This would not post at the article site, so I cut and pasted it here.
I have spent a lot of time debating leftists. Plain rhetorical patterns emerge, which happen over and over and over. With regard to this topic, a very common tactic is what we might call the “fact dogpile”. They aggregate large numbers of claims which are all individually demonstrably untrue, but which act to create the appearance of accumulated “evidence”. Unwary minds say “where there’s smoke there must be a fire”, and those who are trying to debate them are left with the unpleasant and time consuming task of refuting EVERY claim. If one goes unanswered, they claim victory overall.
This is, of course, a propagandistic trick, but while no credible mind could accuse left wingers of having credible minds, no one can deny that they are talented at ignoring the obvious, and at pushing the dubious and wrong.