This story should get a big "duh-uh-uh" as the response. Two ivory tower academics want to teach us about variations of the straw man, and reveal unto us that it is a technique being used in the current political scene. Duh-uh-uh! Then they actually tell us they don't think "the deceptions are premeditated." Are you fricking kidding? Somewhere right now Karl Rove is high-fiving one of his minions saying, "See, I told you they would never pin it on us!" News flash: A lot of us (I don't know the percentage) have been watching this kind of manipulation of public opinion for seven years, recognizing the logical/psychological games being played, and wondering why the rest of you seem to have blinders on. What you need to do is hack into the website where the neocons have been distributing the Word of the Day, and then trace all that back to the source. That's the REAL story that nobody is covering.