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Who Won the 'West Wing' Live Debate?
AP via Yahoo ^ | 11/7/05 | Frazier Moore

Posted on 11/07/2005 6:32:13 AM PST by advance_copy

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To: Fintan

LOL. Clever and funny! You took me out of context. Obviously my reference was to the movie.

I had Washington and the points. So I was a little nervous there at the end inside the 5. I am 10 for 13 against the spread this week so far and have the Colts and points over NE. It was a good weekend.


41 posted on 11/07/2005 7:01:42 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Dems: "It can't be done" Reps. "Move, we'll find a way or make a way. It has to be done!")
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To: Semper Paratus

Nay! It's just their way of helping Corzine(?) and Kaine...those two jerks are goin down on Tues., so NBC=Nothing But Communist, are doing their best to help out the sinking rats!!


42 posted on 11/07/2005 7:03:01 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: counterpunch

LOL!I am a big fan of electing House members President,I think that is the only way we get a conservative.LOL!


43 posted on 11/07/2005 7:03:29 AM PST by Gipper08 (Mike Pence in 2008)
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To: advance_copy

"Who cares? Did anybody even watch the thing?"

MY sentiments exactly.


44 posted on 11/07/2005 7:03:59 AM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: advance_copy

Who gives a flying $h!t?


45 posted on 11/07/2005 7:06:41 AM PST by Bommer (TEXANS - VOTE NOV 8TH FOR PROPOSITION 2 - THE MARRIAGE PROTECTION AMENDMENT)
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To: TNCMAXQ

He's a tax cutter, but not a supply-sider, apparently, since he didn't talk about the supply side benefits of tax cuts. Santos' 2% paperwork cost for Medicare argument for expanding it to accept everyone was probably a point that lots of viewers found interesting, and alluring.


46 posted on 11/07/2005 7:06:57 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: counterpunch
This is the wife's favorite show...so I have no choice.

Hawkeye actually did a pretty good job shutting down the Lib talking points, and arguing conservative themes: lower taxes, smaller gov't. Made good arguments for ANWR, and in support of big-oil, big-pharma.

...don't remember what Dem candidate stood for.
47 posted on 11/07/2005 7:07:28 AM PST by Tim n Texas
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To: frogjerk

They're both Dimocrat Fantasy Porno.


48 posted on 11/07/2005 7:09:46 AM PST by NickatNite2003
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To: NickatNite2003

Does anyone know if Peggy Noonan still a consultant to the show?


49 posted on 11/07/2005 7:12:13 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: advance_copy
Smits and Alda put forth two sides of the same phony globalist dynamic. It was simply rat vs. rat-lite.

The winners are those whose goal is to subtly weave the UN agenda into mainstream consciousness.

50 posted on 11/07/2005 7:14:17 AM PST by Freebird Forever (If they're truly public servants, why do they live in mansions?)
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To: advance_copy
Bush??

Pray for W and Our Troops

51 posted on 11/07/2005 7:15:11 AM PST by bray (Iraq, freed from Saddamn now Pray for Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: ClearCase_guy

West Wing had a "leak episode" a couple of weeks back. Toby (I think) was "frog marched" out of the White House.


52 posted on 11/07/2005 7:17:28 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: advance_copy

I watched because I was polled by the Zogby organization prior to the show about my feelings on the show and its two characters. It was clear to me that the poll was a 'focus group' to help design the parameters for the show.

Then as I watched the credits, I found this 'live' show was actually scripted. By whom? Lawrence O'Donnell, the ultra-lib screamer. The show may have been 'live' but the script was DOA as far as I was concerned.

The problem is that some folks may have been fooled by the fiction that 'live' meant that the participants were in a real debate.

No surprise that the 'sound bite' lines and applause lines were pro-Santos (liberal) and Vinick (conservative)had a few that made him look weird.


53 posted on 11/07/2005 7:18:53 AM PST by wildbill
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To: advance_copy
I'm happy that liberals watch the show and continue under the delusion that they still have political power in this country.

The debate ? Who cares.

Alan Alda is a puss. Between him and mister rodgers I didn't get layed for decades.

54 posted on 11/07/2005 7:20:21 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: tanknetter

Well, *I* don't know..but that should be
attributed to the fact that i've never
watched more than 10 minutes of the show
in one sitting...


55 posted on 11/07/2005 7:25:38 AM PST by NickatNite2003
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To: advance_copy

I was channel surfing and saw Smit and Alda in a "Live" debate. I had no idea what it was about. I watched for 5 minutes. The issue was illegal immigration.

The Alan Alda "GOP" solution was simply to build a wall (no discussion of holding employers accountable). Then the Smits Dem position was allowed to rant and rave about how this is a poverty problem while the "GOP" side just blubbered.

It was idiotic.

Of course other fine (sarc) viewing choices included Category 7 and The Revisionist Crusades on the History channel.

So I went to bed early. I won.


56 posted on 11/07/2005 7:27:23 AM PST by kidd
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To: ClearCase_guy

Actually she is supposedly an Independent. Women would make weak Presidents in my opinion. Guess I am not a feminist.


57 posted on 11/07/2005 7:27:53 AM PST by stopem
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I watched the segment about African tax rates. Ihave to admit, it was a pretty interesting point, but have no idea whether it was based on fact. After that, off it went.

Any mention of second amendment issues?


58 posted on 11/07/2005 7:29:43 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Big people are harder to kidnap!)
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To: Tim n Texas

I thought Alda made excellent points to lowering taxes when he cited the reason for third world countries and why they were poor.


59 posted on 11/07/2005 7:30:57 AM PST by stopem
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To: wildbill

Show was scripted. The shows producers said it was earlier.


60 posted on 11/07/2005 7:33:27 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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