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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 10:00 PM
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20. strawman is the most common
but the most disingenuous and damaging IMHO is poisoning the well, often used in conjunction with guilt by association (and often strawman at the same time). We see that going on in about twenty current candidate-bashing threads and in numerous posts rejecting candidates based on one past vote or statement.

Also, false dilemma is quite common in my experience.

The real value of this site is how it exposes the incredible stew of fallacies that comprise almost every neocon argument on almost every issue. If people could recognize these fallacies, pundits like Limbaugh, Coulter, O'Reilly and Scarborough would be laughed off the public stage.
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