Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...
More than half of our electorate chose not to vote this year--a shocking condemnation of our democracy. To bring them back in, symbols must be replaced with substance, and candidates must back their statements with compelling reasons, not ad hominem arguments. It is in this climate that liberal democracy will flourish, when the competition of ideas stimulates national reflection. One major roadblock to any kind of enlightened discourse is the prevalence of television ads as the primary conduit between the candidate and the public...
...past Bush's affability had come across as slightly sappy. To get him serious enough, Ailes had to convince Bush he was being roughed up. Ailes has recalled how he braced his man to launch the ad hominem assault on Dan Rather when he appeared live on the CBS Evening News by persuading Bush there was a dastardly plot to eliminate him from the campaign. In the limousine on the way over to the network, Bush protested that he could answer questions about Iran; he had been doing so all along. Ailes said, "You don't understand something. This...
...bristling, he goads his critics by making everything he does look easy or, even more rankling, look like fun. There is a price. His books sometimes show signs of having been written with one eye on an in-flight movie. His syndicated column occasionally follows the hasty recipe, ad hominem, mix and half-bake. Yet he possesses genuine literary gifts and first- strike verbal capabilities that are devastating in debate...
...Senate on the issues. That's nonsense. And what about the gubernatorial races? If anything, this year's Senate campaigns were among the least issueoriented in a long while. Most of the contact between candidates and and electorate occurred via television. And most of that was through negative ads hominem. I probably shook more hands at my bar mitzvah than either Alan Cranston or Ed Zschau did this fall in the entire state of California...