Cable news is, more or less, footage of people who don't know what they're talking about screaming at each other. Forever.
I'd never seen this two-year-old clip before it was linked by Conor Friedersdorf on andrewsullivan.com today, and the yelling is as hard to take as it ever is, but if you start watching at around the 2:00 mark you will find a perfect, unusually clear, encapsulation of this in its purest form. Like all "found" epitomes, perhaps even especially unpleasant ones, it has a kind of poetry. Plus it's really funny:
"Chris! Whadda you mean blank slate?" ha ha ha
Posted by: Cpt. at September 1, 2010 07:12 PM"kevin, when you're in a hole, stop digging."
what a great example of shouting someone down with nothing to say.