Making Light:  A brief note on linguistic markers ::: September 21, 2004, 06:17 PM

Lenora:

  "Hopes and Dreams", of course, is directly linked to the Turkey
  City lexicon entry for "pushbutton words":

  'Words used to evoke a cheap emotional response without engaging
  the intellect or the critical faculties....'

There's a classic term for that kind of emotional button-pushing:
argumentum ad hominem.  Unfortunately, the term is now misused,
almost universally, for distrusting people who have a record of
unreliability.  The latter is actually not a logical error, though
habitually unreliable people would have you believe it is.

If you don't believe me, don't bother to tell me until you look it up.