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TEHRAN, IRAN – Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Khamenei announced that Ahmadinejad won the most votes in the Afghanistan election last week. “The Afghan people have spoken and they have spoken for Ahmadinejad to become their next leader.”

Critics were skeptical of the latest claims citing that Ahmadinejad hadn’t even run in the race in Afghanistan, nor was he even qualified to assume the post if he had.

Afghan public opinion was hard to gage as they appeared fearful of dying for speaking up.

Moore-Coulter Postulate 3.0

I created a name for a typical fallacy that I see online in web boards. It is the Moore-Coulter Postulate, which in honesty is a derivative of the False Equivalence Fallacy. It is typically committed by right-wingers who compare differing magnitudes of opposing ideologies as equivalent.

The Postulate reads:

“Conservatives have a strong tendency to be unable to differentiate between absolute magnitudes of two politically opposing people/conventions/ideas and as a consequence, typically see such values as inconsequential in difference.”

An example would be a right-winger noting that Moore is “just as bad” as Coulter when it comes to blanket partisanship and vileness or that MSNBC is a “mirror image” of Fox News. Oddly enough, far left-wingers seem to be now making the same sort of fallacy regarding Obama being “just as bad” as George W. Bush.