If the following passage contains a fallacy, then identify it. If the passage does not contain a fallacy, then choose "No fallacy."
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has filed multiple complaints -- including alleged animal abuse, the misuse of drugs on horses, and fraud -- against trainer Steve Asmussen and his top assistant, Scott Blasi... Clark Brewster, the attorney representing Asmussen and Blasi, said that he had not seen any of the complaints... "Until I see the materials, it's hard to comment. It's obviously a piece completely out of context slanted for the purposes of the organization that caused somebody to deceptively be hired by the Asmussen stable."
David Grening, "PETA Accuses Asmussen Stable of Mistreating Its Horses," Daily Racing Form
I often read the Mexico enablers justify the 800,000 Mexicans illegally crossing the U.S. border each year, rationalizing this with a statement such as, "Well it is either they stay in Mexico and starve, or risk their lives crossing the border."
"The Fulano Files," at Fulanofiles.blogspot.com
For the natives, they are near all dead of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess.
John Winthrop, governor, Massachusetts Colony, 1634
My opponent wants to sever the Danish church from the state for his own personal sake. His motion is an attempt to take over the church and further his ecumenical theology by his usual mafia methods.
Charlotte Jorgensen, Hostility in Public Debate
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
Homer Simpson, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage," The Simpsons
Musical chills are known as aesthetic chills, thrills, shivers, and involve a seconds-long feeling of goose bumps and tingling... the emotions evoked by beautiful music stimulate the hypothalamus, which controls primal drives such as hunger, sex, and rage and also involuntary responses like blushing and goosebumps.
Brian Alexander, "Messiah Give You Chills? That's a Clue to Your Personality," MSNBC.com
You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.
Bobby Henderson, "Open Letter to Kansas School Board"
I call this the "Advertiser's Fallacy" because it's so prevalent in commercials, such as the one where a famous baseball slugger gives medical advice on erectile dysfunction (that should pick up the hit count!). No. See a properly qualified doctor for ED, see Rafael Palmiero only if you want to improve your baseball swing.
Joe McFaul, Law, Evolution, Science, and Junk Science
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks for man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then there is no such thing as slavery upon earth.
Thomas Paine, The Crisis
The Supreme Court sided with the video game industry today, declaring a victor in the six-year legal match between the industry and the California lawmakers who wanted to make it a crime for anyone in the state to sell extremely violent games to kids... "The basic principles of freedom of speech do not vary with a new and different communication medium," [Justice] Scalia wrote in the Court's opinion.
Stephen Totilo, "1st Amendment Beats Ban in Video Game Battle," MSNBC.MSN.com
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