What is rhetoric? What is not? What is debate? What is not debate?
When Jon Stewart was on CNN's Crossfire, in 2004, talking about how bad the show is and how good it can be, I feel he was pointing out the bad rhetoric of TV debate. When a political figure goes on a show like Crossfire they know what to say, how to say it, and what will be asked of him or her. That is not a debate, that is planed confusion. John Stewart used the term, "theatrical" to describe Crossfire. I always felt a debate is not one person defending his or her stand, but to reach a compromise opinion. Crossfire is more of a win, lose position.
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