Hugh Hewitt Slays LA Times “Reporter”

January 25, 2006 Bush-Bashing, Liberal Bed-Wetters, Media Bias, Military, Military Support & Patriotism View Comments

After yesterday’s brutalization of America and her troops by Joel Stein in the L.A. Times(up), Hugh Hewitt did a BRILLIANT interview with him. What’s more amazing than the fact that Stein admits several times over that he is not very educated, is the fact that he stays on with Hugh so long to take his verbal beating! TRUE excellence, and dressing-down, of a liberal at its FINEST!

Hugh includes the audio of the interview in a downloadable .MP3 file.

Here’s just a portion of the transcript which can be found at Radio Blogger:

HH: Do you support the troops presently deployed along the Colombian border in the battle with FARC, when FARC slaughters whole villages of people, our Special Forces down there. Do you think that’s a good thing?

JS: I don’t…in my opinion, I don’t think the U.S. military should be a police force.

HH: So you don’t want them in Colombia?

JS: I don’t, no.

HH: We have troops in Yemen, Mongolia, Jabuti, all across the globe in the Global War On Terror. Do you support those troops?

JS: It really…uh, the straight up troops? Or do you mean like…it really depends on the activity, but no, I don’t…I don’t believe that our forces should be a police force.

HH: And so, you would withdraw from everywhere in the world?

JS: But again, I think you’ve had people on your show, and you’ve got people much smarter than me, obviously, who are against the war. I mean, just have a simple argument against the war, for the war isn’t what I mean to do with that column at all. I think that’s been hashed out over time, and…

HH: I want to make sure I quote it correctly. “I don’t support our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car.” Evidently, supporting the troops is a bumper sticker position?

JS: It’s not. Supporting the troops is. I think a lot of people have bumper stickers, and really don’t do anything else, and are against the war, and have the bumper sticker anyway.

HH: “And at the end, I’m not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after Vietnam.” That’s big of you. “But we shouldn’t be celebrating people for doing something we don’t think was a good idea.” What I’m trying to figure out is what do you think is a good idea for the military to do?

JS: Well, again, that’s not what my column was about, and that’s something that people talk about constantly, and people give opinions on. There’s a lot of Americans who are against this war and still think we should have a military.

HH: Now wait. This is the last…well, let me give you the two last paragraphs of your column. “I’m not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War. But we shouldn’t be celebrating people for doing something we don’t think was a good idea. All I’m asking is that we give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health, and a safe and immediate return. But please no parades. Seriously, the traffic is insufferable.” So you obviously do not honor their service?

JS: I don’t honor their service? The people serving in Iraq right now?

HH: Yeah.

JS: I honor them as human beings, and I want them home safe.

HH: But you don’t honor their service?

JS: And honestly, I think that all these…for people who don’t believe in the war and are putting up these stickers saying they support the troops anyway, my fear is that it’s prolonging the war and putting them in further danger they don’t need to be in.

Speaks volumes, doesn’t it folks? Transparency is our greatest ally. We all know what their agenda is (or lack of), and it’s gleefully out of touch with mainstream America.