I have, though, through the years, apparently acquired a knack for translation.
Stand by for a demonstration.
First, though, here's a clip of an exchange that took place on Hannity's show late last week.
Now, here's a wonderful version of a piece from "South Pacific".
Ann Coulter is, by any reasonable measure, a limelight fixated, one trick pony who continues to defy the odds makers by continuing to hold an audience's attention though her fifteen minutes were up years ago.
That said, Mr. Johnson's style of "debate" only fueled the fire while botching a wonderful opportunity to let Coulter further prove Mark Twain's observation... "better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it".
Spirited discussion requires both talking and listening.
Mostly listening.
These days, the goal almost always seems to be "oneupmanship".
Even when the most obvious strategy is allowing the opposition to make Mr. Clemens' point.
Political discussion in media is essentially oxymoronic.
What remains is "twin soliloquies".
Oh...and about my acquired gift for translation?
In most cases, when exposed to "discussion" like the one between Coulter and Johnson, here's, in fact, what most people hear:
Blah, blah...yada, yada....blah, blah....blah.
I'm thinking about applying for a gig with Rosetta Stone.
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