Bad news: David Brooks and Arianna Huffington crushed in team debate

Even Arianna Huffington can’t win ’em all. Paired with conservative pundit David Brooks in what should have been a dream team, she was soundly defeated in Tuesday night’s Intelligence² debate at NYU’s Skirball Center. The contest pitted Huffington and Brooks against satirist P.J. O’Rourke and journalist Zev Chafets. The topic: the merits of the two-party system.

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Electronic audience voting showed the latter team proved more persuasive. Or, as Huffington lamented, the crowd was too taken with O’Rourke’s roguish libertarian humor to pay attention to her and Brooks’ case that the two-party system was making America “ungovernable.”

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