December 13, 2003

So much for accuracy

Found this charming article by Mark Alexander on Townhall via Pandagon and thought this was strange.

ABC's Ted Koppel opened the slugfest by asking the nine candidates to "raise your hand if you believe that Governor Dean can beat George Bush." Of course, only one candidate -- Dean -- raised his hand (appropriately, his left hand).

See, get it? He's so far left he only uses his left hand!

Except, well, he did, in fact, use his right hand.


(Via the Daily Show, and their video confirms the image behind Stewart wasn't flipped.)

But, you know, when you're trying so hard to make a point, who cares about accuracy?

Posted by John at December 13, 2003 12:15 PM
Comments

Obviously he meant his other left hand. Conservatives are just trying to prove they can beat Howard Dean with half their brain tied behind their back

Posted by: antiphone at December 13, 2003 02:20 PM

When did the conservatives get even half a brain? Shit, we're in trouble now.

Posted by: ccobb at December 13, 2003 02:26 PM

maybe Mark Alexander reverses the usual meaning of left and right, politcally, as a protest against the French origin of the left/right/center political coinage. use the seating pattern of the Surrender Monkey Constituent Assembly? never!

Posted by: wcw at December 13, 2003 02:49 PM

Y'know, it's not that they're evil liars, or even that they're incredibly stupid evil liars... it's that their audience is so freakin' conditioned to go "Yup, yup, yup" like Mortimer Snerd. In fact, I propose that, instead of dittoheads and the like, we call 'em Snerd-Boys.

Posted by: filkertom at December 13, 2003 03:00 PM

Actually Dave Letterman played a clip of Dudya blathering about "on the left hand and right hand", and getting them wrong. He liked it so much he played it again.

Posted by: Kile at December 13, 2003 03:32 PM

Yes, but where does this get us? I'd be more inclined to spend my time wondering, with Kucinich, I guess, how much gray matter time Ted Koppel might have put on that question. Not a terribly deep question.

Posted by: c;ub at December 13, 2003 05:28 PM

Actually Kile, it was W saying "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing" while gesturing with the wrong hands, which is even funnier...

Maybe Alexander hangs over at Townhall with renowned psychiatrist Chuckie Krauthammer, and was thinking in neurological, left brain-right brain terms?

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Posted by: michael in DC at December 13, 2003 08:20 PM

I can't wait until Dean has his other hand on a Bible.

Posted by: ethan at December 13, 2003 09:57 PM

Aw cmon, that hand's on the left side of the *screen*...

Posted by: andrew at December 15, 2003 04:14 PM