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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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, " 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.
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Response to meegbear (Original post)
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underpants
(183,007 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...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
(20,631 posts)to see what was coming (The Internet) some 150 years down the road!
progressoid
(50,013 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)And after a few nut punches they would STFU.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)More than half-a-million dead deserves far far more than a punch in the nuts.
I think.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)pacalo
(24,721 posts)Johonny
(20,945 posts)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)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)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
(19,385 posts)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)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
(11,087 posts)Now they just teach various forms of kissing up.
nikto
(3,284 posts)It's not torture, so where's the problem?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)PATRICK
(12,229 posts)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.