Well, it's that time again. It's time to count the logical fallacies in the latest Ann Coulter column.
Today she's doing some more talking about John Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans. This should be fun.
Surprisingly, we had to get to paragraph 5 to hit our first true attack, which is, again, and ad hominem attack, against Democrats in general. Personal attacks seem to be a favorite of Ann. We start the count at 1.
In paragraph 7 we find exaggeration when she calls Doug Brinkley Kerry's hagiographer. A hagiographer is one who writes biographies of saints. She's using it in the sarcastic sense, duh...
Another ad hominem attack in paragraph 11. That raises the total to 3.
And she closes the article with 2 more personal attacks. This was a light day for her. Maybe she had writer's block. Anyway, that makes for a total of:
5 logical fallacies in today's article.
Coulter's spread a total of 21 fallacies across two articles. That's not something to be proud of, especially given how many people hold up her articles as something akin to the truth.
Oh well. There's no accounting for taste.
For more information on logical fallacies, go here.
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