Louie Gohmert Challenges the Rev. Barry Lynn on His Christian Faith
First, the breakdown of Gohmert's means of questioning: 1. Ask a question 2. Let the respondent give a partial response 3. Interrupt before the respondent completes a coherent answer, attempting to engage in civil discourse 4. Change the topic slightly, disparage the speaker's position through the straw man fallacy 5. Attempt a facade of legitimacy by brief back-tracking such as "I'm not judging ..." then proceeds to judge 6. Assume only he has the right to make universal definitions about issues that have been argued about for millenia, using some sophomoric authority which is not his, having never actually studied the issue in depth or through any academic institution 7. Repeatedly interrupt the respondent so that any inconsistencies in his own questioning are not easily exposed for the few minutes he has at the mike. 8. Take the whole episode back to his constituency, reframing the argument in terms of good vs evil, light vs dark, anti-Americ...