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The Tu Quoque Fallacy is All the Party of Trump Has Left

West’s calumny: All due respect ... every evil thing Trump says and does. This is exactly what Fr. West and countless other Trumpkins have done and will keep doing. Beyond a vague “he’s a flawed candi... read more

Tu Quoque: Why Dems Would Rather Talk About The Teabaggers Than Themselves

that it’s all in your head? Enter tu quoque. Despite the better efforts of Al Gore and an army of climatologists whose job is to weave dubiously collected data into false positives (another logical fa... read more

Trump is plainly the best bet for the Jews

Trump himself ought to confront the illiberalism of the left. The petitions ... the neoconservative sage who has one of the thickest hides in all of newspaperdom and whom I called yesterday, recommend... read more

Here’s a simple test to decide if your personal bias is getting in the way of logic

question vaguely, if at all, related to the original issue. It is a specialized red-herring version of the tu quoque fallacy, sometimes implementing ... which can be used by anyone, to decide if your ... read more

While looking for fallacies, creating new fallacies

This isn’t a fallacy, as Kafer insists. Rubio didn’t say that Cruz’s hypocrisy made him wrong about Trump (an example of the “ad hominem tu quoque” fallacy). Fallacy-finding can involve fallacies. The ... read more

Andrew Coyne: Trump doesn’t deserve civility, but it’s the best weapon against him

All in all it’s been a fine season for the tu quoque ... party at the US ambassador’s. All of which has been fodder for yet more vituperation on social media, where incivility has been the norm since ... read more

Up till now the only rhetorical tools of the Party of Trump…

have been the Genetic Fallacy ... and the “Tu Quoque” (“But Hillary/Obama/some other Culture War enemy did it too, or something that is kind of like it if you stand on one foot, tilt your head and squ... read more

Anti-Anti-Trumpism Is the Glue Holding Together the Republican Party

And let’s not forget what started it all ... has come to realize. But his essays are now weaker for it. As Lewis wrote, “If you’re not keen on defending the indefensible (which would be most of Trump’ ... read more

The first annual International Moral Poser award

You all ... tu quoque fallacy. In other words, do not attempt to evade your guilt by yet again blaming someone else. Another’s wrong does not make you right. About the Author The author is a lecturer ... read more

How the Latest Obama Scandals Robbed Liberal Media of Their Favorite Defense

This logic error is called ‘tu quoque’ or the ‘you too ... When did Bush’s administration: lie about a terrorist attack? go after the Left with the IRS? spy on reporters using the DOJ? kill American c... read more