Logic and Mr. Limbaugh

Hey guys, its Adventure Van here with a blog about an awesome logic book I’ve read, called “Logic and Mr. Limbaugh”. Written by Ray Perkins Jr., this is a great text book talking about logic fallacies, and does a great job of NOT getting political even with most of the topics being so. As you may have guessed, this book is about Rush Limbaugh, a famous talk show host who leans heavily to the right. However, as I’ve mentioned, this book does an AMAZING job of not getting into politics but instead the actual logical fallacies that he makes.

The book has two sections: Logic Introduction and Rush’s Fallacies. The beginning gives the basics of Logic and the many types of fallacies you can make during an argument. It’s the perfect mix between in-depth and easy to read that allows you to get the gist of it without it being as complex as textbooks. All in all, the beginning on its own makes a nice pamphlet to teach about the basics of logic.

The next part begins stripping away the politics from Rush’s arguments and making them into the bare skeletons of logic they should be. Taking arguments from his books and stuff he’s said on air, and working on the logical fallacies that make them structurally wrong. Because of how well done it is, and I can’t stress this enough, it takes an  extremely political guy with extremely political arguments and makes it into a non-political logic textbook that all groups should probably take a glance at.

After all is said and read, a very enjoyable book. (And the small cartoons inside are a nice touch.) I’d recommend checking this book out if you get the chance, even if it’s a bit old.

Adventure Van, arguing out.