sorry about the dp, FR screwed up when i tried to post so I didn't know if it worked or not
Drop the class. Actions speak louder...
This is pretty lame on the part of your prof and this website for that matter. Hannity isn't telling her what her answers should be, he's telling her how to handle an adversarial interviewer.
The left-right format is all about shouting, and if you do that day in and day out, you already know how to handle it. But a "civilian" might go into such an interview expecting to be interviewed by someone who cares what they have to say, not to be argued with by someone determined to put them down because it doesn't fit the interviewer's politics.
I find the Hannity-Colmes schtick tiresome, frankly, but here Hannity is just being human and helpful.
Even if Hannity had given her a full-blown coaching sesson, it would be nothing to get upset about. Hannity & Colmes is simply a political talk show designed to be a forum for entertaining debate. Even the president gets coached for a debate. Pretty basic concept. Your professer has become blinded by his liberal bias.
The reason your debate professor is pointing to this as an example of illegitimate debate is that Hannity is effectively telling his guest to ignore a potentially relevant argument made by the opposing party (Colmes) by saying, "I'm not here to talk about that."
That's not good form in a real debate and it just clarifies that the 'debate' on Hannity and Colmes is not a legitimate exchange of ideas but just entertaining fluff. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but let's call a spade a spade.
I would help you if I could understand your poor grammar,spelling and punctuation.
Are you really in college? How did you pass Remedial English?
Don't be too concerned.
It's a TV show and hannity is an entertainer.
Happens all the time.
Ask your prof for examples of Colmes' part of the show prep. Explain that it is a two person show - and each host asks each guest half of the questions. The guest has to be prepped for the format, since it is live TV. If your prof wants to call it coaching, that is okay. If any of us were to participate in live TV adversarial discussion, we would want to know the "ground rules" and time line, wouldn't we?
You really can't get better advice than this.