Monday, April 15, 2002

Maybe it's time I started watching Crossfire. It seems the new hosts on the liberal side, Paul Begala and James Carville, aren't the pushovers previous lefties in their position have been. Rumor has it they've been so effectively pugnacious in their brief tenure on Crossfire that the Republican Congressional leadership is warning its members to steer clear of the show, lest they come away with rhetorical black eyes.

After years of such bullies as Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich running roughshod over political discourse in this country, I'm glad there are finally a couple of Democrats willing to hit back just as hard. And from what I understand, Carville and Begala's biggest weapon in this battle is that most insidious and nasty of the debater's tools: cold, hard fact.

(I swear, if I swipe anything else from MetaFilter in the next 30 days, I'll just rename this place MeFi2 and be done with it.)

Posted @ 12:24 AM

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