[High Praise! to Michelle Obama’s Mirror]
Lady M was so rattled by a LGBT heckler at the DNC fundraiser she was addressing yesterday
that her big brain temporarily shut down, and an uncharacteristic flash of anger leapt out:
“The pool reported that Obama left the lectern toward the protestor saying that they could ‘listen to me or you can take the mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.'”
In a response that presented an alternative somewhere between a conundrum and a false dilemma, Lady M created her own new logic fallacy: the “Vamoose Conundrum.” It’s “telling people they have a choice between two options, immediately followed by a declaration that negates the first one.”
Parents do that too… Liberal parents.
Hummmm! Michelling eh? Kinda the opposite of Tebowing.
when i first read the story i assumed that the punchline would be wild applause when she left.
I wish I could say she invented it, but I suspect it’s known to wives everywhere.
It’s like, “Shut up, or I’ll give you all ice cream!”