Episode 0017: Ad hominem (original episode)

This is an original episode on Ad Hominem.

Show notes (stuff we mentioned that you might want to follow up, or not, whatever… totally up to you):

• Reading from the book (Ad Hominem)

• The master of vitriolic Ad Hominem and Browbeating - Gordon Ramsay - fromKitchen Nightmares (I think...)

• Reductio Ad Hitlerum and Goodwin’s Law

• An example of likening a contemporary political leader to Hitler from people who’d been to see a talk by Al Gore organised by moveon.org (no points for guessing the leader of who I speak...) . This is obviously a case of cherry picking, but nonetheless…. Here's the youtube clip I used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOpOGJsLhU. (I also slipped in a bit of Monty Python here (Gumbies)

• Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the earwax incident (prior to being elected)

• Blackadder Goes Fourth - Captain Cook

• The evil brain teaser I mentioned

Direct download: https://archive.org/download/HH101/HH101e0017.mp3


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