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.
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.
I agree. Best I’ve found anyway.
And I disagree with Batchelor on a number of issues.