Mr. Lott should have countered with something like -"I stated the facts plainly and you refuse to accept them or have some sort of comprehension problem. Its as plain as the smug on your face."
I would go with the old Ed Koch classic:
"I can explain the facts to you. I can't comprehend them for you."
Soledad Racist O’Brien lost her show to someone not quite so disgusting, under new CNN management.
Diversity racists, like the white ones they modeled themselves after, always burn their own houses down sooner or later.
May I disagree? As disagreeable as it is to me, because you're right, actually.
But Soledad was using that weepy b.s. as a weapon. Dr. Lott could sit there all day taking her to school on the facts and still lose a crooked fight like that which Soledad was offering him.
He'd offer arguments A&B, and Soledad at every turn just did her "But ... it's so SAAAAD .... WHY are you fighting me? WHY don't you want to do the Right Thing? WHYYYYYYYYYYY are you so MEEEEAAAAANNNNN ah-ha-ha-bwaaaa-hooo-boo-hoo weepy weepy cry sob snuffle kvetch."
Which is called the "Tears of a Woman" ploy. It jerks the chain of every female in the room (except the most experienced and least tolerant of honeys pulling b.s. and wasting their time), and all the younger women, and even some misguided or clueless men will jump to her assistance AAAAAaaaaahhhh bwaaaaa bwaaaaa he's so MEEEAAANNNN a-haa-hooo-boo-hoooooo! and yeah, right, it's dirty fighting, and women have been winning dirty fights like that for 3,000,000 years.
His better bet, before she gets all the sirens wound up to full scream, is to smother her in phony solicitude, inquire after her emotional health and equilibrium, and suggest with understated urgency that she seek emotional support and help as soon as possible so she can overcome her deep, disequilibrating sorrow. After all, people in that state are in no shape to do their federal income taxes and wouldn't even try, and so they really ought to concentrate on the tragedy and adjourn the political "stuff" until some better day.
No, seriously. The other way lies Cannae, and Waterloo. Sounds like she took him to Cannae, and took all his eagles.
I would be delighted to see a serious IQ test done on Soledad....and I would like to see the results published.
She has to be the ‘affirmative action Hispanic hire’ at her network. There are drug addled (street drugs) kids in East Los Angeles who are brighter than she is.