LEONHARDT LIBERACE THE KURDS SILENCE MEANS TRUMP

Liberace is a real little idiot, whether he is right or wrong right now, he is usually wrong, big picture.

Now he has created a new fallacy:
Let's just call it:

THE LIBERACE FALLACY

If you don't take to the stage and tinkle the ivories like a trained seal, like Liberace Leonhardt, you are a bad person, a person identified with Donald Trump. If you are silent, you are against us. We could call it:

You could also call it:

THE SILENCE FALLACY

Let just take the fricking Kurds.

Everyone in history, in the Middle East, has dumped on the Kurds, tried to ally with them at some time or other, and so forth.

The Kurds always turn out to be a tar baby for anyone who deals with them.

Throughout history, not just yesterday, or last night, in Liberace's case.

If we knew leonhardt's source for The Silence Fallacy, we might also call it a species of The Pundit Fallacy, or The Pundit Pundit Fallacy.  See below.

This might also be a special kind of Kinsley Gaffe, where a pundit, by silence, reveals something going on in their head prompted by things others have said or done.

One could call it an Implied Kinsley Gaffe, or a Kinsley Gaffe By Omission....or some other analysis entirely.

Some prior fallacy and gaffe posts:

Saturday, July 13, 2019

THE PUNDIT PUNDIT FALLACY AND KINSLEY GAFFE

This fallacy is committed whenever one pundit incorporates the always fallacious argument of another pundit into his own fallacious argument.

It is what one might call a fallacy on a fallacy.

See also below the post on the Kinsley Gaffe, discussed by NYT pundits, in the context of fallacies..........

One difficulty is that the average person fails to realize that the incorporated argument is fallacious. 

The incorporating argument has its own, other, fallacy, as well.

What one ends up with is a regular Pig's Breakfast of Pundit Sophistry.

Here are two recent examples:

Sunday, June 23, 2019

KRUGMAN TRUMPIFYING THE FED SOME ARGUMENTS TRUE EVEN IF TRUMP MAKES THEM

Krugman is being caught in a prior Thomas L Friedman Trump gaffe:  

Some things are true even if Trump says them, a false argument (All economists' arguments are false in one or more ways, to some extent or another, or in general.)

Trump is the worst possible person to be making this argument, but that doesn't mean that the argument is wrong. PK

Thursday, April 26, 2018

RE DK CURRENT POST LEONHARDT KINSLEY GAFFE PUNDIT GAFFE

"It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, is when a politician tells the truth — or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when the spin breaks down." Kinsley Gaffe.