Re: Rush Limbaugh

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, October 2, 2003 at 16:13:28 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
>...
>Oh come on. What's wrong with a little ad hominem, especially with
>such a gang of thugs? Here's a guy with every advantage in life
>handed to him - Andover, Yale, Harvard, inherited money and position
>- and he's still a provincial ignoramus. Marx never had any problem
>with making fun of his enemies.

My difficulty with ad hominem is that it is something I can't share in
conversations with others who do not share my viewpoint about the
behavior of these thugs; and usually the ad hominem is led with, not
used as the concluding exclamation point on a set of well-reasoned
attacks on someone's behavior.

Besides, I'm a provincial ignoramus on any number of fronts myself.


Bill