Loaded Question
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Tellasking is when you ask someone a question, but your question has an assumption built-in that is designed to accuse the person rather than receive an answer. This allows you to bias the audience with an accusation against your opponent, but does not require you to have the courage to actually say what you think.
Example
How many times per week do you beat your wife?
Famous Examples
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Shall free institutions broaden their blessed reign as the children of liberty wax in strength, until the empire of our principles is established over the hearts of all mankind? Have we no mission to perform? No duty to discharge to our fellow man?
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Don't do it again, it was a disgrace. If Saddam Hussein put up 1,000 missiles at our country, who would you go to for help? The Russians or the U.S.? Don't do it again.
(Speaking to Ottawa Hockey fans who cheered for the Russian team against the U.S. in the World Cup Semifinals)
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If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?
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Now as I was saying he has these really big, luscious, beautiful DSL lips and if you take a look at this picture you'll notice they are very red, very very pink and now if you compare it to the logo of Verizon, you'll see that there's a little red nub at the end of their logo here and you're gonna kinda understand what I'm getting at here he's got these big juicy DSL lips. I wonder what he was sucking on. Wonder what he sucked off right to get his lips so red.
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They say mercury in fish is dangerous but forcing all of our children to be injected with mercury in thimerosol [sic] is no risk. Make sense?
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Expose themselves? What is it the mutant community has to hide I wonder that makes them so afraid to identify themselves?
Context: X-Men (film) -
Hey, alternating current, why don't you just admit you're bi?
Context: The Colbert Report (television show) -
How can McDonald's make french fries with such an uncomplicated list of ingredients all over Europe, but not over here?
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