The right has decided to defend Rove by attacking Wilson, his wife, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, the Summer Silly Season, and Moveon.org. None of their arguments make sense. All of their arguments are subspecies of the Chewbacca Defense:

The Chewbacca Defense is a satirical term for any legal strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments and thus confuse them into failing to take account of the opposing arguments and, ultimately, to reject them. It is thus a kind of logical fallacy, specifically a red herring fallacy and non sequitur similar to argumentum ad nauseam.

The term originated in the animated television series South Park. In its typically hyperbolic style, the show satirized the late attorney Johnnie Cochran’s closing argument defending O.J. Simpson in his murder trial.

Listen to the Chewbacca Defense.

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