How did you interview Dennis Hastert without asking him about the Corporate Crime Wave during the George W. Bush nightmare?

I just went through your blog and it's astounding the number of comments you have...or rather don't have. Why is that? Are you blog posts irrelevant? Poorly written? Boring? For a national show to have a blog with so little comments indicates something you should be worried about. BTW, I asked Chuck Todd on Twitter where/when he graduated from college? Degree? Major? Post Grad? I've heard that Chuck is a college drop out. I would like Chuck to confirm/deny this. If it is true, I wonder why NBC would hire someone lacking a basic requirement for the position in which he holds.

Romney Won Using a Debate Technique Called the Gish Gallop (Newsvine)
http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/04/14226423-romney-won-using-a-debate-technique-called-the-gish-gallop

As fact checkers busily highlight the myriad number of lies and distortions offered by Mitt-Etch-A-Sketch-Romney during last night's debate, and the spinners spin their polls with impunity, I find it interesting that the debate tactic itself has not yet been discussed nor properly analyzed. In fact, the lies and distortions offered by Romney in last night's debate are the very ESSENCE of his tactic -- and is therefore quite pertinent to the discussion. Romney used a debate tactic known as the Gish Gallop.

The Urban Dictionary defines the Gish Gallop thusly:

Named for the debate tactic created by creationist shill Duane Gish, a Gish Gallop involves spewing so much bull@!$%# in such a short span on that your opponent can’t address let alone counter all of it. To make matters worse a Gish Gallop will often have one or more 'talking points' that has a tiny core of truth to it, making the person rebutting it spend even more time debunking it in order to explain that, yes, it's not totally false but the Galloper is distorting/misusing/misstating the actual situation. A true Gish Gallop generally has two traits.

1) The factual and logical content of the Gish Gallop is pure bull@!$%# and anybody knowledgeable and informed on the subject would recognize it as such almost instantly. That is, the Gish Gallop is designed to appeal to and deceive precisely those sorts of people who are most in need of honest factual education.

2) The points are all ones that the Galloper either knows, or damn well should know, are totally bull@!$%#. With the slimier users of the Gish Gallop, like Gish himself, its a near certainty that the points are chosen not just because the Galloper knows that they're bull@!$%#, but because the Galloper is deliberately trying to shovel as much bull@!$%# into as small a space as possible in order to overwhelm his opponent with sheer volume and bamboozle any audience members with a facade of scholarly acumen and factual knowledge.

Chuck,

I thought you might enjoy the next BLATHERING of Psycho BIGOT Erick Erickson,(Redstate) supposedly retracting the over the top crud he wrote about you yesterday. This bloated OAF has a one note AGENDA, he shoves his hate towards gays into EVERY issue.

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This is why the public is losing faith in government and the media. The public does not trust what the media reports. The public does not trust that the media relates to them or their values. The public does not trust that the press is not a collaborator with the political class. A majority of Americans consistently reject gay marriage and the majority of the mainstream media portrays them as troglodyte bigots. A majority of Americans are suspicious of much of what they hear from the political press these days, but the political press would rather ridicule the skeptical news consumers than explain what’s going on."

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Ironically Erickson began this column bringing up the movie Psycho....he could have ended the sentence THERE.