"It's always great when our debates degenerate into meat-gazing," conservative commentator Kurt Schlichter said on Friday, on broadcast row at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPACConservative Political Action Conference CPAC
It's the reason why the media gets obsessed with nonsense, and why the debates degenerate into gaffe-fights, and why key issues don't get attention, and why a lot of pointless money gets spent on terrible ads, and why there are so many dumb stunts.
But in its first segment, about whether the United States should attack Iraq, the debate degenerated into unintelligible yelling.
It was when Lord Monckton taking it a step further, began riling against Hollywood loveys and the Al Gore faction that the debate degenerated to a travesty.
In another day of tense negotiations in Washington on Sunday, plans to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the national debt have been proposed and then quickly discarded as the debate degenerated into an ideological battle.
The problems start when the noble aim of getting people to watch an informative political debate degenerates into a single-minded quest for eyeballs at any cost.
Often, name generators are used, he said, and to prove it, he purchased 50,000 of his own followers for $20. Francesco Sacco, a professor of business strategy in the technology sector at Bocconi University, said while the margin of error in Camisani Calzolari's model could be improved, he was disappointed to see debate degenerate into a personal attack.
Far too often the debate degenerates into grandstanding, whining and pointing fingers at all those evil male gatekeepers like, you know, TechCrunch.
Forcing incumbents to prove themselves to voters is no bad thing, even if debates sometimes degenerated into macho scraps over the meaning of "conservative".
Radio and TV debates invariably degenerate into shouting matches.
