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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Hard to do "Politics in Full Sentences" in 140 characters or less.
I did formal debate as a student, and knew the reference, but I still did a double take when I read it until I connected the dots. Politics in full sentences would be calling him out using the name of the logical fallacy, and explaining why he wouldn't respond. No need to use that example or drop to the level of the hecklers, imo.
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So did Nenshi and Levant:
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In high school, Levant wrote admiringly about Preston Manning for the student newspaper. And when he moved on to the University of Calgary in 1989 to study business, the Reform Party Club was the first organization he joined. (He also became a champion debater, partnering for a while with Naheed Nenshi, now the mayor of Calgary—although whatever friendship they had seems to be gone since Levant began denouncing him on air as “an anti-Christian bigot.”)
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http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/12/g...the-offensive/
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