Word: hominem
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...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...
...hominem attacks on me are unnecessary, since the comment that the Admissions Office seems willing to sacrifice academic standards for athletic ability in selected sports cannot be attributed to any psychological weakness of mine. For the record, though, I am a sports fan, almost a sports fanatic, and my article was partially intended as self-criticism...
...compromise is in order. But how can we discuss an issue when one side refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the other? The feminist fascists rely--just as Nazis did--on ad hominem attacks. If you opposed the Nazis, they shouted "You're not a German, or you would agree with us," or otherwise labeled you as a communist. Similarly, I'm told, "You're not a woman, so you can't understand what it's like." Or worse, I'm labeled as "insensitive," hence not worthy of being listened...
...Crimson recently featured an editorial, a cartoon and an article by Michael Hirschorn, all criticizing a Salient article's proposal of divesting from the Soviet Union. Aside from the tasteless ad hominem nature of these pieces, and their failure to draw any distinction between the Salient and the Republican and Conservative clubs, they all display fundamental ignorance of the issues at hand. To begin with, the Crimson writers can not seem to distinguish between the national security policies and the human rights policies of the U.S. government. We have thousands of warheads pointed at the Soviet Union to defend ourselves...