Deception 101:

My heart goes out to journalists. As difficult at it is to write an unbiased report, it is even harder to conduct logical and unbiased analysis. Pretty much everywhere you look you find arguments that are unsound or otherwise wrong. At least journalists tend to do it accidentally. Pundits and bloggers are worse. They don't (generally) have the pretense of being unbiased, and under the cover of personal opinion intentionally invoke all manner of fallacy. Bill O'Rielly, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Moore are all masters of it. If something about these individuals strikes you as a bit slimy, it could be your brain recoiling from their abuse of logic. Fallacy is omnipresent, and we are so thoroughly steeped in it, we adopt it subconsciously. I've used a few in this short passage, try to find them.

I've provided a link to Fallacy Files. You can use it to see through the false arguments of others, or if so inclined, to improve your own deception skills. I don't advocate use of fallacy, (the argumentative equivalent of fighting dirty) but it is also important to remember that a flawed argument doesn't necessarily make the conclusions untrue (see fallacy fallacy).

Oh and a final note: one of my professors once used the word "fallacial" as an adverb form for false/fallacy. That word does not exist. You shouldn't use it anyway, because it sounds like "fellatial", which happens to also not exist, but might confuse people.