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Keystone Phil
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« on: June 03, 2005, 04:07:53 PM »
As most know, CNN announced the cancelation of Crossfire a few months ago. Today was the last show. I didn't realize that until I got home from work and decided to turn on CNN. The timing couldn't have been better. They had just introduced their final guest and one of my favorite political commentators - Tucker Carlson.

They ended with some of their favorite moments and said farewell to one of TV's greatest political talk shows. Though Novak, Begala and Carville will be on Inside Politics and a new political show hosted by Wolf Blitzer, it will never be the same.
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Angel of Death
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2005, 04:11:00 PM »
Jon Stewart for President!
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Smash255
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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2005, 04:21:27 PM »
Crossfire was a good political show which both sids actually got equal time & were on equal footing, unlike the partisan hatchet job Fox tries to put out with the Hannity & Colmes show
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« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2005, 04:23:06 PM »
There is a set amount of time that each host gets on Hannity and Colmes, and then it switches to the other guy. That's equal time.
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« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2005, 04:26:14 PM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 03, 2005, 04:23:06 PM
There is a set amount of time that each host gets on Hannity and Colmes, and then it switches to the other guy. That's equal time.

Hannity is Mr cutoff.  He constantly cutss Colmes off & the other guests off, also yells over them.  Colmes doesn't do that.  Fox picked a loud mouth conservative against a quiet liberal.  Crossfire everyone was a loud mouth.  On these type of shows the loudmouths stick out more than the quiet guy does
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2005, 04:35:13 PM »
About time, the sit in conservatives were terrible.

Kinda sad though, and I think Woodruff is leaving too.
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Keystone Phil
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« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2005, 04:44:15 PM »
Quote from: Akno21 on June 03, 2005, 04:35:13 PM
About time, the sit in conservatives were terrible.


Yeah we need some obnoxious, loud mouth southerners like your side.  Tongue
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« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2005, 05:21:25 PM »
Doesn't really matter.  As I recall, most of these talking heads programs are as staged as pro-wresting.

In any case, they tend to present the hoplessly skewed view that the only positions available on any issue are two blatently partisan extremes, and ignore the concepts of compromise - much less solutions which think 'outside the lines'.

No great loss, IMO.
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