Reply #7: When Bill Maher and Lawrence O'Donnell tried to explain

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on his show last night that such violence (and also the nuttiness and the stupidity) is a Right Wing tactic, not a Left Wing one, Maher allowed his two loud, loud, loud Republican guests to shout him and O'DoOnnell down.

That is one of the things I hate about his show--he has on the Right Wingers, and one of the RW's tactic is to just shout so loudly the other side cannot even be heard--both literally and metaphorically.

I know this happens on ALL shows, but Maher and O'Donnell are not shrinking violets, so why do they let those loudmouths shout over them without insisting on their right to have their point heard? I wish the people on our side wouldn't just let themselves be shouted down like that. Our side's point never gets heard. In fact, I think Maher should do a segment in which he points out that in addition to violence, nuttiness, and stupidity, the uncivil tactic of shouting over opposing viewpoints is also a strictly Right Wing tactic that makes it impossible for the Left to get its points heard.