Alex Wagner spouted last night that since President Obama is not of the same degree as Kim Jong Un of North Korea well then he is not a Dictator or Emperor. This statement is a lot like saying well since Edi Amin did not kill as many people as Hitler he is not a war criminal or a Dictator. Her exact statement was: "to all the detractors who compare our American president to an emperor and a dictator, this is what a dictatorship actually looks like. And to the 169 babies born between 2007 and 2011 named Barack: you can keep your name.” This attempt at rationalization is hap hazard at best, First the idiocy done by one dictator has nothing to do with the definition of the word Dictator. Which is; a ruler with total power over a country According to dictionary.com. Trying to say that the silliness done by one idiot dictator has nothing to do with how total power will be utilized by another. The fact is they both act on their emotions with impunity, the fact one shows a slightly higher I.Q. has no bearing on the idea of dictatorship.
Second this seems like another laughable moment where MSNBC will show you the truth of a situation and fail miserably due to their lack of knowledge and inability to understand the straw man logical fallacy. The straw man fallacy is when I cannot attack an idea directly so I take an absurd part of the idea and attack that claiming the idea in whole is a failure when in fact the argument itself is flawed. Ales Wagner just produced a straw man argument for the nation to chew on proving that MSNBC and Alex herself believe the American people will buy into the absurdity of this notion. This by the way proves that Gruber’s notion that the American people are stupid is not a notion held by him alone but by all those who are progressive in nature such as the pundits on MSNBC.
Now on to the name I have given this principle that news agencies such as MSNBC use the logical fallacy of a straw man to prove otherwise indefensible notions. The absurd notion of degree, I use this name because in reality if the news agency can prove there is an absurd degree of an idea and someone does not live up to that degree they are not guilty of the same situation. Another way to put this is they try to say that all methods of use of a notion must equal in degree of severity. The prime example I have given earlier of Edi Amin and Hitler, under Alex Wagner’s notion since President Obama did not stop people from using his name as Kim Jong Un did then he is not a dictator, of course they say this knowing the degree of use is not part of the definition of the word Dictator.
The reality is this the word Dictator is not about degree of use but the control and use of power, if a President acts unilaterally on anything in this nation, without the consent of Congress or the people he is a dictator simply because that is the definition of the word dictator, it does not matter if another Dictator uses this power in a different more absurd way, nor does it matter if the Dictator acts in a fashion they believe is best for the people. All that matters is that the person act with total power over the nation they lead. Obama is a dictator not due to the lack of absurdity but due to his lack of constitutional ethic and acting alone by decree.