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To: tejek who wrote (294871)	7/15/2006 7:35:24 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1590973

re: Now I get it. What people call straw men arguments, I call lying. You got it!

To: tejek who wrote (294871)	7/15/2006 10:06:46 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1590973

"Now I get it. What people call straw men arguments, I call lying." As are many of the fallacious arguments, although not all of them are intentional lies. In the heat of argument, one can often fall into a line of argument that doesn't really reflect your stance. It is helpful to know and recognize the different classes so you don't get sucked in. Talking points are often fallacious arguments. At the moment, the Republicans are very adept at this, although the Democrats do it too. Tench's "Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet" is a classic example. It was crafted to make him look ridiculous and sold it, effectively, to the media. Note that the media almost never quoted Al, they just used the straw man. As I have pointed out, JakeStraw seems to deliberately craft all of his posts around one or more fallacious arguments.