Newman's more-or-less continual invocation of the Straw Man Fallacy is reminiscent of the favored debating tactic of notorious anti-evolution debater Duane Gish

Newman's more-or-less continual invocation of the Straw Man Fallacy is reminiscent of the favored debating tactic of notorious anti-evolution debater Duane Gish: the Gish Gallop. Gish spewed such forth torrents of falsehoods, that the evolutionist didn't have a prayer of refuting in the format of a debate. Gish didn't address objections raised by his opponents, repeated the same arguments in every debate even after they were soundly refuted, etc. In other words, both Newman and Gish subvert the very discussion structures that they're supposedly engaging in, using fallacies, distractions, appeals to popular biases, and outright lies to put on a show for a specific audience. There is no interest in truth, only the furthering of an agenda. Newman is engaging in a dishonest public spectacle, failing at the most basic function of an interviewer (to understand the interviewee), and I believe that any honest intellectual should refuse to be interviewed by her.