If it were my show and I was looking to hand Orly her ass, I wouldn't waste time with single questions that can be easily deflected or dodged. Nor would I take Orly head-on about her ridiculous claims. Above all, I’d avoid going too deep into the weeds with issues that might bore or confuse a casual listener.
Instead, I'd seek to achieve a consistent, unified objective. The top-level goal, of course, is to help Orly expose herself as batshit crazy. And as the next-lower objective, I think I might choose to demonstrate -- Captain Queeg style -- that Orly believes that every judge, every public official and every politician in America is corrupt and disloyal. Every last one of them.
The rules of the game:
1. To the extent possible, deny her the time/opportunity to elaborate on birther details. (The whole schtick about forged SSNs, Selective Service registration, birth certificates, etc. is what she's prepared to talk about. To the extent that the host(s) can keep her from controlling the narrative, they'll succeed in destroying her. Moreover, Orly’s goal is to “educate” the listener. Deny her that!)
2. At each point in the dialogue, channel the topic toward this conclusion: According to Orly, the problem is corruption and disloyalty.
3. If need be, interrupt to ask if a particular point can be explained by corruption. (If she starts on social security fraud, interject a question like, “Why didn't the social security administration figure out this social security fraud years ago?” Then channel, channel, channel.)
One possible line of dialogue:
Quote:
Well, speaking about your lawsuits...
In 2009, Federal Judge Clay Land ordered you to pay $20,000 in sanctions for frivolous filings and other litigation misconduct. You blamed this on
judicial corruption And since you lost the Barnett case in California, you’ve often claimed that this was
due to corruption on the part of Federal Judge David Carter.
This past fall, after losing a ballot challenge in New Hampshire, you claimed that the
Ballot Law Commission, the Secretary of State and the entire Supreme Court of New Hampshire were corrupt.
Earlier this year, when an Administrative Law Judge ruled against your ballot challenge in Georgia, you called for an
investigation into public corruption on the part of that judge, the Secretary of State of Georgia and the circuit court judge who handled the unsuccessful appeal.
About the same time, when all of your motions were rejected by the courts of Hawaii, you
accused a Deputy Attorney General of corruption. You also labeled Judge Nishimura, the Director of Health and the State Registrar as
corrupt officials.
You seem to have a lot of bad luck with judges. So tell me, have you ever gotten a judge in one of these eligibility cases who was not corrupt? …Are all of the judges in the country corrupt?
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Changing the subject for a moment, you ran for U.S. Senator in the California primary on June 5th. While there may be a few absentee votes still being counted, it looks like you’ll finish in 5th place. From what I gather, you attribute this poor showing to
corruption on the part of the California Republican Committee bosses. Is the entire Republican Party so corrupt that you didn’t have a chance?