Baron Coleman

Your book had a large part in helping put this together.

It overlaps with several logical fallacies, but it isn't neatly packed into any one of them.

It resembles quibbling, where one side focuses on some trivial objection to derail the main point, or even cherry-picking, where you highlight one favorable detail and you ignore the rest.

But the twist here is the premature declaration of victory, and it treats that isolated incident as a checkmate.

And there's this really rookie debate tactic.

It's overused and, frankly, very rookie.

It's known as Gish Gallop.

I don't know if you've ever heard of that.

It's where you flood the other side with so many details and arguments that it just overwhelms the other side.

It's like that, but it's different in that the gotcha victory is surgical.

It's not a broadcasted approach.

It's a very surgical strike.

One precise strike, and then you retreat.

And I'm sick and tired of the constant obfuscation and lies.

And when we raise real questions like this, they ignore it.

But when somebody says, you think Erica was buying a jumpsuit at Aloe?

Oh, my God, no.

She wasn't buying a jumpsuit at Aloe.

I was buying the jumpsuit.

Oh, that's when you choose to come in and answer it?