{"id":962,"date":"2009-09-04T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=962"},"modified":"2009-09-04T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:05:26","slug":"the-difference-between-reasoned-debate-and-righteous-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/the-difference-between-reasoned-debate-and-righteous-smackdown","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Reasoned Debate and Righteous Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have Al Franken talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=tea-bagger\" target=\"_blank\">teabaggers<\/a> who turn out to be reasonable people who want to discuss something with their Senator that they don&#8217;t agree with. Below that, you will see Congressman Barney Frank being very funny and dismissive of an aggressively crazy lady.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SCNs7Zpqo98&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SCNs7Zpqo98&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"475\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ULtgIBKemlc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ULtgIBKemlc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Note how appropriately they respond. Franken gives a nuanced response that has the audience wondering if they&#8217;ve got the issues wrong and misunderstand his platform. Frank, a gay Jew, replies to a lady saying that universal health care is a Nazi position by telling her she&#8217;s ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have Al Franken talking with teabaggers who turn out to be reasonable people who want to discuss something with their Senator that they don&#8217;t agree with. Below that, you will see Congressman Barney Frank being very funny and dismissive of an aggressively crazy lady. Note how appropriately they respond. Franken gives a nuanced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/the-difference-between-reasoned-debate-and-righteous-smackdown\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Difference Between Reasoned Debate and Righteous Smackdown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}