Comments on: Misesian Slip?

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:51:55 +0000

I’m sure there’s somebody out there (probably British) who says “Mye-SEE-zhun” but I usually hear either “Miss-SEZ-ee-yun” or “Miz-ESS-ee-yun.” The latter is arguably more accurate (since the correct German pronunciation of “Mises” is “MEEZ-ess” rather than “MEESE-ez”).

By: b-psycho

b-psycho — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:47:30 +0000

Great, now you have me wondering how “Misesian” would be properly said…

By: MC

MC — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:08:31 +0000

Transcript: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/20/obama-on-tonight-show-wit_n_177206.html

In the video link above, it’s at -12:21 (the time counts down in the display).

1st link (previous comment) was wrong

By: MC

MC — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:04:09 +0000

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/clips/president-obama-full-interview-319/1067541/

full episode there. Slip at 12:21 (countdown way)

By: MC

MC — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:01:40 +0000

There is any private recorded vid uploaded? It will be a matter of time till someone gets one out from their VCR

By: Robert Paul

Robert Paul — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:21:16 +0000

Any Austrian who was paying attention should’ve noticed that slip. It does make me wonder…

By: Anon73

Anon73 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:39:35 +0000

I was aware of his vague references to “those who believe that government shouldn’t interfere in the economy”, but I assumed he meant (and everyone understood him to mean) republicans when he said that. After all, nominally the republican party does stand for “free enterprise”.

Incidentally wikipedia calls that kind of statement (“There are some who say…”) weasel language, since it doesn’t identify which people or groups support the viewpoint in question. I think Randians call it the “ambiguous collective” fallacy.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:59:16 +0000

Obama’s rhetorical strategy seems to be: a) My conservative opponents are wild-eyed libertarians; but b) their wild-eyed libertarian policies are what caused this mess in the first place, and c) their criticisms of me are hypocritical since they never governed in a wild-eyed libertarian way themselves, therefore d) I can dismiss their arguments.

He seems not to notice that (b) and (c) are mutually inconsistent. And, of course, that a-c-d by itself is fallacious.

By: Black Bloke

Black Bloke — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:31:20 +0000

He makes broad references to theoretical opponents who hold libertarian ideas, e.g. Some people believe that we shouldn’t interfere with the economy… or Some people believe that government doesn’t have a role to play… etc. The strawman libertarian position is a springboard for a part of almost every speech I’ve heard from him.

By: Anon73

Anon73 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:32:45 +0000

I didn’t get the impression Obama had any great awareness of libertarians in particular, unless perhaps he considers Ronald Reagan to epitomize the label. Can you provide a link of some kind?