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Live Discussion - War and Conflict

Thursday Mar 19, 2010 at 7pm - Join us for a discussion regarding contemporary world conflicts. Learn all the answers.
Q: And on another point, I mean I don't understand how some of these fools get elected.
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Okay, here is the answer to that one: 4.590

Q: fewd
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my answer

Q: so i was wondering....
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I would like to say that this is a silly question...

Q: Wasn't Tony's punishment due more to the fact that Storm is an ESPN employee? If she worked for NBC, the ESPN execs may not have gotten their knickers in a knot. TK has criticized Feinstein's outfits for years with no problems.
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I sense that that is the distinction, yes. Tony really has never had many kind things to say about anyone, and as he notes, he's always criticizing people's sartorial choices.

But I think there's arguably a difference when you're talking about a colleague, and when there's arguably a veneer of sexism/ageism... rightly or wrongly, adds a whole new dimension of sensitivity.

 

Q: Did I miss something? Was Kornheiser somehow incorrect with his comments on Hannah Storm's outfit?? It was too short, too tight and COMPLETELY inappropriate. No grown woman should walk into work (let alone national TV) looking [lie] a rejected extra from a Britney Spears video. Where's "What Not to Wear" when you need them?! And why in all the articles covering this faux story, is there not one picture of the outfit in question?
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I figured a lot of people would want to talk about this.

I am going to pull up a link to a blog that has a photo of what we think is the outfit in question. Unfortunately, we didn't have access or rights to a photo that we could run. (Getting photos is more difficult than anyone realizes -- if you were lucky enough to be watching that day and get a screengrab of it, then great; otherwise it's not like ESPN is going to be handing out still photos.)

 

Q: Why are we fighting wars?
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