Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Nov-21-10 03:41 PM
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11. He would have chewed her up and spit her out
had he been forced to have the twit on his show.
The NBC poobahs should have been damned grateful he refused.
Liberal talk show hosts, comedians in particular, aren't very good at debate. Oh, they have the gift of gab as part of their job and they're good at following a carefully scripted set of talking points drawn up by their writers, but they have no real desire to analyze or learn the facts required for seriously considering what their conservative guests say.
I've seen it happen a thousand times with Jon Stewart or Bill Maher or Whoopi Goldberg and their ilk. The conservative will toss out a fact or figure they are unprepared for or have no answer for and they'll immediately come back with some idiotic non-sequitur or snarky strawman which their (usually liberal) audience laps up and begins laughing like hyenas, which effectively drowns out whatever point the guest was making. Then they switch subjects quickly to prevent the conservative from coming back. Usually the conservative is too gracious to press the point and just follows the host's lead.
That kind of exchange is what the DUmbasses consider "chewing up and spitting out" and "handing them their ass." Then again, they necessarily have to set a low bar for their "victories," so few and far between they are.
