One of the best shows on television, IMHO.
There IS a lot of shouting and a certain 'impoliteness', as another commenter mentions, but under all the shouting, I think most people will find in the panelists' content that:
1. They respond directly to each other's arguments (a welcome change from pundits who ignore their debating partners and reply to challenges with nothing more than a glib restatement of their basic position).
2. Time and again, panelists prove their integrity, command of the issues and (albeit combative) mutual respect by firmly agreeing with statements or positions from their supposed 'opponents' - in a beautiful display of precisely the type of intelligent discourse that is sorely lacking from most public debates, wherein well-meaning Americans so blinded by their mood to fight are unable to see the common ground that binds them and which, in the end, is critical for America's survival.
There IS a lot of shouting and a certain 'impoliteness', as another commenter mentions, but under all the shouting, I think most people will find in the panelists' content that:
1. They respond directly to each other's arguments (a welcome change from pundits who ignore their debating partners and reply to challenges with nothing more than a glib restatement of their basic position).
2. Time and again, panelists prove their integrity, command of the issues and (albeit combative) mutual respect by firmly agreeing with statements or positions from their supposed 'opponents' - in a beautiful display of precisely the type of intelligent discourse that is sorely lacking from most public debates, wherein well-meaning Americans so blinded by their mood to fight are unable to see the common ground that binds them and which, in the end, is critical for America's survival.