Jeb Bush engaging in a campaign of ad hominem attacks.
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Brandon Thorp: Here's an argument that's very nearly ad hominem.
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The Sanders campaign's characterization here seems unfair, even ad hominem.
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"Canada does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks ... and we refrain particularly from ad hominem attacks when it comes to a close ally," Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters on Sunday.
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But it was only Bibiana who received an ad hominem attack.
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But then things are getting ugly in vicious ad hominem attacks.
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They went on TV and smeared us with ad hominem attacks.
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Unquestionably, the phrase "mouthpiece," when applied to lawyers, is ad hominem.
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Arthur: Both of their performances dripped with contempt and ad hominem.
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Don't troll, name call, or engage in ad hominem attacks--about anyone.
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"Canada does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks," Freeland said.
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You may object that we condemn you in an ad hominem spirit.
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Don't troll, name call, or engage in ad hominem attacks — about anyone.
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Forget party platforms; these two seem to have invented ad hominem debating.
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Connor posted a rebuttal on Twitter that was both ad hominem and profane.
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You can be aggrieved about the booking without using baseless ad hominem attacks.
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" (Ad hominem attacks are a logical fallacy.) "The circus is coming to town.
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I mean, people don't use ad hominem when they're ready to listen, you know?
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"Trolling, name calling and ad hominem attacks will not be tolerated," the guidelines say.
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"I don't think one can dismiss their arguments with ad hominem insults," said Russell.
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We live in a world of spin control and ad hominem attacks,'' he said.
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What Trump did -- offering an ad hominem attack on Brzezinski -- is entirely offense-playing.
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My reverie ended abruptly when they snapped back to insults and ad hominem arguments.
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"Don't troll, name call, or engage in ad hominem attacks," the new guidelines read.
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And I don't think you've seen me responding to people with ad hominem attacks.
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It's not just a personal foible, and acknowledging it isn't an ad hominem attack.
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But on many talk shows, including Mr. Limbaugh's, nearly every argument is ad hominem.
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I had a zine called Ad Hominem: A journal of slander and political opinion.
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INSTEAD OF MAYBE AD HOMINEM STUFF, THAT WE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO GET, MR. TRUMP.
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" She added, "We particularly refrain from ad hominem attacks when it comes to our allies.
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If you were to remove the ad hominem attacks in Donald Trump's defense, what remains?
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And yet that ad hominem parry has moved well beyond the realm of mere commentary.
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Teleprompter Trump reads his remarks as written, avoids ad hominem attacks and plays nicely with others.
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"It's always personal, always ad hominem," he said in February, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
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Gone—or at least much pared back—was the usual ad hominem invective and rambling braggadocio.
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He resorted to ad hominem attacks; that's the kind of 'leadership' we now have in Congress.
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Rather than try to engage him on the issues, Ingraham resorted to an ad hominem attack.
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Ad hominem gets a bad press, but it isn't without merit, when used in good faith.
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The hard-core left cannot even attack on policy but has no reservations about ad hominem attacks.
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They respect Rohrabacher for never engaging in ad hominem attacks during heated debates on the House floor.
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Yet he has suffered a spate of ad hominem attacks, some from within the ruling BJP party.
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Trump did not respond with ad hominem labels but legitimate substantive critiques of a sitting congressman's record.
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It is personality centered, with its ad hominem attacks dividing the political world into heroes and villains.
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"He feels himself losing on the issues," she said, and now must engage in ad hominem attacks.
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Am I the ONLY one man enough to confront this #OverratedFlunkyLoser without resorting to an ad hominem assault?
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Instead of hearing about her feats in public service, we listen to a rancor of ad hominem attacks.
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The Republican convention in Cleveland was overwhelmingly white and elderly, and with its ad hominem attacks on Mrs.
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A typical comments section is full of ad hominem attacks and invective toward mainstream astronomy and EU doubters.
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She laced her remarks, as is typical of this feud, with a bit of an ad hominem attack.
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" Video Canada&aposs foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said her country "does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks.
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Beyond the policy discussions and ad hominem attacks, it seems, Americans want to know where candidates' moral compasses point.
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" HLN host and former CNN "Crossfire" host S.E. Cupp defended MacCallum while accusing Avenetti of "baseless ad hominem attacks.
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Reporters did not add their own ad hominem views about what the respective courts did in reaching their decisions.
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"Snarky comment[s]" and "spiteful tweets" are included in its assessment, along with generalized mean and ad hominem comments.
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What should language arts class look like when ad hominem arguments, name calling and "alternative facts" overwhelm civil discourse?
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ObamaCare's proponents are long on ad hominem attacks, but the one thing they do not have is solid evidence.
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They have gotten into the habit of relying on ad hominem responses instead of addressing the merits of his positions.
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This argument about the liberal academy is the bogyman of some outside academe engaging in broad-brush ad hominem attacks.
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I approached this as, that the more significant factor here, beyond policy, was buffoonery, psychopathology, random and ad hominem cruelties.
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Clinton and Sanders went after each other on their policies and their records, but managed to avoid ad hominem attacks.
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If we permit ad hominem attacks to enter our discourse unchallenged, we no longer have a way to debate ideas.
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It's just a pointless, aimless ad hominem attack and, as many pointed out on social media, a thinly veiled racist remark.
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Schwerin said Wednesday that the former secretary of state was "adamant" that she would not make "ad hominem attacks" against Trump.
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The ensuing arguments about his piece were about what you'd expect: ad hominem attacks and the pitting of capitalism against socialism.
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"Any time that other people have tried to use ad hominem attacks or swear or whatever, it rings false," she said.
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When reading the historians' statement, the last thing you'd think is that the quoted words were an ad hominem screed in
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Allowing ad hominem attacks into a debate means that instead of arguing issues, you're arguing the merits of another human being.
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Democrats went full-force in the once-denounced Trump style: ad hominem offensives that often aim at personal weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
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"The president and I have concluded that there's no value in making that ad hominem argument," he told me of Obama.
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Lawmakers approved a motion that rejected "disparaging ad hominem statements by U.S. officials which do a disservice to bilateral relations," Reuters reported.
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"I'd take you seriously if you could show a modicum of self control to keep from an ad hominem attack," Kashuv tweeted.
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Those ad hominem attacks lack any substance and do not trigger the right to a remedy or a hearing before this Court.
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" Still others forgo ad hominem insults, declaring instead that "We need background checks on politicians, not gun owners," or simply "Bullets not ballots.
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But unlike Cruz, Obama hasn't turned on Tribe by calling him a right-wing climate denier or with any other ad hominem attack.
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After a hearing in which the attorney general lobs a series of ad hominem attacks against Annalise, the judge grants Annalise the injunction.
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Under the nasty headline, "The Republican Turncoats," Mr. Moore begins with the sort of ad hominem attacks that he's avoided throughout his career.
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I criticized Bernie's much less nuanced plan for being regressive & I got (no joke) nearly 10,000 ad hominem attacks, most with poop emojis.
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"That was an ad hominem attack and it was childish and I'm not going to play these playground tactics with you," Owens said.
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" The policy tells employees to "avoid blanket statements about groups or categories of people," and prohibits "trolling, name calling, and ad hominem attacks.
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Tu quoque is a subset of the so-called ad hominem argument: a strike against the character, not the position, of one's opponent.
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We take what could be useful conversations about rights and values and turn them into ad hominem attacks, accusations of arrogance and greed.
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"I believed going in, because I see this on TV, that it'd be full of ad hominem attacks and personal strife," Elkus said.
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This tendency to launch ad hominem attacks against federal judges who rule against him should give everyone – Democrat, Independent, or Republican – great pause.
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During the Republican debate on January 28th, he used the Latin 'ad hominem' when talking about the personal insults Trump is throwing around.
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IT'D BE SOME AD HOMINEM – DIMON: I THINK LARRY MIGHT AGREE THAT WE DID ALL OF THESE THINGS RIGHT WE'D BE GROWING FASTER.
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"Our rule was you had to attack someone personally," Gladwell says, explaining Ad Hominem in a recent interview on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Lee said he does not object to the minority leader taking issue with President Trump's policies, but admonished her to avoid ad hominem attacks.
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At first Change My View did attract rancor and ad hominem brattery, but Turnbull was patient and true to his vision of civil discourse.
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Gates' argument is not an argument at all but, once again, an ad hominem attack on Trump with regard to his experience and qualifications.
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Yesterday he said Mitt Romney walks "like a penguin," the kind of belittling, dead-on, ad hominem attack that Sanders is not accustomed to.
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Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian foreign minister, called them "inappropriate" and warned that ad hominem attacks are not a productive way to conduct international relations.
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It should not be ad hominem attacks like one bloviator who likened Bernie taking over the Democrats to the Nazis conquering France in 1940.
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Sandy Hook, too, was a particularly vile crucible for conspiracies, and Clements says she still receives ad hominem attacks calling her a crisis actor.
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"If they have not been able respond with fact-based arguments, they will employ the lowest argumentative fallacies, including…ad hominem attacks," she wrote.
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The visit has received a mixed response, with protests scheduled, and Trump marked his arrival by tweeting ad hominem insults at London mayor Sadiq Khan.
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The keeper who helped contain the bees told KPIX he believes the Concord beasts are Africanized killer bees, which explains their apparently ad hominem attacks.
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" Asked about Kudlow and Navarro's comments on Sunday, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters, "Canada does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks.
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But Trump also heaped praise on Hillary Clinton before running against her, only to throw ad hominem misogynist attacks at her on the campaign trail.
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Fiorina is the only Republican who would force Clinton to campaign on issues instead of identity, and show up with ideas instead of ad hominem.
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This was evident during the last debate when Rubio began countering Trump's attacks not with issue-based responses, but ad hominem attacks on Trump himself.
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Even if most of his arguments on the medium are ad hominem—and thus commit a logical fallacy— they often carefully layer classic rhetorical moves.
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The ad hominem argument is rightly regarded as a logical fallacy because it substitutes personal attacks for a discussion of the argument someone is making.
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There is near universal condemnation of the president's ad hominem attacks on the North Korean leader from both conservative and liberal experts on North Korea.
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We engaged in a whole series of actions designed to subvert the school — one was Ad Hominem, but it was a sustained campaign of mischief.
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In every article Warren inevitably becomes a focal point for ad hominem cheap-shots, while Republican cosponsors like Senator Grassley and Representative Blackburn are quietly ignored.
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Personally, I have no sympathy for the type of ad hominem remarks Trump has made about Mueller, who, to his credit, clearly takes them in stride.
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Kevin Hassett, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, accuses me of an ad-hominem attack against his economic analysis of the Trump administration's tax plan.
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We now have "Slaying Goliath," in which Ravitch takes a defiant leap over the line separating reasoned case-building from empty sloganeering and ad hominem attacks.
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If anyone is offended by a remark or opinion, ad hominem public attacks, public shunning and scorn is the response, instead of a well-argued rebuttal.
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The clear and desperate intent of the Latino Victory Fund is to use fear mongering and ad hominem attacks to drive voters to the Democrat nominee.
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Trolls descend on comment sections and social media threads to hurl hate speech and harassment, turning potentially enlightening discussions into ad hominem attacks and group pile-ons.
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At best, the notion of political correctness having gone too far is intellectually dishonest; a fallacy similar to a straw-man argument or an ad hominem attack.
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Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter covering the White House, called Sanders brave for sitting through the jokes, which Haberman found to be too ad hominem.
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Human error could mean that I wouldn't get to cast my vote against bigotry, hate, and the acceptance of asinine ad hominem attacks as the status quo!
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"As a general rule, I haven't found nasty ad hominem attacks on a person whose cooperation is needed to help your state especially helpful," Cuomo told Goldmacher.
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Poll positions First: ad hominem (I'm a winner and you're a loser) combined with ad populum (I'm ahead in the race, so I must be the best).
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" Freeland touted Canada's retaliatory measures several times as she referred to Trump's tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum as "illegal and unjustified" and disavowed "ad hominem attacks.
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In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Hogg said they had been singled out because of their prominence and emphasized that ad hominem attacks would not end school shootings.
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While the 733 general election campaign is still a year away, Mr. Trump is repurposing some of his most effective ad hominem attacks from the last election.
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Later the same day, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland called the tariffs "illegal and unjustified" and said Canada did not find "ad hominem attacks" productive, "particularly" among allies.
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Here, YouTuber Big Joel unpacks the meta-phenomenon that is Logan Paul in an elegant video essay that also serves as a masterclass in avoiding ad hominem attacks.
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" Raskin added, "There is a logic for parliamentary rules to prevent us from engaging in ad hominem attacks, where we attack the personality or character of the president.
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Election 2020 Now that Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the last remaining frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination, it's time for ad hominem campaign attacks and ... endorsements!
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But it illustrates the extent to which Trumpworld is relying on ad hominem attacks and misleading deflection instead of trying to justify the president's actions on the merits.
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"If candidates engage in personal, ad hominem attacks and other divisive tactics during their election, it makes it difficult to work productively with others after the election," she wrote.
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In many cases, students who profess conservatism become the subject of anonymous ad hominem attacks -- not by professors seeking to facilitate conversation, but by students seeking to stop it.
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Ad and ab are workaday prepositions in Latin, the former usually meaning "towards", or "at" (think of ad hominem) and the latter meaning "from" (think abscond, abdicate and such).
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" She went on to say that AIPAC's leadership took "great offense" at the "ad hominem attacks … levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage.
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But away from the curated, TV-friendly environment of the convention, with its rousing slogans, the coming battle with Mr. Trump is likely to feature further ad hominem attacks.
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TV. "There's a difference between saying, 'there's areas here where we can make improvements and here are my ideas' as opposed to going on ad hominem ranting," he added.
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Because he did one thing but didn't do another, to say he never cared about the first thing is to misunderstand the choices, and to commit ad hominem arguments.
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But the very nature of the service, and its wild-west history, make it more susceptible to everything from simple ad hominem attacks to truly scary attacks, especially against women.
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The escalating war of ad hominem attacks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un needlessly weakens the U.S. message and detracts from its policy on North Korea.
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President Trump is correct that the 1828 race between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent, John Quincy Adams, was hard-fought and often descended into ad hominem attacks on both sides.
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But the very nature of the service and its Wild-West history make it more susceptible to everything from simple ad hominem attacks to truly scary attacks, especially against women.
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Scrolling past the end of a story is an adventure into a realm of racism, conspiracy theories and ad hominem attacks that will quickly make you lose your faith in humanity.
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Rank-and-file developers are blamed for their own harassment, and even relatively privileged venture capitalists like Ellen Pao are met with ad hominem attacks on their personal character and abilities.
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Less well-known from the Gladwell oeuvre is Ad Hominem, a zine Gladwell edited and published with two friends as a teenager living in a small farming town in Ontario, Canada.
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The ad hominem nature of Kramer's rebuke — concluding that Guston had been a phony from the get-go — perversely reflects the summation of the artist's life and work that these paintings embody.
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As for the losers, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was seen as flat at times under the heat of ad hominem attacks, while Donald J. Trump's tirades appeared to be wearing thin.
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Rubin cited the Ingraham attack on Hogg as part of a pattern of "ad hominem attacks," comparable to how protesters working for racial equality during the civil rights struggle were labeled communists.
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His Twitter feed is regularly filled with self-congratulatory boasts mixed with ad hominem attacks against people and organizations who he believes are insufficiently loyal to him and, by association, the country.
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Usually Duterte Diehard Supporters will seize on one of my columns or Facebook posts, engaging in ad hominem assaults on their pages that they tacitly encourage their followers to continue onto mine.
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" The Canadian foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said on Sunday that "Canada does not believe that ad hominem attacks are a particularly appropriate or useful way to conduct our relations with other countries.
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But by continually bending the truth and launching ad hominem attacks, Trump has damaged his credibility and alienated so much of the American public that it's begun to dig into his base.
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" As for the comments by Mr. Trump's aides, she said, "Canada does not believe that ad hominem attacks are a particularly appropriate or useful way to conduct our relations with other countries.
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In his vicious and ad hominem way, Carlson is doing something extraordinary: He's challenging the Republican Party's hawkish orthodoxy in ways anti-war progressives have been begging cable hosts to do for years.
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But there is an ad hominem quality to this attack that frees Trump to play tribune to the poor, and, more importantly, absolves the broader GOP for nominating and endorsing Trump's racist candidacy.
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In the art of debate, "ad hominem" attacks are considered a form of logical fallacy — an attempt to distract from the issue at hand by focusing instead on the person making the argument.
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But while Warren connected the topic to her campaign theme, fighting corruption, Buttigieg was defending a process Democratic voters didn't like to think about, and with an ad hominem attack at its center.
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He resorted instead to insulting, ad hominem attacks on anyone who would dare to disagree with his imperial decisions — decisions that could NOT, after thorough review, be defended in any other fashion. 5.
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We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage.
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It does no credit to the arguments of the parties to impugn the motives or the competence of the members of this court; ad hominem attacks are not a substitute for effective advocacy.
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MARK WARNER, D—VIRGINIA: What worries me beyond the Russians themselves or the collusion issue, but the president&aposs willingness to make broad based ad hominem attacks against the whole integrity of the FBI.
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Trump and his supporters will meet Ryan's call to arms predictably, with ad hominem attacks on Ryan and his "establishment" ties, accusing him of ignoring the voters and subverting the will of the people.
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These deflections and ad hominem attacks illustrate a dynamic that was also on display during Wednesday's hearing: Trump's Republican defenders are having a hard time coming up with a coherent defense of his conduct.
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Rubio shouldn't be in politics if he can't handle vehement attacks, and the president that the Florida senator endorsed is as consistently ad hominem as the young school shooting survivors with rather less excuse.
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Though at times middle-school students are Trump-like in their blinding self-absorption, cruel ad hominem attacks and insatiable quest for attention by creating endless drama, they eventually grow up — unlike Mr. Trump.
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But it's important that we're taking care to articulate the problem with our call outs, rather than making ad-hominem attacks; you'll notice I never criticized Miuccia Prada or said 'your bags are ugly.
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As anyone who has been to a town-hall meeting, or just watched one on "Parks and Recreation," knows, it can also be an invitation for obscure speechifying, quixotic schemes, and ad-hominem sabre rattling.
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YOUR MAIN POINTS HERE ARE – IS THAT ADP HAS NOT BEEN TOTALLY FORTHCOMING AND IS ACTUALLY AT -- I DON'T KNOW IF I'D SAY Ad Hominem – I THINK THEY'VE TAKEN A LOW ROAD IN CERTAIN INSTANCES?
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The debate, full of ad hominem attacks and calculated evasions, was a lot to digest — or sometimes even to listen to, as Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Molinaro jockeyed to be heard over the other's interruptions.
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We Democrats have mostly tried to follow Clinton's example, but I confess that, among friends, I've often enjoyed making ad-hominem attacks on Trump and his family in a way that—on reflection—shames me.
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"As a general rule, I haven't found nasty ad hominem attacks on a person whose cooperation is needed to help your state especially helpful," Mr. Cuomo said in a statement to The New York Times.
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But the all-purpose response to anyone who raises questions is that she or he is a member of the establishment, personally corrupt, etc.. Ad hominem attacks aren't a final line of defense, they're argument #1.
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Marx was one of the great infighters of all time, and a lot of his writing was topical and ad hominem—no-holds-barred disputes with thinkers now obscure and intricate interpretations of events largely forgotten.
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"We say unequivocally that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied at the president of the United States of America from our stage," an emotional Pinkus said.
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With its reliance on the media and its light-on-the-law ad hominem attacks, Mr. Avenatti's style of lawyering seems, ironically, to share much with the one employed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump's chief lawyer.
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" Late last year, Cornyn suggested Warren had violated Senate rules that he said "prohibited the sort of ad hominem attack, the claims of corruption, selling legislation for campaign contributions" when Warren attacked a medical research bill. "Sen.
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" Barrish separately complained to editors at AP about its review of publicly accessible material on Trump employees' social media accounts, saying "the liberal media, yellow journalists are really grasping at straws with their ad hominem circumstantial logical fallacies!
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But I think if you read my collection of tweets — first of all, you'll cringe at my photography and some of my quotations from philosophers, but my goal there, in the main, is not to be ad hominem.
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It seems to me that the echo chamber that civic discourse online is dirty, it's difficult, it's ad hominem, it's not particularly productive, and my question is how does a more diverse top raise the level of discourse?
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On the night of (and the morning after) the 133 Golden Globes, a liberal movie star and a conservative commentator engaged in two time-honored rituals: the impassioned cause-driven acceptance speech, followed by the withering ad hominem dismissal.
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Not long before, in 21980, lesbian writer Janice Raymond had published The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, which included an ad hominem attack on Stone, and which led to the town hall meeting on that red-letter day.
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Underneath some ad hominem attacks, such as New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg's crude claim that Schultz is "narcissistic," the reasoning, at least on its face, is that Democrats can't afford any viable contender from outside their party to defeat Trump.
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Many of the tweets were similar in nature to comments the Guardian highlighted as grounds for blocking, comprising ad hominem attacks on an individual or their appearance or personality, dismissals of someone's identity, or insults related to feminism or gender.
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But he has also been the victim of ad-hominem attacks, even from other Catholics who, he said, do not seem to remember Pope Francis's remark that "who am I to judge" if a member of the clergy was gay.
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H.R. McMaster and his nationalist rivals in the National Security Council and in the administration more broadly can disagree over policy matters without resorting to ad hominem attacks that do nothing but introduce more stress into an already stressful environment.
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Are the Hillary Campaign nerds too young to remember the documentary "The War Room," where a grinning Bill Clinton remarks how he loved the Republicans ad hominem attacks because they allowed him an opportunity to hit back and not seem mean or gratuitous?
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But an ad hominem attack on Judge Bates will be hard to sustain: he was appointed to his seat by George W. Bush in 2001 and, from 1995 to 1997, served under Kenneth Starr in the investigation that led to Bill Clinton's impeachment.
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"His reward for that has been a termination that was completely unjustified, amidst repeated ad hominem attacks by the President of the United States." here The page features a photo of McCabe with his wife, two children and the family dog, Jeremiah.
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"The show is designed to thrust the viewer into a common-sense groupthink, complete with all the rumours, smears, innuendo, fear-mongering, thinly veiled ad hominem attacks, and lack of rational discourse they can muster — you know, just like high school," he writes.
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But, as usual, there is more than a nugget of truth smothered under Mr. Trump's helping of ad hominem sauce: The ferocity of today's politics does seem to have been good for the bottom lines of the news industry as a whole.
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I also saw I was being attacked by Dubinsky, who is known for his colorful insults, ad hominem attacks against critics, and spreading conspiracy theories — such as he did when he claimed Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, murdered his brother.
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From a critical thinking perspective, this exposes debaters to a variety of perspectives and teaches them that there can be multiple valid sides to an issue, a value that is sorely lacking in much of the ad hominem political discourse seen today.
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"We have to go forward and look at the truth and not be diverted by any kind of ad hominem attacks" For his part, Schiff stayed on message following the attack, redirecting the focus back on Democrats' case during a press conference.
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His ad hominem personal attacks on political rivals and people he hired and appointed — Michael Cohen is a "rat," Jeff Sessions "weak and ineffective," Rex Tillerson "dumb as a rock," Jerome Powell has "no guts, no sense, no vision" — are no longer surprising.
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" Cousins pushed back heavily against the allegations, writing that the "striking irony" is that the foreperson "who has been the subject recently of numerous ad hominem attacks, was actually one of the strongest advocates for the rights of the defendant and for a rigorous process.
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According to Eileen Sullivan and Michael D. Shear from the New York Times and David Smith from the Guardian, there's a key difference between how Trump treats (and tweets about) white and black opponents: Trump belittles his black political opponents with ad hominem attacks.
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The Dirtiest Fight in Physics Is About the Universe ItselfIllustration: Jim Cooke (Gizmodo (Getty)A fight over the very nature of the universe has turned ugly on social media and in the popular science press, complete with accusations of "cheating" and ad hominem attacks on Twitter.
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Mr. Cuomo "came of age when the big ad hominem attack from Republicans was to be labeled a 'tax-and-spend' liberal," said Mr. Fallon, also mentioning the former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the former Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, as similar-minded Democrats.
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People seem to be more surprised when the threats and vitriol come from within an institution of higher education, where one would theoretically expect people to support the expression of a wide range of ideas, and to respond with ad rem rather than ad hominem arguments.
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President claim that on trade with Canada struck Cramer as surprising given the country's history of allyship with the U.S. "I'm kind of stunned that President Trump could take on Canada, going totally ad hominem and totally hostile to our nation's largest trading partner," he said on Thursday.
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In this connection, it is clearly counterproductive to launch into childish or ritualistic ad hominem attacks upon Kim Jong Un. Calling him "Rocket Man" may resonate usefully with the refractory political "base," but it could also encourage precisely the dangerous adversarial behavior we all so desperately seek to avoid.
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The inevitable ad hominem queries (why does A earn less than B but more than C?) have yielded to the larger ad feminem question of why, across the board, women are paid significantly less than men — in some cases, hundreds of thousands of pounds less — for doing the same job.
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To the extent his lawyers proceed in the president's style — making false representations; engaging in ad hominem attacks against the House managers, witnesses or the whistle-blower, as the president continues to do via Twitter — the likely Senate acquittal will clearly be a crass political victory, and its legitimacy accordingly reduced.
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" On Monday, Canadian legislator Tracey Ramsey introduced the symbolic measure saying the House of Commons "stands united in solidarity" on the Canadian retaliatory measures to the US and "rejects disparaging ad hominem statements by the US administration which do a disservice to bilateral relations and will fail to resolve this trade dispute.
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To be sure, it was a welcome digression from Trump's usual barrage of purely ad hominem attacks upon his opponent — a strategy designed to deflect attention from more complex and hard-to-explain issues of genuine substantive importance — but it still managed to steer clear of exhibiting any discernible hints of meaningful thought.
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"Paul Griffiths's style can be quite acerbic and vehement, though I have found it to be fueled by a genuine concern with the subject matter at hand, rather than ad hominem, as some have alleged," Dr. Pfau said, adding that he had always found him to be a "generous and formidably thoughtful" colleague.
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President Donald Trump's claim that he rejected a meeting on trade with Canada struck CNBC's as surprising given the country's history of allyship with the U.S. "I'm kind of stunned that President Trump could take on Canada, going totally ad hominem and totally hostile to our nation's largest trading partner," the "Mad Money" host said on Thursday.
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The brief profiles of "The Know-It Alls," sprinkled with gratuitous ad hominem observations (for example, Mr. Cohen writes that PayPal is responsible for "releasing into the wild a self-satisfied Peter Thiel, a one-man wrecking crew who has been sowing chaos through American society up to this very day"), do not get the job done.
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Canada's foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland held a press conference, telling reporters that both she and the prime minister were insulted by the comments coming out of the U.S. "Canada does not believe that ad hominem attacks are a particularly appropriate or useful way to conduct our relations with other countries," Freeland said when asked about Navarro's comments.
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Fiona Apple's and the Cold War Kids' recent entries in the protest music canon — the "Tiny Hands" chant ("We don't want your tiny hands anywhere near our underpants") and "Locker Room Talk" ("Dirt in your mouth / mic on the sleeve / we all heard how it sounded"), respectively — reflect this ad hominem approach to protesting the Trump presidency.
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When he tweets insults about the stature of those who challenge him — "Liddle Bob Corker" and "Little Marco" Rubio — he's not just emasculating his tormentors by suggesting that manly authority is tied to height (although he's doing that, too); he's adopting the ad hominem rhetorical tactics that are a staple of angry men on Twitter and Reddit.
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"My first reaction was that this just has to stop, and I was disheartened because I had hoped the personal, ad hominem attacks had been left behind, that we were past that," Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine who is a crucial holdout on the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, said in an interview.
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Even during the most heated debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the most divisive legislative periods in the modern Senate, senators drew a distinction between political differences and ad hominem attacks, said John Stewart, who served as Senator Hubert Humphrey's top legislative aide during the debate over that legislation and other hallmark bills of the period.
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So imbued with grace were the remarks of Mr. Cummings, so devoid of polish or signs of preparation, so piercing and haunting a cry for a better America that they stood in stark difference to the party of Donald Trump, whose members demonstrated that they could only evince belligerent snark, ad hominem attacks and an utter lack of concern for the truth.
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They can&apost really argue the policies, they can&apost really argue the state of the economy or rising wages for the Hispanic American or African-American communities, and so, they try to divide and they try to hit you with ad hominem attacks, Judge, so that&aposs what they&aposll do, but tonight, what I loved about tonight is that the President was unleashing his vintage true self.
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Sheila Jackson LeeSheila Jackson LeeJackson Lee: 'Racism is a national security threat' Most oppose cash reparations for slavery: poll Poll: Most Americans oppose reparations MORE (D-Texas) began by praising Kelly's service at U.S. Southern Command and made it a point to assure Kelly that her criticism of both the travel ban and recent U.S. military action in Yemen was not an ad hominem attack on the secretary himself.
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Trump's threat against the press could be dismissed as merely the latest bluster in his boisterous presidential run if it were an isolated incident, but it follows a troubling pattern of behavior in the Trump campaign, which has a long and well-documented track record of antagonizing the press through ad-hominem attacks, threats of violence and trying to delegitimize it as a credible player in American public life.
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" He said that Archbishop McCarrick showed great ability in defending himself, and, in response to Archbishop Viganò's ad hominem attacks on Vatican officials for being homosexual or supporting homosexuals within the church, he wrote that "the fact" that in the Vatican there could be people who practice or support sexual behavior "contrary to the values of the gospel" was not reason to generalize and declare "unworthy and complicit" a broad swath of people, "even the Holy Father.
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Yet, President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE aims to threaten both principles through his continued attacks against the press, ad hominem attacks of federal judges, presidential appointments of cronies and ideologues committed to white supremacy and nativism, and reliance on personal vendettas and threats as a form of governance.
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I mean, when he constantly comes back with these attacks ... And what worries me beyond the fact that people have kind of got exhaustion from the day-to-day back and forth of this story, what worries me beyond the Russians themselves or the collusion issue, but the president's willingness to kind of make broad-based ad hominem attacks against the whole integrity of the FBI, the whole integrity of the Justice Department, beyond just the Mueller investigation, criticize his own people who are not willing to do inappropriate things, like shut down the investigation.
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The Hillary Clinton of 2000 would have beaten Trump The war will come if President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE follows in the footsteps of candidate Trump with the same vicious language of bigotry and division; the same ad hominem attacks on individuals who do not support him; the same policies of exclusion, bias, and nationalism; the same secrecy around his taxes and business dealings; the same promotion of hostile foreign regimes; the same hiring of venal, incompetent, and bigoted cronies; and the same efforts to undermine our Constitution and institutions of government.
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Fans of Toronto FC, the Sounders' opponents in Sunday's cup final, have a history of making themselves look like dickheads, too, most famously in the video below, where they launch into an impassioned chant of "the referee's a wanker": Crucially, the game had yet to kick off, which means that rather than this being a targeted, ad hominem assault on whoever officiated it, the Toronto fans must have been railing instead against the abstract concept of the referee, the notion of some independent adjudicator imposing the laws of the sport rather than allowing it to descend into a free-for-all with no set laws, objective, beginning or end, a hallucinogenic scrimmage in a pit of mud, blood, and shit that reaches out into eternity until it ceases to resemble a game at all and becomes a piece of performance art comparable in scale with global warming or modernism as one of humanity's grand historical projects.
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