PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
How important are intellectual endeavors, as in research, study, consideration of different viewpoints, in producing a worthy mentor? Or, in judging wisdom and rectitude.
Not very in Leftist precincts.
I have often said that Leftism is a result of ignorance. Put another way, if Liberals/Leftists knew everything that conservatives know.....they'd be conservative.
(Note the striking similarity with item #6 below.)
Here, per example, is a Leftwing pundit:
"Zach Carter is The Huffington Post's Senior Political Economy Reporter, working out of Washington D.C. "
Zach Carter
Mr. Carter is the sort of expert who serves as mentor for our ersatz Leftists. The validation of my opening comment appeared serendipitously the other eve, as I tuned in conservative commentator, Hugh Hewitt.
He spent the show interviewing The Huffington Post's Senior Political Economy Reporter.
If you can, listen to the entire interview.....it is jaw dropping.
1. "Hewitt, Why do you embarrass journalists the way you do?"
I get some form of this question ... after every interview like the one I conducted Monday with The Huffington Post's "Senior Political Economy Reporter" Zach Carter.
2. .... I'd never heard of Carter until he decided to misrepresent what Vice President Cheney said on my show last week.
3. I ask my journalist guests a few standard questions when they first appear on the show. I almost always ask about Alger Hiss because the answer provides a baseline as to the journalist's grasp of both modern American political history and to a crucial fault-line through it.
[Carter, "senior political economy reporter" for a major political outlet like HuffPo, had never heard of Alger Hiss]
4. I also ask if they have read some basic texts on the war on terror, the most important of which is The Looming Tower by the New Yorker's Lawrence Wright. It is almost journalistic malpractice to opine on any aspect of the West's conflict with Islamist radicalism without having read Wright's work, which won the Pulitzer Prize and which is the standard text.
[Books mentioned....Carter batting zero, having read none, nor could he name some he had.]
a. ... the novels of Daniel Silva, though increasingly I think they are part of the necessary course of reading to be even minimally qualified to speak of terrorism and what the world faces."
The Next Generation Of Talking Heads - Hugh Hewitt - Page 1
[Big Silva fan here! Ask me to quote Silva!]
So far established: Zach Carter, spokesperson and instructor to the Left, via HuffPo....
....having no apparent background on which to base an opinion.
The blind leading the blind.
Not very in Leftist precincts.
I have often said that Leftism is a result of ignorance. Put another way, if Liberals/Leftists knew everything that conservatives know.....they'd be conservative.
(Note the striking similarity with item #6 below.)
Here, per example, is a Leftwing pundit:
"Zach Carter is The Huffington Post's Senior Political Economy Reporter, working out of Washington D.C. "
Zach Carter
Mr. Carter is the sort of expert who serves as mentor for our ersatz Leftists. The validation of my opening comment appeared serendipitously the other eve, as I tuned in conservative commentator, Hugh Hewitt.
He spent the show interviewing The Huffington Post's Senior Political Economy Reporter.
If you can, listen to the entire interview.....it is jaw dropping.
1. "Hewitt, Why do you embarrass journalists the way you do?"
I get some form of this question ... after every interview like the one I conducted Monday with The Huffington Post's "Senior Political Economy Reporter" Zach Carter.
2. .... I'd never heard of Carter until he decided to misrepresent what Vice President Cheney said on my show last week.
3. I ask my journalist guests a few standard questions when they first appear on the show. I almost always ask about Alger Hiss because the answer provides a baseline as to the journalist's grasp of both modern American political history and to a crucial fault-line through it.
[Carter, "senior political economy reporter" for a major political outlet like HuffPo, had never heard of Alger Hiss]
4. I also ask if they have read some basic texts on the war on terror, the most important of which is The Looming Tower by the New Yorker's Lawrence Wright. It is almost journalistic malpractice to opine on any aspect of the West's conflict with Islamist radicalism without having read Wright's work, which won the Pulitzer Prize and which is the standard text.
[Books mentioned....Carter batting zero, having read none, nor could he name some he had.]
a. ... the novels of Daniel Silva, though increasingly I think they are part of the necessary course of reading to be even minimally qualified to speak of terrorism and what the world faces."
The Next Generation Of Talking Heads - Hugh Hewitt - Page 1
[Big Silva fan here! Ask me to quote Silva!]
So far established: Zach Carter, spokesperson and instructor to the Left, via HuffPo....
....having no apparent background on which to base an opinion.
The blind leading the blind.