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Once you're on television, you become an expert, with or without expertise, because you are talking to the Gut, and the Gut is a moron, as anyone who's ever tossed a golf club, punched a wall, or kicked a lawn mower knows. The Gut is the roiling repository of dark and ancient fears. It knows what it knows because it knows how it feels. [...] If something feels right, it must be treated with the same respect given something that actually is right. If something is felt deeply, it must carry the same weight as something that is true. If there are two sides to every argument - or, more to the point, if there are people willing to take up two sides to every argument - they both must be right or, at least, equally valid. Dress it up, and the Gut is "common sense," which rarely is common and even more rarely makes sense.