For all the caterwauling about how Biden should retire, educate yourselves by reading the whole transcript of the debate, and understand that the rhetorical device Trump used, the Gish Gallop, has no real-time counter except a general denial of the whole stream of BS..... Then, when you read the transcript, note the extensive recitation …
For all the caterwauling about how Biden should retire, educate yourselves by reading the whole transcript of the debate, and understand that the rhetorical device Trump used, the Gish Gallop, has no real-time counter except a general denial of the whole stream of BS..... Then, when you read the transcript, note the extensive recitation of facts and figures by our "senile ineffective" president. Do I sincerely wish he had been the guy who showed up Friday night in North Carolina - hell yes. Life would be so much simpler, and so many Democrats would not be contemplating taking a large knife into the bath and cosplaying Seneca..... It is up to us to make sure that the arc of the universe continues to bend toward justice. Many people have given their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, to get us to this point, and we can honorably do no less. The circumstances make it easy really - Biden has committed to him almost twice the delegates he needs for the nomination. He will have to step down himself - no one else can remove him. And who at this late date will replace him - he polls best against Trump by far, very few other candidates have national name recognition, and they do not have the campaign staffs, organizations or money to run a national campaign for president. "Alea iacta est."
Thanks to Heather Cox Richardson, the Gish gallop is now in my lexicon -- and I'm wondering if it explains the almost complete inability or unwillingness of the press to deal with Trump's performance. He snowed them but good.
It's too damn easy to snow the press, especially when no one does any real-time fact checking..... I read the whole transcript - in print, even Trump at some points doesn't sound as bad as he did on TV, but when you read what he actually said, you realize it was a campaign rally speech. And "senile" Joe Biden, lousy stage presence and all, still rattled off an impressive amount of factual data, and called out Trump on numerous occasions.
For all the caterwauling about how Biden should retire, educate yourselves by reading the whole transcript of the debate, and understand that the rhetorical device Trump used, the Gish Gallop, has no real-time counter except a general denial of the whole stream of BS..... Then, when you read the transcript, note the extensive recitation of facts and figures by our "senile ineffective" president. Do I sincerely wish he had been the guy who showed up Friday night in North Carolina - hell yes. Life would be so much simpler, and so many Democrats would not be contemplating taking a large knife into the bath and cosplaying Seneca..... It is up to us to make sure that the arc of the universe continues to bend toward justice. Many people have given their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, to get us to this point, and we can honorably do no less. The circumstances make it easy really - Biden has committed to him almost twice the delegates he needs for the nomination. He will have to step down himself - no one else can remove him. And who at this late date will replace him - he polls best against Trump by far, very few other candidates have national name recognition, and they do not have the campaign staffs, organizations or money to run a national campaign for president. "Alea iacta est."
Thanks to Heather Cox Richardson, the Gish gallop is now in my lexicon -- and I'm wondering if it explains the almost complete inability or unwillingness of the press to deal with Trump's performance. He snowed them but good.
I read of the “Gish Gallop” on both HCR’s Substack and Jim Wright’s Stonekettle Station. “Flooding the Zone” with a firehose.
It's too damn easy to snow the press, especially when no one does any real-time fact checking..... I read the whole transcript - in print, even Trump at some points doesn't sound as bad as he did on TV, but when you read what he actually said, you realize it was a campaign rally speech. And "senile" Joe Biden, lousy stage presence and all, still rattled off an impressive amount of factual data, and called out Trump on numerous occasions.
The perfect reply, of course, would have been this.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0