The CROSSFIRE is it a Bust?

CNN | 1 April 2002 | John Paul Jones

[JohnPaulJones]

Food for thought! While surfing the tube tonight I stop and watched 5 minutes of the new Crossfire with Tucker and the old Clinton Clan "Carville and crew" interviewing little Tommy....Of what I saw this show is bound to bust and again CNN goes down...Any thoughts?

[jwfiv]

Bust.

CNN is trying to turn us all into proctologists but, I ain't buyin'...no way do I wanna spend so much time looking at assholes.

[linn37]

when they find decent debaters for both sides then I will tune in otherwise I'm with the poster and his comments about looking at a-holes.

[Sarcolemma]

I think the new Crossfire is a total mess! You don't know who's saying what. They should have practiced a lot more before coming on air. Bob Novak seems SO ticked off by Carville's antics.

[Pokey78]

15 seconds of Carville filled up my quota for this year.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, Tucker Carlson is lackluster at best and the other rabid mongoose is well... you know. The show has tanked!

[jackbill]

15 seconds of Carville filled up my quota for this year.

I didn't count, but I doubt that I made it past 10 seconds.

[FreedomPoster]

I saw Ted Turner in the owner's box next to the dugout at the Braves opener today. I was directly behind him, but in the club level. That's as close as I get to CNN.

[Slehn]

I watched a couple of minutes and concluded that Novak was in Atlanta for good reason. If he and Carville were across the table from one another they'd rip one anothers tongue out by the roots! Begala and Carville have got to be two of the most hateful guys on the planet. I won't be tuning in again anytime soon.

[eureka!]

"Millions of Americans just watched Novak and Carlson get eviscerated on national television"

LOL. That is something I would read on that humor site, 'ratsunderground. Go there sometime and read some of the circle jerks they have. I do feel sorry for them, what with their delusions and all. Oh well. As to the Clymer News Network's viewership, try about 125,000 viewers, if that, and falling. You've got a good sense of humor Mr. Pitt....

[COL. FLAGG]

This new format is an unmitigated DISASTER!!!

Only the clueless nitwits at CNN would think that they can build Crossfire's audience by featuring Carville and Begala in a show that now resembles something closer to the Jerry Springer Show than a serious political debate show.

Not even MSNBC would put something this inane on the air!!! I bet the suits at FOX are LOL at this ridiculous effort.

I say Crossfire will go back to something resembling the old format within 6 months or just go off the air.

Old Crossfire, R.I.P.

[headsonpikes]

How much longer can the 'clueless nitwits' at CNN remain in business?

I watched a little over Easter weekend and could hardly believe what a shameless mouthpiece of Islamism CNN has become.

[Wrigley]

What?

[VinnyTex]

Can Carville scream louder than anyone else? Yes for sure. Does he ever say anything intelligent? Of course not. Does Begala?

Paul Begala's new book an exercise in self discovery

 

WilliamPitt (907 posts)
Jul-17-01, 04:00 PM (ET) 13. "What the hell is a Shachmanite?"

Gotta go back and click that link. Bookchinite? I love being stuff I've never heard of. Here's me:

# 1 Shachtmanite
# 2 Progressive
# 3 Social Democrat
# 4 Anarchist
# 5 Democratic Socialist
# 6 Democratic Marxist
# 7 Libertarian Socialist
# 8 Bookchinite
# 9 Christian Socialist
# 10 Kimist
# 11 Stalinist/Maoist
# 12 DeLeonist
# 13 Leninist-Trotskyist
# 14 Castroist

"What the hell is a Shachmanite?"

I'll help ya out boy....

Max Shachtman">

[DaGman]

Novak and Carlson really did come across as mad and petty. This could be an interesting thing to watch as it unfolds.

Like it or not, this may turn out to be something the right must deal with. Ignoring it will not make it go away.

[UnChained]

Crossfire has always been a bust. People are only allowed to speak is fractional sentences. People shouting over one another is offered as reasoned discussion.

It reduces any issue to the intellectual level of a food fight.

[linn37]

You mean like thousands watched two bald ugly democrats act like the donkey rears that they are? Soon it will be like hundreds...LOL Dig it.

[lizma]

I remember watching Crossfire and Buckley on a 12" round TV screen as a kid. The good ole days!!!