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Answer the question

I was watching Fox cable news yesterday. They were using the typical format with one Democrat and one Republican talking head separated by a right leaning moderator. The moderator challenged the democrat with a question about recent white house claims that the Obama war effort is more effective against terrorists and actually has eliminated more terrorists than the Bush administration. The democrat immediately launched into a political spin on how evil Bush was to use torture as an interrogation technique. After about a minute or rhetoric, the moderator interrupted and asked the democrat to answer the question with statistics, facts not oratory. He then quoted some vague comments from an onsite general who basically said that things are going better now.

When the moderator turned to the republican he got similar oratory – this time defending the recent statements of Cheney. Again no answer to the question.

Pick your issue. When you become a talking head for a US political party do you lose your ability to understand English? Without transparent answers to questions then there is no point to the interview.

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