Huffington Magazine Issue 66 | Page 11

Enter that events in Syria made returning CNN’s famously fusty panel show to the airwaves critically important for the good of the nation. And so, CNN gathered two hosts and two senators to offer some tranquilized jabber at each other about the day’s developments in the Syria saga. The results were astoundingly dull. In fact, the most hilarious moment of the show — literally, the only interesting thing that happened in a half-hour that seemed to leach all coherence from space and time — came when host Newt Gingrich bumbled the name of the show and called it Ceasefire. Part of the problem here is the