The Beer Interview Proposition

At the Radical Beer Tribune, we hate staged campaign debates. They're slow, painful, and boring; and as former candidates, we know that the audience at debates is almost entirely composed of the other candidates waiting for their turn.

We also hate newspapers, largely because reading is for elitist academic snobs.

So we came up with the Beer Interview: We put each candidate in front of the camera, feed him or her a beer, and record what happens for your viewing pleasure. We have invited all your election hopefuls with the following email:

Dear Candidate,

We would like to interview you for our "Beer with the Candidates" series. The format is simple and informal: We buy you a beer (or reasonable substitute). The interview lasts as long as it takes you to finish your drink. We post the results on our blog.

You can choose what, how, where and how fast you drink. Have a Molson, have a Guinness, a Keith's, a cider, a nice cabernet sauvignon, some fancy champy, heck you can even drink coffee, root beer, or shotgun a pitcher of pilsner if that's your thing. We don't care. (Okay, so maybe we care a *little* bit.)

We can talk about whatever you like, you can tell us about the time you woke up naked on the seabus; you can answer a few softball questions we throw at you; you can pontificate about the great things you'll do when you come into power; or you can tell us about the time you downed 17 Smurf Cum shooters and your puke came out blue. It's up to you.

We'll provide an interviewer, or you can bring your own if you prefer. (Or you can interview your opponent if s/he agrees.) Let us know when this week you want to be interviewed and we'll come to you anywhere this side of Commercial. Yes, we'll really go to all this effort just to buy you a drink!

Looking forward to hearing from you soon,

Your neighbourly Voter-Funded-Media, The Radical Beer Tribune.

We hope they'll all take us up on our offer and display their love for beer. As the saying goes, never trust a (wo)man who doesn't drink.

We'll post the videos as we record them throughout the election...