Posted on 02/17/2015 7:24:07 PM PST by Lorianne
Audio 39:52 Interview with two journalists who keep the Long War Journal which closely follows terrorists activities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnbatchelorshow.com ...
Thanks for the heads up. You can also catch the podcast at http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts
Or you could just follow the link from the lead post and go directly there:)
Don’t have 40 min to listen. Anyone care to summarize?
If you have the time, Batchelor is worth the time.
I like Batchelor. He seems to really be after the truth. Guess I’ll check it out tomorrow.
I agree. He has given more coverage of the Yazidis than anywhere else.
His politics appear to be a bit too establishment for my taste, but I listen often.
John Batchelor show is very informative.
So very glad to see a mention of Batchelor on FR! It has long perplexed me why every single Conservative - or for that matter concerned American - doesn’t turn off the tee-vee and instead listen to Batchelor.
Whenever I have the opportunity (just had one with a neighbor not too long ago) I challenge people to listen exclusively to Batchelor for news & current events for two weeks, then try to go back to anything on tee-vee including (or maybe especially) FoxNews. It can’t be done, if you were paying even half-close attention.
Since shortly before the Benghazi massacre, we have been doing exactly that. We dumped cable tee-vee earlier that summer of 2012 and have never looked back. At $110/month for the privilege of watching about 3 channels, we are approaching 4 Grand in money saved! And we are better informed, frequently days and weeks ahead of tee-vee talkers and viewers, plus we don’t have to contend with gallons of gasoline and toxic poison (ads and troll talk) poured into our heads.
Thanks for posting this.
John Batchelor is always on !!!
I support you in your abandonment of TV. It’s just....worthless, IMO.
Also agree on Batchelor. He’s quite amazing when he interviews some historian who writes a convoluted and complex book on some narrow era in history...like the first 5 months of the Crimean War...in the sense that seems to be able to ask a hundred questions that appear to show he read and absorbed 1000+ plus page books. I don’t understand how he does that!
He is a tad of a climate changeist, IMO, and that would be my only objection to him. He’s very intelligent.
WOW !!!
Sorry.
But within the first three minutes this issue is defined, crystallized beyond anything our MSM could dream of.
Batchelor speed reads, has a photographic memory and reads one book per day.
Yep, he has a couple weak spots. 1. He’s an evolutionist and a long earth believer - billions and billions of years. This does not compute for me, but I have a solution: advance to the next interview. 2. I’d say Batchelor’s climate is changing re: global warmery. He is always ready and eager to discuss the rampant deceptions and flagrant data manipulations in which the warmists engage. And he gives tons of time to many experts who expoe the lies and power grabs and sinister agenda of the EPA and its various cohorts and apologists. On this topic, I think Batchelor is going through a bit of a graceful withdrawal, along with some other prominent Cons and Pubbies like Newt, McCain, Medved and others who for a brief season, bought into the Great Warming Hoax but got burned. This is my opinion but I think fairly defensible.
I’m so glad you mentioned this. I emailed Batchelor’s assistant Lee Mason - who traveled to Kurdistan ON HER OWN NICKEL - to observe the situation for herself, and report what she saw. Lee is a dear and wonderful person with no big agenda or partisan chip on her shoulder. She simply wanted to see and tell the story in behalf of suffering innocents. And of course John Batchelor gave her a microphone and the national/international forum to broadcast her shattering observations - at Christmas time. This remains for me something I can’t talk about for long, it cuts so far down to the bone, and speaks so loudly and clearly about the utterly ABSENT and VACUOUS entities masquerading as “jouralists” and news orgs.
“His politics appear to be a bit too establishment for my taste, but I listen often.”
Batchelor is definitely Republican establishment in his politics, I’ve heard him say as much on his show. And occasionally he gets fooled by a guest, like with the guy who wrote the dubious ‘Last Train from Hiroshima’ book.
All the same he does some of the best international and military coverage to be found on the radio.
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I completely agree Batchelor trends rino but like Medved can and does comes up with some good stuff. Medved is in treatment for the big C. But caught his re broadcast on Lincoln and learned he was an Illinois 3 term state rep a one term conmgressman (hated the US Mex war) played a significant role in moving the state capitol from Vandaillia to Springfield and some part in getting the Illinois Michigan canal. He turned down a chance to be the state of Washington first (provincial) governor. I mention Medved here but that is the kind of stuff you get consistantly from listening to Batchelor.
I pick him up on Detroit’s WJR am 760 after Levin’s hour delayed rebroadcast at 10pm he’s also on WABC 770 at the same time weekdays
I like Bachelor’s show a lot, and I’ll keep listening. But the frequent visits to the show by Prof. Stephen Cohen, who seems to be Putin’s number one booster in the USA, can be very irritating.
My main problem with those visits is this:
Even though I believe it’s OK to have Cohen as an occasional guest, Bachelor appears never to challenge the guy. In fact, John sometimes sounds even worshipful toward Steve. He just lets Steve pontificate uninterruptedly with an air of academic authority about how the West is needlessly provoking the pitiable, persecuted Russians.
Also:
Cohen is married to Katrina van den Hoevel, infamous editrix of the long-time pro-Stalinist “Nation” magazine. Sort of a red flag, doncha think?
He has several guests with whom I often disagree, especially Larry Kudlow and his gung-ho “the economy is going gangbusters” style. I disagree with Batchelor himself on a number of issues.
But overall, I find his show most informative on world events and the discussion is always more intelligent than what you can find on most other media.
I especially enjoy the book reviews. I’ve found out about a lot of good books through that avenue.
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