Conversational Flipping: Using Their Words Against Them

This video breaks down the psychology of conversational flipping: the technique of using your opponent's words, assumptions and judgments to dismantle their own position. We decode distinct flips through one of television's most precise demonstrations of this skill: Omar Little's courtroom testimony in HBO's The Wire. Omar walks into a courtroom with negative credibility and he walks out having convicted his target, dismantled a trained attorney, and earned the respect everyone else. He does it without without once defending himself.