‘When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife’ Redux

Posted by | November 13, 2015 12:57 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Tengrain


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.”

(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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?

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By: Tengrain

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3 responses to ‘When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife’ Redux

  1. Anomaly 100 November 13th, 2015 at 14:35

    Ha ha, that’s perfect!

  2. FatRat November 13th, 2015 at 15:35

    I can barely contain myself waiting for the attack ad that’s surely around the corner. lt will have Chris Hansen and edited footage. It’s inevitable, lowered numbers for Trump means it is coming. lol

    http://images.techtimes.com/data/images/full/70106/to-catch-a-predator.jpg?w=600

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/Chris_Hansen_Will_Get_You_by_xXHeatherXD.jpg

    http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/young-girl-measures-breast-13718356.jpg

    http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Republican-presidential-hopeful-Ben-Carson-800×430.jpg

  3. Elizabeth Nelson November 14th, 2015 at 05:48

    When I saw the draft which was of 7159 dollars, I accept that my friend’s brother was like really generating cash in his spare time with his computer. . His aunts neighbor has done this for only 10 months and by now repaid the loan on their home and bought a new Car .This is what they are donig …

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    2po

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