Matt McNeil is a talk show host, of sorts, on AM950, the Twin Cities putative “progressive” talk station. [1]
Now, McNeil has a habit of blocking everyone on social media that can beat him in an open debate on logic, reasoning and facts – which is, to be fair, pretty much everyone.
He was, in fact, one of the people (in a large field, to be honest) who gave me the original impetus to the formulation of Berg’s Sixteenth Law. (“The percentage of “progressives” outside of academia who can make it to the second round of a debate without running out of “facts” and having to switch to deflection, ad hominem and straw man arguments is within the statistical margin of error”).
Anyway – in a move that isn’t a sign of insecurity, no way, no how, McNeil tweeted this the other day:
Not sure if this qualifies as “gaslighting”, or is a strawman, or if McNeil doth protest too much, but I’m pretty sure nobody who matters has ever said McNeil is “terrified” of “rightos” [2] like me.
To be clear, all I say is that McNeil does not pack the gear, either intellectually or as a talk host, to do much of anything but chant into an echo chamber over which he has complete control, and that if I were as bad at forming a coherent argument as he is, I would block all dissent as well.
I’m not – perhaps I am a legend in my own mind and should but, but I’m not – so I don’t. I block almost nobody. When I do, it’s not because they’re too good at debate, but are in fact so subject to Berg’s 16h Law as to deserve life in my rhetorical SuperMax.
[1] I’m as surprsied as you are that AM950 still exists. I check in every couple years or so to see if there’s still a signal there, much
[2] What he lacks in fact and intellectual rigor, he also seems to lack in the key talk radio skill of coming up with breezy terms to describe complex groups. But “bloom where you are planted”, I always say…
link is broken. usually, a transcript is posted just below, just on such an occasion in case original is memoryholed. just saying.
Three or four times a year I listen to him just to see how angry he is.
He’s angrier and more bitter than the late Nick Coleman. He must not be a very happy person.
He’s correct all the time, no need to debate the details, and don’t you forget it.
I listen to him frequently, because he’s hilarious in his ridiculousness. A favorite tactic of his is to make outlandish accusations against Republicans, then pause, and finally end a rant with “I don’t know if that’s REALLY true, but that’s what it SEEMS like to me.”
Also, very funny when he lambasts the StarTribune for its intense, right-wing slant.
Punching down, MBerg?
“Punching down”
I’m told they’re my betters. By definition, I’m punching up.
A few months back he ranted how WCCO radio is a right wing station. I spit my coffee out onto my dashboard.
Mike Max calls them like he see’s them, therefore he is right wing
Paul Douglas made his fortune off of global warming, but does have a carry permit, so he’s right wing.
Otherwise, lefty up and down the line at the Good Neighbor, but McNeil says they are right wing.
He’s not a happy person.
About 10-12 years ago, I somehow made it on with McNeil, he didn’t like what I had to say, and tweeted an offer to give me a boxing lesson in the parking lot. 😍
Being a lad who is always ready to learn something new, I appreciated the offer and tweeted him I was on the way over there to get that free education. He tweeted that he had called the police and they were on the way. That sounds pretty terrified to me 😂
I sent screen shots to the station manager (a woman whose name I forget). She said she didn’t think they were authentic.
Leftist are twats and liars.
he ranted how WCCO radio is a right wing station
He also says that about the Strib.
to the station manager (a woman whose name I forget).
Janet Robert. Bill Luther’s ex-wife. A woman with so much money she can run a “prog” talk station as a hobby. Nice work if you can get it.
He tweeted that he had called the police and they were on the way. That sounds pretty terrified to me
Whores on the battlefield, generals in the bedroom.
I used to listen to one of the talk radio stations on in the Des Moines metro market. There was a leftie who went by “Bradshaw” in a timeslot between Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, and I’d listen to his rants during my evening commute. He paid lip service to the whole “I want to have the conversation with the opposition” theme, but actions often spoke louder than his words. When a conservative caller debated him on some left-wing member of Congress caught lying, Bradshaw defended the behavior as the exception rather than the rule. The conservative caller than challenged him to name an honest, moral member of Congress on the Democratic side. Bradshaw said “Alan Grayson” without pause. Took me a while to clean the coffee off the inside of my windshield…
Yes, It was Janet. What a sweetheart she was, too.
FRESCH;
Most libidiots are perpetually angry, always offended and constantly intolerant.