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 Or do long form interviews. 
 Dave Smith was talking about this on his most recent episode. Wild how jackasses on the internet are fully capable of defending their positions for 3 hours straight, but our leaders can’t get through a 10 minute ABC interview 
 Sad 
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Bet those jackasses have become quite the closers on their own by now to make it all the way to their leaders having their attention.

Kudos
#abc 
 We don't have honest brokers of information. Americans receive propaganda. The interviews are live action hit/fluff pieces depending on network and who they're interviewing.

They're built to for soundbytes. It's gross. 
 
 Should be required for all elected officials. I tried researching some local candidates and they might as well not exist outside of their shitty campaign webpage. 

I really like how Aurora, Colorado posts all their local meetings w/ constituents on YouTube.