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One Fine Evening On Cable News

One Fine Evening On Cable News      Anchor: Welcome back to Why Bother — the perfect place for pointless political persiflage. Let’s get to our panel of Pundits. What’s your take on today’s political headlines?      Pundit #1: Same old same old. It’s just so, so divisive. Too much divisiveness.      Pundit #2: You’re saying it wrong.      #1: What?      #2: It’s “di-VISS-ive,” not “di-VICE-ive”.      #1: Um, I’m pretty sure it’s “di-VICE-ive.”      #2: Wrong. It’s “di-VISS-ive”.      #1: Wrong. “Di-VICE-ive!”      #2: “Di-VISS-ive”!      #1: Wait, why are you putting your periods and exclamation points outside your quote marks? That’s wrong! They go inside the quote marks!      #2: Huh? Who cares?!      #1: They go inside!      #2: Whatever! I’m not even do...