Liar
Andrew Brehm on Obama’s press conference:
He is simply intellectually dishonest. He is the master of the False Choice (pass the stimulus or do nothing & let the economy "tank"; socialize health care or "stand pat" — he said that last night), the Straw Man (the approach of putting moral "dogma" above "science"), the Scapegoat (those at the "commanding heights of our economy" (preface to his Budget) and the sly Non Sequitur (the breathtaking argument that to revive our economy and control spending, the government must take over health care and energy and expand federal spending on education). He deploys them in every argument he makes.
We have a commenter here at KenNelson.com that practices some of these techniques. Especially the False Choice, straw Man and Scapegoat (BUSH!).
The techniques are useful for high school debates but in conversations all they do is distract and frustrate. And they do not lead to effective policies.
Via Powerline
March 26th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Straw Man (the approach of putting moral “dogma” above “science”)? Science has nothing to do with dogma or morality or any combination with normative ethics reasoning. Bambi is pure hedonist down the Kant to Marx line. A Chicago thug.