Blumner had accused radio personality Neal Boortz of comparing Supreme Court justice appointee Elena Kagan to the cartoon monster "Shrek."
Here's how she did it:
A recent tweet from radio host Neal Boortz asked, "Has anyone seen Mike Myers and your new Supreme in the same room at the same time?" comparing Kagan to Shrek, the cartoon ogre character of which Myers is the voice.Finding it hard to follow the logic? Maybe this will help:
(I'm not sure why the video doesn't appear on the main page. It appears if you click "Read more" at the bottom of the post)
If you claim somebody looks like Boris Karloff then you're actually claiming that the person resembles Frankenstein's monster. Likewise for any example where the actor fails to significantly resemble their character.
Blumner's comment made absolutely no sense, and the comparison was stated as a matter of fact, not as a matter of opinion. Boortz either did or did not compare Kagan to Shrek. If opinion entered into it than there is no such thing as a fact divorced from opinion.
Thus began the painful process of holding the Times to account.
