There's something weirdly effective about reducto ad absurdum arguments meant to prove the opposite. In the beginning, Colbert was saying "but don't we need ga

There's something weirdly effective about reducto ad absurdum arguments meant to prove the opposite. In the beginning, Colbert was saying "but don't we need gatekeepers to tell us what's right?", which is obviously a bad argument. Him making the bad argument did a better job of illustrating the good arguments point, than the good argument itself.