Reply #25: Thanks. I initially felt a little guilty about having not been polite.

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But FUCK IT. We've got dozens of DNC people and commentators and editorialists and other partisans who are just too frickin' polite. I find myself screaming at my TV - "JUMP BACK IN, DAMMIT!" "SAY SOMETHING! NOW!!!!! JUMP IN ON HIM/HER! DON'T LET THEM BUTT IN LIKE THAT!!!" And they seldom do. And when the opponent gets rolling, they back down and shut up and let the opponent (who was rude initially) continue and complete the point. And invariably the point is made and allowed to stand because by the time the opponent finishes, he or she has hogged all the rest of the time that was supposed to be used for our side's spokesman to complete his or her point. And then the host thanks everybody and the segment's over and that bad or erroneous or wrong or deceitful point has been allowed to stand, unrebutted or unchallenged. So in the viewers'/listeners' minds, that's the point they remember. ESPECIALLY if it's the last point made. You remember best what you just heard last.

So I just wasn't gonna play. As I said, I may not get the chance to do so again. Either the host of this particular show won't invite me back in deference to the other guest (whom he's known and had on his shows longer - he just met me a few weeks ago), or she'll probably lodge a protest with him, saying she'll never come on again if "that rude leftist bitch" is on, too.

I WAS feeling a little uneasy about it. But FUCK IT. I've changed my mind. She got what they ALL deserve, and I could tell, just as I suspected, these people are SO used to being coddled and capitulated to and deferred to by well-mannered "opponents" that they're just shocked and outraged when they're suddenly not treated that way. If I am invited back, which I doubt (I'm certain she'll complain, if she hasn't already), I will be just as intolerant of that shitty, condescending, patronizing, and utterly bogus behavior.

BTW - one of the points we hashed out was about michael savageweiner and his asshole remarks about autistic kids and whether boycotts work and all that stuff. My opponent brought up, several times, the boycott that pushed dr. laura off TV. It told me she was personally quite outraged about how "poor" dr. laura was treated by those awful gay-loving boycotters. But then again, dr. laura does talk fairly frequently about bad behavior and not rewarding it. So thereya go.

So I suppose you can start calling ME "The Rude Pundit" now.

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