I was screaming so loud at Sean I think I scared the kids next door! What Wallace found "reasonable" was this: Ahmadinejad doesn't want to anhialate the Jews, he just wonders why they couldn't set up their Zionist state in GERMANY"! Wallace actually seemed to find this an interesting proposal.
I so wanted Sean to say: "OK, let's suppose a white man dies and leaves his home to a black friend. Would it be reasonable for the other whites in the neighborhood to deny his right to live there and insist he go somewhere else?"
Or he could have said: "Let's presume you're right [a ridiculous proposition, but let's pretend]. He doesn't have malevolent intentions; he just wants the Jews to 'move'. Has there been anytime he's proposed such a thing to Germany? TO the U.N.? TO Israel? No. He hasn't. In other words, he's throwing up a diversion and you're buying into it!".
Or simpler yet: Did Wallace ask the nutjob what would happen if the Germans weren't agreeable? What would happen to the Jews if they had nowhere to go?
It was a perfect example of how Sean's debating skills drive me up a wall.
It was a perfect example of how Sean's debating skills drive me up a wall.
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The problem is, Sean doesn't HAVE any debating skills. He does very well on TV because its all about the "20-second bit-byte." But when he gets into a serious discussion, he is very shallow. However, he appeals to the young, hip crowd, and they love him.