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Not As Bad As

by John Cole|  May 29, 20089:43 am| 21 Comments

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I imagine that with the crumbling administration dragging McCain down like a lead weight, we will probably hear a lot of the “Not as bad as” defense in upcoming months. It might be worthwhile for folks to read this post by the Slacktivist on the NABA defense.

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  1. 1.

    Jake

    May 29, 2008 at 9:49 am

    It reminds me of some of the defenses of Bush I’ve seen of late in response to Scotties tell-all, along the lines of “But Bush hasn’t been convicted of anything!!!” So I guess that would constitute the HBCY defense, for Hasn’t Been Convicted Yet.

    Note that this also “works” for defending OJ Simpson, if you’re so inclined.

  2. 2.

    Incertus

    May 29, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Closely tied to NABA is “at least it’s not,” which is one my daughter tries to dump on me from time to time. So do my friends with even worse taste in films than me.

  3. 3.

    Jake

    May 29, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Is there some trick to getting an exclamation point in a post? What did you do Cole, ban them because they remind you of TalkLeft posters?

  4. 4.

    Zifnab

    May 29, 2008 at 9:53 am

    John McCain in ’08
    Not as bad as Auschwitz.

  5. 5.

    rachel

    May 29, 2008 at 9:55 am

    So do my friends with even worse taste in films than me.

    The Bush Administration may be bad, but at least it’s not Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo.

  6. 6.

    cleek

    May 29, 2008 at 9:59 am

    OT, but Greenwald’s on fire here. our press needs to be fired en masse.

  7. 7.

    fecapult

    May 29, 2008 at 9:59 am

    The Bush Administration – Not As Bad As Ishtar?

  8. 8.

    4tehlulz

    May 29, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Holocaust Denial.
    Not as bad as Auschwitz.

  9. 9.

    Xenos

    May 29, 2008 at 10:07 am

    Nixon: Not As Bad As George W. Bush.

    You are right – it fails to vindicate.

  10. 10.

    Incertus

    May 29, 2008 at 10:08 am

    We need to keep in mind, though, that no matter how not as bad as the Bush administration is–and I’d say it is at least as bad as Ishtar–that there are some eerie similarities between Bush and McCain.

  11. 11.

    cleek

    May 29, 2008 at 10:14 am

    tu quoque, not as bad as ad hominem

  12. 12.

    fecapult

    May 29, 2008 at 10:14 am

    I dunno, Ishtar was pretty awful.
    On the upside, only two hours of my life were lost to Ishtar

  13. 13.

    r€nato

    May 29, 2008 at 10:22 am

    A Nazi slave labor camp is NABA a Nazi death camp, which is NABA gay marriage.

  14. 14.

    libarbarian

    May 29, 2008 at 10:45 am

    At least Rightwing NABA-ers are not as bad as leftwing NABA-ers.

  15. 15.

    AkaDad

    May 29, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    John McCain: Not As Bad As Cancer

  16. 16.

    Dreggas

    May 29, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    WWII vet smacks downs right wing blogger

  17. 17.

    Garrigus Carraig

    May 29, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    John McCain: Not as bad as head-cheese.
    John Sidney McCain III: Not as bad as the 1943 Philadelphia Phillies.
    John McCain: Not as bad as being anally raped by your own dildo-wielding daughter.

  18. 18.

    Fwiffo

    May 29, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    Dreggas beat me to it. That exchange is most EPIC among all EPIC WINS. Check out the commenters obsessing about the VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT of Brack Hussein Obama’s great-uncle’s middle initial. It’s a W! No a T! No an E! They’re about to crack this case WIDE OPEN BABY!

  19. 19.

    Incertus

    May 29, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    I was going to make a crack about how those wingers must not have anything better to do, and then I realized that I just spent the last five minutes snorting at them.

  20. 20.

    Dreggas

    May 29, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Fwiffo Says:

    Dreggas beat me to it. That exchange is most EPIC among all EPIC WINS. Check out the commenters obsessing about the VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT of Brack Hussein Obama’s great-uncle’s middle initial. It’s a W! No a T! No an E! They’re about to crack this case WIDE OPEN BABY!

    supposedly Obama’s uncle may still be alive, better send out an investigative squad to check his counter tops.

  21. 21.

    ThymeZone

    May 29, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Lukasiak: Not as bad as myiq2xu.

    And vice versa.

    Mister Magoo/McCain: Not as bad as George Bush.

    Ari Fleischer: Not as bad as Smithers.

    Sunni: Not bad as a refreshing fruit drink, according to McCain.

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