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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (6029)12/2/2005 3:56:27 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542201
 
There is more going on in that article than just hyperbole. There is kind of a preemptive attack on the very notion of a certain postion (in this case Bush's ranking among Presidents).

That article was about hyperbole. It wasn't about Bush or the stupidity of not liking Bush.

I suspect that, given the source of the article, the author used that example to illustrate his point because his audience, Bush supporters, would understand it better--coming from one of their own and all that--than if he had used the right's own hyperbole. He was chiding them, and the rest of us, about being so hyperbolic. IMO, of course.

This is the money line of the piece: "The problem with making such a hyperbolic claim is that such exaggerations are not meant to be taking seriously. When the person who makes them treats them as if it were a rational claim then it shows that they themselves are not worthy of being taken seriously."
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