Dem Rep Himes Shoves FoxNews Viewer Back Into His Hole: Watch ‘A Little Less Fox News’

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After a CSPAN caller literally recites a written punchlist of FoxNews attack stories from the last 3 years as all Obama's fault, Democratic Congressman Jim Himes succinctly flllets his silliness with a few backstrokes of his hand.

After the caller attempts to blame literally everything FoxNews claims are issues to be thrown at the White House, saying “Any other president would have been laughed out of office right now”, Himes goes on to refute the sum of items the caller spit out rapidfire over the phone.

“With all due respect, Bob, maybe a little more C-SPAN and a little less Fox News. That was the grab bag of everything that Fox News and my friends in the Republican caucus… have tried to hang around this president.”

and goes further in saying Benghazi and the conspiracy on the right...

“...is just a figment of FoxNews’ imagination.”

[Skittles]

1. reputable people need to STOP APPEARING ON FOX NEWS

it is nothing more than rightwing wackjob trash - it is NOT CREDIBLE - *ENOUGH ALREADY*

[cstanleytech]

4. Most of them have skittles, why do you think fox news has so many republicans now?

[Skittles]

13. ooh

I confess I only catch it in, like, waiting rooms......really, there are fewer non-crackpot guests?

[cstanleytech]

14. No, just far fewer reputable ones.

[Skittles]

15. that is progress

[bluestateguy]

2. That caller was a classic example of the Gish Gallop

and Himes handled it about as well as you should.

[ErikJ]

8. spewing so much bullshit in such a short span on that your opponent can’t address let alone counter

Urban Dictionary
Named for the debate tactic created by creationist shill Duane Gish, a Gish Gallop involves spewing so much bullshit 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 bullshit 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 bullshit. 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 bullshit, but because the Galloper is deliberately trying to shovel as much bullshit 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.

[Enthusiast]

17. +1

[Cha]

3. Excellent! Thank you, Rep Jim Himes! A little less fox "news" and a little more c-span!

mahalo tomm

[lastlib]

5. Bravo! Rightwingers need to stop smoking the Fox-weed!

[amb123]

6. This is why the symbol of the GOP should be the parrot instead of the elephant

because all they do is parrot talking points. Fox News talking points.

[Sunlei]

11. hey good idea! The New Pirate party, with a parrot mascot.

what a fine republican brand.

[Dawson Leery]

7. kick

[navarth]

9. that guy was calling from Michigan

...which gives you some idea of what we're dealing with here.

[ReRe]

10. What Himes did there was....

... he "welcomed the callers hatred," ala FDR.

[czarjak]

12. Watch less Fox

If only.

[Enrique]

16. that guy forgot Solyndra

i'm disappointed in him.

[tomm2thumbs]

18. DUzy!

whahahahahah

what a disgrace to his teabagging, FoxNews bloodlines!