Anyone watching Rachel on Bill Maher

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20. Rachel is a national treasure ...

but there are some conversational places she can not go without being bushwhacked.

She does not handle herself very well when confronted by someone who is reasoning in bad faith. She keeps trying to be reasonable, and the other person just shouts her down with soundbites. It's easy to troll Rachel.

While I think rachel won the debate tonight on points, I know better. This wasn't a debate that was scored in points: It was scored in soundbites. To most of the audience she appeared weak, because she didn't throw a sound bite at that Libertarian shill that made him pause.

She needed to make him pause for just a third of a second. That would have been the give-away for the audience. It would have given her the opening to take charge of the dialog and pose a quotable, unanswerable question back to the ShillMaster sitting in the end seat.

... but like I said; I've never seen her do it as a guest on another host's show.

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