[BroJoeK]

"...full of misrepresentation, unfair inference and vague ad captandum insinuation..."

"In rhetoric an argumentum ad captandum, "for capturing" the gullibility of the naïve among the listeners or readers, is an unsound, specious argument designed to appeal to the emotions rather than to the mind.
It is used to describe 'claptrap or meretricious attempts to catch popular favor or applause.' "

Can you even believe how primitive those people were back then, to use such crude arguments, even in cases of law!
Aren't you glad we today are so, so advanced, nobody would ever stoop to such tricks, right? </sarc>

;-)

[editor-surveyor]

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Tim Kaine’s people!
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[Tax-chick]

Plus ca change, plus ca la meme chose.

Seriously, I'm always reassured by reminders that things are now as they always were.