defense mechanism; combination of arrogance and sarcasm, in which the actual
loser of a verbal debate negates any
argument provided by the opposing
side--often resulting in a sarcastic, "Oooooh, so I guess that settles it" response. Can be used directly or indirectly.
Directly:
"But you can't
fire me. I literally just
said two seconds ago that I quit!"
"Nope, I fired you, sorry."
"But I..."
"Nope, you'
re fired."
"Such arrocasm!"
Indirectly:
1. "Mr. President, we punished Japanese soldiers during WWII for waterboarding OUR soldiers. It's clearly torture."
"I assure you, America does not torture."
"Sir, we are legalizing a procedure that was punished when used against us!"
"What
don't you get? America does not torture. We are defenders of freedom."
2.
NBC News Economic strategist: "We are in a recession."
CNN Economic strategist: "We are in an unfortunate recession."
Fox News Economic strategist #
3: "It
will be very difficult to get out of this recession."
President Bush: "We are not in a recession."