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RufusTFirefly

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2. Excellent discussion.

Reply to newthinking (Original post)

Sat Jun 28, 2014, 05:30 PM

Jun 2014

I'm really glad I watched it.
But I didn't think the debate was "on fire."
I find the tendency to oversell things in order to attract eyeballs to be both tedious and worrisome.
Have we reached a point where anything without fireworks is considered a dud?
"Hyperbole is literally destroying the planet."

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Crosstalk from 6/26 - This debate is on FIRE! [View all] newthinking Jun 2014 OP

Something not heard at all on the MSM. zeemike Jun 2014 #1

60 Minutes used to have a Crossfire segment Warpy Jun 2014 #3

Neither do I. zeemike Jun 2014 #4

I don't watch TV at all either. Almost 30 years now...I ballyhoo Jun 2014 #8

Excellent discussion. RufusTFirefly Jun 2014 #2

Obama -> Kerry -> Nuland: PNAC delrem Jun 2014 #5

Agree 100 per cent with ballyhoo Jun 2014 #7

The US, in the Ukraine and in the ME and everywhere else, is playing out PNAC's program. delrem Jun 2014 #10

It is that, delrem. But like all power-hungry megalomaniacs ballyhoo Jun 2014 #11

Excellent show! swilton Jun 2014 #6

Thanks for these RT posts, newthinking...It reminds ballyhoo Jun 2014 #9