Gish gallop

[Cami]

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, its not totally false but the [Galloper] is distorting/misusing/misstating the actual situation. A true Gish Gallop generally has two traits.

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.

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 theyre 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.