Re: Television debate nonsense
Reply #20 –
I'd remind people here at DnD that the most famous debate in U.S. history (…by reference) is the Lincoln-Douglas debates — which gave Douglas the contested seat! If actual issues are debated their denouement may be quite far off.
OK. Now I have to get out my "Mean widdle kid" get-up, and ask a few questions.
Oak, which TV news anchor hosted that debate? How many channels carried it? (Back when I was a kid, political debates between the two major candidates got carried by all the channels, today that doesn't happen.) Who was the host of the show?
Lincoln-Douglas may have been a terrific debate, and they probably touched on issues and maybe discussed the issues deeper than happens today. Just one problem: Television hadn't been invented yet, so it wasn't a TV debate.