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January 25, 2006
Hugh Hewitt Eviscerates La Times Moonbat Joel Stein
Posted by Dave Blount at January 25, 2006 2:04 PM
If you saw Joel Stein's piece in the Los Angeles Times yesterday and felt overwhelmed by an explosive urge to rip out his stinking guts, throw them on the floor, and trample on them, forget about it — Hugh Hewitt has done the job for you.
The piece in question is "Warriors and Wusses," in which Stein proudly announces that he has the courage to not support American troops, on the grounds that anyone who joins the US military is "willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism."
Hugh Hewitt interviewed this useless little fool yesterday, after which Stein was carried out in a basket. The transcript and audio are available at Radio Blogger.
Unsurprisingly (to those who have read his column) the La Times pundit came across as a scatterbrained fool with a credibility problem. For example, he asserted that he has "no family at all" in the military — and then a few minutes later started talking about his cousin who graduated from West Point and is currently serving.
Although Stein clung tenaciously to his spiteful position on the troops, he was so overmatched intellectually that he hardly put up a fight against Hewitt, who had no problem squeezing embarrassing admissions out of him.
On removing the Taliban and disrupting al Qaeda's base of operations after 9/11:
"I did not support the invasion of Afghanistan."
On the topic of the military:
"I'm not an expert at this at all. I mean, I think you certainly can tell."
On the topic of the salary he "earns" by spitting up one short column a week, which is admittedly more than twice what enlisted men earn — and probably a lot more than twice:
"I am grossly overpaid..."
On whether Iraq is better off for having been liberated from a genocidal dictator:
"[I]t's hard for me to say."
On whether he would write the same vile column again if he had it to do over:
"Yes. I would."
On whether it would be appropriate for people to cancel their subscriptions to the LA Times because of said vile column:
"Yeah. [I]f they feel like that's their only recourse, sure."
It's hard to argue with him there. Anyone still subscribing to La Times is urged to cancel by calling this number: 1-888-565-2323.
Thank you V the K for the tip.
Update
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