Friday, June 17, 2011

I WAS WRONG AGAIN

Below I wrote that the radio gasbags wouldn't make a fuss about the Vancouver hockey riot. 

Today Glenda Beck proved me wrong.  He claimed that the riot was another symptom of societal decline, the implication being that we need to turn back to Jeebus and the Free Market Fairy.  Beck went on to point out two examples of "bad Capitalism": Google and Facebook.  I didn't hear a specific complaint about Google but Beck did claim that "Facebook is organizing people to riot."
The literal interpretation of that comment is the false claim that the company is organizing people instead of the correct claim that people are using Facebook to organize.

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