The Daily Caller writer introduced both the contextomy fallacy and provided a textbook example of confirmation bias fallacy in his declaration. |
A subtle variation on the straw-man argument goes by the tongue-twisting name of contextomy. |
Contextomy is employed in contemporary mass media to promote products, defame public figures and misappropriate rhetoric. |
As a literary offense, contextomy ranges from simple and perhaps naive disingenuousness to malicious and contemptible dishonesty. |
As part of his advocacy he presented a satirical hypothetical list of arguments for slavery, which has been open to contextomy. |
Matthew S. McGlone, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, studied the effect of contextomy on popular opinion. |