Dump the debates

CNN's silly, pointless presidential debate wasted GOP candidates' time — and insulted Americans' intelligence

Edward Morrissey

On Monday night, I watched a pretty dull game show on prime-time television. This quiz show featured seven contestants and at least twice as many questioners, and it lasted two hours. The host appeared to mark the time by grunting every few seconds during the answers, and the apparent point was for the contestants to keep talking until the host started grunting loud enough to distract them from their answers.

What's that you say? That wasn’t a game show, but the way the media wants the public to select the next major-party challenger for the presidential election? I find that as difficult to believe as a congressman thinking that people will just forget that he tweeted his genitalia over the internet.

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Edward Morrissey

Edward Morrissey has been writing about politics since 2003 in his blog, Captain's Quarters, and now writes for HotAir.com. His columns have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, The New York Sun, the Washington Times, and other newspapers. Morrissey has a daily Internet talk show on politics and culture at Hot Air. Since 2004, Morrissey has had a weekend talk radio show in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and often fills in as a guest on Salem Radio Network's nationally-syndicated shows. He lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and his two granddaughters. Morrissey's new book, GOING RED, will be published by Crown Forum on April 5, 2016.