Video: Soldier To Dr. Phil “Quit The “Psychobabble” & Deal With The Islamic Factor at Ft. Hood”

Someone needs to tell this woman that she is no longer a POW.

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern:

1. Person A has position X.  “It is possible that the actions of Major Nidal Mailk Hasan were ideologically motivated.”
2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).  “You’re saying that because he is a Major in the army that he’s not going to feel like a private would feel.  That’s crap.”
3. Person B attacks position Y.  “You are a JAG officer and have no idea what it’s like to be in combat.”
4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

The next phase of the discussion involves the use of the ole Ad Hominem attack, but I’ll leave that up to you to spot.  Great fun, that.

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