*** July 2012 low content thread ***

[John_James]

@ThatOldGuy

Just watched this. The woman’s the perfect example of idiocy: arguing with emotion; shifting positions; speaking over your opponent and not allowing a chance for him to rebut your argument; banal assertions, and; a loud ignorance of economics.

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/july-2012-low-content-thread/23495/96

After watching this video, I’m reminded of John James’ concern that Schiff may be hard of hearing (which is not without reason if one wishes to watch the video referenced in that post between he and Cenk Uygur; it’s just off). In that video between Cenk and Schiff, Peter is just talking no matter what- it’s almost as if he has a script that must be finished as a result of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In that video, Schiff was extreme.

In reflection, I’m starting to think that, with Schiff constantly having extemporaneous debates with absolute idiots several times a week, often in front of a national audience, he has formed this sort of defense of “just talking.” Talking with people like this woman day in and day out must really take a toll on faith in humanity. I won’t say patience, because there are still examples of Peter demonstrating incredible amounts of that in his video where he talks to the people at OWS.

Yeah that probably plays into it a bit too. But I think the larger culprit is the audio setup and Schiff’s own hearing. If you recall back in October when Schiff had Robert Wenzel on his radio show, apparently there was an issue in which if Peter was talking, Wenzel’s audio would get muted out, or lowered to a point that it was inaudible. (Which is not uncommon in a radio setup, as a knowledgeable commenter informed Wenzel), but this was only after Wenzel took to his own blog to whine about how he had been gamed, and that that was the last time he went on a radio show without his own recorder to capture the conversation. He basically came out and alleged that Schiff was sitting there with his finger on a mute button, shutting Wenzel up whenever he felt like no one whould listen.

If you want a rundown of the whole episode (which ended up being the subject of at least 6 different posts on Wenzel’s blog), that thread provides a nice play by play in real time as it was all going down. It starts here.

:EDIT:

Holy goddamn shit. Get a load of this first sentence, from Robert Wenzel. What the hell did I just say. What an insecure little shit.

Peter Schiff Tries to School the Confused Diana Carew

He really could have used a mute button with this one. Carew certainly learned in media class that you should keep on talking.[…]