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Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
Richard Gage the genius has spoken!!! Pahleeeze... go watch the debate where NYC Tour Guide Mark Roberts destroyed him.
Originally posted by TaZCoN
Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
Richard Gage the genius has spoken!!! Pahleeeze... go watch the debate where NYC Tour Guide Mark Roberts destroyed him.
You have a link to this debate?
Ya know just so we can see/read this 'debate of destruction'?
Wouldn't want your bias to sway our own interpretations of 'destruction'
Originally posted by JimBeam
I think I'd listen to an architect first before consulting a tour bus driving on this matter.
Originally posted by talisman
And I don't think Mark Roberts did that great. He has done well in the past, here I didn't find most of what he was trying to say very credible.
- Mark Roberts
The host was John Clifton, an amiable guy. I had thought he was merely sympathetic to truther claims, but he's actually a a hardcore truther. He doesn't seem to be aware of much of the evidence on the...er...evidence-based side. I kept inviting him to check out my website. He didn't seem to go out of his way to show bias against me, though. I talked with him quite a bit before and after the taping but don't think I made a dent. He's a believer in many conspiracy theories, with the overriding belief that the government controls so much information that it's impossible to know what's true. Well, the government doesn't control the physical laws of the universe, which are what falsify Richard Gage's claims.
It was originally to be one show, about the three WTC skyscraper collapses, with Gage choosing the topics. Most of my preparation was about the Twin Towers, since that's what Gage spends most of his time on and makes his most extreme claims about.
To give the show some structure and to insure equal time, last week I proposed this format:
1) Mr. Gage would choose his five best pieces of evidence in favor of controlled demolition. I would not know the topics in advance.
2) Each topic would receive a two-minute summary of evidence by the first presenter, then a two-minute rebuttal, then a 15-second response by the first presenter.
3) We would alternate being the first to present on a topic, to avoid the same person doing a rebuttal each time (assuming that I'd learn the topics when the show started). Considering overruns and topic introductions by John, that format should have taken about 24 minutes, leaving about 3 minutes for guest introductions and other topics.
That proposal was rejected.
- Mark Roberts
Before we took our seats, I was informed by John Cifton that the subject was going to be restricted to WTC 7. I was not pleased by this, since I had prepared to discuss all WTC topics and had done a Hardfire show with Ron and Arthur Scheuerman about WTC 7 in February...for which we could find no prominent truther opponent. I would rather have covered new ground. However, since my policy is that I'll debate any prominent non-insane truther on their own turf, I went along with this change of plans.
- Mark Roberts
I could easily do a 10-hour solo presentation on all Gage gets wrong, with no preparation. Condensing everything to a few minutes is difficult.
-Mark Roberts
It was amusing hearing Gage being coached about WTC 7 specifics before the show. He didn't know we could hear him and at that point he couldn't hear us. Let's just say that he was...confused about important points with only two minutes to go.
- Mark Roberts
John began the show with a statement that consisted of two quotes by Ron Paul, one of which was misleading and irrelevant (the 9/11 Commission didn't discuss the collapse of WTC 7), and the other of which was wrong and irrelevant (Bin Ladens were flown out of the US after 9/11 before airspace was open to others). We were not asked to comment on those quotes. Because I didn't want to immediately embarrass a host who was already biased against me, I held my tongue. That was not easy to do.
- Mark Roberts
The sheer volume of Gage's wrongness can be mind-numbing: in his online Powerpoint presentation I cataloged 311 false statements, 114 misleading statements, and 137 logical fallacies. There were lots of important points I missed during the shows, but that's always the case and I don't kick myself too much about it. People will be directed to my website, where I'll have a page dedicated to these shows and links for investigating each claim.
Originally posted by cashlink
So he found some faults big deal!
It still doesn’t make the Government right dose it now.
Originally posted by cashlink
My opinion is I believe Gage did a good job showing something else happened.
Originally posted by JimBeam
steel buildings just don't come crumbling down because of fire.
Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
reply to post by JimBeam
Ok.. in the 15 minutes.
What did Gage get right and Roberts get wrong.
Thank you
-TY-
Originally posted by JimBeam
Gage + Roberts = BORING "debate".
They were debating the same BS that I've seen OVER and OVER again.
BORING!!!!