Posted on 09/06/2024 4:59:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Kamala Harris. Donald Trump. Gish Gallop.
All three are expected at Tuesday’s presidential debate, even if most of America is unfamiliar with one name in that lineup.
GG, as I’ve now come to call it, is a shell game/debate tactic that takes its name from Duane Gish, a prominent figure in the creationist movement who deployed dubious arguments, selective factoids, and rapid-fire lies to overwhelm his opponents in public discussions about the theory of evolution.
The disinformation technique, coined Gish Gallop in 1994 by the National Center for Science Education’s founding director Eugenie Scott, is essentially the art of burying one’s opponent in falsehoods, outlandish rhetoric and red herrings, making it near impossible for them to cut through the subterfuge and correct the lies within the timed confines of a debate.
Making the GG method work one’s favor requires criminal levels of confidence and showmanship. I’m not suggesting that former President Trump studied the late creationist’s playbook, if there is such a thing. That would require reading. But there is an instructional set of videotapes.
On those recordings, Duane Gish advises potential debaters to avoid talking about too many subjects on the public stage, steer clear of arguments that are too technical and stick with a few simple arguments, like insisting that fossils are not proof of human evolution but in fact fakes and hoaxes. Does this witch hunt sound familiar?
If the secret to Trump’s upward fail is available for purchase, why aren’t more morally flexible politicians cashing in on the technique? “There’s a lot of mini Trumps, Marjorie Taylor Green, Carrie Lake. JD Vance wishes he was one, but he has a personality of a....”
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I was gonna say this sounds like every “news” broadcast ever these days
I love how the left has to tell their voters how to interpret (cope?) with orange man bad.
Imagine being part of a party that has so little regard for your intellect.
This proves one and only one thing. That they are scared senseless about what’s going to happen in this debate
This *itch makes crap up out of whole cloth, LA slimes
What a crock. Whenever I read leftist “analysis” it’s pure fantasy. The same “logic” they use to label republicans as “nazis” and justify jailing or killing them.
Basically, it’s that Trump and every other conservative are bad, evil and stupid in every way, and all of their ideas are crazy or lies.
I saw today an article by somebody claiming Trump has body odor, and they all lined up to say “it figures” considering how evil he is.
Trump has smashed liberals in the face but only when they deserved it.
Liberals don’t like victims that fight back.
President Trump is secure in himself, he doesn’t pretend nor need to copy anyone.
The “lies” Trump bamboozles everyone with include things like: Energy production is important, Law and order is good, there should be a border,prices should come down, taxes are too high, peace is better than war, drug epidemics are bad....
You know, all crazy stuff he made up.
Gish is a good Smashing Pumpkins album.
the art of burying one’s opponent in falsehoods, outlandish rhetoric and red herrings, making it near impossible for them to cut through the subterfuge and correct the lies within the timed confines of a debate.
This is exactly what Kamala’s spinners are doing on Fox: rapid fire lies. Responders need to call out the lies
So now we have a name for the LA Times methods of reporting.
MSM = Horse Manure
i took it as parody
lot of laugh lines in there
“criminal level of confidence”?
I think everything the NYT publishes is hilarious it is so completely divorced from reality.
The frightening thing is, half the US population believes them.
Lorraine Ali. Yup! Another Muzzie in the “media”.
I saw them trot this one out as an excuse for Biden’s debate performance. I don’t recall whether this came out before or after the other excuses such as his having a cold or jet lag, anything but his real problem, because we all know that Biden is just fine and ready to serve another term but graciously and selfless stepped down only to pass the torch to the younger generation.
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