Rick Moran, I went to your site “Right Wing Nut House”. You named it, I didn’t.
You cited CNN’s “investigation.” Some investigation. Let me tell you about CNN and Paul Tsongas in 1992. Senator Tsongas made a speech that impressed me. The CNN reporter who summarized Tsonga’s speech, distorted it completely. I called the CNN “producer” (TV equivalent of newspaper editor) told him the summary was wrong and he could check for himself by watching a repeat of the speech on C-Span. I think the reporter was then assigned to CNN Siberia where he stayed for many years.
I will check to see what other thorough “investigations” the main stream media has made. It would have helped if you’d cited more “reliable sources.” Not everything being said about Obama may be true but that’s no reason to say that everyone criticizing the man is a “dupe” or that “irrational beliefs” are being promulgated by “online smear merchants” From what you say in your article I guess you’d regard me as one of the “lunatic fringe,” since I’ve quoted the most alarming information I’ve found on Google and elsewhere. I have not made any of the charges you rebut before you end by saying case closed.
By the way, your”name calling” is referred to as the AD HOMINEM fallacy in logic: you’re attacking the person instead of the idea. You’re not proving the comments are mistaken. You’re saying they’re being made by a “lunatic fringe” and should be ignored. The fallacy is called “poisoning the well.” (no one will drink from a poisoned well. No one will pay attention to “online smear merchants”)
I’m going to have to start a blog on Logic 101 and post my list of logical fallacies. It will obviously come in handy in this campaign. I look forward to reading your comments and seeing where I’m being “duped.”
