6/18/14
Brigitte Gabriel shows us how to deal with those who resort to the tactic,
"Not all Muslims are violent - most are peaceful" (4:51)
Beautiful.
Now let's take a look at the other side ...
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks questioned Gabriel's claims and sources (8:47)
So, who's got their facts straight?
And who's playing loose with the data?
(Evaluation of this data by J.T. Eberhard)
It looks like Gabriel is the one who knows what she is talking about.
Cenk Uygur managed to demonstrate just about every logical fallacy in Wikipedia
in that 9-minute hack job. His best line was:
"
It's amazing what happens when facts run up against prejudice."
That was a classic example of being completely oblivious to the fact that,
Cenk wasn't describing Gabriel ... he was describing himself.
Elliot Spitzer also took Gabriel to task (11:54)
When Spitzer asked, where Gabriel got her information
about radical Muslim infiltration in the U.S.,
Gabriel gave him a detailed answer, including several names.
Spitzer ignored the names she gave,
and then tried to make it appear as though she had evaded the question.
So Gabriel then gave him another name,
and all Spitzer could do was say "
we will follow up on that."
So, all that line of questioning got Spitzer was egg on his face,
since Gabriel provided a name and he had no reply.
Next Spitzer shows tape of Gabriel speaking.
He then takes her words out of context
and spouts the usual "
are you saying all Muslims are evil? " Straw Man argument.
Gabriel immediately set him straight about whom she was referring to
(and it wasn't
all Muslims).
Her reply to Spitzer about the Arab Spring events proved prophetic
as the Egyptian military would soon have to remove
the democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood leaders
when they tried to destroy Egypt's fledgling democracy
and replace it with a Muslim theocracy.
I loved it when Spitzer said "
history will tell us 10 years from now who is right."
Well Mr. Spitzer we only had to wait 2 years to get the answer ...
and it was Gabriel who was right - not you.
Gabriel then specifically differentiated between radical Muslims and moderates,
making it clear to everyone (except those like Spitzer)
that she does not consider all Muslims terrorists.
Since this contradicted the picture that Spitzer was trying to paint of Gabriel,
he defended his mischaracterizations of Gabriel's comments
by claiming that he was judging her by "
the entirety of her comments."
So since Spitzer couldn't defeat her on an actual point-by-point basis,
and her replies disproved his Straw Man argument,
Spitzer was forced to throw his hands up and refer to a vague generalization
in a desperate attempt to save face.
Spitzer closes by again accusing Gabriel
of painting all Muslims with one broad brush,
basically ignoring her detailed explanations to the contrary.
So Spitzer has failed as a governor
(forced out over a prostitution scandal while married)
and now he has failed as an objective journalist.
Hopefully, Elliot will someday find ...
something that he is good at
UPDATE ~10 YEARS LATER
I feel the need to clarify something.
Bridget Gabriel is a Conservative.
I disagree with
almost all of her positions.
I identify as a Rationalist. As a Rationalist,
I am not allowed to choose sides based on ideology
but only on the facts and the application of logic.
permanent link
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