Media Matters: where scare quotes magically transform facts into “smears”

by Kathy Shaidle, NewsReal:

One of the left’s favorite (and lamest) rhetorical tricks is to simply reprint one of their opponent’s statements, verbatim, and without comment. You see, the statement’s idiocy and offensiveness is self-evident, and will surely shock the conscience of any “right thinking” reader. No rebuttal required.

It’s a lazy, sophomoric ploy. I suppose the left has been our self-appointed cultural hall monitor for so long they’ve lost the ability, or the need, to offer up sound counter-arguments.

There’s a classic example of this dopey tactic up at Media Matters today.

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