Posts tagged lie
BREAKING NEWS: Senate Majority Leader (and little bitch) Harry Reid compromises on all previously compromised compromises, excluding compromise, before actually compromising…
THIS JUST IN: Lance Armstrong announces the “Lie Strong” foundation with Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and A-Rod…
COMING SOON TO A REPUBLICAN PARTY NEAR YOU: Another four years of doubling down on lies, greed, douchebaggery and batshit-crazy…
ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO VOTE AGAINST MITT ROMNEY: Because Mitt Romney is a pathological liar…
ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO VOTE AGAINST MITT ROMNEY: Because Mitt Romney refuses to release his full tax returns….
THIS JUST IN: Mitt Romney still supports the rape guy, the vaginal probe guy, the other rape guy and the racist guy…
FUN FACT - Not all Republicans are rich racist bigots, but all rich racist bigots are Republicans…
The Gish Gallop
Named for the debate tactic created by creationist shill Duane Gish, a Gish Gallop involves spewing so much bullshit in such a short span on that your opponent can’t address let alone counter all of it. To make matters worse a Gish Gallop will often have one or more ‘talking points’ that has a tiny core of truth to it, making the person rebutting it spend even more time debunking it in order to explain that, yes, it’s not totally false but the Galloper is distorting/misusing/misstating the actual situation. A true Gish Gallop generally has two traits.
1) The factual and logical content of the Gish Gallop is pure bullshit and anybody knowledgeable and informed on the subject would recognize it as such almost instantly. That is, the Gish Gallop is designed to appeal to and deceive precisely those sorts of people who are most in need of honest factual education.
2) The points are all ones that the Galloper either knows, or damn well should know, are totally bullshit. With the slimier users of the Gish Gallop, like Gish himself, its a near certainty that the points are chosen not just because the Galloper knows that they’re bullshit, but because the Galloper is deliberately trying to shovel as much bullshit into as small a space as possible in order to overwhelm his opponent with sheer volume and bamboozle any audience members with a facade of scholarly acumen and factual knowledge.
