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Examples
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All of it consists of either sweeping negative claims about evolution or straw-men fallacies along the lines of a hurricane and the Boeing 747.
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Your hard line continues to be ignorant of the problem of returning to the policy of the last 8 years – supplemental fights, straw-men votes for/against the troops, throwing legislative cats, dogs, and earmarks into supplmentals, and just bad governance all around.
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Essentially, they've taken that smallish gaggle of walleyed concern-trolls, mixed in a clueless academic and added a heaping helping of straw-men to contend that Jon Stewart will utterly destroy his brand by staging a comedy show for people.
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason Jason Linkins 2010
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Essentially, they've taken that smallish gaggle of walleyed concern-trolls, mixed in a clueless academic and added a heaping helping of straw-men to contend that Jon Stewart will utterly destroy his brand by staging a comedy show for people.
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Essentially, they've taken that smallish gaggle of walleyed concern-trolls, mixed in a clueless academic and added a heaping helping of straw-men to contend that Jon Stewart will utterly destroy his brand by staging a comedy show for people.
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason Jason Linkins 2010
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I would suggest that you do some reading from the conditionalist's perspective as this might help you avoid arguing with straw-men.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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The one thing I've objected to here on principle is John's straw-men.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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But the only pedestal I'm on is the one you've put me on with your false accusations and straw-men.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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The deep-seated fear-mongerering mindset that lies at the core of the far right psyche demands a constant stream of exaggerated and often completely fictionalize externalized straw-men threats, aka “The Other”, to legitimize their conceptualization of the primacy of their own in-group identifications of “Us”.
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It's just that I think people are raising objections based on straw-men and fears rather than thinking things through.
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