Crossing the Jordan
I’m a big admirer of The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper, who is fearless, smart and funny going into hostile political areas and interview people who he has a pretty good idea hate him. After Daily Show broadcasts, the day’s host usually spends a bit of time answering questions from the audience – and this is a 12-minute collection of some of his responses to questions about his experience. I posted a much-shorter version of this before, but we get a lot more details and stories here. His opinions, based on his experiences, are very thoughtful and interesting.
I’m not sure I agree 100% with an overall conclusion he discusses, about how to reach an understanding of sorts between the two sides, though I do get his point in theory. But as he at least notes, when the two sides aren’t disagreeing on the facts and interpretation of them, but one of the sides just isn’t accepting reality, and their beliefs from that have become “who you are,” then it’s really not ever going to be a case of both sides being more flexible. Though I do understand what he’s trying to point out.
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