Saturday, April 2, 2011

Gail Collins' "Donald Trump Gets Weirder": A Horrifying Ad Caninem Attack Against Collins

In a New York Times op-ed entitled "Donald Trump Gets Weirder" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/opinion/02collins.html?ref=opinion), Gail Collins serves us her usual, tired anti-Republican fare, and focuses our attention on would-be presidential candidate Donald Trump. According to Collins, Trump once compared Collins with a canine:

"During one down period, I referred to him in print as a 'financially embattled thousandaire' and he sent me a copy of the column with my picture circled and 'The Face of a Dog!' written over it."

My thoughts:

• Why would anyone bother writing about a Donald Trump presidential candidacy in a serious national newspaper?

• This was a horrifying ad hominem attack against Collins. (Or, given that ad hominem derives from the Latin "to the man", perhaps this was an ad caninem attack?)

• Did Trump specify what kind of dog?
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3 comments:

  1. Marina SapirApril 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM

    Ad Caninen! It made my day!

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  2. Jeffrey GrossmanApril 2, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    Thanks, Marina!

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  3. MariaApril 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM

    Horrifying. Unlike thousands of people losing their jobs, never to get anything like them back again, while people like Trump get richer and richer and richer on the backs of those same people.

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