It's strange that I've never used this argument on these boards, but something that helps a great deal with a WASPy audience when someone hits you with an oversimplification (think Bill O'Reilly asking "Do you want to win the war in Iraq?" ) is using golf. I don't know why golf is particularly good at this, because I personally don't like the sport, but lots of people seem to have played it. Here's what I mean:

If someone asks you if you want to win the war in Iraq, or anything that brazenly leading, and then tells you it's a "simple question", you can say it's a simple question in the same way that golf is just hitting a ball with a stick.

It's a great weakness of the modern blowhard that a supreme knowledge of golf cannot be surpressed, and so you have at least a couple of seconds to weather an onslaught of stupidity. Getting someone to say, "well it's not that simple" would be a slam dunk, but you can't rely on that. Instead, for the example of the war in Iraq, it's easy enough to point out that if a simple game "isn't so simple", then how is a multi-trillion-dollar expedition with thousands of troops, several clashes of culture, and no way to keep score?

Just in case anyone was looking for a fall-back when hit with that kind of pedantic nonsense. Who knew golf could be good for something?