Scott Lively: Response to HBO’s John Oliver; Let’s Debate

From the candidate’s website:

On Sunday night I was attacked on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” a supposed comedy/news show in the mold of The Daily Show. The host is a Brit named John Oliver.

Today, the local news organization here in Springfield, MA, MassLive.com (which only ever reports negative news about me) asked for comment because they are running a story about the “Last Week” show.

Following are the comments I provided to the reporter, Brian Steele:

I find it funny that lefties like John Oliver who pose as humanitarians are the masters at dehumanizing other people through ridicule and never give the subjects of their smears a fair chance to respond.

I’m calling out John Oliver as a liar and a fraud who couldn’t go ten minutes with me in an unscripted, unedited debate. Without his teleprompter and his cheap-shot, out-of-context video clips he would be exposed as just another left-wing loony.

Oliver is lying through selective editing re Rwanda and several other points. His show was one continuous stream of malicious LGBT propaganda in the guise of comedy.

Yes, it will likely negatively affect the voters, as it was intended to do. It’s one more example of the “politics of personal destruction” that Saul Alinsky taught the “progressives,” including journalists, to practice:

From “Rules for Radicals”:

“RULE 5: ‘Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.’ There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

“RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”

I have been selected by the powers-that-be in the progressive/LGBT community as their current target, and Oliver’s television show, the “Crimes Against Humanity” lawsuit by the Marxist Center for Constitutional Rights , the “Pink Brick Award” by the San Francisco Pride Organization, and continually slanted news reporting in the so-called mainstream media about me are simply the implementation of Rule 12.

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ALSO: See this Mediaite article.