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Category Archives: Logical fallacies

Conjunction Disjunction

12-Nov-08

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 [...]

Ground Update

12-Nov-08

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 [...]

Pushy Poll

10-Nov-08

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 [...]