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=> Shoutology

Posted by Dr Pancho (Guest) - Thursday, March 30 2006, 22:41:59 (CEST)
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...it's the new science of shouting your way to the truth, or truthyness. The religious right has developed this promising new field and are masters at it. It consists of raising your voice to drown out opposition...also lots of little lies are tossed out there in between...dumped into the shouting match and passed quickly over before anyone can get a word in edgewise to show they are lies.

The sad thing is to see reasonable and well-spoken people on the Left, or just better informed, agree to appear on these shows where, in order to be heard at all, they too have to start shouting...and since they aren't used to this form of communication, come across looking "unsure" of their points of view.

This was especially popular three years ago when we started down this mad road..when mild mannered Muslims were thrown to Christian talk-show hosts and "experts" to be torn to shreds.

The Right knows that in any civilized debate they'd soon have to fold up their tents and slink away...none of these pundits would dare go head to head in any organized type of debate...they know they'd quickly reveal what a bunch of damfools they are...like GM and Aprim refusing to "answer" anything until the question is deleted and they know you can't get on again to blow them even further out of the water...so they can be "safe" to speak their nonsense...but that's okay too...people aren't all stupid or all THAT stupid.

I wish the opposition would simply refuse to appear on these shows...the only alternative is to accept Shoutology themselves as a tactic in discussions and if they do that, they lose...because they come down to the lower level as well as lose the ability to make reasoned arguments instead of becomming impassioned loudmouths themselves...if they refused to participate it would bring about the demise of the Right Shout Jocks that much faster...ah well.

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