Charlatan

Is it just me or has American political debate sunk to the level of school yard name calling and choruses of "yes you did"... "no I didn't", etc.

I singled out Al Franken in the header of this post as it is with him that I've finally lost my belief in the possibility of actual political debate in the mainstream media of America (TV and Radio for the most part).

Al is clearly amusing. He can come up with great counter arguments for all the neo-cons that seem to have edged their way on to Cable News from the whirling cesspool of American Talk Radio...

However, Al is just more of the same. Yes he represents a "liberal" point of view that seems to be lacking in the world of Savage, O'Rielly and their ilk, but he is just as bombastic and idiotic as they are.

I recently heard an interview where Franken went head to head with O'Rielly and as O'Reilly went into his usual, "Just Shut UP!" Franken countered with much the same sort of thing...

These highly charged rants may be "entertaining" to some but they do nothing but detract from what should be an informed and reasoned debate of issues backed up with fact...

It seems that the only place to get informed facts and arguments is print journalism and even that isn't free of the taint of this bottom feeding fringe journalism that seems to have destroyed what is left of informed, rational debate.

Abe Lincoln (an astounding master of the debate) must be rolling in his grave.

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