CUSTOMER: I came here for a good argument.
MR. BARNARD: No you didn’t. You came here for an argument.
CUSTOMER: Well an argument’s not the same as contradiction.
MR. BARNARD: Can be.
CUSTOMER: No it can’t. An argument’s a collective series of statements to establish a definiteproposition.
MR. BARNARD: No it isn’t.
CUSTOMER: Yes it is! It isn’t just contradiction.
MR. BARNARD: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
CUSTOMER: But it isn’t just saying, “no it isn’t.”
MR. BARNARD: Yes it is!
CUSTOMER: No it isn’t! [Audience Laughter.] Argument’s an intellectual process. Contradiction’s just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
MR. BARNARD: No it isn’t.
Monty Python - 1972
is this like No Way To Prevent This where they can just run a script to pop it up again?
No, this was just the second-most prescient Onion headline from the first W Bush Term (edged out by this one)
Good political commentary, well timed.
