Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 4, 2008 14:19
>> McCain's TV commercial smearing Obama for his "celebrity" with images of
>> Britney Spears and Paris Hilton dissolving into images of Obama is the first
>> montage the Republicans have deployed featuring...
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>> ...Obama and young white women.
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>> It will not be the last.
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>> There is a pattern here: John McCain willfully misconstrues things Obama
>> says and then pretends to be "astonished" that Obama would say such things.
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a
person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or
misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" is
fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply
does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as
well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the
person.
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
>> McCain stands by his campaign's attack ad that falsely accused Obama of
>> snubbing troops in Lundstahl, Germany. He also stands by his campaign's
>> sleazy Britney/Paris ad claiming that some useful...
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