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Re:Snopes asks community for donations by pcwalton on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:15PM (#14840436)
> With the number of somewhat mysterious deaths now over 100, this article looks like they gave up trying to debunk all these deaths about ten years ago.

That's because the "Clinton Body Count" is an textbook example of a Gish Gallop [1], a bad-faith debating tactic in which charlatans spread nonsense by spewing forth so much of it that opponents have no hope of countering it all with facts.

[1]: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

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Re:Snopes asks community for donations by MartinCron on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:26PM (#14840576)
I had never heard of this before, thank you so much for connecting this to a name.

Aha, you've only bothered to refute 48 of my 100 bullshit claims, clear evidence liberal bias!

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Re:Snopes asks community for donations by mturmon on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:31PM (#14840636)
Interestingly, the comment to which you're responding seems ready to mount its own Gish Gallop: it uses the old "I don't even know where to begin" gambit at the outset.
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