We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. . . . But over the last six months, weve had a run of bad luck. President Obama, Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON A troubled nation wonders: How did we get mired in 9.1 percent unemployment, 0.9 percent growth and an economic outlook so bad that the Federal Reserve pledges to keep interest rates at zero through mid-2013 an admission that it sees little hope on the horizon? Bad luck, explains our president. Out of nowhere came Japan and its supply-chain disruptions, Europe and its debt problems, the Arab Spring and those oil spikes. Kicked off, presumably, by various acts of God (should He not be held accountable too?): earthquake and tsunami. (Tomorrow: pestilence and famine. Maybe frogs.) Well yes, b...
... idea that media have influenced election politics is certainly not news. Indeed, the influence of me... which often devolved discussion into ad hominem attacks. These discourses ultimately work against ...
With the election season into high gear, hostility toward so- called negative political advertising seems to have reached epidemic proportions, as usual, among the general public nationwide as well as the chattering media class. The reaction is understandable on an emotional level, given the shallow, superficial thinking most people apply to such phenomena. Because this anti-negative attitude is at least partly grounded in ignorance, a brief tutorial is in order. What is known in the political industry as "negative advertising" or "negative attacks" is a variant of the well-established promotional technique of comparative advertising, i.e., mentioning a competitor by name in an ad, usually in an unfavorable way. In normal commerce, the tactic is perfectly legal as long as the comparativ...
... out of political correctness, but "politics ain't beanbag," as the old saying goes. To be clea... is not an endorsement of personal, ad hominem, mudslinging attacks or the "politics of personal ...
Charlie Volk, an electrician who serves on the Hardwick Select Board, found light in the billowing black smoke. "It was endearing to watch," he said of the town's efforts. "I think it's going to overcome the political divisions in town. It's hard to sort feelings from politics in a place like [Hardwick]. For if all politics is local, all local politics is personal; the smaller the town, the more personal it is. Last summer, a cell tower proposed for construction in a pasture on Bridgman Hill tore the town in two. Each faction accused the other of selfishness; each claimed to be acting for the public good. The dispute turned especially nasty when a few tower supporters started running ads in the Gazette making unsubstantiated ad hominem attacks on Zoning Board members. And it isn't over...
The editorial board of the Sun Journal appears to be out of the loop regarding electoral reform in Maine as demonstrated by its Nov. 11 editorial on ranked-choice voting. Favorable stories, letters and op-eds have been published in two other major Maine newspapers. Various other political action committees and grassroots organizations are buzzing about electoral reform. Democrats are talking about it in their municipal and county meetings. So are Maine Greens, Libertarians and tea party activists.
... that Maine uses fosters the caustic, ad hominem campaigns that grid-lock politics in Augusta. Main...
... and delivering one of his famous ad hominem speeches. Herbert Agar commented in The Price of U...
It's amusing that the opponents of TABOR are engaging in the type of misrepresentation that they are accusing TABOR backers of perpetrating. David Norlin stated in his letter that TABOR "cuts or drastically reduces new taxes," and that's simply not the case. All TABOR does is limit the tax and spending increase that legislators can impose from year to year. Jeff Zamrzla also wrote a letter where he specifically mentions university funding in Colorado disappearing and causing tuition to increase dramatically. But he fails to mention that tuition increases have been higher in Kansas than in Colorado since TABOR went into effect.
...This kind of ad hominem attack, unfortunately popular in modern politics, ...
This dang column A number of readers reacted to my column last week in which I discussed the political climate during elections and how the media are often the target.
..."Ad hominem fallacies, though the distracting norm in Rove-eraa politics, don't do the journalistic trick when they sub for...
... blogosphere emerged, so-called news and politics bloggers have been recognized as potent agents of ..., they suggest that flaming-the use of ad hominem attacks-undermines the civil community needed to a...
... Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect [Loughner] over the edge." ... the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem," noted the text. "You call me a terrorist. Thus, ...
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