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posted at 5:58 PM  
So, the West Wing had a presidential debate!
It kind of sounds like the "Republican candidate" said a lot of boring/trite stuff, but I don't know for sure, since I didn't watch it. Maybe he said cool stuff and the author of the article just chose to quote the lame parts.
In any case, the idea of a "gloves off" presidential debate is really appealing to me. It would be cool to see.
Meanwhile, you can buy all of Star Trek for a mere $2499.99. Go forth, nerds, and plunder !
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I'd have to say that the "debate" was pretty even-handed. If anything, Alda's character got the best of it, doing (I thought) a better job of explaining his position and having better timing than Smits.
Sam Paris
Cool, thanks for letting me know! I have to admit that I was impressed that a fabulous actor like Alan Alda was participating. (I'm serious--he's good.)
I watched it - it's one of my favorite shows - at one point, I turned to B and said, "Don't you wish this was a real debate - that these two were our choices for President?"
I seriously don't know for which one I would vote!
It was cool that there were very few commercials, that Forrest Sawyer moderated, and that the "Live - NBC News" logo was in the corner.
It'd be nice to have a real presidential candidate, that's for sure.
Man, this is sad. It's just sad that a partially scripted TV show can be more authentic than our real-life politicians.
The debate was interesting from several standpoints. It was nice to see the actors nervous. I'm CERTAIN both have more respect for the environment that politicians have to function in. It's easy to look slick when you're filtered through tape delay and editing process. And these guys, from my understanding, knew the questions ahead of time and had memorized their answers (it's slightly less scripted -- stock answers are memorized -- for the real guys).
A lot of the content of the answers was a variation of "let's have this Republican say something no Republican today would say," and the same goes for the Democrat. And there were odd mixtures of positions that were internally consistent, but fell apart when you compared them with the candidate's broader vision.
It looks like the producers have gathered focus groups and developed some basic centrist approaches to timely issues. Then, they pepper both candidates with those positions with no overarching rationalization.
Hah.
Wish I could have seen it for myself :>
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