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What debate would you most like to see?

Which pair would you most like to see debate each other?

  • Ann Coulter v. Rachel Maddow

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • Keith Olbermann v. Bill O'Reilly

    Votes: 9 26.5%

  • Glenn Beck v. Chris Matthews

    Votes: 4 11.8%

  • Chris Matthews v. Ann Coulter

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • Glenn Beck v. Keith Olbermann

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Rachel Maddow v. Bill O'Reilly

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • Total voters
    34
Matthews is the only one with political experience ( but tainted with talk show commentary), and Coulter's experience in law would almost qualify, except I don't think it is in her nature to even bother arguing substantively.

As such, I think your list is pitifully weak.
 
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My idea for a deathmatch still stands. In addition I would prefer a three way debate (pro-warfare/anti-welfare vs pro-welfare/semi-anti-warfare, vs anti-warfare/anti-welfare) Eric Erickson (sp?) vs Chris Mathews vs Lew Rockwell/Lawrence Vance/Justin Rainmondo take your pic
 
Mellie said:
The people on the list are all employed on news networks. When Jon Stewart gets his own show on MSNBC, I'll include him too.
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So comedians can't be well-educated about politics unless they get a tv show on a news network? They can't provide an entertaining debate?
 
Mellie said:
The people on the list are all employed on news networks. When Jon Stewart gets his own show on MSNBC, I'll include him too.
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Comedy Central has employed one entertainer that has far better political credentials than your entire list combined: Ben Stein.

Combine South Park, and there's probably been more political intellect on Comedy Central than all of the major "News" Networks combined,
 
Mellie said:
Jon Stewart is a comedian with a comedy show on a comedy channel. He doesn't belong on the list. Much like Whoopi Goldberg or Rosie O'Donnell or Jeff Foxworthy shouldn't be on the list.
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Yes, ironic - isn't it? I've caught Fox getting really pissy over what Stewart says. Funny - the accused non-news channel taking a comedian too seriously in the news department.
 
John Stossel and Barack Obama
 
Mellie said:
The people on the list are all employed on news networks. When Jon Stewart gets his own show on MSNBC, I'll include him too.
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Of course, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show have a Peabody Award - while none of these "journalists" do.
 
TurtleDude said:
LOL

Coulter is a known idiot

that my friend is just stupid

you'd be hard pressed to find a talking head with better academic credentials than Coulter. Did it ever occur to you that she says stuff to rile the weakminded up as part of a plan?
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Her evil master plan of completely lacking any substance and utterly dismissing anything that anyone else says?

What kind of plan is that?

She's a right-wing rabble rouser and nothing more. I can pretty much guarantee you she's made more liberals even more liberal than she has converted anyone to thinking like she does.

She has the credentials, no doubt. She uses them simply to make money off of people who agree with her. It was really working for while. Still works for a few (her sales of her last book were WAY below her previous). But it does nothing for either conservative issues nor for American politics in general. She lowers every debate she enters with her use of childish language.
 
Mellie said:
Jon Stewart is a comedian with a comedy show on a comedy channel. He doesn't belong on the list. Much like Whoopi Goldberg or Rosie O'Donnell or Jeff Foxworthy shouldn't be on the list.
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Yet that comedian with a comedy show does a lot better job with political commentary and reporting than most other "news" places. And people like Coulter have no place on the list either. She and some of the others are not political analysts, but political propagandists. There's nary an intellectual, coherent sentence which escapes Ann Coulter's lips.
 
That was easy. Cat fight!
 
Mellie said:
Jon Stewart is a comedian with a comedy show on a comedy channel. He doesn't belong on the list. Much like Whoopi Goldberg or Rosie O'Donnell or Jeff Foxworthy shouldn't be on the list.
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Do you really believe that Ann Coulter or Beck are any less of a comedian?
 
Newt Gengrich v anyone.
 
aps said:
You don't think Rachel Maddow is substantive? Really?
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I think she is a talking head TV host, not some one who actually shapes policy.
 
Cilogy said:
Anything with Rachel Maddow, she's actually a good questioner and not as crazy as Beck, Coulter, Bill O'Really?, or Keith Olbermann.

Now let's narrow it down.

Olbermann and O'Reilly would just yell at each other the whole time.

Coulter is a known idiot, but O'Reilly is not, he contradicts himself a lot but he is reasonably debate worthy.

Maddow is one of the few "newscasters" (you can define that however you want) that asks tough questions and incites good responses.
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Totally, totally agree.

I watched her several weeks ago be constantly interrupted by a righty, and he was so rude ot her. It was laughable. However, she stayed calm and said she'd welcome him back to her show. She made him look like an uncontrollable freak, while she looked entirely composed and professional. (That's why I voted to see Coulter and Maddow debate because Maddow would get Coulter to go nuts.)
 
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Redress said:
I think she is a talking head TV host, not some one who actually shapes policy.
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Okay. I understand your idea of substantive.
 
TurtleDude said:
your opinion is noted

not shared.

she plays the moonbats like a strad. everything she does is for a purpose-most of which involves making her money
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You mean like Michael Moore?

Seriously, though, I would be embarrassed to make a living by purposesfully pissing a certain group of people off. In fact, it's pathetic, and I think that a genuinely intelligent and sophisticated person would agree. I don't care if she graduated top of her class, she has no class, and she acts like girls did in middle school. That kind of behavior is beneath me. *shrugs shoulders*
 
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