The Either/Or Fallacy: Watch out for arguers who misrepresent their opponent’s ideas. This is dirty politics at its best. Click here for details.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Either/Or Fallacy
In his CPAC speech over the weekend, former Speaker Newt Gingrich [min. 25] used the Either/Or Fallacy to make the claim that you are either fighting to quickly fire teachers who are accused of wrongdoing, or you must not want to help poor children.
Everybody who believes that we’re better off spending $50 million on people who can’t teach in order to keep them sitting so the union’s happy… they’re on one side. Everybody who believes that $50 million spent in poor neighborhoods to help poor children learn how to read and write so they can go to college instead of prison, they’re on this side.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Straw Man Fallacy
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn) uses the Straw Man Fallacy to oversimplify and misrepresent President Barack Obama's motivation for funding federal programs. See Politico's take.
This is intending to fail.
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