> the ad-hominem attack on the author It's not an ad-hominem attack. He stated that the author is a clown because his article is a joke (which he argued for in

> the ad-hominem attack on the author It's not an ad-hominem attack. He stated that the author is a clown because his article is a joke (which he argued for in the paragraph above it), and not that his article is a joke because he is a clown. The more correct term you should have used is 'rude'.