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I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.
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fallacy
argumentation
journalism
leftism
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She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn't mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.
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argumentation
openness
power
persuasion
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Max Barry |
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"Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn't quite recognize", Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the
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television
politics
friendship
diana-princess-of-wales
martin-walker-reporter
marty-peretz
nightline
presidency-of-bill-clinton
sidney-blumenthal
the-guardian
the-new-republic
university-of-oxford
pettiness
oxford
argumentation
mother-teresa
bill-clinton
journalism
united-states
england
betrayal
london
new-york
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Christopher Hitchens |