Sentences with phrase «heard of a straw man»

Anyone heard of a straw man?

Not exact matches

I know that once I hear or read one of those terms, it almost always means that the person using the term is going to tell us that their magic term means they are right and the other person is wrong because the other person is using a «straw man», they're «cherry picking» or now they're on «the slippery slope».

For example, there is an article about «Bible analyst John McTernan,» who makes a great straw man for Salon — though no one I know has ever heard of him or his foolish comments.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

Josh Levy may call this argument a straw man, but I've been hearing variants of it from quite a few people over the last four or five years, and it's always made me nervous.

Eastwood creates a straw man out of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing, as if the crash is not dramatic enough (he also uses nightmarish footage of crashing planes in New York City to invoke the 9/11 attacks).

Because the laws of supply and demand affect everything... even if you refuse to believe science... Instead coming back with straw man arguments about Chevy volts and how you've never heard a client say it factored into their decision.