A-new-debate-format

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a-new-debate-format

Title text: Networks: I am prepared to direct this pilot at a moment's notice.

Votey

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You gonna watch the candidates "touch the butt" tonight?

What?

It's a new debate format.

People don't watch debates because they

Debates are basically a two hour long farce, in which the entire nation gleefully hopes that someone accidentally says something mean or stupid.

Care about policy. If they did, they'd look it up on

Wikipedia.

Realizing this, networks simplified the format. Now, the candidates spend two hours putting their

One of the boxes

Contains a butt. If one of the

Candidates reaches

Hands in little boxes while wearing blindfolds.

Into that box, it proves she's a butt-toucher

The butt-toucher is then punished with

A small drop in national polls, followed by a regression toward the mean.

Has media gotten worse

Or has society?

I no longer have the attention span to understand that

Question.

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I am willing to sign any petition proposing this.

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