Here's the thing about debate: if you're going to be wrong, don't be aggressively sarcastic in your wrongness. Just sit there being wrong and if you get corrected, just go with it. Let us put it in poker terms: if you're bluffing and you get called, don't reraise.

Darrell Issa starts being wrong on Bill Maher's show at around 4:20. He gets aggressively sarcastic in his wrongness at around 5:10. And that's when he gets humiliatingly dismantled by Hirsi Ali. You never want to hear your opponent say "let me explain something to you" - that's almost always a sign that something bad is about to happen:

And they say blogging has nothing to do with our academic work.

References:
* Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Real Time w/Bill Maher

Previously:
* Guardian Interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Surprised To Find Multiculturalism Crumbling In The Face Of Radical Islam
* Bibi On Bill Maher
* Hitchens and Sullivan On CNN