[Zon]

I was talking to another FReeper and you butted in with a red herring manipulation of the premise we were working with.

You nailed it! That's an excellent description of that too-often used tactic -- used mostly to obfuscate and seemingly diminish the validity of a sound argument. Politicians and parasitical elites (sorry for the redundancy) rely on it -- rely on their ability to deceive.

[TigersEye]

You nailed it! That's an excellent description of that too-often used tactic -- used mostly to obfuscate and seemingly diminish the validity of a sound argument. Politicians and parasitical elites (sorry for the redundancy) rely on it -- rely on their ability to deceive.

Thank you. It was certainly used that way here. You weren't necessarily redundant though. There is a master of obfuscation here who is an elitist but not a politician. (AFAIK. Let's hope not.)