Sentence examples for straw person argument from inspiring English sources

Relying on tweets of a representative of Westboro Baptist, he said, is a straw person argument -- a flimsy version of a position that is easy to knock down (I'm a philosopher so accusing me of a fallacy hurts).

Unlike God-bothering Sam, Storm was "an avatar, a straw person I created to burn.

A straw man argument is one in which someone misrepresents an opponent's stances, then attacks the weakened position instead of the real one.

That is a straw man argument offered by both extremes.

But again, this is a straw man argument.

Yet this is a straw man argument if ever there was one.

This straw man argument is a historic staple of rightwing, anti-equality arguments; the only problem is that no leftwing thinker has advocated literal equality of outcome.

Your comment is a straw man argument.

One recent example: Scoble complaining that Quora isn't really any good as a blogging platform — a straw man argument that he himself set up, no less.

On Monday, in his Labor Day speech to union workers, President Obama repeated his straw man argument and asked those who oppose his reforms, "what are your plans?

In fact, Obama's is a straw man argument.