Peggy said the Nick Berg pictures are "something of an antidote" to the Abu Ghraib picture. Donaldson asks, "An antidote to who?"
Donaldson is making the point that Iraqis are the ones who have to decide whether they believe in the USofA or not.
He also had to ask Peggy, "Can I please get in a word edgewise, you're a lovely woman, but…"
And when she went on about consistency and staying the course, Sam hit her with one of my favorite lines: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." AFTER the commercial, AFTER he got her to stop overtalking him.
Frankly, Political Tourette's Syndrome is the classic Conservative© debate technique.