Posted by
Gary A McAvin on Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:11:05 PM
When you can’t refute factual arguments, kill the messenger. Have fun with character assassination. Attack the arguer and not the argument. Ad Hominem includes slurs, slander, libel, innuendo, baseless accusations, irrelevant criticism, groundless denunciations, and name-calling. So let say for example; call or compare Barrack Obama to Ken Starr. Why Ken Starr? Ken Starr is the “Devil” to her! The Clinton’s hate him and he personifies evil to them.
And if this doesn’t work:
• Apply Labels
Apply labels to things or people — especially derogatory labels. This is very similar to name-calling.
o If someone talks about universal health care, scream “That’s Socialism!”
o If someone talks about peace, freedoms, and justice, complain, “That’s a Liberal agenda.”
So Hillary, (the Sainted One?) makes this absurd statement,” I Have Felt the Presence of the Holy Spirit” she is so far from the true Holy Spirit, but; up close and personal to the Unholy Spirit of the Devil himself! So, she labels herself as holy, while calling and comparing Barrack Obama to her enemy Ken Starr. Ken Starr to her is the “Devil!” See how it works?
And if you are still losing ground de-legitimize your opponent, also known as the invalidation technique. Make them persona non grata, they don’t exist; only the person doing the ad hominem attack exists. This is the point, look at me forget them.
• De-legitimize One’s Opponent
De-legitimize one’s opponent so as to avoid addressing the substance of his argument. This is another kind of ad hominem attack. The goal is to make it impossible for opponents to be heard respectfully in the debate.
If all else fails use the transfer technique: You can really get some mileage out of this one. Challenge their patriotism! Challenge their character! Compare their name to Al Qaeda by inference! Here is the *transfer technique employed by the PSYOP division of the US Army! Happy character assassination you losers and dirt throwers, you can’t win the battle on the field of honor, why; because you have none!
*Transfer: This is a technique of projecting positive or negative qualities (praise or blame) of a person, entity, object, or value (an individual, group, organization, nation, patriotism, etc.) to another in order to make the second more acceptable or to discredit it. This technique is generally used to transfer blame from one member of a conflict to another. It evokes an emotional response which stimulates the target to identify with recognized authorities. “Propaganda Techniques” is based upon “Appendix I: PSYOP Techniques” from “Psychological Operations Field Manual No.33-1″ published by Headquarters; Department of the Army, in Washington DC, on 31 August 1979. Appendix by Jon Roland, July, 1998.
Remember; Hillary is a student (and wannabe) of Saul Alinsky so there will be a lot more of this psychological BS. It only works on stupid people! I believe that Hillary is really Anti-Semetic and only uses the Jewish People as she uses Africa Americans, as her personal step and fetch its’ for power acceleration purposes!