![]() ![]() It’ll help sell the military budget line item and, in a weird way, help build The Wall. UNCERTAINTY Those things you’re not supposed to touch at NASA? Declassify the files on Area 51. Those B-1s are pretty, but take it up a notch. ![]() Here’s a short list for Steve Bannon to edit:įEAR Send a cruise missile into North Korea. As Meghan Trainor might sing it, it’s all bout the base, bout the base. But, hey, so long as FOX keeps doing its job and you keep tweeting, you’re cool. Now, just to be clear, there are a couple downsides to this strategy you love so much, like the possibility that the fake news folks will catch on (see above). And your very own witch hunt of CNN? Genius. I mean, The Election Integrity Commission? That was inspired. There’s a long list of upsides to the Red Herring (see above). And that gorilla, Chris Cuomo’s, laughing. And Kellyanne might do your bidding, but you keep sending her out before all the news is written. I’ve watched your surrogates pitch the Hillary Ukraine thing. But, hey, you’re the president and the media’s not. You’re really good at running this play, and this Russia thing and your sonny boy’s sloppiness are a big problem. The luring of a player away from its preferred position or plan.Ĭall it a bluff, canard, dead cat, feint, logical fallacy, McGuffin, misdirection, ruse, sandbag, smokescreen, Trojan horse. ![]() I think you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about, but just in case, here’s the definition: To send off course. Because losers or not, they’re locked onto your scent. So here’s my best advice: Toss the Red Herring. That might mean the Russian bear, but this time it’s the media - angry, liberal, biased, fake and broken. As the old joke goes…you’re pretty good at keeping things between you and the bear. Access Hollywood, Trump University, housing discrimination, etc. I know you’re good at outrunning your problems. investigations, or violating the emoluments clause by encouraging “kickbacks” from foreign governments, and so forth.Dear Donald: Toss the Red Herring, Now July 12, 2017 elections, or defrauding clients in a fraudulent university scheme, or attempts to obstruct F.B.I. law-is fairly trivial compared to accusations of sexual molestation of underage girls, or accusations of being in cahoots with Russian spy agencies, or publicly asking foreign entities to meddle in U.S. Their point is to emphasize that using an unauthorized email-especially when it was ruled by a security review as no violation of U.S. her emails!” Their point was to make fun of such a fallacy by mocking it. So, (in some circles on the internet), it became a catch-phrase whenever one heard another speaker use a red herring or a false equivalency to respond in a blubbering voice, “but…but…. voters to be at best (1) a red herring fallacy, in which a person in the argument changes the subject, or at worst, (2) a false equivalency fallacy in which the person in the argument treats one trivial fault as being identical in significance to a much more serious crime. voters were being hypocritical, in that later when President Trump was accused of various improprieties or illegalities, the conservative response was to change the subject to Hillary Clinton’s email messages from four years earlier. voters thought that these conservative U.S. voters saw that use of a personal email system as either grounds not to vote for Clinton (as sloppy security and bad judgment) or else an actual violation of U.S. The origin to the phrase is Hillary Clinton’s rather dodgy use of an external email server for her email messages instead of using an email service vetted by security. It’s a sarcastic phrase meant to mock people who use red herring logical fallacies and false equivalency fallacies. ![]()
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