‘When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife’ Redux
We note that short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump (thanks Spy Magazine!) has mastered the rhetorical trick of accusing/not accusing a rival of a heinous crime:
“That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that … as an example: child molesting. You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure a child molester. There’s no cure for it. Pathological, there’s no cure for that.”
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What’s brilliant about it is not the accusation (God, no!), but when the target of the accusation tries to deny it:
Worked out well for O’Donnell, didn’t it?
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.