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To: SmithL

The fallacy is that he presents hypocrisy as discrediting the message rather than the messenger.


16 posted on 06/07/2007 8:05:16 AM PDT by Pete (My kid sister's first novel: Far Horizons at http://www.amazon.co.uk/)
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To: Pete
The fallacy is that he presents hypocrisy as discrediting the message rather than the messenger.

EXACTLY!
21 posted on 06/07/2007 8:11:09 AM PDT by Thrusher ("Only the dead have seen the end of war.")
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To: Pete

Like I sometimes say “Hey, at least a hypocrite is half right.”


23 posted on 06/07/2007 8:16:12 AM PDT by Paradox (In the final analysis, its mostly a team sport, Principles cast off like yesterdays free agents.)
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