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To: LindyBill who wrote (6598)	9/2/2003 5:02:06 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793623

Now everyone on the show seems to have been coached to within an inch of their lives Bingo. A guaranteed failure, unless you have cooperative advertisers. Looks like one of Bush's news conferences, nothing spontaneous, in spite of Carville etc. the brilliant original formula that made Crossfire a success in the 1990s--all opinion, no information-- Not quite. The opinion was highly informed on occasion, which you couldn't get elsewhere. Now there are many places to get opinion, most of it more informed than crossfire. BTW, the liberal pundits are weak, take for example Bill Press on Buchanan & Press, when he talks to a representative of DOJ, she lies through her teeth, and he stupidly sits there with his mouth open too polite to interrupt. She said (this was last week sometime), "oh, the Congress had weeks of debate on the Patriot Act" blah blah blah. The other guest too politely informed everyone that "it was my job to analyse legislation, and I can tell you the bill came to Congress at 3:30am on the day of the vote and no one had a chance to even read it", i.e., ma'am, you and Ashcroft are lying through your teeth. Americans are a bit too timid to jump up and shoot their televisions, they should at least demand some sort of accountability, now and then. If these talk shows don't do it, and CSPAN goes off the air, tv will make itself completely irelevant, rather than just mostly. And the media will be scratching its collective arse wondering why time on the internet exceeds time in front of the propaganda tube.