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TV Indecision 2008 Forever describes some of the reaction to the Stewart/Cramer smackdown. Something I've not seen mentioned is the way that Stewart pulled up archive clips to knock holes in whatever defence Cramer was trying to formulate. I wonder if this would work on UK tv. Imagine Jeremy Paxman interviewing Gordon Brown and having a raft of these handy and ready to go if the Prime Minister contradicted a pledge he'd made earlier -- the impact would be rather heavier than what usually happens which is the journalist reading out the quote only to be told its been taken out of context.