As most visitors to the cheddarsphere know, Seth Zlotocha, the brains behind In Effect, does some of his best work in the comments section of other blogs.
His repartee with John McAdams of the Marquette Warrior blog over the "Coexist" conflagaration is a fine example.
Marquette professor/Wal-Mart apologist McAdams says this in his post:
The simple fact is that the Interfaith Conference lacks any credibility in attacking Sykes, or making any assertions about religious tolerance.
They are simply a bunch of liberals and leftists who dislike Sykes because they don’t like conservatives.
And, in comments, Zlotocha politely cuts McAdams off at the knees. McAdams, meanwhile, backpedals, blows smoke and obfuscates with amazing alacrity:
5 Comments:
- Seth Zlotocha said...
Out of curiosity, would you consider Archbishop Timothy Dolan to be just a liberal leftist? I only ask because he's on the Board of Directors for the Interfaith Conference.
- John McAdams said...
He's not a liberal leftist, but the vast majority of the other board members are.
And the agenda of the organization is liberal/leftist.
If you disagree, kindly give me an example of a case where they complained about liberal bias toward conservative Christians.- Seth Zlotocha said...
If you disagree, kindly give me an example of a case where they complained about liberal bias toward conservative Christians.
So either a religious group publicly complains about liberal bias toward conservative Christians, or they're a leftist group in your book?
The bottom line is that your argument about the Interfaith Conference only taking issue in this case because Sykes is a conservative -- as opposed to being legitimately offended at the bumper sticker and the quoted comments regarding Islam and terrorism -- is pretty weak. After all, if the Interfaith Conference sent its letter simply to take an ideological swipe at Sykes, why didn't they bother to publicize it at all? After all, it was Sykes who advertised the letter to the public, not the Interfaith Conference.- John McAdams said...
After all, it was Sykes who advertised the letter to the public, not the Interfaith Conference.
In the first place, had Sykes taken it down, that would have been widely publicized. And perhaps the Interfaith Conference would have publicized it after that happened.
However . . . I don't doubt the liberals at the liberals at the Interfaith Conference were genuinely offended.
But of course, since they don't like Sykes, they are pretty much spoiling for something from him to be "offended" about.- Seth Zlotocha said...
Or maybe they don't like Sykes because he offends them, which is quite a different issue than criticizing someone (privately, no less) simply because you're not in the same ideological boat. After all, they seem to get along with Dolan just fine.
In the first place, had Sykes taken it down, that would have been widely publicized.
Where? On some blogs? Until Sykes published the letter on his blog and, more importantly, used air time to discuss the issue, it wasn't even a blip on the media radar (aside from Tim Cuprisin, it still isn't). If the post would've just disappeared, a few bloggers on the left would've cheered, but that's about it.
And perhaps the Interfaith Conference would have publicized it after that happened.
All actual evidence points to the fact that it's Sykes who's using this incident as a publicity tool, not the Interfaith Conference.
On his blog today, Charlie is keeping it going. Since he called me out by name, I responded on my own blog:
http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/
Posted by: jim rowen | November 23, 2007 at 02:22 PM
Sykes probably thinks the Rabbis on the board are anti-Semetic as well.
You know, they have medications that could help him...
Posted by: capper | November 23, 2007 at 08:25 PM