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Crossfire (TV Show)

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Why Crossfire (TV Show) might be annoying:

    It gave the world Tucker Carlson.
    It popularized the panel show where pundits shout over each other, usually prone to insult-driven zingers over substantive arguments.
    It paved the way for imitators, including the all-female takeoff The View.
    When Jon Stewart was booked as a guest in October 2004, he turned the tables on the other panelists by forcing them to answer charges that they were 'hurting America' by normalizing divisiveness.
    The segment got to be so uncomfortable that at one point Tucker blurted out 'aren't you supposed to be funny?' (the show was cancelled three months later)
    They tried bringing it back in 2013 with Newt Gingrich and Van Jones but the reboot barely lasted a year.

Why Crossfire (TV Show) might not be annoying:

    It was the first successful panel show of its kind.
    It started out as a popular Washington radio show hosted by Buchanan and Braden.
    It exposed Jon Stewart to a wider audience.
    Geraldine Ferraro was a panelist.
    It was the signature show for Ted Turner's then-flagship network CNN.
    Hillary Clinton was a surprise guest after Tucker promised to 'eat his shoe' if her book sold a million copies (it did - and she served him a right wing-tip shoe-shaped cake).
    It lost its audience to another knockoff - Hannity and Colmes.
    Unlike virtually every other panel show, it didn't cherry-pick its guests to suit an echo chamber point of view.

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying