To say that Pat Dollard kicks ass would be an understatement. It was great to have Pat join us once again on Pundit Review Radio. We got an update on his documentary, Young Americans. We talked about the war, the soldiers, politicians and the media.
We also got a look at what it is like to produce and distribute a movie. Pat recently screened Young Americans in Los Angeles before an A-list conservative guest list, including a network executive to be named later.
To listen to an unforgettable phone call from one of Pat’s earlier visits with us, listen to this call from Susan, an Army wife and mother.
This interview is also available for download on iTunes and Podcast Alley.
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Last night we welcomed back one of our favorite guests, Mr. Don Luskin. Don is a subject matter expert on economic issues. He is the man behind the outstanding blog Poor and Stupid, he's also chief investment officer at Trend Marcolytics, a columnist for Smart Money and National Review.
We asked Don about the impending tax hikes that we are about to see here in Mass. on businesses, and nationally, now that the Dems have taken over. What will happen to the economy? How successful have the Bush tax cuts been and why didn't the GOP extend them while they had the chance? We also talked about trade issues, and Hillary's Wal-Mart problem.
The interview is also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as “Groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station
Last night we welcomed Congressman Duncan Hunter, (R-CA), to Pundit Review Radio. Rep. Hunter is one of the leading conservative candidates running for President.
Rep. Hunter was incredibly generous with his time, spending more than 30 minutes with us discussing a wide range of topics. Of course, we asked him about the anti-surge, non-binding resolution that was passed this weekend. He had some pointed criticism of his colleagues, and questioned how much they understood about the surge, from a tactical level. According to the Rep. Hunter, it is all about politics, and has little to do with the surge itself.
We also talked about immigration, as Hunter has one of the toughest stances on this issue in Congress. He spoke of the fence that runs along the San Diego border and how effective it has been. We also asked him what should be done about the Border Agents who have been thrown in jail for a dozen years for shooting a drug smuggler. We took some great calls from WRKO listeners who asked what separated Hunter from the leaders in the GOP race, like McCain, Rudy and Romney.
My favorite part of the interview was when Rep. Hunter opened up about his own family, he talked eloquently about his father and how the call to military service was passed to him, and now, on to his son. Speaking of his son, Congressman Hunter told a great story about his son’s decision to join the military on 9-11, it is incredibly inspirational.
This guy is solid and deserves strong consideration for your vote for president in the Republican primaries. To learn more about his campaign, click here. We look forward to having him back on Pundit Review Radio as the campaign heats up in the coming weeks.
This interview is also available for download at WRKO, iTunes and Podcast Alley.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as “Groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
The Washington Post lays into the unstable, uninformed Jack Murtha
Mr. Murtha’s cynicism is matched by an alarming ignorance about conditions in Iraq. He continues to insist that Iraq “would be more stable with us out of there,” in spite of the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies that early withdrawal would produce “massive civilian casualties.” He says he wants to force the administration to “bulldoze” the Abu Ghraib prison, even though it was emptied of prisoners and turned over to the Iraqi government last year. He wants to “get our troops out of the Green Zone” because “they are living in Saddam Hussein’s palace”; could he be unaware that the zone’s primary occupants are the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy?
It would be nice to believe that Mr. Murtha does not represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party or the thinking of its leadership. Yet when asked about Mr. Murtha’s remarks Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered her support. Does Ms. Pelosi really believe that the debate she orchestrated this week was not “the real vote”? If the answer is yes, she is maneuvering her party in a way that can only do it harm.
The guy is clueless, has no idea what is happening in Iraq. Kind of like the new chairmen of the Intelligence Committee, ironically enough. Remember good old Rep. Sylvestre Reyes, the guy that didn’t know whether Al Qaeda was a Sunni or Shiite group?
And now we have Nancy Pelosi appointing the laughably corrupt Rep. William Jefferson to the Homeland Security Committee. Yes, that guy, the one with $90K in his freezer.
Talk about a culture of corruption and cluelessness. Nancy Pelosi will take this party over the cliff before 2008. Good riddance.
From today’s WSJ online (subs req) entitled “Awaiting the Dishonor Roll”
Congress has rarely been distinguished by its moral courage. But even grading on a curve, we can only describe this week’s House debate on a vote of no-confidence in the mission in Iraq as one of the most shameful moments in the institution’s history.
On present course, the Members will vote on Friday to approve a resolution that does nothing to remove American troops from harm’s way in Iraq but that will do substantial damage to their morale and that of their Iraqi allies while emboldening the enemy.
What else needs to be said about the real intentions of this once respectable Democrat Party?
the next time you hear Reid, Biden, Kerry, Clinton, or Kennedy claim that Bush and the GOP are “politicizing the war” think about their pathetic “non binding resolution.”
The motion at issue is plainly dishonest, in that exquisitely Congressional way of trying to have it both ways. (We reprint the text nearby.) The resolution purports to “support” the troops even as it disapproves of their mission. It praises their “bravery,” while opposing the additional forces that both President Bush and General David Petreaus, the new commanding general in Iraq, say are vital to accomplishing that mission. And it claims to want to “protect” the troops even as its practical impact will be to encourage Iraqi insurgents to believe that every roadside bomb brings them closer to their goal.
So they can talk all day and night on the House and Senate Floor as they have been doing for the past few days about “supporting the troops” etc. But what do the “troops” think?
As for how “the troops” themselves feel, we refer readers to Richard Engel’s recent story on NBC News quoting Specialist Tyler Johnson in Iraq: “People are dying here. You know what I’m saying . . . You may [say] ‘oh we support the troops.’ So you’re not supporting what they do. What they’s [sic] here to sweat for, what we bleed for and we die for.” Added another soldier: “If they don’t think we’re doing a good job, everything we’ve done here is all in vain.” In other words, the troops themselves realize that the first part of the resolution is empty posturing, while the second is deeply immoral.
John Kerry Redux:
We aren’t prone to quoting the young John Kerry, but this week’s vote reminds us of the comment the antiwar veteran told another cut-and-run Congress in the early 1970s: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” The difference this time is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha expect men and women to keep dying for something they say is a mistake but also don’t have the political courage to help end.
If this “non binding resolution” does not qualify as being overtly treacherous, traitorous, and treasonous behavior I don’t know what does.
A newly confirmed commander is about to lead 20,000 American soldiers on a dangerous and difficult mission to secure Baghdad, risking their lives for their country. And the message their elected Representatives will send them off to battle with is a vote declaring their inevitable defeat.
And that is why we call them the Defeaticrats…
Via Powerline,
The Politico reports that the Democrats have decided on a strategy for defeat in Iraq:
Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration’s options.
Led by Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., and supported by several well-funded anti-war groups, the coalition’s goal is to limit or sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops available for the Iraq conflict, rather than to openly cut off funding for the war itself.The legislative strategy will be supplemented by a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign designed to pressure vulnerable GOP incumbents into breaking with President Bush and forcing the administration to admit that the war is politically unsustainable.
As described by participants, the goal is crafted to circumvent the biggest political vulnerability of the anti-war movement — the accusation that it is willing to abandon troops in the field.
Powerline’s John Hinderaker adds,
So the Democrats will do their best to make the United States’ effort in Iraq fail, but without taking responsibility for that action, and then try to benefit politically from the country’s defeat. Nice.
Remember, they support the troops.
UPDATE: Bryan Preston of Hot Air has more.
Someone You Should Know is a weekly collaboration between the number one milblog Blackfive and Pundit Review Radio. Matt Burden from Blackfive started Someone You Should Know in the early days of the Iraq war in order to tell the inspirational true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world.
This week, unfortunately, we had a local hero to talk about. Swampscott native, Marine Captain Jennifer J. Harris. She was the third Swampscott native killed in the Iraq war. The first was the great journalist Michael Kelly. Last fall, Jared Raymond was killed by an IED in Iraq. And now this amazing young woman, only 28 years old.
Jennifer graduated fifth in her class from high school and attended the Naval Academy. She was living her dream, flying helicopters for the Marines when she was shot down in Iraq. She and six others were killed. As they often do, the terrorists were filming for propaganda. On Saturday, the Boston Herald’s Peter Gelzinis wrote a column titled Video Captures Valor;
Though there was no official comment out of Washington yesterday on the video�??s authenticity, one anonymous government official did say that �??the video appears to be legitimate.�?�
If indeed the chopper we see flying toward a tree line in its last moments was piloted valiantly by Harris, there can be no more dramatic validation of her fearlessness as a Marine or her skill as a vaunted member of the elite squadron known as the Purple Foxes.
There is something gut-wrenching and undeniably cruel about witnessing the death of a soldier we�??ve come to know, however briefly. Yet, these are the times in which we live. Video is the wallpaper of our age.
In too many cases, we watch the random footage of IEDs destroying Humvees with a kind of sympathetic detachment. Yesterday�??s video was different.
To see that stricken helicopter flying, against all odds, toward the hope of a safe landing is to understand the mettle of a local hero. It is also to cringe at the loss of such an exceptional life and a brilliant future.
Gelzinis is back today with a moving article and podcast with Jennifer’s family. I am grateful that they decided to open their home to Gelzinis and talk about Jennifer. As a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, I need to know more about heroes like Jennifer J. Harris in order to have a true understanding of what the cost of this war is.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as �??Groundbreaking�?� by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston�??s Talk Leader