The Technical Term for it Is “Michelling”

[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.”

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