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Back in the autumn of 2003, when the Rush Limbaugh experiment was hitting its vapid apex at ESPN, the king of the right-wing ad-hominem attack suggested, on air, that black quarterbacks were the beneficiaries of a clandestine, league-wide affirmative action gambit.
Brock Cohen: Too Black for Quarterback Brock Cohen 2011
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You can set your clock by Sherwood's snide, ad-hominem attack laced, factual rebuttal free responses to critics of the Portland Rail Mafia, deniers of Global Warming, and Peak Oil naysayers.
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Your attack was a vicious ad-hominem attack on a progressive, and for what?
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Back in the autumn of 2003, when the Rush Limbaugh experiment was hitting its vapid apex at ESPN, the king of the right-wing ad-hominem attack suggested, on air, that black quarterbacks were the beneficiaries of a clandestine, league-wide affirmative action gambit.
Brock Cohen: Too Black for Quarterback Brock Cohen 2011
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The Liberal fall-back position is the ad-hominem attack.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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What Gardner does not want his blog to be is the source for industry spewing -- the sniping, griping and ad-hominem attacks of the professional cartoonist.
THE DAILY CARTOONIST site to shut down Comments section [UPDATED] Michael Cavna 2011
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As I observed first hand in this debate, Hitchens' debating style begins with a self-assured and urbane wit and ends with rude ad-hominem attacks stopping just short of insulting his opponent's mother.
Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great" Kabir Helminski 2011
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Why even waste time arguing with people who use ad-hominem arguments?
Why Not Wrestle With a Pig?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Ahhh, a completely out-of-scope ad-hominem, and one that, looking in my magic GOP dictionary indicates, was ended by Abraham Lincoln (Republican), and with some opposition from the Democrats of thetime.
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Instead of serious, fact-based analysis, they rely mostly on ad-hominem attacks against those who don't share their unconditional support for the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Omid Memarian: The Leveretts and the Accountability of the American Analysts on Iran 2010
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