Crossfire

My first thought on Crossfire was definitely an "oh great". I hate politics and anything to do with them, including debate shows. It probably has something to do with the fact that I don't understand any of it. However, this show was made interesting by Jon Stewart.
With his snide remarks and his ability to make the others look bad on their own, was the only reason this show was at all bearable. He was very straightforward and that's what you hardly ever see in politics. The first thing that i was expecting out of this show was a serious argumentative debate, but it ended up being a childish game show where they were sending personal blows at each other. Considering that it started right off the bat it was just a little bit immature, or a lot, and not at all the point of the show. But i do have to admit if thats how political debate shows usually went, i'd probably watch them more often.
One of the things that I noticed was how different their attitudes were. They were both straight forward, however Jon Stewart was not taking it as seriously as bow tie. He was cracking jokes and telling them to stop repeatedly. You could kind of tell that bow tie was getting irritated with how Stewart was acting. Another thing that i noticed was that it was probably intimidating to bow tie because you could tell that Stewart was the crowds favorite with them all laughing at his jokes dissing the others and applauding at his comments about how this is what's wrong with America. The last thing i noticed was that Stewart was in a casual sweater and the other two were nicely dressed up. Which speaks a lot.
From this assignment, one of the main things that i learned was that the term "debate" can go a long way.