The pervasive mass media are making people easy to express their opinions. They can post their essay on their blog and web site, and comment about others’. Even though we can get others’ ideas and opinions easily, there are problems that we have to solve. Because the opinions that we can access is not written by experts, it is easily distorted.
In the web page that deals with that “who is Barak Obama?” I could find many fallacies. The writer who maintains that Obama is a “radical Muslim” is committing many faults. He stretches the meaning of specific facts related to Obama.
That is not enough to define that Obama is Muslim with reason that his father was Muslim. In addition to misconstructions, there are many allegations and factual errors. For example, the Basuki School which Obama attended in Jakarta, Indonesia is not Muslim school. However the essay mentioned that Obama attended the Muslim school.
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It looks like you are getting the hang of fallacies. While they often include bits of information that is true, they often distort this information or use it selectively rather than providing a logical argument.
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