Well Paul Krugman chose to duck our challenge by taking a vacation: We’ll be waiting when he re-surfaces.
In place of the Krugman challenge today, I went trolling for silly op-ed pieces. Fortunately, Townhall.com is a one stop shop for silly op-ed pieces on the right.
In place of my long-winded analysis, I invite you to see whether you can find the fallacies in these two pieces, while I keep scouring the web for the liberal version of such a site.
Why liberals love adultery:
ad hominem circumstantial
hasty generalization
straw man
The title itself is a form of loaded question; the author already assumes that liberals love adultery.
no “argument” to be found
“Are videotapped beheading[s] covered?”
>It was this idiotic idea of being nice to predators that drove liberal crime policies in the ’60s and ’70s — leading like night into day to unprecedented crime rates. Now these same liberal ninnies want to extend their tender mercies not just to rapists and murderers, but to Islamic terrorists.
oversimplified cause.
Quoth Coulter:
“The belief that we can impress the enemy with our magnanimity is an idea that just won’t die. It’s worse than the idea that paying welfare recipients benefits won’t discourage them from working.”
ummm. weak analogy?
Would the lady have me speak to her of country matters?:
“It was this idiotic idea of being nice to predators that drove liberal crime policies in the ’60s and ’70s — leading like night into day to unprecedented crime rates. Now these same liberal ninnies want to extend their tender mercies not just to rapists and murderers, but to Islamic terrorists.”
false cause/post hoc ergo propter hoc
the woman is incorrigible, really:
“If the Democrats and the four pathetic Republicans angling to be called “mavericks” by The New York Times really believe we need to treat captured terrorists nicely in order to ensure that the next American they capture will be well-treated, then why stop at 600-thread-count sheets for the Guantanamo detainees? We must adopt Sharia law.
As McCain might put it, I hold no brief for al-Qaida, but what would better protect Americans they take prisoner than if America went whole hog and became an Islamic republic?”
slip, slip, slippery slope