50/50 Bias Both Ways

The host seems open to discussion, and is actually interested in delivering what he promises. It is often fun to watch his arguments get torn apart by his guests, all of whom are more experienced in explaining and defending their views. So there's a LOL factor here, too. I've got to hand it to him for being so brave and just going for it, kudos! I hope he keeps at it.

I’m a big fan of Matt Orchard, but this one misses the target. I’m assuming 50/50 was a project of his before he found other avenues…but it seems he also found he wasn’t particularly good at political discussions. It seems like he wanted to bring in representatives of ideas to which he objected on a fundamental level and then see what happens when they lay out their opposing viewpoints. I think, like many contemporary western liberals, Orchard doesn’t have a coherent ideology from which to frame his worldview and his arguments, and that results in his guests objectively walking all over him. Unfortunately, this is because his guests have ideological commitments, which make them sound more legitimate. I wish Orchard had kept going with this, discovered that his ideology was inadequate to the problem of the far right, and become harder left in his belief system. But instead he went with true crime, and that’s ok too.