September 6, 2024
Five days out from the Trump-Harris debate, media begins to excuse Kamala’s expected terrible performance
By Jack Hellner
The purpose of this article in the Los Angeles Times is to make excuses for Kamala Harris in the upcoming debate:
Column: How Trump uses the 'Gish Gallop' to flood debates with lies and nonsense
Kamala Harris. Donald Trump. Gish Gallop.
All three are expected at Tuesday’s presidential debate, even if most of America is unfamiliar with one name in that lineup.
GG, as I’ve now come to call it, is a shell game/debate tactic that takes its name from Duane Gish, a prominent figure in the creationist movement who deployed dubious arguments, selective factoids, and rapid-fire lies to overwhelm his opponents in public discussions about the theory of evolution.
The disinformation technique, coined Gish Gallop in 1994 by the National Center for Science Education’s founding director Eugenie Scott, is essentially the art of burying one’s opponent in falsehoods, outlandish rhetoric and red herrings, making it near impossible for them to cut through the subterfuge and correct the lies within the timed confines of a debate.
The writer essentially says that Harris will look like a loser, but it’s not that she’s actually a loser, it’s just because Trump will have “deployed dubious arguments, selective factors, and rapid-fire lies” to “overwhelm” her in the limited timeframe of a televised debate. If it looks like Trump “won” it’s only because he was a better liar.
But I would like to ask which lies this author expects Trump to tell.
Trump might say that…
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