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03-15-2009, 12:48 PM
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Now you've pissed me off!
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I don't know how much more clear Stewart could have been in his excoriation of "Crossfire".
He didn't say they were debating wrong, he said that they weren't debating at all, and that they didn't have an honest exchange of ideas or a civilized discourse because everything turned into yelling talking points and not analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of their relative positions. Moreover, due to the emptiness of these constructed "debates" politicians could use a forum like Crossfire to disseminate more talking points without having to answer an honest question due to the dissolution of true Q&A and give and take, which is why he said they were tools of the pols, because people need a forum like Crossfire to "hold people's feet to the fire" and Crossfire was just theater.
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