The most striking thing to me about this program is that Phil Donahue used to be the equivalent of tabloid television in his heyday. And yet he had Milton Friedman on his show and treated him respectfully. It shows how our culture has declined.
He also had Ayn Rand on there.
I Remember watching Phil Donahue back in the day . I was quite an impressionable young woman and yet I remember the day he had Bill Clinton on . This is when Clinton was running in 1992 . For a good 20 minutes , Phil kept hammering Clinton about the infidelity stories that were coming out. Old Bill did his best outrage routine. Finally a woman stood up and berated Donahue for his insistence on pursuing the rumors when there were so many other things to discuss and the shift in the audience’s attitude was quite discernible.
Years later, I reviewed it on youtube and realized how masterful it was and how we were played. Totally contrived.