{"id":2494,"date":"2011-01-28T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2011-01-28T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:42:00","slug":"daily-show-on-nutpicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"Daily Show on Nutpicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch at <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201101280002\">this link<\/a> for a fun back-and-forth between Jon Stewart and Bill O&#39;Reilly on the argumentum ad Hitlerum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR for O&#39;Reilly, his Nazi invocation (about &quot;the left&quot;) is just fine because his assistants found an anonymous commenter at a blog who called Nancy Reagan evil and wished that she die soon (of natural causes).&nbsp; What that has to do with the Nazis is beyond me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, is some classic nut picking, or as the&nbsp;experts call it, <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=552\">weak manning<\/a>.&nbsp; What makes it especially&nbsp;fallacious (if that is possible) is that it&#39;s deployed in an ideologically monochrome (should I drop this phrase? Should I not comment on my&nbsp;sentence during my sentence?) context in order to disqualify an opposing arguer on account of the very bad arguments they make.&nbsp; This last part being critical to the nutpicker.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch at this link for a fun back-and-forth between Jon Stewart and Bill O&#39;Reilly on the argumentum ad Hitlerum.&nbsp; TL;DR for O&#39;Reilly, his Nazi invocation (about &quot;the left&quot;) is just fine because his assistants found an anonymous commenter at a blog who called Nancy Reagan evil and wished that she die soon (of natural causes).&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Show on Nutpicking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,571],"tags":[913,911,478,912,476,179,533,444],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-weak-man-straw-man-fallacies-of-relevance-fallacies-argument-problems","tag-argumentum-ad-hitlerum","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-daily-show","tag-fox-news","tag-jon-stewart","tag-nazi-analogies","tag-nut-picking","tag-nutpicking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}