@DiogenesLamp
I’m in good company, then. Ben Shapiro, Jonah Goldberg, David French, Erick Erickson, Amanda Carpenter and other solid conservatives use that exact term when referring to Moore.
Ah, the ole "Well
other people do it too!" defense. So old it even has a Latin name. "Argumentum ad populum".
Well that's a fallacy. It's what mindless people do, and I would not advocate making my judgements based on the opinions of others. I believe in weighing facts and coming to conclusions based on those facts.
*Sits down to wait for derisive explanation of why they’re all slack-jawed morons compared to you-know-who *
How about an explanation that people should think for themselves instead of letting other people stampede them into a misjudgement?
Years ago there was an experiment in which they would gather together this group of people to witness some staged event. In fact, everyone in the group except for one person was an accomplice to the experimenters.
They would stage an event, and then one by one they would ask the people in the group to tell them what happened. All the accomplices would simply tell the same lie about what happened. They would finally get around to the one person who was not "in" on the game, and ask them what happened. About 90% of the time, the "subject" would simply go along with what the group said. Only about 10% of the time would the subject contradict the rest of the group and say what actually did happen.
This experiment is a window on human nature, and the fallacy of accepting other people's opinions as your own.
What is all the more curious is the impression you leave in your commentary. You strike me as someone who insists on being independent of thought, and a "damn the consequences, i'm telling the truth" sort of person.
And yet here we are. You seem to be accepting the unsubstantiated accusations at face value, and ignoring any influence by actual witnesses (who have put their names to their statements) contradicting the accusers.
The body of objective evidence does not support the conclusions that "Erick Erickson" (a grandstanding imbecile for whom I have never had any respect.) et al. The body of objective evidence, and even the long held standard of "innocent until proven guilty", supports Moore.