Posted on 10/12/2009 5:24:36 PM PDT by WayneM
Debating Leftists is Like Debating Charles Manson by Leigh Scott
Keith Olbermanns recent hour-long commentary was quite revealing.
Like Michael Moores capitalism hasnt done anything for me comment, the outpouring of support and sympathy for serial pedophile and admitted rapist Roman Polanski, and President Obamas shenanigans at the U.N. and G-20, it drove home a simple, powerful point These people dont know what they are talking about.
They do not know their kiesters from a hole in the ground. They are a few fries short of a happy meal and a few cards short of a full deck. Their phasers are permanently set on clueless.
Once you come to this realization, as many of us have, you are forced to approach their ideas and spokespeople from a position of reality. Not from some sanctimonious position of civility and debate.
For an actual debate, two things are needed. One, there must be a logical and factual distinction between two separate positions. Two, there must be equally matched participants, each one prepared and versed enough to intelligently present their side of the issue.
We dont have that. We have one group of people who live in a fantasy world, full of twisted facts, backwards logic and wishful thinking. You cant debate that. There is no factual, honest, or logical way to support their positions. Its like arguing the best way to take a cross-country trip with a delusional Dungeons and Dragons geek. You want to reroute to avoid traffic on the I-10. He wants to avoid the realm of the Bugbears.
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Well, he has part of it invested in Haliburton stock.
One of my first on-line debates was on an AOL message board too. I decided to go to one after 9/11 to start being more outspoken and involved in debates. This guy kept saying how terrible the U.S. was. Basically saying that we provoked 9/11 and deserved it. He was a muslim living in the U.S. so I asked him why he lives here if he hates it so much and thinks it’s such a terrible place. His answer was seared into my brain forever “to kill you”. Only a few people on that board confronted him. The rest were his liberal allies or fellow jihadists or something I guess and said nothing. I knew there and then the level of hatred coming from the left. They hate us more than they do the terrorists, make no mistake about it.
That's exactly what I saw. He sat there and sighed and smirked and snorted as if that was some kind of intelligent rebuttal. When he did speak it was mostly smarmy put downs. The few times he tried to make an actual point his logic was so pathetic you could drive a tank through the holes in it.
It is amazing and sad that so many people are so shallow that they think MM is making valid points. I suspect a lot of his fans know very well that he is an idiot and his arguments are baloney but he fits their agenda.
When I debate a liberal, when I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride until I get to the bottom and I debate them again.
-PJ
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