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Russell Brand's Rhetoric Technique: Gish Gallop
Russell Brand uses a rhetorical technique that's called gish gallop, which you overwhelm the person or the crowd you're speaking to with so much information at once. So by the time you refute one point, they have 10 more that they've introduced and he's very good at that. He covers his trail very well in the sense that he always has media moments where he points to to say, Oh, I'm pro-vaccine. The problem is in his actual argument, there is no logic that actually connects all of the dots.