Zach Carter - looks like he could be the son of Bill Maher.
Zach Carter is the Huffington Post's “senior political economy reporter"
Posted on 07/09/2014 10:38:01 AM PDT by jocon307
Last week, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt interviewed Zach Carter...The Huffington Post‘s senior political economy reporter. The interview’s purpose was to discuss Carter’s negative response to Hewitt’s previous interview of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The interview was lively and interesting but it did not go well for Carter, who was forced to admit his ignorance of the historical context of the situation in Iraq....Carter said he hadn’t read...Bernard Lewis’ Crisis of Islam, Robin Wright’s Dreams and Shadows, or Thomas P. M. Barnett’s The Pentagon’s New Map. He said he hadn’t read Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War but that he’d “read a lot of the stuff that he’s written for The New Yorker.” Filkins joined The New Yorker in 2011. He said he does not read politician’s memoirs, including Cheney’s or George W. Bush’s. That he was unaware that Bill Clinton had bombed Iraq in 1998 or that Gadhafi had reportedly disarmed in 2003. He admitted he doesn’t know who A. Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistan bomb and godfather of Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, is.
It’s such a display of ignorance that it seems almost unfair. But looked at another way, it’s simply a good interview where Hewitt seeks to establish Carter’s background and breadth of knowledge in order to help listeners know on what basis he critiqued Cheney.
My favorite line was when Carter was asked if he’d heard of George Weigel and he replied, “I’ve heard of Dave Weigel.”
I don’t mean to pick on Carter, who was a good sport. If anything, I give him credit for sticking through the entire interview. But it speaks to a larger problem we face with our media, which is that they frequently are not well read and, more importantly, they do not realize it.
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I listen to Hugh Hewitt on the way back from work each day. He talks about obama as if maybe he doesn’t know, that he is misinformed, that no one is explaining what is going on. Always offering excuses. He insists callers say President Obama. He will hang up on callers who do not!
Now Hugh Hewitt does not care for obama mind you but this excusing away needs to stop. Plain as day how corrupt the democrats and obama are. Hugh and the rest of beltway insiders refuse to say it as it really is.
Is there a transcript of the Hewett interview? That would be a good read.
I only catch him sometimes and usually not for very long. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him ask anyone about Hiss or The Looming Tower. I’ve definitely never heard him hang up on a caller. I don’t even really get “morning glory/evening grace”.
But, I’ll say this (as some commenters over at Ace of Spades, I think were discussing) I’ve listened to him enough to be thoroughly sick of hearing about Ohio sports!
I guess he’s trying to keep things classy by insisting that people say President Obama; and I know he is trying to stay in the mainstream, he does some show business interviews, etc. that I’ve found interesting.
Somewhat related, hubby and I had a long drive back from MD on Sunday and we listened to a long interview on Breitbart radio (or whatever they call it) on the Sirius Patriot channel with Orson Bean, who, as you may know, was Andrew Breitbart’s father-in-law and so much more.
A lot of discussion of the 1950s, the hollywood blacklist (just short handing it that way, Bean basically said the blacklist was a backlash against what really was commie domination in hollywood back in the day; but that that TV people found it a major pain in the ass, there was some outfit called “Red Channels” which I had never heard of before, which was basically a racket that would certify, for my own example, that John Wayne wasn’t a commie if you wanted to have him on your show for a mere $50.00 and also that the blacklist never affected Broadway since Broadway doesn’t have sponsors, just ticket buyers, which was interesting in and of itself); NYC in the 1950s (nearly crime free!); the second string nightclub circuit in the New England/Midlantic States; the night Jack Paar walked off The Tonight Show; and they were just getting started.
It was great, very nuanced and detailed stuff, from someone who had lived through it.
So I’ve rambled on and on about it, and think I didn’t even hear the entire thing! But, maybe I’ve given a small hint of what it was like.
I always loved Orson Bean, amazing to find out how much sense it makes to feel that way about him.
Per the intro to the interview he’s currently in some hit stage show in LA (silly person didn’t give the title), 5 nights a week and I’d guess at least 1 matinee. He is age 85, and he thinks nothing of it. A really fine fellow, his family goes back to revolutionary days and he used to tell a joke about how his great-great, etc. uncle POURED the shot heard round the world.
Great stuff!
Don’t know, you might check out his site, it seems to me there’s often some audio of his show floating around on the internets. It sounds like it would be funny to hear.
And I agree with our gentle author, I give the guy credit for getting through it and not running away. Because having your ignorance pointed out to you is torture; I’ve certainly suffered it in my time!
The stupidity astonishes me.
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Truly, it’s astonishing, this is such a great article. The “crow’s ears” thing really cracked me up.
It is scary though, the idea that that gobbedly-gook about “rule of law” passed muster to be published in the NY Times....well that just about made me thing the end times are here.
Yet, we tolerate them, we should smash them. I can only assume we’ll smash them at some point, at least I hope so.
Bey they are all well versed in GOEBBELS’ PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html
“The ignorance of reporters and writers in the MSM has beena problem since the 1800s”
Average citizens over this time have not had time to digest the facts on many complex issues society conforts daily
They often rely on the state run media for their factual information. This trust has been misplaced because the propagandist have no intention on reporting the truth or giving us objective information.
Rush - Beltway Insiders Bewildered Over What We Knew About Obama in 2008
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/07/09/beltway_insiders_bewildered_over_what_we_knew_about_obama_in_2008
I think Hugh is like that sometimes. Bewildered
I read through the whole thing and it was a pretty good take down. Not quite up to the standard of of a Steyn putdown but pretty good.
Agreement bump.
I would like to see a similar article done with selected Congressman and Senators. The mind boggles.
Zach Carter - looks like he could be the son of Bill Maher.
Zach Carter is the Huffington Post's “senior political economy reporter"
This thirty-one year old is the Huffington Post’s senior political economy reporter having left college in 2005 and gone to work as “a banking reporter at SNL Financial, which is a little data and financial journalism spot in Charlottesville, Virginia.”
He does look a little like Maher he also looks like he’s about 20 years old!
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