Posted on 08/13/2002 7:25:19 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Donahue conducts his interviews in the same manner as his old talk show; he introduces a topic, asks a question of someone with whom he disagrees, and will change the subject in the middle of the person's reply. He is also very smarmy when he interrupts. He would be better off just to come out and say he doesn't think the person's opinion is worth anything.
It's amazing how well that parallels my own favorite slogan: "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way".
Whenever progress (of any sort) is impeded, it's almost always due to people who won't lead, won't follow, and won't get the hell out of the way.
Right on the money, RLK. Let's consider the political talk shows: Hannity & Colmes, Bill O'Reilly, Crossfire, The McLaughlin Group.....(pretty much name your show). Most (if not all) of them relies on crazed, loud, emotional content to attact viewers. Long gone are the days of Buckley's Firing Line, where people discussed the important issues of the day rationally, sanely, and politely.
And conservatives are usually more polite debaters and hesitate to talk over or try to out-shout their liberal opponents. To a liberal, whoever shouts the loudest, wins.
Yes he did i had forgotten that which i had learned so many years ago thanx for jogging an old brain into working again
My mother, sisters, and in-laws are prime examples of Democrats who react positively to appeals to emotion rather than logic. They have no facts and do no reading on a particular subject. They simply repeat the latest liberal sound-bite. They do not like to have the cold water of hard facts splashed in their faces.
Indeed. Another excellent point. The conservative's manners are used against him/her. What I do when a DemoRat tries this, is to block out what they almost frantically throw out to interrupt me, and maintain a continuous stream of thought and logic to end up with a punch line that sticks it right in their craw. It buffs their brain. They usually forget all their silly protestations and interruptions since their usually is no coherence to what they were yapping out during the development of my argument.
But I don't stop there, I give them a quarter note beat to let my hopefully devastating conclusion sink in...(such as "and so any fool can see that Democrats are guilty in spades of all the things they accuse Republicans of")..then I nuke them as sanctimonious hypocrites.
The key point is to maintain a strong sense of internal rhythm and trust that they are NOT cooperative fair play debaters. Don't give them a chance to pot shot at you. And take the fight to the wasteland of THEIR backyard.
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I'd never be able to get a word in over his bellowing. If things didn't go his way, the mike would be cut off and the tape would be edited.
I might begin the discussion by talking about how Mr. Sensitivity left a wife and kids to play around and end up with the stupid loud-mouthed slut he's taken up with. The program would be cut off and if he took physical measures I'd put him in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.
They started the same thing -- rapid fire about 20 different points, and then when I tried to respond, they cut me off, interrupted, and so on, over and over.
I patiently explained to them that complex issues can't always be reduced to 10 second sound bites, and that if they wished to debate, if they really did want to talk, then they would have to follow some sort of rules that we can all agree on -- I explained that "you have the floor" for example, means that they can talk, without interruption to address the issue at hand, and I would have the same courtesy in turn.
"Liberals" today will not stand for reasoned debate, just censorship, and failing that, shouting down, ad hominem attacks or other juvenile behavior. That anyone takes them seriously today is frankly scary and a reflection of how far our values as a society have slipped.
That's one beef I have with the talk shows -- they let the guests yell and scream and interrupt. Sickening.
Especially the section "Keep The Argument Emotional" . That's why "Victimology" is such a religion for Liberals. This is never more obvious than during the pathetic Weepathons that the Dems stage every 4th summer (also called "National Conventions") in front of their adoring, weepy sycophants (also known as "TV Journalists").
I got a good chuckle yesterday at an article in the local paper that quoted an emotional Democrat who was accusing his opponent in the local primary of unfairly running an "emotional campaign". Well, like, DUHHH!
In our heavily Republican county, there are many races with no Democrap challengers, and in fact there was only a single contested Demo primary this year (5 or 6 on the GOP side, though). So the Dem powers-that-be in this county were quite naturally unenthused when contemplating the considerable amount of work and overhead required to conduct a county primary just for one single race.
So they called the 2 candidates into the proverbial Smoke Filled Room to flip a coin to decide the anointed one, with each candidate promising to abide by the result. The coin was flipped and the Demo woman lost to the Demo man.
Well, it turns out the woman broke her promise and ran in the primary anyway. Both of course claimed the right to sit on the Holy Altar Of Victimhood. He was the victim of her broken promise, and she was the Victim of despicable back room power brokers who tricked her into agreeing to the coin toss! The bottom line? She did a much better job of portraying an abused victim than he did, so she won the primary.
What a crock! How pathetic! How Democrat! Highly entertaining yet pathetic.
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