Turn It Up, The Radio
The Hugh Hewitt Show, spreading infectious crazy through the airwaves:
[Hugh Hewitt]: Now I made the opinion known today that I think the New Republic is anti-military, because pro-military magazines would not publish something like this, that its intention was not to entertain, but to characterize and inform people’s opinion about the military. And is that fair, in your eyes?
This is wonderfully batshit, too:
HH: Now I have a theory, and I’ll try it out on you, which is that the anti-war left is panicked, and the symptoms of that panic are showing up all over…the attack on General Petraeus for appearing on my show, the defense of the New Republic for rushing this into print, the defense of the private who wrote it, even if it’s not fabricated, but more so if it is, and the Senate, Harry Reid blocking border security last night, coming back and allowing border security this morning, I think they’re acting as though they realize the surge is working, and they’re way out on a limb which is about to crack, Mark Steyn.
And this is just precious:
HH: Victor Davis Hanson often comes on and reminds people about the summer of 1864. Prior to that, Lincoln was in terrible shape, politically. The war was stalemated. He found a commander and turned it around quickly. Do you think we might be in that same situation a year from now?
MS: Well, I think this is slightly different in that when you’re fighting the Civil War, you know, you’re up against an enemy that are, you know, in that case, your fellow Americans. And you kind of more or less know what the rules are. A lot of the problems we’ve had in Iraq, and in this broader struggle is that faced with an enemy that is depraved, we sometimes recoil from ruthlessness.
I can remember the days when it was music that inspired headbanging.
How dare they try to inform my opinions, for shame TNR, for shame!
“we sometimes recoil from ruthlessness”..He says this like it’s a bad thing.
And these people are allowed around small animals,children and firearms? Holy Crap.
Yes, MS is one of the major cheerleaders for New! Improved! Ruthlessness! Less Ruthism, more Barbarism! He was down with it even before Jonah went Full Metal Pantload.
So what I get from this is; if someone quotes Hugh Hewitt as a source, I get to laugh in their faces and mock them mercilessly?
And HOW exactly is “Teh SURgE” working?
Hugh and the gang never seem to add any EVIDENCE to the declaration, just that “IT’S WORKING!”
Shorter Mark Steyn: If you don’t kill faster, I’m going to lose my hard-on.
Sigh. I wish that was funny and not just terrifyingly true.
Ah. Steyn the Stain. No wonder it’s all exterminate the brutes, all the time. yeah, guys, WE’RE the ones who’re panicking ’cause TEH SYURGE is working SO WELL. Yup.
Hey, let’s arm some more tribal leaders – that should help! And there’s no way that could backfire on us, nope, nosirree!
“..an enemy that is depraved.”
As opposed to an enemy that believes black people are subhumans who should be bought and sold like cattle?
In the summer of 1864, Sherman captured Atlanta. This act is largely credited with giving Lincoln the momentum necessary to win the November election.
In the Summer of 2007, right wing bloggers wank endlessly about how it is 1944/1864 and victory is right around the corner (for what? 3-4 years now?) They also go after a soldier whose tales of war they do not like and hence must be false.
Truly the situations are the same.
He’s got a point. The problem with TNR is that they forgot their core mission – entertainment. Fox wouldn’t be so careless.
Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn on the air together. There hasn’t been a pairing of such great intellects since my dogs barked at a squirrel this morning.
Hewit just admitted what we’ve known for some time. To chickenhawks, war = entertainment. As long as teh tr00pz entertain the chickehnawks by blowing shit up and kicking ass, everything is as it should be. Period.
Any reporting or account of war that tends to undermine this, is necessarily inaccurate. However, even if such a report IS accurate, it is wrong to support that report because it might cause us to recoil from the acts depicted, which in turn might expedite the end of the war, or even worse, GREATER SCRUTINY* upon the military, thereby rendering the war likely less entertaining.
*Scrutiny, of course, is the greatest evil of all. Scrutiny on the most revered of the authoritarian-loving institutions is simply unpossible.
What’s up with this anti/pro-military stuff?
I mean, isn’t that a good thing, being against a military that blows up other countries and kills thousands?
I really can’t understand the American people, what’s so fun about war?
Hammer-
I read what you wrote as Full Mental Pantload. Either way, all they say is just insane.
Wait a minute. So TNR is bad for publishing an article that shows how brutal and ruthless behavior by American soldiers, thus slandering said soldiers, but what we really need to do is get more ruthless?
Surely the commentator means that the cause of the Union was stalemated in 1863, not 1864. In July 1863 Vicksburg fell and Lee was defeated at Gettysburgh. Grant was promoted to the command of the Army of the Potomac and the path to a Northern victory became clear.
Student B:
1. Lunacy
2. Yes
3. Nothing
Congratulations. You are now Student A.
I really can’t understand the American people, what’s so fun about war?
What country you in, student_b?
One thing about the USA, people here mostly lack the direct experience with warfare in their home cities, aireal bombing of houses, etc., that Europeans have. For about a century and a half, wars fought by Americans have been fought somewhere else, away from US civilians.
That’s probably one factor.
Shorter Noisemakers: How dare Teh Arabs oppose Judeo-Christian occupiers, rather than cave in like Senate Democrats! Yet despite their perfidy, Gen. Petraeus is now on the verge of turning the Iraqi army’s flank at Fallujah. Huzzah! I hope he demands nothing less than unconditional surrender of the al-Maliki regime. The real turning point of the war, however, was Col. Jonah Goldberg’s brilliant cavalry charge at Ramadi, defeating the Arab horse in sword-to-sabre combat, then overleaping the trenches and spiking the Iraqi cannons. It was a textbook maneuver for the ages of which Napoleon would’ve been proud.
For fuck’s sake, Petraeus asked to be doubted when he appeared where he did. Greenwald has already argumented that the venue he offered was more mainstream and has no history of direct spin and fabrication. Yet Petraeus tried the safe spot, and lost cred. Simple and fair.
As for TNR’s story, I am still on the fence regarding wether it is true or not.
I will gladly donate them my copy of Allied General if they’ll just….go….away.
It wouldn’t matter what they say, to each other or to their faithful following.
HH: Victor Davis Hansen reminds us of the Battle of Methane Ocean during the Billion Year War between the K;lk&*% and the Rzxcvoiu##%, when Optimum General Uyyyyyyyyt redeployed his positron skirmish cruisers at the last minute and turned the tide. Is that what we could be looking at here, Mark Steyn?
MS: Quite possibly, Hugh. Although the analogy is tenuous at best, between the Sentient Algae Sappers and the Sunni insurgents, since of course (etc.).
Can we just deport Mark Steyn?
He actually regularly refers to anyone left of far right as the enemy. Isn’t that akin to treason?
And with his smarmy faux-British accent, too. Where’d he get that? The rare, lost unfunny episode of Monty Python? A cast-off Foster’s commercial?
I try to love all as my brother, but if he were my brother, I’d spend a good deal of time kicking the shit out of him for being st00pid! For his own good, of course…
Optimum General Uyyyyyyyyt
Now there was a man. *sigh*
What, now they’re making up their own language? Whats with this?
I think they’re acting as though they realize the surge is working, and they’re way out on a limb which is about to crack, Mark Steyn.
Do they now signify the end of a sentence by saying a fellow wingnut’s name? I guess I should start ending my sentences with the names of well-known moonbats, Noam Chomsky?
I think this is going to be somewhat annoying, Keith Olbermann…
mikey
Wait a minute. So TNR is bad for publishing an article that shows how brutal and ruthless behavior by American soldiers, thus slandering said soldiers, but what we really need to do is get more ruthless?
Exactly. Also, The Surge is so surge-a-licious that it is absolutely, positively working, even though the Defeat-o-crats hate America so very, very much and want to literally stab Teh Tr00pz in the back with their pointy liberal heads.
Wait a minute. So TNR is bad for publishing an article that shows how brutal and ruthless behavior by American soldiers, thus slandering said soldiers, but what we really need to do is get more ruthless?
Interesting, isn’t it? There seem to be a lot of muffin men who think of themselves as ruthless tough guys going into shit-flinging meltdowns over revelations like the Lancet study or Private Beauchamp’s anecdotes. They love the steely-eyed John Wayne self-image they’ve constructed for themselves, but the real-world consequences of brutality just don’t fit into their fantasies.
we sometimes recoil from ruthlessness.
such as in the case of stories of running over dogs. Then some of us — who previously had spent much time lamenting the “gloves” our troops are forced to wear — lose the tiny bit of sanity we have left and start screaming for fragging and court martials.
Do they now signify the end of a sentence by saying a fellow wingnut’s name? I guess I should start ending my sentences with the names of well-known moonbats, Noam Chomsky?
I think this is going to be somewhat annoying, Keith Olbermann…
Silly, Mikey:
“Noam Chomsky” ends a declarative sentence, replacing the period.
“Glenn Greenwald” replaces a question mark.
“Keith Olbermann” replaces an exclamation point.
So:
“I should start ending my sentences with the names of well-known moonbats, Noam Chomsky”
“Should I start ending my sentences with the names of well-known moonbats, Glenn Greenwald”
“I think this is going to be somewhat annoying, Noam Chomsky”
“This is going to be SOOOOOOO fucking ANNOYING, Keith Olbermann”
“So when did recoiling from ruthlessness become BAD thing, Glenn Greenwald”
“WTF is WRONG with these people, Glenn Greenwald, Keith Olbermann, Glenn Greenwald, Keith Olbermann”
HAHA!!
What’s up with this anti/pro-military stuff?
Any journal is either (a) Pro-military or
(b) Anti-military.
There is no option (c).
A great number of journals are not discernibly pro-military, so I am forced to the conclusion that they must be anti-military. Visual Neuroscience and The Proceedings of the Oslo Hamster-Breeding Society spring to mind as the obvious examples.
Visual Neuroscience and The Proceedings of the Oslo Hamster-Breeding Society spring to mind as the obvious examples.
Well, yes, these are very obviously anti-military rags. I’m having trouble with that analysis of “The Journal of How Much the Military Sucks” and “Military is Teh Stoopid Quarterly”. What do think their position might be?
mikey
Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn on the air together. There hasn’t been a pairing of such great intellects since my dogs barked at a squirrel this morning.
If your dogs were barking at an actual, live squirrel — not just an imaginary squirrel, the squirrel of their dreams or nightmares, the squirrel-in-potentia that will prove all their doggy theories correct — then your dogs are already smarter than HH and MS put together.
Hewitt ends his questions with addressing the person he’s interviewing because it makes him sound important and stentorian and those clueless rubes that listen to him should KNOW that WHAT THEY’RE SAYING IS IMPORTANT.
Perhaps he thinks his audience is too stupid to keep track?
Now I made the opinion known today that I think the New Republic is anti-military
I love that phrase and intended to steal it. “I made the opinion known today”… that exudes gravitas, erudition, the lambent flame of intellectual probity.
Whereas “I said earlier” is definitely lacking in gravitas.
the squirrel-in-potentia
Did anyone else read that as “squirrel-in-polenta”? I was about to ask for the recipe.
It would depend. If I was in the boonies I’d gut and skin the squirrel, spit him and roast him over the fire. I’d boil the polenta then spoon it out on a cast iron griddle and fry one side, flip ’em, sprinkle ’em with cheese and herbs be good to go. In the kitchen I’d want to do something more elaborate, maybe braise the squirrel in a wine/cream/stock reduction with wild mushrooms and a lot of fresh parsley. Lay down a layer of polenta with a sprinkle of crispy bacon and chopped scallions, and arrange the squirell parts on top and finish it lightly with the sauce…
mikey
Don’t eat the squirrel brains, though. Mad Cow Disease.
One thing about the USA, people here mostly lack the direct experience with warfare in their home cities, aireal bombing of houses, etc., that Europeans have. For about a century and a half, wars fought by Americans have been fought somewhere else, away from US civilians.
Atheist, this comment should be cast in letters ten feet high, bronzed, and placed in front of the Capitol building, so that politicians would have to wiggle through it every day on their way in.
And with his smarmy faux-British accent, too. Where’d he get that? The rare, lost unfunny episode of Monty Python? A cast-off Foster’s commercial?
t4toby, Foster’s is Australian, dude. Sure, bugger-all people who actually live here drink it: we save it for the export market, since Americans make piss-poor beer.
[ducks to avoid thrown vegetables]
Dorothy: nice one, centurion.
Mikey, how come you can always make me drool? Although g’s riposte did reduce the droolage somewhat.
Qetesh: Thanks!
Mikey: Actually, that does sound delicious.
Steyn is Canadian, but he went to an English boarding school.
I’m kind of boring tonight. My special miso baked chicken, fresh corn and home made cinnamon – honey – serrano corn bread. It’ll do…
mikey
The comments here are a parody of the parodical left.
The Left bakes a treasonous chicken.
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