Logical Fallacy Speech Analysis: Presidential Debate

Even though President Obama’s speech was effective in how it was given to the public and convincing on getting the American people to join his side of the argument, his speech did contain logical fallacies that would do the opposite for the well-educated and skeptical audience members. Logical fallacies are flaws in the reasonings given by the president. While some of his audience may not have caught them, others would have. The fallacies dampened his ethos, or credibility, and made his speech less effective than planned. In the first few sentences, Obama tells the nation, “So far, we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas...But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization,

During the second Presidential Debate, which was televised on October 9, 2016, I was able to detect many logical fallacies within the arguments of both candidates. For example, when Donald Trump was first asked about the controversial tape that contained footage of him disrespecting and admitting to sexually assaulting women, he avoided this question by attempting to divert attention from this issue. Instead of concretely answering the question, Donald Trump briefly apologized, and then blatantly attempted to ignore the issue by talking about Isis “chopping people’s heads,” and randomly describing all the horrid things that Isis is doing. This logical fallacy is characterized as “Red Herring,” which

There has been a lot of tension towards her email scandal, and what she is hiding. There have been many controversial arguments and discussions over the subject. However, the fact of the matter is that Clinton’s emails were hacked and leaked by foreign intelligence and no one knows for sure what all she is hiding. After the hacking of her “private” server, investigators found that the evidence had been tampered with. Is this someone we can trust to represent our nation? Fox News said, a Navy vet asked Hillary, himself, “how can we trust you as our president”? It truly is a shame that someone this untrustworthy is in the elections (http://insider.foxnews.com)

Yes, the speaker made several attempts to dispose the audience favorably toward the topic. For example, when she brought up how Donald started his campaign bashing immigrants, calling Mexican immigrant rapists and criminals and drug dealers. This gives the “people” hope in entering the United States legally, and will of the American people. Yes, the speaker clearly previewed all main points. One of the main points was to make college affordable and to raise the minimum wage, she salvaged Trump’s career, his finances, describing him as something small. Another point is the aluminum dumping as a continuing problem, she reaffirmed a pledge against the Trans-Pacific Partnership: “I’m against it now. I’ll be against it after the election. I’ll be against it when I’m president.” Thirdly, another point being she will reach the presidency as she sought it, deeply cautious and risk averse. Therefore, letting Trump defeat himself, but she risked no decisive action. Fourthly, another point she’s gearing up for an early big battle over immigration, the first 100

“There is an acknowledgment that it is very shortsighted to blame this loss on a letter from the F.B.I. or what states Hillary went to,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota. “We need to do a better job having a bold sharp focus on the economy,” she said, like the cost of prescription drugs and predatory pricing on foreign

I watched the third presidential debate on Wednesday, October 19, at 8 pm. Chris Wallace moderated the debate between the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. The purpose of the debate was to allow for both candidates to be compared side by side in order to determine who would be a better candidate to become the president of the United States.

In other words, most Americans think she is a deceiver. This is due to her past controversies such as the emails, and Benghazi issues. The email issues started because of Clinton using a private domain out of “convenience”

Although most of the lies Hillary tried to sell are either for her legal benefit, or her political benefit, some of her lies are just plain outrageous and have no purpose whatsoever. Sometimes, those lies are so outrageous and ridicules that it gets comical and even hysterical.

Straw man a. The first fallacy is an example of Straw man (no latin name ). b. A Straw man fallacy is an intentional distortion, exaggeration, or misrepresentation of another person’s argument or point.

There are several kinds of fallacies, one of them is the appeal to pity or emotion, an example of this is when a kid does wrong things, their parents call him to talk about it and he starts crying to appeal to their emotions so he can avoid a punishment. With this appeal the kid uses the emotion and sympathy to avoid a reprimand and get the desired conclusion of the argument.

A consensus stemming from the media is that Secretary Clinton was definitely the winner of the debate, but the race for the presidency is hardly over. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post writes, “At times she came across as overly rehearsed and robotic… She was, unsurprisingly, very well prepared – using a slew of facts and figures to not only make her positive case but also to slam Trump.” Clinton had clearly done her homework and was prepared with witty comebacks to Trump’s usual feisty remarks, as well as, clear plans for our country which she masterfully weaved together to make the most of her two-minute responses. He, on the other hand, did his best to bring up topics he is comfortable talking about like the 33,000 emails deleted off

-This statement shows that what is being said about Hillary comes from things she actually stated.

The Republican National Committee was quick to jump on the interview as well, saying it showed Clinton's shortcomings. "What's clear is Hillary Clinton regrets that she got caught and is paying a political price, not the fact her secret email server put our national security at risk," RNC spokesman Michael Short said in a statement. "Hillary Clinton's repeated distortions of her growing email scandal, which now involves an FBI investigation, and her refusal to apologize only reinforce why three-fifths of the country doesn't trust

Some of the things that Hillary Clinton has stated and makes one wonder exactly what her ideas and goals are.

Replying to Trump’s proposal to stop Muslims from visiting from overseas and increasing police surveillance at home, Clinton stated “We will not ban a religion. We will work with all Americans and our allies to fight and defeat terrorism.” This is promise Hillary should not have promise because she took money from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Oman, and Yemen. As soon as her run for president became official Republicans wanted to attack her which would not have been good for the US because the US does not need to be in war.