Thus, a new rhetorical device is given us: let us call it the Galloway.
The Virtual Stoa was ridiculing Stephen Pollard, who’d been forced to retract a potentially libellous post on Interpal (the usual). To cut a long story short, one of the comment-box rejoinders went something like:
‘Do you really want to be in the same camp as Galloway on this one?’
Delightful. And can be pushed to absurd limits: ‘Small dogs should not be thrown in the air and volleyed’ ‘Oh Really, you’re not concerned that this places you in the same camp as Galloway?" Needless to say, for 'Galloway' you can substitute a designated bogeyman of your choice.
Nb. A lone emailer demanded to know why I ‘defend Galloway’. In case anyone else is proposing to ask me such a question, my answer to him was: “Find one positive word about Galloway on this blog and we can talk’.
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