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Related: About this forumHow Mark Levin typically "wins arguments" against liberal callers
Just found this Secular Talk video from April 2013 showing Mark Levin going Gish Gallop on a caller who compared political reactions to the Newtown shooting and Boston bombing. Mark just went off on so many tangents and would let the caller back in for one second then freak out some more.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)both here an on youtube
alp227
(32,020 posts)which is why I heard the audio on one side of my earphones.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)These right wing personalities truly need psychological analysis by psychologists, rather than political analysis by commentators. It really is an inadequate response to bother to dissect them on their politics. It really is a psychological game they are playing more than a political one. You can just hear it all just by listening to Levin's tone of voice. I think we grant them too much respect by addressing them with political arguments. We should go straight to discussing the possible psychological motivations that are producing this exaggerated chest beating behavior in them and just ignore their politics. The debate should be centered on their psychological health at all times. They use politics to exaggerate their puffed up egos.
The relish with which Levin throws down condemnations from on high suggests there is more being obtained from addressing political issues this savagely than their own perceived redemption and justification of their ideas. All this tough talk and debasing liberals is serving their egos more than their politics. Politics is just a means to that end and their listeners eat it up because it serves their egos too just like the ego of any sports fan is served through association to their team. They could be trash talking about one sports team over another and it would serve the same purpose. And of course many of the hosts as well as their listeners migrated from trash talking shows, like Howard Stern and the Morton Downey jr show, into shows like Bob Grant, Rush Limbaugh and Levin. It's a natural evolution. It's like wrestling but with words. It really doesn't matter what the subject or target is just as long as someone is getting pummeled.
The best way to confront them is to tell them straight out you know and they know it's not about politics for them. It's about the entertainment value they see in trash talk "politics." Don't let them control what the debate is about. It's about getting from political talk the same kind of low brow entertainment they got from wrestling or Howard Stern or subliminally violent shows like the Morton Downey Jr. show or the Court Shows or violent sports, etc.. And you can see the connection in action because these same people who listen to Levin and Laura Ingraham and so forth haven't let go of those old forms of entertainment either because they still serve the same purpose. Someone's getting ordered around or abused or diminished or is trash talking.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)How does he know the accent is on the second syllable in his name?
In contrast to say, Harvey Levin?
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)He can do what he wants with it. Including drag it through the gutter every day of his life.
Veilex
(1,555 posts)Verbal bombardment doesn't mean you've won an argument.
Talking over someone else and not letting them speak means you're so insecure in your own arguments, you need ensure your opponents have as little time to talk as humanly possible.
ptownbro
(27 posts)Unfortunately, Mike Malloy often does the same (or similar) thing and I wish he wouldn't because he doesn't need to.
polynomial
(750 posts)Mark Levin is the American hate radio Primer Political Drama artist. Listen to him immediately offering education and advice in the technique and style of a tyrant. Several others are similar such as Limbaugh, or Hannity.
Levin is making anyone feel they dont understand the rule of law about thinking within society. A typical conservative stand today uses this horrible and oppressive character that demands absolute submission by anyone who calls.
However, I do think some of this type of conversations have that insane feeling. Please understand that anyone who calls into these conservative hate radio talk shows have to be prepared that they are going into the rabbit hole confronted with the Queen of Hearts.