“It’s not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented. It’s just being respectful of you the viewer, the voter, who deserves direct answers from the people who are fortunate enough to be given a platform on national television to speak directly to the American people.” - CNN’s Don Lemon, Mediaite
Dissension, though not always constructive, is more compelling. Hence, argument TV’s relative success.
The Most Explosive The Last Word Interview Yet
In what is unarguably the most explosive interview in the infancy of The Last Word, Republican Rep. Ron Paul had a logisitical on-air disagreement with host Lawrence O’Donnell that, while not the centerpiece of the discussion on the Tea Party, certainly colored the rest of the debate an ugly shade of contentious and uncomfortable that recalled his son Rand’s debate with Rachel Maddow.
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Paul seemed disturbed: “one of the agreements we had when I came on your show was we weren’t going to talk about other candidates, so I’m not going to talk about other candidates,” he reminded O’Donnell, to which the latter appeared somewhat confused insulted. “Just a second- I wasn’t part of any agreement when we came on the show,” O’Donnell told him. “If someone made an agreement with you, no one said anything about it.”
The interview somehow continued for a good ten minutes or so after this speed bump, but it didn’t go any more smoothly.
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Argument TV: Epic Rachel Maddow battle with GOP candidate last night. - Greg Mitchell
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Argument TV - Today on The View, the ladies (sans Barbara Walters) discussed tea-bagger Christine O’Donnell’s win in Delaware’s Senate primary.
Argument TV:
Did you catch the Saints’ and Vikings’ pre-game display of players-union solidarity last night? When retired NFL-ers Mike Golic and Marcellus Wiley discussed the demonstration this morning on Mike & Mike, Sh*t. Got. Real. - Gawker.TV
Argument TV: “Michael you are so rude.” - CNBC’s Erin Burnett
Argument TV
Cenk Uygur: How Bout We Didn’t Go Into This Dumb Ass War In Iraq!
Argument TV: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer vs Laura Ingraham - Park51
Ingraham is such a hypocrite, as I am sure you all know. But what also makes her such a disgusting person is, listen, how she says elitist. And then at the end, her cherry on top, “That’s the problem with Manhattan.”
Is This The Worst “Ground Zero Mosque” Debate Ever?
Fox Business’ Eric Bolling [“moderates” a panel with] these experts on the Islamic Cultural Center controversy – former NYC police officer and all-around crazy pundit Bo Dietl, radio host Ron Kuby, comedian Jackie Martling and wine guy Gary Vaynerchuk.
Lazio vs Matthews
“Let’s get to the bottom of this.” - New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio
“The bottom of it is you’re running for governor.” - Chris Matthews
Entire Segment here
YAY! More Argument TV. Surprise!! It’s from Fox. Well, Fox Biz Channel, same thing really.
Fox Business had on Michelle Dallacroce, founder of the improbably named Veteran Mothers Against Illegal Amnesty, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Director of the Center for Terrorism Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The six minute shout fest began with U.S. border security and the recent terror attacks in East Africa, two issues that are themselves not substantially related. But it didn’t stop there. By The Atlantic Wire’s count, their debate hit on nearly every major issue of 2010 so far except for the oil spill and the firing of General Stanley McChrystal. Those issues are:
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