Eeek!

Classes start in less than two weeks, and I'm still only half done with prep. Looks like I'll be putting in some long hours over the next few days. Fortunately there's a lot of egregiously fallacious reasoning going on, so there's plenty of text to examine in the classes!

Check out Stephen Colbert's lampooning of Orly Taitz. Her arguments against Obama's right to serve as president are nothing short of legendary for their refusal to recognize fact over fiction.



Asked how announcements of Obama's birth could be published in Hawaiian newspapers 48 years before they would be needed to fabricate a US birth for his presidency bid, Taitz had some difficulty explaining... What sort of fallacies are in this clip?

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