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TweetLast night, Hugh Hewitt had on his show Youtube’s “Director of news and politics”, Steve Grove discussing tonight’s upcoming youtube debate and how it affects the integrity of the political process.
This is really comical, actually. Hugh is trying to ask some legitimate questions about the debate and Grove continually ignores Hugh completely and just keeps talking acting like he doesn’t even hear Hugh trying to speak. As soon as Hugh starts asking about his background, Grove gets offended and and then continues to repeat his leftist talking points.
The fact is that all the questions from this debate will be chosen by CNN’s David Bohrman. The debate’s questions are picked by Bohrman and his “team”.
Hugh : “It’s the antithesis of reasoned and informed discussion” … “A descent into chaos of informed discussion, debate, and follow-up”
Frankly, I’m looking forward to seeing this debate, although I understand Hugh’s sentiments about the whole thing. I think this kind of format can eventually be a good idea for the political process, but for now it’s still in it’s baby-stages, unregulated with no checks and balances. You have a partisan group choosing the questions and then you see precious wasted time with embarrassing videos from snowmen and other short videos that are a complete joke. This kind of thing can eventually be a good way for the political process to include the youtube format into a debate, but it has a long way to go before it will be legitimate and worthwhile to the concerned minds of the American people when choosing their next President.
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