Tom Basiles's limitless fallacies

Paul Walker 

In Tom Basiles “Pelosi’s impeachment gamble fails-here’s what going all in could cost her and the Democrats” there are two primarily large fallacies throughout the article. In the title itself this is an example of the loaded words fallacy when he says “gamble” he is very obviously talking about the issue at hand with Pelosi’s efforts to impeach the president but it also hints at gambling with her job and even the audiences, in this case the civilians of the United States along with the Senate and House of Representatives, opinion on the situation. We can also see the Loaded words fallacy when Basiles states “It was the culmination of a three-year spaghetti-throwing operation undertaken by Democrats to weaken the president and the Republican Party, if not overturn the 2016 election.” When you think of a spaghetti-throwing party, does it remind you of a time in grade school when this childish outburst of chaos would absolutely destroy the eating area? Basiles compares the actions of the Democratic party to a chaotic childlike experience. This same fallacy continues in the article: “As the afterglow of her impeachment vote victory fades into history, Pelosi may well be left with an asterisk of her own – an indelible black mark on her career.” We can see now how the title is fitted in with the article and continues further to say that this can both the Loaded Words fallacy as well as the One Sidedness fallacy. Throughout the entire piece, Basiles refers to two parties. The Democratic party and the Republican party along with the president, constantly giving negative context to the Democratic party without their side of the story being told as well. These are only two of the fallacies found in a short piece written by Tom Basile.