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| | |Bill and [[Hillary Clinton]] persistently referred to the Republican [[Newt Gingrich|Contract with America]] as extreme; [[President Clinton]] ultimately signed 7 of 10 Contract items into law | | |Bill and [[Hillary Clinton]] persistently referred to the Republican [[Newt Gingrich|Contract with America]] as extreme; [[President Clinton]] ultimately signed 7 of 10 Contract items into law |
| | |Prior to the [[9/11 attacks]], it was used interchangeably with "[[terrorist]]" by mainstream media sources | | |Prior to the [[9/11 attacks]], it was used interchangeably with "[[terrorist]]" by mainstream media sources |
| − | |Polls show "mainstream" journalists are not mainstream at all; rather more liberal than the mainstream American public<ref>[http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2004/pdf/liberal_media.pdf The Liberal Media, ''Every Poll Shows Journalists Are More Liberal than the American Public — And the Public Knows It''], Rich Noyes, Director of Research, Media Research Center, June 30, 2004.</ref> | + | |Polls show "mainstream" journalists are not mainstream at all; rather, they are more liberal than the mainstream American public<ref>[http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2004/pdf/liberal_media.pdf The Liberal Media, ''Every Poll Shows Journalists Are More Liberal than the American Public — And the Public Knows It''], Rich Noyes, Director of Research, Media Research Center, June 30, 2004.</ref> |
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| | |Greedy card | | |Greedy card |
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| | |Citing the Clinton surplus vs. the Bush deficit | | |Citing the Clinton surplus vs. the Bush deficit |
| | |At first, makes the user look like they have done their research | | |At first, makes the user look like they have done their research |
| − | |Often taken out of context (for example, the Clinton surplus was largely due to a Republican congress and the end of the Cold War, while the Bush deficit was caused greatly by two wars and the need for Homeland Security) | + | |Often taken out of context (for example, the Clinton surplus was largely due to a Republican [[Congress]] and the end of the Cold War, while the Bush deficit was caused greatly by two wars and the need for Homeland Security) |
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| − | |Cherry picking data card | + | | Cherry-picking data card |
| | |Selectively picking out cases that support one's arguments from a wide variety of material and ignoring all the cases that don't | | |Selectively picking out cases that support one's arguments from a wide variety of material and ignoring all the cases that don't |
| | | Obama [[White House]] claims the [[Recovery Summer|stimulus]] "created or saved" 2.4 million jobs<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451592762396883.html</ref> | | | Obama [[White House]] claims the [[Recovery Summer|stimulus]] "created or saved" 2.4 million jobs<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451592762396883.html</ref> |