![]() ![]() Its aim is simple: to defeat one’s opponent. ![]() Katie Porter.And finally, we round up some of the other crazy Trump stories from the past week.The full show notes for this episode can be found at our new website at can contact the guys at on Twitter or facebook at facebook. The Gish Gallop is a technique that can be used in debates, speeches, or any other type of discourse where one person tries to refute many points at once. Donald Trump is probably unaware that he’s an avid practitioner of a debating method known among philosophers and rhetoricians as the Gish Gallop. It is a tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument collection without great effort. I imagine Ben Shapiro is accused of using the technique mostly because he just plain talks fast. In the twenty-eighth episode we explore the Gish Gallop, with examples from Trump's interview with the New York Times and a single day of tweets from Charlie Kirk.In Mark's British Politics Corner we look at Nigel Farage on immigrants and Jacob Rees Mogg on Brexit.In The Fallacy in the Wild, we check out examples from climate change denier Marc Morano and creationist Duane Gish.Jim and Mark go head to head in a game of Fake News, the game where Mark has to guess which of three Trump quotes Jim made up.And then we discuss the awesome Rep. Gish Gallop is a technique, named after creationist Duane Gish, whereby you argue a cause by hurling as many different half-truths and untruths as you can into. The Gish gallop occurs when the putative expert slickly rattles off a long list of assertions without providing evidence or allowing questions. It is a rhetorical technique that involves overwhelming your opponent with numerous vague arguments, with no regard for accuracy, validity, or. Gish Gallop is where you overwhelm your opponent with a bunch of weak arguments in a fast enough flood that they can’t actually respond to them fast enough to refute them. ![]()
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