Karl Rove hearts Sophistry

Last Tuesday Dr. Yarrison spoke briefly about sophistry and I wrote in my notes "Karl Rove is a sophist". So I googled "Karl Rove Sophistry" and (among other things) came up with this article from the Daily Kos.

In the article Ankoss says that Karl Rove fabricates simple-minded ideas that he calls "moral clarity" and feeds them to an American people hungry for simple and reassuring answers. She (he?) calls the American masses "impatient, arrogant, and ignorant", and while inclined to agree, I can't help but think it's not entirely their own fault.

I refer to the anonymous blurb on Dr. Swaim's handout when I say that the American masses, inundated with false choices everyday, "no longer have the capacity to consider that the answer may be neither." Red or blue? Coke or Pepsi? Brave warrior or defeatist? It's all the same thing. The insidious advertising culture in this country has trained us well to pick between the proffered choices and think we're getting what we want. Karl Rove is simply picking up where they leave off, offering simple, plausible (yet fallacious) choices when, in fact, the situations are difficult, require thoughtfulness, and are rarely black and white.

Karl Rove is a sophist and we need to understand that the answer to most of his questions is neither.