RE: Press faux-outrage about Trump’s interrupting.
Had a discussion with a friend who teaches rhetoric at a private 4 year institution.
He said one of the rules in a debate is to /never/ personalize your rebuttal at your opponent.
Above all, do not impugn the opponent’s character.
If that happens, it is no longer a debate and all rules as nullified (it becomes an school-yard argument, he says).
He also told me that you can always determine who it was that first personalized the debate and started an argument.
It will always be the one who is interrupted first.
I think he is on to something.
I wonder if Trump had a Rhetoric class in military school.
He said one of the rules in a debate is to /never/ personalize your rebuttal at your opponent.
Above all, do not impugn the opponent’s character.
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Surest way to lose a debate. And another one-when in doubt scream and shout-a sure give away that the screamer has lost the argument and can’t think of anything else to say-just repeats the same old lines louder. Ha.
Read somewhere last night that someone watched the debate again, and Biden Bin Hiden-he of the bite me teeth, was the first to interrupt. spit.