Who knew I'd learn so much from watching The View?

So Tuesday morning when I turned on the tv I just happened to catch the last half of that commercial for Airborne.  I about laughed because if it weren't for the night before and having that presentation on Airborne I wouldn't have thought anything of it.  I didn't see the whole thing but I did catch the part about how the creator of Airborne bought her company back because she didn't like how it was being run. 

After the commercial break and The View came back on (mind you this is not something I watch but it was what was on when I turned on the tv and they were talking about bring on Samuel L. Jackson so I stuck around).  After that they brought out Melissa Etheridge and that Republican host is on there, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, immediately goes all politics and gets Melissa Etheridge talking about the Presidential election and Prop 8.  In case you don't know about Prop 8, it was a proposition on the ballot in the November election in California to ban gay marriage in California and it passed.  Since then there have been protests and rallies across the country speaking out against Prop 8.

As you can imagine, a Republican host and a Democratic guest, they sort of had it out until the host that was sitting in between them nicely said Melissa wasn't there to talk about Prop 8 but to talk about her new CD.

After watching that I thought of the Fairness Doctrine presentation we saw in class.  There were two people with opposing view points on a controversial topic and if you click on the link below you can watch for yourself that nothing really got accomplished.  In some cases the Fairness Doctrine might work but in a lot of cases that I think of this is pretty much how most the scenarios would play out.  Just a lot of talking and nothing getting done.

 http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/12/elisabeth-hasse.html

To get to the video I'm actually talking about you'll have to scroll down the page to the second one.