i remember seeing him on the australian 'political' panel show q&a, which is mostly major party politicians shouting at each other, the television manifestation of that chomsky quote about encouraging loud and vigorous debate within a very narrow spectrum. it was a real insight into the guy

he had two main counterlocutors - one who fit the stereotype of the sjw at the time (i think it was van badham), who went with the loud and angry lib outrage approach and played completely into his hands, his whole schtick was that he was good at playing the calm, rational, logical, professorial male against the shrill sjw feeeemoids who only run on emotion and get loud and angry when they cant counter his facts and logic, and the sleight of hand is that amongst all this theatre you dont notice that everything hes saying in his calm authoritative tone is complete nonsense. she was right on what she was saying but i guarantee she absolutely lost the debate in the eyes of 99% of people watching

and the second was some (female) labor party shitkicker of all people, who went with the approach of "oh you poor wounded creature, see what awful things the patriarchy is doing to our poor men and boys that they end up as sad little angry men like this, tell me about who hurt you" and it absolutely flummoxed him and got him completely riled up, it was really funny to see the calm rational facade fly off and scared angry kermit emerge just by someone refusing to play along