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  • Column: How Trump uses the ‘Gish Gallop’ to flood debates with lies and nonsense

    09/06/2024 4:59:02 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept. 5, 2024 9:09 AM PT | Lorraine Ali, News and Culture Critic
    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...