YOU GOT IT!
Posted on 09/07/2015 5:37:33 AM PDT by jimbo123
The late, great writer and reporter Michael Kelly was a guest on my radio show almost weekly from its debut in July of 2000 through his death outside of Baghdad in April 2003. So was Christopher Hitchens—more than 70 times in fact—until his death in late 2011. Kelly always emphasized that journalism was a “craft,” not a profession and Hitchens that it was very much a moral crusade. I think it is both, and more. It is part of a functioning, free democratic Republic, and its practitioners must not be intimidated.
The very best journalists—those who go to the front lines of combat like Kelly and Hitchens, John Fisher Burns, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Dexter Filkins, Robert Kaplan, David Kirkpatrick, Thomas Ricks and scores of others routinely ask tough questions of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines they cover, from the privates to the generals. These journalists set a standard for desk jockeys like me who cover politics and public policy but who have never been remotely in harm’s way. I think we who work from the comfort of studios owe it to the public generally, and specifically to men and women deployed at the tips of various spears around the world, to ask would-be presidents how they will conduct themselves as Commander-in-Chief.
In the weeks since the first GOP presidential debate I have conducted 30 interviews with would-be nominees. Some have been prickly. (John Kasich as my home state governor seems particularly entitled to mock me and my questions, which is fine by me. He is a Steelers fan after all.) In my view all 30 have been fair. Some disagree about my Thursday interview with Donald Trump, the fourth I conducted with him in the past month. Other earlier interviews from the spring have also caused other candidates
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Pray America is waking
Listen to the interview again. Early on Trump VERY CLEARLY said what a bad deal the Iran Nuke Giveaway is.
Then Baby Hughie switched to asking the names of who the "players" are.
About 2.5 minutes in Baby Hughie starts showing off his list of names and says VERY CLEARLY that the next President should know the names.
Trump says VERY CLEARLY that the specific list of names isn't important.
How can you not get what was going on in that interview?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9puLBIX48M
Again, who cares who all the throat-slitting goat-humpers are? Who knows all their names. If you tell me YOU knew their names before this kerfuffle about nothing started, I'm calling you a LIAR.
And by the way, know-it-all, it's Quds, not "Quads".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds_Force
Answers to your questions:
No idea.
No idea.
Dalai Lama?
correction yo previous post
The second set of questions Kelly asked in that first debate was a personal attack on Trump and had no business even being posed period. In fact it was a distraction and a disservice to the viewer.
I meant to add but it set the stage for Trump to hide behind and claim a setup when he gets legitimate questions he can’t answer which Trump Chumpions eagerly defend.
Effeminate, chickensf$t snob.
Perfect! Thanks, that’s fun.
Yes, I knew who they were (but thanks for pointing out my auto-correct mistake)
Sorry, Hugh, you were, as Sarah put it, playing Trivial Pursuit. Maybe it wasn’t “gotcha” if you were interviewing a wonk, but we’ve had enough of those to last a lifetime. The game has changed. Ketchup.
(Pulp Fiction)
Motor pool?
For real?
If he's playing "gotcha" with Trump, he's got to be.
Dear Mr. Hewlitt,
A ‘writer’ practices his ‘craft’, and has done so since the days of Homer.
A ‘journalist’ advances his profession, by pointing out and ruining the lives of average people, for a living.
A ‘journalist’ has inside him, a Quixotic chip on his shoulder, to show the world that he has a greater sense of place than those breaking their back to put food on their table.
A ‘journalist’ works only to place more accolades on their resume of nothingness, since they have no true function in the nuts and bolts, brick and mortar world of the private sector.
0bama thinks it is. ;-)
YOU GOT IT!
I don’t believe you knew who they were because if you did you would also know how ridiculous the question was, which you already admitted you didn’t.
As for the “auto-correct” mistake, normally I never mention those kinds of things, and they happen to me all the time too, but when I’m talking with a know-it-all I can’t help myself.
What REALLY happened in that interview, by the way, is that Trump mentioned the wall and how easy it would be to build and THAT’S what got Baby Hughie’s panties in a bunch, though of course she couldn’t admit that, so she had to get all pedantic about names of specific head-chopping goat-humpers.
:)
post 74, excellent!
Hugh Hewitt morphs into Phil Donahue.
I’m sure the media made just as big a deal out of Obama placing the US state of his supposed birth in Asia as was made of Trump’s inability to name the Muslim guy...didn’t they?
You spelled Kazakhstan correctly. Possibly an elitist.
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