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Enjoyed the podcast. If Red Eye (Gutfeld) skewered Conservatives it would have been a perennial Emmy winner.
Those of us out West watched it live and felt his irreverent humor was on par with Dennis Miller, making the most mundane political issues fascinating and funny.
BTW: Harry’s Shave got their moneys worth.
Psst Hillary, the answer is yes I read The Looming Tower, and that guy Hiss was a commie.
If Rob Long kicks me off Ricochet for egregious photoshopping, will he be accused of dis-membering me?
This podcast really left me hanging. They jumped from Old Spock to J.J. Abrams to Star Wars. But the obvious question was completely passed over: what do they think of New Spock?
regardless of what you think of it as a documentary; as a piece of art, The Jinx is a masterpiece
As for a interviewer who is direct and simple in the best sense of the words, we have John Miller in his interviews with authors exemplifies these qualities.
The departure of Greg Gutfeld from Red Eye did not go entirely unnoticed by our better magazines. And Holder’s consolation-prize report accusing the Ferguson police force of systematic racism proves nothing so much as the harm unqualified “disparate impact” analysis can do to the usefulness of statistics.
I loved the talk about Red Eye and Gutfeld. I always have this feeling that no one knows about Red Eye but me and hearing these guys acknowledge it brightened my morning.
I just finally ordered my first Harry’s razor by the way. Yippee!
I feel bad I barely ever watched Red Eye. Is there a show that was ever more inextricably intertwined with the DVR? Wondering when the first mass audience Internet talk show will arrive.
The right needs our funny people to be more visible. Jonah Goldberg’s G-File is hilarious. Why doesn’t he do a show where he just reads the G-File? It could be supplemented with images, and then they could show the ‘various and sundry’ internet clips at the end. That would be awesome, I bet it would be popular.
I also think some sketch comedy ala SNL from a more conservative, or at least not totally left-wing biased, point of view is long overdue. There have been SO many missed opportunities to really make fun of Democrats/liberals, the sketches often write themselves. I bet the GLOP crew could write some very funny sketches. Get someone to punch it up, find some actors, make a youtube channel. We need to have a little FUN (at Democrats expense for once).
Jonah’s use of the term juice-box mafia is hilarious.
Around 39:00, Rob discusses Red Eye’s treatment of Holder’s Ferguson report. Without excusing or condoning any of that aspect of the report, I have some questions.
First, the treatment from the local government didn’t occur overnight, and blacks make up 66% of the town’s population. Did they every try to elect a mayor and a city council that would change the conduct of these officials and the PD?
Second, the policy of raising revenue from speeding fines and the like is absurd. But the townspeople need to prepare themselves for tax increases, shouldn’t they? Or do they expect that the cost of their local government service will be underwritten by more affluent municipalities in its county?
What do you mean all the WMD in Iraq were old. There was an anthrax factory that was weeks always from being operational. They could of produced huge amounts of weaponized anthrax.
This is in discussion. Stayed tuned.
I had to cheer every one of Jonah’s line excoriating the Abrams’ Star Trek . The man should be kept as far away as possible from both of these Sci-Fi franchises forever. Or maybe he should helicopter-dropped without a parachute from a height of about 200 feet somewhere in the most inaccessible parts of the Ural mounts with only the clothes on his back, a dead rabbit and a multi-tool.
I agree with Jonah that local governments are worthy of conservative’s censure just as much as the Ferguson example is by Eric Holder’s report. Another unfair plot against the poor that conservative’s should be able to get some mileage on with Black voters is if we took on the bail bondsmen industry – always interwoven with the local political clubhouse and the local trial lawyers as crony capitalists deluxe.
I do dispute the degree that Holder puts on the racial aspect of government’s rapacious search for revenue streams, though. I believe both Washington and Chicago are well known for gouging commuters and tourists with red light cameras, asinine parking fines, etc. and I don’t think that reflects an intentional anti-white bias.
Just make sure the couch gets a cool voice.
I tried to order a Harry’s razor for a nephew in the US Navy, and was disappointed to learn that they don’t accept any orders from outside the US or Canada, even when the recipient is in the US.
Actually, it’s not absurd: A lot of states (California for one), muni’s are using tickets for revenue raising. To single out Ferguson is ridiculous. This is the Justice Dept. looking for any excuse.
Re: Good Conservative Interviews.
What is Peter Robinson’s Uncommon Knowledge?
The thing that rarely gets explained is that “huge amounts” aren’t needed to be deadly to many, many people.
And it was announced when they were found. I was in the middle of the Gulf at the time, and we heard about it on the news.
A few minutes of research will get you a nice long list of news articles from back then talking about the WMDs that were found, the stuff for making them, people who admitted to having made and moved them….
As my husband put it: “They did release the information. And it was on the news for all of three seconds.”