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Smackbate

NPR
Published October 3, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

Satirist Harry Shearer imagines the line between Soft and Hard TV will fall, and future Presidential debates will be in line with more popular entertainment. He proposes a combination of professional wrestling and politics.

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