(n.) 1. attacking an opponent for being condescending (despite the condescension's being entirely irrelevant to the argument) so as to score points with a particular segment of the audience-- a tactic that backfires more often than not, one way or another; 2. anticipating an opponent's arguments or actions, and preparing (and then delivering) a counterattack designed to devastate, defeat, undermine, chagrin, embarrass, or at least divert or confuse the opponent -- but which backfires or fizzles. (From Geraldine Ferraro's ill-timed and obviously planned interruption of VP Bush in the 1984 debate, "Don't patronize me just because I'm a woman" -- which made an otherwise excellent debater look bellicose and paranoid. This has been cut from the formal transcript).
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Примеры использования:
"You're just homophobic; that's why you won't vote for him." "Don't try the Ferraro gambit on me, man -- have you seen his stand on the economy?! On sentencing enhancements?! And his environmental policy?! The man is a certifiable bananawhacky!!: I wouldn't vote for him if he were Saint Francis of Assisi."
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