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Begging a Question Until It Bleeds: On "The Plot to Overturn the Election" (PBS, B-Grade)

• https://www.deepcapture.com, BY PATRICK BYRNE

I will explain why, then will touch upon some slips of intellectual integrity displayed therein, then debunk the philosophical legerdemain which follows.

CREDIT is due the PBS team behind "The Plot to Overturn the Election" for two reasons:

Courage – We live in a nation whose confidence in the integrity of elections is crumbling. A recent CNN poll shows that 56% of Americans have little or no confidence that American elections reflect the will of the people, up from 52% who felt that way in September and 40% in January 2021. According to the same poll, 59% now say that they doubt "elections are representative". In such an environment, PBS has released a documentary saying that my allegations questioning election integrity of 2020 election fraud are a "myth" and framing me and those who question it as delusional. That takes courage. I don't think it is going to work, in the end, but one has to admire how they put their backs into the effort.  Youngsters reading this will scarcely believe it, but there was a time that news outlets like PBS performed a public service by questioning authority rather than engaging in apologetics for it.

Incremental Gain in Intellectual Honesty – Freudians and Marxists make a habit of not answering what their opponents say, but dwelling on what their hidden motives are for saying it. PBS did not do that. They did not question my motives. I think they make clear that they know I believe what I am saying. In general, they paint me as sincere, I think, though there were cheap shots taken in cuts to make those in the crowd look bad. I am not mistaken, near the end they may have implied that I stirred things up in early January 2021 deliberately in order to create a political movement, but if they made that point it was in a rather feeble and inconclusive way.


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