What, the quote of the 'cease and desist' letter to Melissa Carone?
This one?
Dominion Attorneys Send Brutal Letter to Trump Campaign’s ‘So-Called Star Witness’ Mellissa Carone
which included:
The tactic of 'attacking the messenger' consists of attempting to detract from the credibility of the message by attacking some irrelevant characteristic of the messenger. Thus, an accountant points to major fraud in the company whose accounts he has audited, and the company says "Hey! He we hacked his computer and he sure watches a lot of animal porn'.Icarus wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:27 pm
Dominion also took a swipe at Carone’s claims that her work for the company gave her access to any kind of special knowledge about its business processes.
“We write to you now because you have positioned yourself as a prominent leader of the ongoing misinformation campaign by pretending to have some sort of ‘insider’s knowledge’ regarding Dominion’s business activities, when in reality you were hired through a staffing agency for one day to clean glass on machines and complete other menial tasks,” the letter stated.
If however the company points out that the person in question is not an accountant, and that he had no access to the company's accounts, that is certainly not an example of the fallacy in question, since it legitimately points to the fact that the person in question has neither qualifications nor knowledge to speak reliably on the question on which he has pronounced.
And that's basically what Dominion did to Carone. She held herself out as having been hired by Dominion as an IT expert. In fact she worked for one day as an agency help performing menial cleaning and other office tasks.
To put is simply, of those matters on which she testified, she had precisely diddley-squat competence or knowledge. And Dominion were right to point that out,
