Stig Östlund

onsdag, november 23, 2011

What You Missed While Not Watching the GOP National Security Debate

0 minutes. They call it a campaign, but it’s really a reality TV show with eight contestants who compete for nearly a year. Each week or so, they get on a stage, and are prodded to attack each other, equivocate and regurgitate sound bites. Dreadful stuff. At the end, viewers vote for one winner, who gets to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Welcome to Episode 11. American democracy as cheesy prime time programming. CNN’s Foreign Policy Debate in Washington, D.C. /TIME

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