tristero posts on Dr. Rachel Maddow debating David Frum with surgical precision.
While I think tristero goes a little overboard in praising the significance of this exchange - it's hard to miss the fact that Dr. Maddow is one of the smarter interviewers out there. If Frum was opposite the usual media tool or some other paddy-cake pundit - Frum would have gotten his false moral equivalence by baiting his opposite into a shouting match.
Instead, Maddow forces Frum to hold his line and go into unsupportable territory.
Now, if we could get a few reporters to follow this example (or this one from Campbell Brown) we scare off the fools and perhaps get some real discussion going.
More likely the big fish would refuse to be interviewed, but at least they wouldn't get national media exposure to swat down softballs.
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