Exciting New TV Show Uncontaminated by Facts
You have to watch PBS’s “Breaking the Deadlock” next Tuesday because I’m on it. (In the sense of being a participant, not in the sense of then-Gov. Kristi Noem’s slogan for South Dakota’s methamphetamine awareness campaign: “Meth — I’m on it.”) (Yes, that really was the slogan.)
The idea of the show is that people of wildly different political beliefs — e.g., Stephanie Ruhle, Rick Wilson, me — are assigned roles, then presented with an imaginary situation to debate. In my episode, the “situation” is: We pretend that a conservative did something terrible, then we make-believe that the bad thing we’re pretending the conservative did really happened, then we debate, without mentioning any real-world facts.