Yeah, but it was “creative” and “entertaining”. Two of the highest values in modern America. They trump reason, logic and sense every time.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
That’s silly, fun and creative. The debate was crass, exploitive and offensive. I’d respectfully submitt.