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: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Kelly has supported most Biden policies, he hasn't backed Biden every single time.[1]
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Masters once brought up social security privatization as an option for future generations, he never suggested doing it now.[2]
: common folk - establishing a connection with an audience based on being just like one of them and being able to empathize with their concerns.
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Masters once brought up social security privatization as an option for future generations, he never suggested doing it now.[2]
: half truth - a statement that is essentially true, but lacking critical information and presented as the whole truth. : Masters blames only Biden's policies for giving rise to inflation, while ignoring the greater stimulus spending that occurred under Trump.[3]
: half truth - a statement that is essentially true, but lacking critical information and presented as the whole truth. : Masters mentions Biden energy policies for oil prices surging, while ignoring greater contributing factors like Covid and the war in Ukraine.[4]
: half truth - a statement that is essentially true, but lacking critical information and presented as the whole truth. : Masters blames stimulus spending only under Biden for giving rise to inflation, while ignoring the greater stimulus spending that occurred under Trump.[3]
: passing the buck - shifting blame onto someone else for self-exoneration or to direct attention away from those really at fault. : For inflation only to Covid, when many economists say the decision to flood the economy with stimulus money helped fuel inflation.[5]
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Masters once brought up social security privatization as an option for future generations, he never suggested doing it now.[2]
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Kelly has supported most Biden policies, he hasn't backed Biden every single time.[1]
: misleading claim - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue. : If the IRS uses the funds to hire new agents, it won't be immediate, but over 10 years, to replace 50,000 IRS agents who will be retiring.[6]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : While Mark Kelly voted for stimulus checks under the American Rescue Plan, he never voted to send those checks to illegal aliens.[7]
: FUD - making dire warnings or raising doubt about an issue, while provided little or no specifics or evidence to support the claims. : Warning that all the IRS agents hired will be indiscriminately auditing everyone by this time next year, when there's no evidence to suggest they would be.
: misleading claim - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue. : Kelly rejected a GOP proposed amendment that required hiring 18,000 border patrol agents BEFORE a single IRS agent could be hired.[8]
: exaggeration - stretching the truth to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is. : While roughly $1 billion was granted for Customs and Border Protection, only about 10% went toward increasing border patrol agents.[6]
: misleading claim - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue. : Kelly voted against an amendment that required hiring 18,000 border patrol agents BEFORE a single IRS agent could be hired.[8]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Record numbers of illegal aliens when they cross the southern border are arrested and over 1/3rd are deported.[9][10]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Undocumented immigrants are not treated better than U.S. military service members.[11]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Arrests along the southern border for 2022 are the highest ever recorded and about 36% of those crossing the border are deported.[9][10]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Kelly's action taken while in office indicate he does not support open borders and has pushed Biden to do more.[12]
: guilt by association - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent. : Masters uses the false claim that the border is "wide open" to link Kelly to terrorist narcos.
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Arrests along the southern border for 2022 are the highest ever recorded.[9][10]
: baseless claim - a bold statement that is presented as accepted or established fact, with no discernable evidence to support the claim. : 90% of border patrol agents would say they are disgusted with Mark Kelly.
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Arrests along the southern border for 2022 are the highest ever recorded.[9][10]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Arrests along the southern border for 2022 are the highest ever recorded.[9][10]
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Kelly did sponsor a bill that would allow abortion up until the moment of birth, it would be only if the life of the mother is at risk.[14]
: guilt by association - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent. : Masters uses Kelly's vote for the Women's Health Protection Act to link him to Warren, Sanders, AOC, China, and North Korea.
: projection - accusing an opponent of using the same underhanded tactics or committing the same misdeeds the accuser is guilty of. : Masters, who just recently changed his radical positions on abortion, accuses Kelly of having radical positions on abortion.[15]
: red herring - throwing an irrelevant fact into an argument to divert attention from the real issue at hand. : Masters defends the positions he has on his website now, which have no relation to the positions he had on his website two months ago.[13]
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Kelly's legislation would allow abortion up until birth, it would be only if the life of the mother is at risk.[14]
: red herring - throwing an irrelevant fact into an argument to divert attention from the real issue at hand. : Masters brings up Arizona's 15-week law and Graham's bill on abortion, when both have no relation to the positions he held on abortion two months ago.[13]
: ad hominem - attacking the character or motive of the person making an argument, rather than attacking the argument itself. : Kelly attacks Masters' character, while not challenging the merits of his positions.
: straw man - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it. : While Kelly's policy would allow abortion up until birth, it would be only if the life of the mother is at risk.[14]
: misleading claim - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue. : The FBI warned Facebook and other big tech companies about amplifying Russian disinformation before the election and played no direct role in suppressing the Hunter Biden story.[16][17]
: misleading claim - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue. : The FBI didn't "work with" big tech and big media to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big tech did that independently.[16][17]
: misleading claim - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue. : The FBI was not "working with" big tech or the media and played no direct role in suppressing the Hunter Biden story. Big tech did that independently.[16][17]
: honor by association - defending or championing cultural sacred cows, which transfers the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige associated with those symbols to the defender. : Veterans, the military.
: appeal to compromised authority - insisting something is true because an expert on the issue says it's true, when that expert has a vested interest in the outcome. : The statistics Masters cites are from his own "internal" polling.
: appeal to tradition - suggesting that moving away from or abandoning long-standing practice could have detrimental or even dangerous implications. : Of using gender pronouns strictly according to someone's assigned sex at birth.
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ad hominem: appeal to tradition: common folk: FUD: guilt by association: honor by association: projection: red herring: