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HH: It’s Hugh Hewitt on a dark day for the country and the Republican Party, May 17th, 2007, the unveiling of a disastrous immigration “compromise.” It’s really amnesty lite, force fed, tastes terrible. Here to talk about it, Mark Steyn, Columnist to the World. Mark, we don’t have many details, but every one that we have, every one, is bad news. What do you think of this “compromise?” MS: Yes, I don’t think it is a compromise, because I think essentially, the political class in this country are at odds with the vast majority of voters. This has become one...

Under the headline, “Record Everything They Do,” Kos wrote yesterday: Every appearance by a top Republican official or candidate should be recorded. Every one of them. All it takes is one "Macaca" incident to transform a race or create one where one didn't exist. As the Montana incident blogged earlier today showed, a video can knock out prospective candidates before they even enter. And this is no longer about finding one big blunder to put on a campaign commercial. It's about using video and (free) technologies like YouTube to build narratives about opponents, using their own words, at their own...

"The draft of the immigration bill was released just before midnight last night, and I have now printed off all of its 326 pages and have begun reading it. The obvious injustice of demanding a fast track to a cloture vote is the complexity of this law. Page 1, paragraph one, for example, purports to establish the much acclaimed "triggers," but begins with a cross reference to an exception to the trigger..... Perhap[s I am wrong, but I can only read Section 601(h) as a massive undercutting of the entire concept of "triggers," an undercutting which various talking points have...

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow on the new immigration bill. HH: Pleased to welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show now Tony Snow, press secretary at the White House. Tony, how are you? TS: I’m doing fine, Hugh. HH: Good to have you. I heard you on Michael Medved’s show a little bit earlier today, so you’ve got the Salem Network covered. We won’t go back to the same subjects. TS: (laughing) HH: Tony, immigration… TS: Yeah. HH: Are young men who entered this country illegally, or who overstayed their visas illegally, whose country of origin was either in Central...

Legendary actor Jon Voight on his controversial new movie September Dawn, his career, and his politics, which might surprise you. (snip) HH: Now in your assessment of whose going to be the next president, and we’re going to now transition to the war and come back to your career and come back to the film, what do you most want in a commander in chief? JV: Well, I think you have to have many things. One is someone who is able to look beyond partisanship and see what’s right for the country, and understand what’s really happening. In this day...

In addition to Thursday's regular heavy hitters Mark Steyn and James Lileks, I'll be joined by Stephen Hayes to discuss his big spread on big Fred and Romney's speech at Yeshiva University --see Dean's excerpt below. I'll also talk with Max Boot about his recent trip to Iraq and his Weekly Standard article about it. For ease of refernce, Boot's two most recent books are War Made New: Technology, Warfare, And The Course of History: 1500 To The Present, and The Savage Wars of Peace.

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Friday, April 13, 2007Rudy Re: Rosie: "I Never Thought Of Her As An Engineering Expert" Posted by Hugh Hewitt  | 6:19 PM Here's the transcript of my interview with Mayor Giuliani.  The audio will be posted here later. HH: Mayor Giuliani, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. RG: Nice to talk to you again, Hugh. How are you? HH: Good. When we talked in February, we were just getting into biography when we ran out of time. So I went to Fred Siegel’s book, and by the way, do you think that’s a pretty good book, The Prince...

Of over 25 radio programs that Congressman Tancredo was on yesterday, it was The Hugh Hewitt Show that had the chance to illuminate an issue that millions of Americans support us on, but instead he chose to educate Tancredo about the merits of supporting an illegal alien amnesty bill. After talking with Tancredo he told me his response to Hewitt's show: "Why would we come back on his show? I know it makes good radio to be engaged in an hour for a yelling match with him, but it is not a good use of our time. We will not...

HH: Pleased to welcome now to the Hugh Hewitt Show Speaker Newt Gingrich. Mr. Gingrich, welcome back, good to have you on the program. NG: Oh, it?s great to be with you. How are you doing? HH: I?m great. You know, I found myself at 1:00 in the morning West Coast time a couple of weeks back watching your Cooper Union appearance, and loving it, especially the stuff about how presidential campaigns should be conducted Lincoln-Douglas style without sound bytes and serious conversation. So preliminary to my talking to you about your Human Events column of 3/12, a request. If...

HH: Joined now by columnist to the world, Mark Steyn. You can read all of Mark’s comments at www.steynonline.com. You can order America Alone there as well as his fine collection of obituaries. Mark, we missed you last week, but you were up at Berkeley holding forth for Captain David Buckley in the Nimitz lecture. How’d it go? MS: Oh, it went very well. I was rather disappointed not to have one of Berkeley’s celebrated nude protests laid on for me. Everyone in the room was distressingly fully clothed, and alarmingly supportive for a Berkeley crowd. HH: Did anyone take...

HH: Joined now by one of our favorite guests, Victor Davis Hanson, professor of military history, noted author, and observer of the war. Victor, good to talk to you again. VDH: Thank you for having me, Hugh. HH: I want to start with a little bit of an off-the-wall question, Professor, because Sparta is the subject of the movie, “300.” It made $70 million dollars this weekend. You are an expert on the Greeks, and what is the appeal of the story in modern America? VDH: I think Americans always identify with an underdog, remember our own mythology of the...

Idiotic. Disgusting. Stupid. Moronic. I guess you could say that Ann loves to shock us, but at this point, who’s shocked? She obviously can’t behave well enough to attend a respectable political gathering. It’s not a lack of intelligence. It’s an indifference to self-control and a preening sort of narcissism that compels her to need the spotlight, even if it’s unflattering. (For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s audio of her calling John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC today.) --- Michelle Malkin - ***4:15pm update*** Ann Coulter just finished her riff on Al Gore, tossed...

HH: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show, Mayor. Good to have you. RG: How are you, Hugh? HH: I’m great. RG: Good to talk to you. HH: I’m great. Mayor, the campaign’s off to a pretty early start. Are you surprised to see Senators Clinton and Obama throwing bricks at each other this early? RG: I’m surprised on both scores. I mean, I think it is off to an early start, but you know...and I think everybody’s rushing to catch up, and I am surprised that it got so personal so quickly, but I think that was by accident....

General William Odom (US Army, ret.) is a vocal critic of the Iraq deployment and wants it ended asap. He put his arguments in the Washington Post last Sunday in an op ed which was essentially an encore of an op-ed he wrote in 2005. General Odom is a distinguished public servant but his arguments are to me wholly unpersuasive and border on indifference to many obvious issues. I have just taped an interview with him which will play in the program's third hour today. ____________________________________________ Key excerpts: HH: But how much worse could it get if we weren’t there?...

HH: Part 5 now with Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, in the conversation about his book, The Pentagon’s New Map, one of the most important books of the last many years, read throughout the Pentagon, instrumental in rethinking our strategic approach to the world through the military and beyond. Dr. Barnett, welcome back. Good to have you. TB: Thanks for having me. (snip) HH: Well now, let’s go…that was the jumping off point, and here comes the right hook. Osama bin Laden’s message on 9/11 was essentially this. You will never be able to live with us in your midst, we...

HH: Thomas P.M. Barnett is a senior strategic researcher and professor at the United States Naval War College, he’s also the author of perhaps the most influential book in the Pentagon in the last decade, The Pentagon’s New Map: War And Peace In The 21st Century. He’s been my guest these past four weeks at this time. This is our fourth hour-long conversation, or fifth conversation overall, and Dr. Barnett, welcome back. A pleasure. TB: Always good. HH: We want to talk about the four flows and the ten truths, so let’s jump in. There’s a lot to cover this...

HH: Part number three of my conversation with Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of the Pentagon’s New Map. Dr. Barnett, welcome back. TB: Thanks for having me. HH: A little off topic, we’ll get to chapter three, but it’s the State of the Union tonight. How do you assay the state of the union, Dr. Barnett? TB: Oh, I think economically, we’re very strong. I think our economy’s looking good, I think the global economy’s looking very solid. In fact, we haven’t had a global economy this strong in human history facing the kind of big impulse we’re going to...

HH: This is a special hour on the Hugh Hewitt Show, the first of our eight conversations with Thomas P.M. Barnett. Dr. Barnett is one of the country’s preeminent grand strategists and military theorists. He’s the author of the Pentagon’s New Map: War And Peace In The 21st Century, one of the most influential, if not the most influential books inside of the Pentagon. And over the next eight weeks at this hour, we are going to be talking with him about one chapter at a time. Dr. Barnett, welcome back to the program. TB: Thanks so much for having...

HH: Joined now by Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of the Pentagon’s New Map, for the second of our eight conversations, one chapter at a time from that book, that very influential book. If you’re just tuning in for the first time, Dr. Barnet shook up the Pentagon after 9/11 with his understanding of the Pentagon’s New Map, and this is a New York Times bestseller that continues to become the source of many, many heated conversations, and much conversation here. Dr. Barnett, welcome back to the program. TB: Thanks for having me again, Hugh. HH: Let’s begin by recapping...