From One Psychodrama to Another

[endicom]

American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson
Aug. 20, 2018

Michael Wolff and his media-hyped blockbuster—that supposedly game-changing landmark of a book Fire and Fury—are now ancient history.

Fading similarly is Karen McDougal, Playboy‘s 1998 Playmate of the Year, and her National Enquirer grifter lawsuit that was also supposed to destroy the Trump presidency.

We are by now mostly tired with Stormy Daniels and her unhinged lawyer Michael Avenatti, who at least proved more entertaining than his porn-star client.

Consiglieri Michael Cohen, the Trump attorney who secretly taped his own client and apparently has been flipped to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s side in his veritable war against Trump, is also sliding into the netherworld of no-news coverage and a legal morass.

More... https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/20/from-one-psychodrama-to-another/

[Bigun]

Yet another home run by VDH.

[DB]

Stormy and McDougal are problems entirely of Trump's making.

A porn star and a playmate...

Top notch...

[Wingnut]

Yet another home run by VDH.

Yep!. 

[jmyrlefuller]

When Hanson starts his article with a string of ad hominem attacks, it's hard for me to take him seriously.

[endicom]

When Hanson starts his article with a string of ad hominem attacks, it's hard for me to take him seriously.

Not ad hominem.

"Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

[jmyrlefuller]

Not ad hominem.

"Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

So he attacked Michael Wolff as irrelevant, Karen McDougal as a grifter, and Michael Cohen as a mobster. How does that not constitute ad hominem?

[Bigun]

So he attacked Michael Wolff as irrelevant, Karen McDougal as a grifter, and Michael Cohen as a mobster. How does that not constitute ad hominem?

Stating facts can never be ad hominem.

[aligncare]

Such is the unending dilemma for republicans: existing in a political reality governed by structural media bias and a seamless double standard.

[DB]

So he attacked Michael Wolff as irrelevant, Karen McDougal as a grifter, and Michael Cohen as a mobster. How does that not constitute ad hominem?

Never mind that Cohen was Trump's paid "mobster"...