1. Avoid factual arguments, they're usually against you anyway.
2. If for some obscure reason the facts actually fall your way (an extremely rare occurrence) then repeat them endlessly regardless of the reply of your conservative opponent. Remember time is limited, use this against him.
3. Get as personal and vicious as you can, maybe it will distract your opponent from his train of thought.
4. If you are unable to insult him with the usual insults such as 'racist', 'homophobe', or 'bigot', then insult someone else on his side (someone related to the subject under discussion is preferable but not required).
5. When you're losing, and you usually will be, abruptly change the subject. Again the object of this is to distract and deflect attention from your opponent's argument.
6. Talk loudly and rapidly, don't allow your opponent to get a word in. Remember the more time you consume, the less time your opponent will have.
7. Use hyperbole as an example of your opponent's argument and suggest that that is what they are suggesting.
8. Purposely misunderstand what is being said by your opponent and distort it into something you can use.
9. Make up 'facts' most people don't check them and anyway, you'll be long gone by the time the truth is known, and so will the audience.
10. Expect perfection. Focus on the slightest flaw in your opponent's argument, any kind of mistake, grammatical, spelling, contextual, anything no matter how slight is sufficient to deflect attention away from how vacuous your arguments are.
11. Act insulted. Take umbrage at the slightest contradiction and act as if it is a personal insult. This will make your personal attack seem warranted and just.
12. Mug the camera or audience while your opponent is speaking, make faces, sneering is good, head-shaking better, and looking toward the ceiling is best [notice the avoidance of the word Heaven, Liberals avoid words of a religious nature WM]. Let the audience know you disagree with your opponent (even if you’ve no idea what he’s saying)
13. Use condescending laughter as much as you can. It serves two purposes, first, it dismisses your opponent as being unworthy of your respect and second, it shows your contempt for his arguments. This is a very powerful tool and can really annoy your opponent and disrupt his train of thought.
14. You’re an arrogant Liberal; demonstrate your obvious intellectual superiority by acting in a condescending manner.
15. Forget how many of the wealthiest in this nation are Liberals, always beat the drum of “Rich Republicans” and “working class Democrats.”
16. Finally, always remember style trumps substance. Know it, Live it.
Tip of the hat to Mongo
2 comments:
1. Avoid factual arguments, they’re usually against you anyway.
"Rbb: Does a leader sign the bills into law?
r-108: Congress is the spender, Master Baiter; if you knew anything about US govt, you would know that. Don’t stay stuck on stupid."
2. If for some obscure reason the facts actually fall your way (an extremely rare occurrence) then repeat them endlessly regardless of the reply of your conservative opponent. Remember time is limited, use this against him.
"Welcome to the blogosphere"
3. Get as personal and vicious as you can, maybe it will distract your opponent from his train of thought.
"…Well better a child than a disgusting, ugly, cunt with VD like you. I would love to meet you anywhere and we’ll see who is the man young lady! It is easy for you to hide here with a fake name, try facing a real man someday and you’ll get your girly ass kicked up between your shoulder blades.
Neiman on February 15, 2008 at 10:06 am
… In the end you're a useless piece of shit Canadian who has his head so far up his ass that it is worthless to care about you. You're a lost cause.
likwidshoe
2hotel9
Carrick
pparets
Proof
4. If you are unable to insult him with the usual insults such as ‘racist’, ‘homophobe’, or ‘bigot’, then insult someone else on his side (someone related to the subject under discussion is preferable but not required).
"We’ll send Al [Franken] and the Boob to Tora Bora and I’ll vote for McCain and relinquish my one year subsciption to “101 Ways to Skin Liberals Without the Mess.”
laydownSally on April 4, 2008 at 09:11 pm"
5. When you’re losing, and you usually will be, abruptly change the subject. Again the object of this is to distract and deflect attention from your opponent’s argument.
"The definition and perverted use of the word torture is being used as propaganda by several different groups. In the examples that RBB has posted, they were from one or two shifts at one of a dozen prisons in Iraq. All the people involved have been prosecuted and punished.
Can RBB or some others say the same for the millions who were tortured and killed in Armenia? Ukraine? [Cuba? N. Korea? China?] <-- these are communist countries; I will answer because I do not think that a logical or even an honest comparison is possible.
Were the people shown killed? I think not. Were millions killed and tortured by Stalin? Yes. Was he prosecuted? No. Walter Duranty lied to the American people about how great his five year plans were working except we never knew that the five year plans included killing seven million Ukranians.
Chief RZ on April, 2008 at 10:40m"
6. Talk loudly and rapidly, don’t allow your opponent to get a word in. Remember the more time you consume, the less time your opponent will have.
(Not blog applicable)
7. Use hyperbole as an example of your opponent’s argument and suggest that that is what they are suggesting.
RBB is a sick piece of shit who blames the acts of a few people on the US government. He literally smears shit on his own government in the hope that it will benefit his party.
Carrick on April 4, 2008 at 09:42 am
8. Purposely misunderstand what is being said by your opponent and distort it into something you can use.
The fact is, most black Americans already had “equal rights” before the movement of that name; it was simply to extend it to black Americans living in the core Southern states. Applying that smear to all white Americans is both a lie and a travesty of injustice…
robert108 on April 1, 2008 at 01:49pm
9. Make up ‘facts’ most people don’t check them and anyway, you’ll be long gone by the time the truth is known, and so will the audience.
Let me get this straight. She was injured, her employer’s insurance covered her medical bills, her family sued the trucking company for 100 of thousands of $ for her medical bills, and are now refusing to pay her medical bills. That about cover it?
2Hotel9 on April 2, 2008 at 06:24 am
10. Expect perfection. Focus on the slightest flaw in your opponent’s argument, any kind of mistake, grammatical, spelling, contextual, anything no matter how slight is sufficient to deflect attention away from how vacuous your arguments are.
robert108, proof, Bat One
11. Act insulted. Take umbrage at the slightest contradiction and act as if it is a personal insult. This will make your personal attack seem warranted and just.
'RBB you are a rank propagandist, and your own party would throw people like you under the bus if they could.
You don’t give a fuck about your country. That is obvious in every piece of pro-terrorist propaganda you run. You suck.
Carrick on April 4, 2008 at 10:21 am'
12. Mug the camera or audience while your opponent is speaking, make faces, sneering is good, head-shaking better, and looking toward the ceiling is best [notice the avoidance of the word Heaven, Liberals avoid words of a religious nature WM]. Let the audience know you disagree with your opponent (even if you’ve no idea what he’s saying)
(Ever notice the Hannity cut away shots or el rusho cam?)
13. Use condescending laughter as much as you can. It serves two purposes, first, it dismisses your opponent as being unworthy of your respect and second, it shows your contempt for his arguments. This is a very powerful tool and can really annoy your opponent and disrupt his train of thought.
Rodney
14. You’re an arrogant Liberal; demonstrate your obvious intellectual superiority by acting in a condescending manner.
Rodney
15. Forget how many of the wealthiest in this nation are Liberals, always beat the drum of “Rich Republicans” and “working class Democrats.”
The fortune 500 list is overrun with liberals, right?
16. Finally, always remember style trumps substance. Know it, Live it.
"Ain’t that the truth, brother, ain’t that the truth."
Not that I take any of that personally, it’s just Al Gore’s internets after all and a fun way to get distracted from actually sitting at the computer and working.
Did you know that Hillary killed Vince Foster?
Oh yeah, I forgot…most of those points apply to me too.
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