{"id":24906,"date":"2017-11-25T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24906"},"modified":"2017-11-25T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T01:49:05","slug":"russiagate-explained-caitlin-johnstone-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/11\/25\/russiagate-explained-caitlin-johnstone-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Russiagate Explained &#8211; Caitlin Johnstone -Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Medium<\/em> has the Caitlin Johnstone article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/russiagate-explained-721cb5843857\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russiagate Explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe term Gish gallop refers to a fallacious debate tactic in which one barrages one\u2019s opposition with a deluge of individually weak arguments which take far too long to debunk individually in a way that sustains the audience\u2019s interest. This is all Russiagate amounts to. When Russiagaters tell you that there\u2019s \u201ctoo much smoke for there not to be fire\u201d and there\u2019s so much incriminating news coming out that there\u2019s definitely a there there, they are unwittingly telling you \u201cI\u2019ve been won over by a Gish gallop fallacy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first time I have heard a name given to this debate technique.  I have observed this technique used many times in other situations, too.  It also irks me to see so many people fall for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medium has the Caitlin Johnstone article Russiagate Explained. The term Gish gallop refers to a fallacious debate tactic in which one barrages one\u2019s opposition with a deluge of individually weak arguments which take far too long to debunk individually in a way that sustains the audience\u2019s interest. This is all Russiagate amounts to. When Russiagaters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24907,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}