Fraters Libertas

Will Richie Crack Corn?

National Review's Rich Lowry, who wussily ducked a challenge to fight Al Franken, has apparently found an opponent more to his liking in David Corn from The Nation. The two will square off this Thursday in a political debate at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul at 7:30pm.

Two political commentators who have no qualms about telling you what’s on their minds will square off in a liberal vs. conservative debate. Addressing a host of hot-button topics will be David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, and conservative journalist Richard Lowry, a syndicated columnist and editor of National Review. Titled ''Face-Off: David Corn and Rich Lowry,'' the debate will cover some of today’s most contentious topics: U.S. involvement in Iraq; energy and the environment; employment, Social Security and the economy; affirmative action in higher education; and same-sex marriage. Moderating the debate will be Dave Nimmer, a former journalist with the Minneapolis Star and WCCO television, and a member of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department at St. Thomas.

It promises to be a no holds barred verbal barroom browel, as Hugh might say. We strongly encourage readers in the Twin Cities to attend the event and cheer Lowry on as he takes Corn out behind the woodshed and delivers a rhetorical thrashing he won't soon forget. Now if he only had the stones to throw down with Al...

UPDATE: Eagle eyed Darryl e-mails to point out that the debate announcement is not exactly fair and balanced:

"Addressing a host of hot-button topics will be David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, and conservative journalist Richard Lowry, a syndicated columnist and editor of National Review."

Liberals are never "liberal", they's just reg'lar folks! Not like them nasty c-o-n-s-e-r-v-a-t-i-v-e-s!