Comments on: A tale of two pundits: Sowell v. Huffington

By: Roughcoat

Roughcoat — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:27:05 +0000

Isn’t Arianna Huffington the missing Gabor sister?

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By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:23:52 +0000

It seems almost blasphemous to even mention the profound and almost always interesting thinker, Thomas Sowell, in the same headline with the shifting sands, difficult-to-even-listen-to HuffPo hostess.

If Arianna has an actual brain hiding inside her own déluge of verbiage, you’d need tweezers to find it.

By: paul_unalaska

paul_unalaska — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:58:43 +0000

Thank you for the intellectual gravitas in your summations of Thomas Sowell and the empty vessel that is Ari Huffington. The well thought out, emotions aside comments leave hope for me in this often times decaying-like world of ours.

More importantly, Mr. Kimball thank you for bringing such interesting discussions to the tableau. Admittedly or not, PJ receives its fair share of people with differing views by your providing material that encompasses more involved discussion compared to the numerous emotionally driven Left’s ‘Bush did it’ anthem. JMO. Again, thank you.

‘If you think you know, you don’t know. If you know you don’t know, you know.’ -Rumi

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:46:45 +0000

She lacks what Sowell has in abundance: brains. She will never get over being tossed out like dirty laundry by her ex!!

By: Jim Baker

Jim Baker — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:04:41 +0000

Horace Wells,
But before you do, name me one instance of the government ever doing anything, other than the marshall law era of WWII, that reduced unemployment. Better yet, one instance where government created any wealth through its productivity projects. By the way, although I don’t sanctify Thomas Sowell because he is a free market libertarian who derives his uniqueness through his blackness, I do very much respect his point of view as a free market libertarian who derives his uniqueness from his cut through the crap writing style. Go back to your field of dreams and, in the future, cut with the racist crap.

By: SeattleBruce

SeattleBruce — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:08:11 +0000

Horace:
“That a two bit hack like Kimball”
Ah, the old ad hominem attack…nice…do you have something to say, or a means to support it? Rich…!

“My point is that PC tokenism gets Sowell taken more seriously than he merits.”

Since we are here to some degree comparing Sowell’s qualifications with Huffington’s, and I notice you’ve had nothing to say on that topic, what is your point? Ah, to tear down those on the right here…sure…not to coherently argue the point at hand. Based on Huffington’s assertions and Sowell’s, which comes closer to the truth of the historic and current economic matters and assignment of responsibility and understanding for the current imbroglio? After all, it is in learning from these mistakes that we can at least blunt our tendencies to repeat our mistakes in the future.

By: SeattleBruce

SeattleBruce — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:46:16 +0000

Say Brent (#5):
“Would it not be better—that is, more intellectually honest–to say that windbags of both right and left (e.g., you and me and everybody else) are ideologues—purveyors of half-truths? And wouldn’t it be more honest to say that I prefer this ideology to that one for the following (contestable) reasons, rather than incredulously claiming that my (preferred) viewpoint is the pure truth while my adversary’s is just pure drivel?”

You can indeed argue that there is some subjectivity in all points of view, in all articulation and in all propegation of theory – whether economic or political. But when one trained observer (like the prolifically published economist Sowell) present coherent fact based argumentation to present his theories and another (Huffington) appeals to political hackery to present hers, one must conclude that you’re better off choosing the conclusions that are more fact based. So clearly, all points of view are at least somewhat subjective – but some are based more so on facts and expertise than others. This is the an enourmous difference that you fail to point out between the two in your comments Brent.