The Fallacy In The Ad Hominem Argument

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The fallacy represented in the commercial is the Ad Hominem Argument. The fallacy, explains that the person giving an idea is just ignoring the real issues and taking the spectator's attention away, so they will also start blaming the person being insulted. I chose this video because the person is just insulting the other person and not explaining the real issues, for example, how good is their service, how great the clarity of their service is, or for how long would it stay free. Moreover, he has a little dog on his hands, which I believe represents the innocent viewers that are being played in this case by DirecTV for being charge so much for a service that this cable offer them for free. On the other hand, the little dog might just be a

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