The New Republic

Not that there is anything wrong with that. Please make this available in an audio-only version so that it can be downloaded onto an ipod.

- hsny

March 21, 2007 at 1:39pm

This is unfair. Are you going to debate salad spinner next? Jonah: Hillary Clinton is like Mussolini TNR: Huh? What? Me: Yawn

- tlcastle

March 21, 2007 at 3:11pm

- twalker

March 21, 2007 at 4:15pm

I thought Peter managed the silences better than Jonah and exhibited more trustful body language. Also, I'd bring Peter closer to the camera and urge Jonah to back out of spitting range. I was expecting shorter, more frequent exchanges, rather than what seemed a bit like serial soliloquys. Perhaps I'm biased, but on both content and style I'd give the edge to Peter. Having a blonde wearing only a bath towel silently enter the frame, pick up an empty tequila bottle, then exit the frame would have sealed the deal--just a thought for next time. All in all, TNR & Beinart get a conditional B. Turn in that essay on the effects of the Homestead Steel strike on the industrialized labor movement that you promised to finish last semester and I might be persuaded to bump you up to a B+.

- williamyard

March 21, 2007 at 4:45pm

When did he become such a hippie? He used to always look like a classic-buttoned down business school grad. Now he looks like he might burn his draft card.

- seanwright

March 21, 2007 at 6:05pm

Why is it that righties are always bloviating half-ranters... I'm not sure Peter really comes off well in this exchange, he spends all his time defending his position that Fox News isn't a real news channel instead of attacking the spurious notion that what John Edwards and the Dems freezing out Hacks News Network is worse for the "republic" than, say, suggesting that you'll let your presidential aides testify before congress only if they aren't sworn in and if you control the venue and the questions... GAH!

- shanedingman

March 22, 2007 at 8:34am