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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:14 AM Jun 2014

The Rude Pundit: The Proper Way to Interview the Old/New Iraq War Hawks

If the Rude Pundit were the host of the great and mighty Meet the Press, the wheezving old man of the Sunday morning gabfests that pretend to serious talk about political shit that actually matters to the actual lives of actual people, and he had as a guest the former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the man who pushed and pushed for the U.S. to invade Iraq back in the day, he might ask, as host David Gregory did, &quot W)hat do you do then, as a policy matter now to stop this?"

"This" is the expanding civil war between the Shi'ites and Sunnis, with an insouciant flavor of Kurd peeking through. You know, that thing that was going to happen the moment the U.S. military left Iraq, no matter how lowd.. That thing that all of us were predicting.

So he might ask the question, but Wolfowitz would immediately get punched in the nuts by the Rude Pundit because that's what you do.

It'd be a pattern for pretty much every talk show.

Weekly Standard editor and man who is wrong about everything, William Kristol, might be able to say, as he did on Morning Starbucks with Joe this morning, "Is this an acceptable outcome for the 4,500 Americans soldiers who died in Iraq or the 2,000 who died in Afghanistan?" But then he'd get punched in the nuts.

Richard Perle, who, with Wolfowitz, helped push the Bush administration into war, was on the public radio show The Takeaway this morning, blathering about how he was right about toppling Saddam Hussein and then everyone else fucked the whole thing up. Host John Hockenberry engaged Perle in a conversation when, frankly, he should have been punched in the nuts.

All of 'em. Every singe goddamned one. Paul Bremer. Just pound the shit out of their nutsacks so that every time they even think of commenting on the sectarian violence in Iraq, they get a pain that makes them need to shit themselves instead of the pain. It's the only way to guarantee that they'll shut the fuck up about the need to go back to Iraq.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-proper-way-to-interview-oldnew-iraq.html

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The Rude Pundit: The Proper Way to Interview the Old/New Iraq War Hawks (Original Post) meegbear Jun 2014 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2014 #1
Yes! underpants Jun 2014 #2
I'm not sure your strategy is going to work...... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #3
Re: Twain graphic - it is truly amazing that this guy had the ability bullwinkle428 Jun 2014 #10
Rec for the Twain quote. progressoid Jun 2014 #12
I'll work on those shows as an unpaid Production Assistant...if I get to do the punching!! (nt) Moostache Jun 2014 #4
Pouncing them in the nuts would be aversion therapy. zeemike Jun 2014 #5
K&R. Yes please! Overseas Jun 2014 #6
Liberals are too nice. GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #7
This is the only proper way to interview any member of that cabal: corkhead Jun 2014 #8
Well played, sir. tclambert Jun 2014 #15
And that's the TRUTH! pacalo Jun 2014 #19
They want young people to watch these news programs then they need to stop appealing to the 20% Johonny Jun 2014 #9
Instead, How About Just Call Them Liars To Their Face, On National TV! supercats Jun 2014 #11
No one will have guests bpj62 Jun 2014 #13
You say that as if it's a bad thing. bluesbassman Jun 2014 #16
Not al all bpj62 Jun 2014 #23
Punching in the nuts is no longer part of the core curriculum at journalism school. tclambert Jun 2014 #14
What these people need is... nikto Jun 2014 #17
K! Cha Jun 2014 #18
Tim Allen recommended pounding balls flat with a ball peen hammer. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #20
Iraq War III. Woohoo! grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #21
They were so ready to rush PATRICK Jun 2014 #22

Response to meegbear (Original post)

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
3. I'm not sure your strategy is going to work......
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:57 AM
Jun 2014

...as all the people that you've mentioned are nutless. Half are dickless and the other half are dicks.

And what do you do when you get to Condi, hmmm? Ovaries are balls so she's eligible but punching her in the ovaries ain't quite the same, now is it?

- Here's what we should do: ''Let's not act like an ass. Like they would......''

K&R

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
10. Re: Twain graphic - it is truly amazing that this guy had the ability
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:55 AM
Jun 2014

to see what was coming (The Internet) some 150 years down the road!

GeorgeGist

(25,319 posts)
7. Liberals are too nice.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:36 AM
Jun 2014

More than half-a-million dead deserves far far more than a punch in the nuts.

I think.

Johonny

(20,835 posts)
9. They want young people to watch these news programs then they need to stop appealing to the 20%
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:49 AM
Jun 2014

Why would I watch a show that has perpetually wrong Bill Kristol on... ever? These shows get more and more conservative appeal to a slowly dying demographic and they wonder why we don't tune in. These guys were wrong and more to the point they are the past. Their ideas were proven wrong so stop shoving it down our throats and start showing... information.

 

supercats

(429 posts)
11. Instead, How About Just Call Them Liars To Their Face, On National TV!
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:05 AM
Jun 2014

Every liberal/progressive who gets on TV no matter what the topic or question is should just go on a rant calling out Bush/Cheney et al...demanding they finally tell the truth about the Iraq war. Make that the topic. Do that with every panel, every one on one until Obama is forced to say it to. Then after once and for all we literally get to the bottom of this by starting with the truth, can we move forward. I think the American people would overwhelmingly respond favorably to this.

bpj62

(999 posts)
13. No one will have guests
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 04:50 PM
Jun 2014

It is an unwritten rule in Washington that you do not challenge the talk show guests or they will not come on your show and they will tell others to do the same. The Cable media has been beaten into submission and they do what their masters tell them. I just wish that all of the Bush Cabal could end up in one place and a drone mistakenly takes them out. Hell we did it to the Chinese. Operator error.

bluesbassman

(19,370 posts)
16. You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:25 PM
Jun 2014

Seriously, what possible good has come from any of these so-called interviews? Has one less life been lost? Has any coherent foreign or domestic policy been put in place as a result?

And the fact that the architects enablers of a war that everybody knows was bogus get ANY time on air to continue promoting their lies shows how little respect the media has for the people it ostensibly serves.

bpj62

(999 posts)
23. Not al all
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:15 PM
Jun 2014

I want these people held accountable. The problem in Washington is that everybody is buddy buddy in the cocktail circuit and people like Gregory, Stephonapolis and Sheaffer never ask the tough questions. They say they are journalists but that is a joke.

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
14. Punching in the nuts is no longer part of the core curriculum at journalism school.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 05:57 PM
Jun 2014

Now they just teach various forms of kissing up.

 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
17. What these people need is...
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:38 PM
Jun 2014
All waterboarding, all the time.

It's not torture, so where's the problem?

PATRICK

(12,228 posts)
22. They were so ready to rush
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:12 AM
Jun 2014

all the mad contradictions into toppling Iran and THEN letting the dust settle on another administration. Now the situation is just a bigger conflicted mess with not even an irrational purpose left and they certainly can't rush to the defense of the bigger disaster they wanted to create.

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