Three Horsemen of Rightwing Politics: Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion
Lacking a brain, a heart, and courage:
The Right Wing and The Straw Man: If Pigs Could Fly Would they Still Need Make up?
Why do straw man arguments do so well with right wingers? Could it be that the right wing noise machine bets on the ignorance needed? I like this tidbit: "To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument." Straw Man
What is funny is seeing right wingers using those very same straw man arguments or similar ones. It's as if the mantras of the right wing noise machine have rewired the brain to an extent that it is a way of thinking, a way of life, that alternate universe we often see in them.
As to the cowardly lion bit? The cowardly lion is clueless about fear. Courage is acting in spite of fear, in the face of fear, not having No fear.
too bad that pathetic WelfareQueen queen had to jump the gun with her --straw man image.
"The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition"
Lacking a brain, a heart, and courage:
The Right Wing and The Straw Man: If Pigs Could Fly Would they Still Need Make up?
Why do straw man arguments do so well with right wingers? Could it be that the right wing noise machine bets on the ignorance needed? I like this tidbit: "To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument." Straw Man
What is funny is seeing right wingers using those very same straw man arguments or similar ones. It's as if the mantras of the right wing noise machine have rewired the brain to an extent that it is a way of thinking, a way of life, that alternate universe we often see in them.
As to the cowardly lion bit? The cowardly lion is clueless about fear. Courage is acting in spite of fear, in the face of fear, not having No fear.
too bad that pathetic WelfareQueen queen had to jump the gun with her --straw man image.
"The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition"
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