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title: Ad hominem propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/technique/ad-hominem/
description: Browse all 7 items from objects tagged ad hominem in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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Technique

# Ad hominem propaganda in the collection

7 objects, listed by date.

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3. Technique: Ad hominem

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- [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal, Ad hominem, Straw man)
- [An Answer to Mark Twain (Brussels pamphlet cover, 1907)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/an-answer-to-mark-twain-1907/) (Belgium · 1907 · Name-calling, Card stacking, Ad hominem). Content note: Caricature of Morel and Twain, and a burning village.
- [Il Popolo d'Italia, N. 343, front page, upper half (Milan, 11 December 1915): "L'ultimo conato parecchista alla Camera"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/il-popolo-d-italia-parecchisti-camera-1915/) (Kingdom of Italy · Dec 11, 1915 · Name-calling, Testimonial, Ad hominem). Content note: Wartime front page that labels opposing deputies 'traitors of Italy' and calls on the country to rise against them.
- [The Filipino People, monthly, article (Washington, D.C., August 1916)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-filipino-people-man-who-embalmed-fitness-1916/) (United States · Aug 1916 · Name-calling, Glittering generalities, Ad hominem). Content note: Partisan colonial-politics editorial using epithets for opponents (slander, 'Herod from Harvard').
- [Die Rote Fahne, Nr. 75, front page (Vienna, 26 July 1919): "In zwölfter Stunde!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rote-fahne-in-zwoelfter-stunde-1919/) (Austria · Jul 26, 1919 · Name-calling, Fear appeal, Ad hominem)
- ['Mossadeq's Spy Service' (CIA-prepared propaganda text, Iran, 1953)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cia-mossadeq-spy-service-1953/) (United States · 1953 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Ad hominem)
- [East Berlin radio and television on the October 1989 demonstrations ('Black Channel'), FBIS Daily Report, 11 October 1989](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/east-berlin-radio-tv-schnitzler-black-channel-1989/) (East Germany · Oct 10, 1989 · Name-calling, Scapegoating, Ad hominem). Content note: State broadcasts calling demonstrators 'hooligans' and 'criminal elements' and denying reports of deaths at the October 1989 demonstrations; includes a commentary casting emigrants as parents who abandoned their children.