Arianna Huffington and Harry Shearer

Hi Harry. Sorry to be so late, but there is no school today and I've been watching my kids put on a dozen plays--which they wrote, directed and starred in. And I'm exhausted as a result of all the audience reaction I had to generate on my own.

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As far as I'm concerned, TV stations should not only give free news time but free commercial time to candidates--which is certainly not free anyway after the American people, through their enlightened representatives, gave the networks over $70 billion worth of digital spectrum for free. Why did we do that? Was it because the networks have given us a lot of laughs and a lot of tears--and Seinfeld? Or was it because they've given our leaders hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars? I know, it's a multiple choice question, but with a theory wrapped up inside it.

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