December 14, 2010

• Political Gladiators

  There needs to be a new political opinion show where the two pundits get so worked up that each episode ends with them getting in to a fist fight. It would be like Jerry Springer for the cable news evening.

  Here's how I picture it: The program takes place in a big fighter's cage. There are two guys with differing viewpoints, usually a democrat and a republican. Each night, a currently relevant hot-button issue is discussed. Polite discourse gradually gives rise to heated shouting. Throughout, props are gradually dropped into the cage by American flag bikini wearing supermodels. It starts out with "opinion enhancers" like bullhorns and obscure, potentially-flawed reports on demographic statistics. It eventually builds up to items like truncheons and pugil sticks.

  This kind of show would even spice up political discussion around the coffee machine in the office in the morning. "Yeah, well, if that tort reform supporter was such a wuss, he wouldn't've had his face broken in by the truth."

  

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