The YouTube Debate: Send In The Clowns

Townhall.com ^ | July 29, 2007 | Ken Connor

[Kozak]

The YouTube Debate: Send In The Clowns

In the Rats case:

But where are the clowns? Quick, send in the clowns.

Don't bother, they're here."

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you haven’t seen it already, get the movie “Idiocracy” which is about this happening in the future...

[leenie312]

Well after suffering through 8 years of the morning press conference during the Clinton years....nothing surprises me.

[johnny7]

The reporters then said the debate was more like American Idol than Meet the Press. The implication was that this is a good thing.

Why not have naked, wrestling lesbians give the questions?

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

"Free-wheeling video questions from ordinary citizens put a fresh spark into the staid ritual of presidential debates this week, with everything from a talking snowman to a guy cradling a rifle he called 'my baby'."

Ahem....

So, Lurker, I'm just curious...

[conserveababe]

Because real lesbians don’t look like the actresses in porno movies.

[conserveababe]

Someone told me that movie was kind of pro-left-wing. Was she wrong?

[backhoe]

Well, whatever value debates may have had it the past, all I see nowadays is Kabuki Theatre, staged so the chattering classes have something to yap about.

They serve no useful purpose anymore, and have not for some time. We'd do better without this nonsense.

[conserveababe]

My .357 is my baby. It fits into the drawer by my bed.

[johnny7]

Because real lesbians don’t look like the actresses in porno movies.

Don't matter... it beats a snowman.

[leprechaun9]

The "YouTube Debate" was as useful as learning about Billy Clintoooooooon's underwear or that he kept Astroturf in the back of his pick up truck!

The seriousness and responsibility of selecting the President of the United States has diminished into being a prop for the pimps of the Election Industry, principally the Main Stream Media!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Somewhat (what Hollywood film doesn’t?) but it still shows the path we are heading for, and the dumbing-down of society.

[Lil'freeper]

She’s right to a degree. It’s to be expected given the intended audience (college kids, who, like, are so, like smart and stuff) and that the writing was only slightly less stupid than the characters themselves. If you do watch it, do so with a college kid (who’s, like, so, like smart and stuff) in the room .... and watch them watch it. It’s an experience.

[ThreePuttinDude]

The image of Tammy Bruce jumped into my minds eye.

What an image that would be....oh ya

[Old Landmarks]

Why not have naked, wrestling lesbians give the questions?

There is nothing that would prevent the modern liberal from welcoming such a degradation.

As they drag us toward Sodom in the culture war, the spectre of such an event will actually become plausible.

[Edit35]

Countless commentators have fawned over how refreshing it was to replace those stuffy old reporters with videos of real people with real concerns.

The only way to get some semblence of "fairness" in these debates is to allow a group of "Republican" supporters to pose questions - and also a "Democratic" group of reporters.

With this recent juvenile "debate" posed by CNN, the ratio of liberal-based questions to conservative-based questions was 15-1 (Talk show host Hugh Hewitt did a devastating analysis last week in which he demonstrated the premise of each so-called "unbiased" questioner which was CHOSEN -- emphasis on CHOSEN -- by CNN staffers.)

Heck, all those CHOSEN questions were simply a proxy for Republican hating CNN.

[upchuck]

The first paragraph of this article is very striking. And true. Unfortunately, the dumbing down of America continues at an exponential rate.

Much of You Tube is helping.

“Reality” (boy, there’s a misnomer) TV is helping.

Insipid, vapid TV shows like “Age of Love,” “Big Brother,” "American Idol," etc. are helping.

A real shame.

[johnny7]

The image of Tammy Bruce jumped into my minds eye.

Quite acceptable... and intelligent as well. I'd even let her answer her own question.

[Old Landmarks]

The extreme leftist domination of Youtube (many leftists spend all their time planting leftist propaganda on Youtube) works seamlessly to further reinforce the nihlism that has poisoned our culture since the sixties.

Youtube is an exceptionally profane and vulgar site reflecting the godless anti-American drug culture of the left which is defined by sex-obsession, narcissism and the inability to identify and reject what is shameful.