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calimary

(81,210 posts)
16. And OH MAN I wish they'd do this. Just as you described, DallasNE.
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 08:38 PM
Feb 2014

Start the show, or the segment, by saying that if anybody bullies their opponent or won't stop talking and give the other person their turn without talking over them or stepping on them and taking over, they'll be asked once. And then if they try it again, their mic will be cut. PERIOD. I strongly suspect the folks on that side are being schooled in how to monopolize arguments on TV. You don't just make your point all the time, nonstop, you also prevent your opponent from making his/her point. So you win THAT way, too. Keep talking. Don't let them get a word in edgewise. Jump in whenever you feel like it and override what they just tried to say (but you won't let them finish or even complete a sentence). Sometimes I wish OUR side would get more rude, too. There've been a couple of GOP operatives who just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and you never heard such a run-on sentence in your life. they don't even stop to take a breath. They string their talking points together and just GO for it, and you can't get in and you can't grab a moment and you can't make your point because they just keep talking, and they butt in when it's your turn and interrupt you mid-sentence and don't let up.

WELL, WHY AREN'T WE DOING THAT???????? WHY AREN'T WE MEETING THEM SMACK-IN-THE-FACE FOR SMACK-IN-THE-FACE??? Taste of their own medicine. See how they like it.

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