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Wait, are you telling me that someone who complains about backwards Islamic cultures and government wasting money before he even starts addressing his main poin
by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Wait, are you telling me that someone who complains about backwards Islamic cultures and government wasting money before he even starts addressing his main point is not completely fair and impartial?! Colour me surprised. The use of emotional language and pejoratives almost had me convinced it was a genuine science article!
(Whether he is right or wrong on those points is not important here; they're completely unrelated to the main point of the article, and that he goes off on those tangents reveals a lot about the author and his intentions, IMHO).
- zenexer 7y agoI nearly closed the article after reading his off-topic intro. I was expecting to read about hydrogen, not a rant about other cultures. It really detracts from the quality of the article. I do have to wonder whether this was intentional, though. The author appears to be targeting the government administration at the time. He's buttering them up by starting with a rant with which they're likely to agree. I'm not sure that it was intentional, but if it was, it was a smart move.
- MisterTea 7y agoNo, you misread that. It's not the author breaking out into a rant. That illustrated the rhetoric used in the hydrogen pitch given by Bush post 9-11. The idea was to drum up hydrogen as a way to fight terrorism and radical islam which was being funded by oil. (edit: clarify)