Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Logical Fallacies Assignment

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-8-2011/the-walking-debt

In the video above from the John Stewart Show the topic was about the economy and debt. He does a good job in pointing out the troubles that have come in the past from this former Governor of New Jersey. The fallacy that he used during this broadcast was allot of the straw man one. He used his prior statements and cut him down over and over again.  

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-8-2011/exclusive---bill-clinton-extended-interview-pt--3

In this video John Stewart is having an interview with Bill Clinton. It was interesting the different types of fallacies that even the former President was using. At one point they made Hasty Generalizations about corporations. Both him and John stated how they are not like people and have no rights also John took it a step further calling them like sociopaths. Then later in the interview the former President is talking about tax cuts for corporations to bring jobs back. He played the card of Appeal To Pity with making the statement about kids getting health care needs that are in poverty from his former policies that he had put in place. Trying to show the good that would come from a policy like what he had previously put into place.

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