[SoFloFreeper]

So the guy tries to sabotage the interview, apparently. The host could have argued with the guy, but chose to end the exchange.

I hope the guy's book sales flop.

[FR_addict]

With a name like “The Generals”, he just lost his audience. Most left wingers only read the latest puff pieces. The hard core radical left wingers may be interested, but the majority who would look at the title and think about buying it are conservatives. I hope this incident gets more exposure.

Maybe some book reviews at Amazon would help.

[meyer]

I wonder if this idiot would consider it “just a small firefight” if his own home were under attack by a gang of Islamofascists and the police refused to respond to his 911 calls.

[timestax]

[Rappini]

A small firefight would be handguns and maybe some rifles but not mortars, RPG’s and at one point I heard 50cal on back of p/u trucks. That had to be some al Qaeda rag heads on a mission.

[Brian_Casserly]

Thomas Ricks is a tool. He should’ve harangued Fox to upgrade their graphics.

[CodeToad]

[Hulka]

Is there a link to the interview so we can view it?

Would be good to get a sense of the talk from actually listening to it. . .and get a sense to the closing of the interview.

I suspect the lefty was just taking his cheap-cowardly shot at the network at the close of his interview, knowing his time was up and there would be no way for Scott to engage.

Just my thought.

[rmlew]

Ricks works for the Obama administration in all but name.His former bosses at the Center for a New American Security, Michèle Flournoy and Kurt Campbell currently serve as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs . The current CEO of CNAS, Nathaniel C. Fick, served on the Obama Presidential Transition Team at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Argumentum ad hominem is a fallacy. He can scream about Fox all he wants, but the truth is that Ricks is a rude propagandist.

Tom Ricks thinks that an Ambassador is somehow equivalent to “security contractor”? This Tom Ricks thinks that snipers and IEDS taking out some security contractors is equal to an American facility being over-run and important intelligence being grabbed by Al Qaeda? An assault on the US Embassy in Egypt, led by the brother of Al Qaeda’s head, Zawahiri and an assault and overrunning of an American diplomatic facility on the same day is not “a small firefight”. It was coordinated assualt by the enemy for PR purposes and to gain intelligence and hostages. Ricks isn’t an idiot. He knows the truth but is lying to protect the administration. His ad hominem attacks in lieu of an analysis is proof of this.