neocon's Journal: Crank du jour

So check out this guy.

His thesis seems to be that if a employee in a local Republican party branch office in California turns out to have been a Chinese agent, this somehow not only reflects badly on the Bush administration (which is investigating the case vigorously), but makes Clinton's receipt of Chinese funding during his campaign, and the subsequent shutting down of the investigation into Wen Ho Lee `okay'.

And to top it off, he goes on to accuse anyone who disagrees with this position as `partisan'.

Check out the thread if you want a few belly laughs, or if you want to see the DNC's talking points in action...

DNC?

[turg]

Okay, I'm in Canada and I have no previous knowledge of this issue but . . .

How does some yahoo posting on slashdot represent the DNC? Isn't taking him as speaking for the DNC the same falacy that he is using?

Surely you should be able to attack the DNC's position based on things the DNC themselves have said :-)

Re:DNC?

[neocon]

Now, now, turg. :-)

I pointed to his position as being an example of someone repeating the position the DNC has independently taken in the past.

I have certainly not asserted the reverse (i.e. that algebraist speaks for the DNC, which as far as I know he has no connection to).

Here's how the DNC characterized the Wen Ho Lee investigation:

Democratic National Committee spokesman Rick Hess said the timeline bordered on racism. "Republicans have been playing political games a long time with Chinese Am

Re:DNC?

[turg]

Thanks. Like I said, I have no previous knowledge of the issue -- didn't know whether this conflation was the result of assuming your readers already knew the DNC position or just a cheap shot.