Earlier this weekend, I watched a news clip that really made me chuckle. I didn't laugh because of its hilariousness, or its overall hypocrisy, or any of my traditional reasons for laughter. This news clip was a tremendous exhibition of the childishness that American political system has degraded to. By now you probably know what news clip I'm talking about, Chris Wallace's interview with former president Bill Clinton.

You probably don't know who Chris Wallace is because he's not a very good journalist. You know he's not a good journalist because his TV program is called Fox News Sunday, which doesn't have his name in it. I've learned one thing about distinguishing good reporters from bad ones'the good reporters have their names in huge font flashing across your TV screen before and after every commercial break- i.e. Larry King Live. From the title of his program we can learn that he essentially plays JV at Faux News.

You probably noticed the playful double entendre I employed in the last sentence. Don't get me wrong, CNN and CBS have their share of clowns, but Fox News is a cut above. It would be an understatement if I said that Fox News is a 'patrio-fascist orgy of flawed rhetoric and logical fallacies specializing demagoguery of the highest degree.'

This is why I watch Fox News. It entertains me in the same way burning ants with a magnifying glass does; it's just a fun thing to do.

Fox News sent Chris Wallace to cover the Clinton Global Initiative'self described as 'a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to global problems.'

Seems like a pretty big thing to cover. Wallace knew how important it was to look cool in front of the upperclassmen at Fox News, so he went for some hard nosed journalism. Wallace, not known for 'lobbing softballs,' inadvertently did just that in his interview with former president Clinton.

Needless to say, Wallace was not prepared for a ten plus minute response to his pithy attempt at being a journalist. Clinton's response was well informed, hilarious and quite depressing.

I was sad because not only did Chris Wallace fail to acquire his Varsity letters at Fox News, he essentially made me realize that the American political discourse is nothing more than a circus freak show.

'Dude, where's my intelligent discourse'? I thought to myself. 'How did everything evolve into an asinine hyperbole'? was my next thought.

Maybe this degradation is too big to blame on political hackery or on Fox News itself. The polarization of the political and journalistic dialogue has simply decayed into two categories: those who tirelessly support George Bush at all times, and those who hate America. Chris Wallace is of the former.