"Cut and Paste for Effect": Bushwacking Michelle Malkin

Here's a typical move by the left-wing koolaid drinkers. What you do is pretend you're having a serious interview with an author like Michelle Malkin and then you cut and past in effects to create a bogus effect. It's a fundamentally dishonest technique, so is it any surprise that it is practiced by leftists? Not really, and certainly I've seen examples of the same sort of thing on the right, often looping something silly that a leftist said. That's actually more honest since after all they said it. What this shows is cutting in material that lampoons both the person being interviewed and the target without really engaging the issue. It reminds me of the technique which C.S. Lewis lampooned naming it "Bulverism" after a fictitious character who always dismissed his interlocutor by assigning them a motive and using that as the basis for dismissal. "Oh you only say that because you work for a tobacco company." — Liberals use it all the time and actually think it is relevant. Logic is wasted on a Liberal.