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A refreshingly honest exchange on television - 8/23/2006 9:36:14 AM

Daddy4UdderSlut

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Many people may have already seen this... it's an episode of "Crossfire", the now extinct "political debate show" from CNN, that featured opposing polemic diatribes, from the both the right and the left...

On this episode though, they have Jon Stewart as sole guest, who not only doesn't play their game, he takes them (and in the larger sense, much of media's political commentary) to task, and, in a rare episode of candor on television, just says what he thinks. Some people believe that this exchange was the reason for Crossfire's cancellation not too much later.

Watch here at:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831

< Message edited by Daddy4UdderSlut -- 8/23/2006 9:40:58 AM >

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RE: A refreshingly honest exchange on television - 8/23/2006 5:38:36 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Daddy4UdderSlut

Many people may have already seen this... it's an episode of "Crossfire", the now extinct "political debate show" from CNN, that featured opposing polemic diatribes, from the both the right and the left...

On this episode though, they have Jon Stewart as sole guest, who not only doesn't play their game, he takes them (and in the larger sense, much of media's political commentary) to task, and, in a rare episode of candor on television, just says what he thinks. Some people believe that this exchange was the reason for Crossfire's cancellation not too much later.

Watch here at:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831

Completely disagree..... I grew up with Crossfire..... Crossfire lost its way when it traded in Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak, John Sununu and Micheal Kinsley, for Tucker Carlson, Bob Beckels, Geraldine Ferraro and Paul Begala.

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RE: A refreshingly honest exchange on television - 8/23/2006 5:46:56 PM

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Ranger, I agree.

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RE: A refreshingly honest exchange on television - 8/24/2006 4:27:54 AM

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There has not been a legitimate discussion on TV since Edward R. Murrow. Now they're sound bites, personal preening, glorified policy statements, & shouting matches between people not even sharing the same reality.

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