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.
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.
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