{"id":10363,"date":"2011-09-13T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/13\/dennis-prager-and-exaggeration\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:36:46","slug":"dennis-prager-and-exaggeration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/13\/dennis-prager-and-exaggeration\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager and Exaggeration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager warns against exaggeration.  He says, rightly, that to exaggerate is to lose credibility.  But he himself exaggerates when he refers to the Social Security sytem as a Ponzi scheme.  Obviously<\/em>, it is not.  Admittedly, in its present configuration it is fiscally unsustainable like<\/em> a Ponzi a scheme.  But it is not a Ponzi scheme for a very simple reason: it is not driven by fraudulent intent.  The liberals who set it  up and the liberals who defend its present configuration are by and large not crooks.  They had and have good intentions.  (Yes!)  Mitt Romney was right in last night's Tea Party debate to say that that it is "over the top" to refer to the SS sytem as a Ponzi scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n

So why does a bright guy like Prager exaggerate in practically the same breath in which he warns against it?<\/span><\/p>\n

A second example. Prager has an animus against 'studies.'  And with justification.  He regularly states that if a study confirms commonsense then it is unnecessary, and if it does not, then it is wrong.  As someone  who likes pithy formulations, I can see why he repeats this cute 'mantra.'  Unfortunately, it is an exaggeration.  Must I explain why? Not to the elite readers of this blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prager has his acolytes Google his name.  (He addressed one of my posts on the air a while back.) So if he comes across this post, I want to say to him, "I love you, man; you do more for this country in one hour than I could do in a life time of scribbling.  I correct you because I love you."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager warns against exaggeration.  He says, rightly, that to exaggerate is to lose credibility.  But he himself exaggerates when he refers to the Social Security sytem as a Ponzi scheme.  Obviously, it is not.  Admittedly, in its present configuration it is fiscally unsustainable like a Ponzi a scheme.  But it is not a Ponzi scheme … Continue reading “Dennis Prager and Exaggeration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}