Thoughts on "Crossfire"

Notice and Focus + Ranking:

Step 1: They were great at making no time to listen to the other and throwing insults and strict opinions at each other. They shut out any voice that was not their own and tried very hard to pull John Stewart in a certain direction but failed. It was a brutal setting, with lots of cold faces and their responses to each other were incredibly biased.. they refused to pay any attention to the other.

Step 2: ignorance, biased responses and brutal language

Step 3: The ignorance of the two came into play immediately when they started off abruptly just talking nonstop chatter back and forth. It almost gives you a headache and while it may be entertaining to watch two people argue back and forth it is also incredibly frustrating when the two people just make jabs at each other but the one is not even listening to the other. There is no point. Their responses seem to be very biased, meaning they do not want anything to do with what the other has to say but want to make their point across. They do not keep their ears open when the other speaks.. also very annoying. The language was just harsh to begin with, it is very forceful and cold. You can feel the anger these two men have for the others perspective.


The Method

1. "Why do we have to argue?"x2, "Stop hurting America"x2, "it kills me"x2, "believe"x8, "stop"x5, "is he the best?"x5 "bad"x3


2. argue, hate, best, win, bad, stop

3. paper/plastic, red sox/yankees, black/white

4. The line said by John Stewart, "Stop hurting America" caught my attention. John Stewart is basically forming a sentence that raps up the entire video. He tells them to just stop, to avoid, to pull away, to disinvolve themselves from political hypocrisy and to cut out all the biased statements and the constant arguing. These two ignorant political television show hosts are getting absolutely no where and fighting so hard to pull Stewart in to believe one perspective or the other and it is exhausting for him. He shows them that what they are doing is insignificant and useless. Stewart's claim in that one sentence, I believe, completely states what his point is. I like it.