“SEN. JOE BIDEN (D-DE): “My Take Is Parts Of The Surge Are Working.” Idiot! Playing right into the hands of the Bush administration. Another reason why he should not be the Democratic presidential candidate. ““SEN. JOE BIDEN (D-DE): “My Take Is Parts Of The Surge Are Working.”

Idiot! Playing right into the hands of the Bush administration. Another reason why he should not be the Democratic presidential candidate.

]]> By: nofltwlt http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062490 nofltwlt Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:14:47 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062490 O'Hanlon has soiled himself; why does the media keep citing him? The answer is, only the neocon media cites him. O’Hanlon has soiled himself; why does the media keep citing him? The answer is, only the neocon media cites him.

]]> By: JakeIsATerrorist http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/comment-page-4/#comment-4062443 JakeIsATerrorist Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:21:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/ohanlon-gao-2/#comment-4062443 <em>Ain’t that the truth!?!!! Comment by mrp — September 6, 2007 @ 8:07 pm</em> Nope, but it won't stop hateful jackasses like you from believing it! Ain’t that the truth!?!!!
Comment by mrp — September 6, 2007 @ 8:07 pm

Nope, but it won’t stop hateful jackasses like you from believing it!

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