Logically, what’s wrong with the following passage from Michelle Malkin’s recent post:
As for President-elect Obama, his true views about ICE are well-known. Despite telling Katie Couric that his aunt should be required to follow the law because “We’re a nation of laws…I’m a strong believer you have to obey the law,” Obama scolded ICE [...]
The observations from yesterday’s post, “Rhetoric from the Ground,” seem to be borne out by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution follow-up story, “Rep. Broun Apologizes for Linking Obama to Hitler.” While other Georgia Republican legislators criticized the rhetoric of Broun’s comments, and while Broun himself modified some of his statements, the majority of a group of Georgia [...]
The reader replies to a RedState diary entry praising Georgia Representative Paul Broun for comparing Obama to Hitler and Communism fall into two camps:
The Democrats went overboard in comparing Bush to Hitler; we shouldn’t make the same rhetorical mistake.
We need to make bold statements in order to get our case heard by the mainstream media; [...]
Although Newt Gingrich’s 1990 GOPAC pamphlet Language, A Key Mechanism of Control didn’t invent the technique of using positive and negative language, this basic list of words called the attention of propagandists to the power of this simple technique.
“Glittering generalities” (positive terms) like “common sense” and “freedom” were to be used to characterize right-wing Republican [...]
Extreme Right websites love polls–those little questionnaires that purport to measure audience opinion. The current O’Reilly Factor poll (11/10/08) illustrates the loaded question fallacy :
Q. What worries you most about an Obama administration?
A.
Higher taxes
Weakened national defense
Liberal judges
Open borders
Who said we were worried, let alone that these four scenarios are likely in an Obama administration? To [...]
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