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.
 

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