"Last Friday night, Sean Hannity hosted yet another one of his goofy Frank Luntz-style audience shows. The most recent installment of this town hall series focused on spring break and the mechanics of shotgunning a beer. This time, however, Hannity zeroed in the other scourge of American society: Marijuana.
In short: It was a shitstorm of anecdotal evidence passed as fact, myths that never seem to die, and causal fallacies that would make your grade school teacher cringe — all tossed about by a roster of third-rate cable news pundits and professional attention-seekers. There were also a handful of sensible panelists (including our own Noah Rothman), and they clearly won the evening. But boy was it difficult to watch this."* Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Desi Doyen (Green News Report) and Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) break it down.
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In short: It was a shitstorm of anecdotal evidence passed as fact, myths that never seem to die, and causal fallacies that would make your grade school teacher cringe — all tossed about by a roster of third-rate cable news pundits and professional attention-seekers. There were also a handful of sensible panelists (including our own Noah Rothman), and they clearly won the evening. But boy was it difficult to watch this."* Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Desi Doyen (Green News Report) and Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) break it down.
*Read more here from Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
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