Attacking the straw man
CBS news has an article that finally shines some light on Bush's
use of the straw man in his rhetoric. An example would be something like this; "There are some who say we shouldn't be wire tapping Al Qaeda, I strongly disagree." Really? Some say that? Really? Who? Nobody is saying that we shouldn't tap Al Qaeda. People are saying that tapping Al Qaeda is great. Just get a warrant. In fact, FISA makes it very easy to get a legal warrant. People are saying that warrantless wire tapping of anyone the government chooses to call a terrorist, without any tracking or oversight, is bad. But hey, Bush is never forced to say who 'some people' is. And it's not just Bush. Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, they all do it. They even do it in the
news stories on Fox News.
Posted by jherr at March 21, 2006 11:23 AM