to read these discussions. I'm with pear on this (surprise surprise) as I've written elsewhere he makes for a good punching bag and seems to be a good sport about it most of the time. Try to draw him into a substantive conversation about anything and you'll hear crickets (just check out this thread). Most of the time he'd rather just spar. That's fine. And frankly, even though he seems confined to talking points, let's face it--that's the nature of our opposition these days. So we might as well use the opportunity he provides to craft our responses. He made this very point to me shortly after I started posting regularly and I've come to agree. I occasionally find that I learn from more from others' clever responses to his nonsense than from Cenk even on the same topics.

by hazmat on 07/30/2008 06:02:31 PM EST

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