Assignment: Say it Ain’t So!

Denial is not a way of spelling Daniel. It’s just not. I don’t know how to explain it.

Or… am I just a denial denier? A-ha!

For this assignment:

Take a story that someone has issued as a fact and dismiss that story as a fake by issuing a denial.

It’s easy. They say climate change is happening. You say, “No, it’s not.” They say, America welcomes muslims. You say, “No we don’t.” There’s nothing easier than to negate something another writer has claimed.

But if it were that easy, everyone would be issuing fake news. Don’t just say it’s not true, dismiss every argument, every piece of evidence. How?

Discredit: Try an ad hominem attack, which basically means dig through their old Tweets for something that could be embarrassing, like your lame attempt at #AddaBandtoaTVshow Tweet.

Confuddle their science. If some boffin says that global temperatures are rising, call foul and point to some day last summer when it was really cold!

Refute: If they use experts, make up one of your own. Feel free to post a report in the Trumpet-Blow Institute!

Misdirect: If they’re saying something negative about your position, bring up something you don’t like about theirs or some other issue!

Conspire: There’s no better smoke screen than a good old fashioned conspiracy theory. Just claim some evil billionaire (better yet, a foreign national) is behind it all. (Just so long as it’s not Putin.)

Post your story in one of our organs or try the Twitter based version.