I'm letting her columns get away from me. Shame on me. So I'll make this quick...
In the article about Dan Rather, Ann talks about the scandal at CBS and attacks everyone from Bill Burkett to Al Gore to Dan Rather to to Kitty Kelley to Margot Kidder...okay...
Despite all of this bile and hatred spewed, she only clocked in at 7 total fallacies.
But that's not what I want to focus on today. What I wanted to say was that she criticizes CBS for not revealing Bill Burkett as their source for the forged documents because he's had a long-running hatred of Dubya. Okay, fine, but I haven't heard a peep about John O'Neill, the man who runs the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and wrote "Unfit for Command". John O'Neill's made a living debating Kerry, attacking him from the time of the Vietnam war on. He was even hand-picked by Nixon to debate him live on TV during the 60's. To slam CBS for using Bill Burkett while ignoring O'Neill's long history with Kerry is two-faced.
Alright, the other article comes in even lighter at only 2 fallacies, and I have to say that I agreed with the majority of this article. I do think that the New York Times is terribly skewed and, more importantly, wears its bias on its sleeve with pride. It's important that we keep the heat on the Times until they stop the majority of the Socialist nanny-state crap they write.
So, a total of only 9 fallacies across two articles...good job Ann. Maybe one day you'll actually be a voice of reason worth listening to, instead of the shrill white witch of the right.
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