back. you can strongly disagree with the nasty tactics of opposition research at the dnc, which i disagree with or what happened on that camera shot. but you fight back on the issues and then you say to your opponent now i want you to sign this civility pledge then that becomes an issue in the campaign. i m telling you, bill, people are responding who are not politicians to this idea. embarrass into responding. bill: if you sign this civility thing and i m on it i m off the air. it actually let s people like me disagree and we do it civilly, bill. that s why when you interviewed senator clinton during the campaign one of the best interviews i ever saw. bill: thank you. you allowed her to disagree and had you a respectful discussion. bill: barney frank was a coward on fannie mae and freddie mac. you shouldn t have used anage je kelive. bill: he was lying to my
nice the each other most of the time, you know, unless they kick you out of a restaurant every once in a while. greg: yes. but i don t mind. i think maybe the civility thing, i don t like civility. [laughter] it s a debate. it s fake. civility s fake. greg: that is true. no one wants to be nice. they ask you a question at a debate, and they re like first i d like to pause and thank everyone for being here. shut up and answer the question. i want to be a little more rude. shut up, tom! greg: all right. kat, i have a theory, and i m not it s like does social media contribute to hostilities, or is it a release valve so the hostilities are less likely to be on the street and more likely in the broadband where nobody really gets hurt? is that correct? or are you just, like, staring at me blankly waiting for me to shut up? i mean, i think that people can get hurt on social media. i think that sometimes people can be really, really mean and
but in normal life we re kind of nice the each other most of the time, you know, unless they kick you out of a restaurant every once in a while. greg: yes. but i don t mind. i think maybe the civility thing, i don t like civility. [laughter] it s a debate. it s fake. civility s fake. greg: that is true. no one wants to be nice. they ask you a question at a debate, and they re like first i d like to pause and thank everyone for being here. shut up and answer the question. i want to be a little more rude. shut up, tom! greg: all right. kat, i have a theory, and i m not it s like does social media contribute to hostilities, or is it a release valve so the hostilities are less likely to be on the street and more likely in the broadband where nobody really gets hurt? is that correct? or are you just, like, staring at me blankly waiting for me to shut up? i mean, i think that people can get hurt on social media. i think that sometimes people can be really, really mean and
have made a difference? does this civility thing work? and especially in south carolina where you have none of the funding and yet had a closer margin than this race. the montana race the guy with the cowboy had, if he had won, then it would have been okay. we need these poppialest, bernie sanders that s the model. be bernie sanders. and if ossoff had won in georgia it would have been we need trudeau, barack obama, macron, that model. that s the tech savvy guy, the young guy who can go into these districts. used to lean republican. a theory, a premise. you would have tested something and you could have gone forward