BTW, Lawrence O'Donnell is a CREEPY LIE-YER.
Who gives a flying $h!t?
The winners are those whose goal is to subtly weave the UN agenda into mainstream consciousness.
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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.
The debate ? Who cares.
Alan Alda is a puss. Between him and mister rodgers I didn't get layed for decades.
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.
1) it was actually a good political exchange, but it surprises me that NBC thinks that would draw any audience. I suppose their hook was the "live" aspect, although scripted.
2) My hats off to Alda, who's liberalism I despise, but he was a fabulous spokesman for conservative causes. I suppose Pegggy Noonan wrote the words, but Alda was faithful to the thoughts. He almost sounded like he believed them!
Noonan (or whomever) didn't miss many points for our side. Alda asked if anyone in the audience had ever been to ANWAR? No one had, not even Dem. Smitts. Alda's point was that noone will EVER go to ANWAR, so it is the perfect place to drill for oil.
Bottom line, Alda showed what a professional he is. It may have been the most interesting, amazing, puzzling hour of network TV I've ever seen.
I watched about two minutes of it. (gag) I thought: "Alan Alda playing a conservative makes as much sense as casting him in the lead role in the John Candy Story."
What I MOST enjoyed, is the fact that BOTH of the actors flbbed up their lines many times, and I barely watched half of it. I LOVE THAT!!! And these are the same people who for five years have savaged W. Bush for not being some perfect speaker and flubbing up sometimes. Now we see that, golly gee, pinko flaming libs aren't so hot when they're live without take after take after take until they get it perfect. 8) THAT WAS GREAT!!! It's no fun when your first take is your ONLY take and millions are watching is it liberals? Though I doubt there were millions watching the left wing. This stunt, and their move to Sunday Nights, I think shows their ratings have tanked. The show has been in three or four slots in the past three years. If it was any other show, I think it would have been cancelled years ago, but it's the liberal golden calf, and the closest they can get to the White House, so it will go on for years, and continue to be a reaon for more and more people to vote conservative. I think left wing is like howard dean and michael moore, they're GREAT for conservatives, showing what radicals liberals are.
ah, I thought we were talking about the OLD WEST!. I don't care about that darn show.
Who won? HBO. They were showing Rome.
My wive TIVOed it and I have to say , that WAS a pretty damn good episode and Alan Alda did a great job expressing the conservative view of limited government. At the end, I told my wife "Damn, I'd vote for anyone who would just get up and say that." I also though he owned Santos in that debate, something I was rather surprised to see considering the liberal slant of the show.