Mosque Arsonist Says Fox News Inspired Him

Nah, not always.

 

I missed the part where anyone suggested that.

 

okay then... A considerable amount of the time.

 

MadMax noticed in the gun thread, and I'm noticing it here. You are making strawman arguments to support your positions. No one is suggesting what you're sarcastically saying here, just as no one was suggesting what you sarcastically stated in the gun thread. You're using a logical fallacy to argue your point, and that tactic is only effective if your entire audience is uneducated, or already agrees with everything you're saying. This is not an effective debate tactic. Please read up on it below:

 

, he continued... getting further and further away from addressing any of the points that were brought up refuting his argument.

 

It would be a strawman if I were misrepresenting your opinions in order to attack them, but I'm not. That is my opinion, and it is well reasoned. Fox News is dangerous. Would you care to argue that?

 

Strawman and ad hominem arguments... best friends of the conservative right and Fox News.

 

I didn't see any points, just incoherent babbling.

Hi FranchiseBlade!

 

ATW, any point that doesn't agree with you is incoherent babbling.

 

I completely agree with you, and thanks for pointing that out!

Glad we are on the same page here.

 

Ya basically your a troll.

 

What you don't see, doesn't suprise me at all ATW.

Hello

 

That isn't your opinion, but you go ahead and keep saying that.

 

huh? I thought he just stated that.

 

Read up a bit, and read some of his other posts. He stated that it's his opinion that the Federal Government should start a news station and take Fox News off the air. That's not his opinion. Unfortunately, he's missing the point of satire - satire is effective because it involves truth. His faux-opinion is probably only representative of a tiny fraction of those who identify themselves as democrats. Similar to the fraction of self-identified republicans who are obsessed with the idea of the free market and will constantly attest to how it extends "liberty."

It's a tired, and sad tactic. He's overinflating what his ilk would call the "nanny state" and presenting it like it's the only other available option.

So, basically, in his world we either accept Fox News as it is and don't complain, or we live under a repressive bureaucratic government. There's no in between. Afterward, he disingenuously tried to act as if he really believes that the Federal Government should have a news organization and then ban Fox News.

 

Couldn't have said it better myself. I know we agree on quite a bit, however, so I'll lay off.

 

got it now. thnks

 

Look, yet again ATW declares victory for himself when he doesn't feel like debating anymore...color me surprised! :grin:

 

Sorry, politics notwithstanding this guy sounds like a loser who just doesn't take account for his own actions.

 

Dude, you need to go back to lurking.