tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post112134654882438011..comments2023-11-03T04:39:50.760-05:00Comments on Galley Slaves: Hugh Hewitt, The Dark Prince of MeanJonathan V. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426165197358366129noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1121559555535903802005-07-16T19:19:00.000-05:002005-07-16T19:19:00.000-05:00Dude, re listen to it, Hugh to Dayne to the woodsh...Dude, re listen to it, Hugh to Dayne to the woodshed. Props to Dayne for showing up, but he was Michael Spinks to Hugh's Tyson.That Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18186963883126843896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1121434204938415962005-07-15T08:30:00.000-05:002005-07-15T08:30:00.000-05:00That's hilarious--you don't appear to understand a...That's hilarious--you don't appear to understand anything about my comment, or the article in reference. Hewitt is interviewing Dayn Perry, a sportswriter who wrote in a recent column that he would like to see Steyn get killed. <BR/><BR/>So off the bat, you're batting zero for thinking this is an interview between Hewitt and Steyn.<BR/><BR/>My point was that while JVL, the author of this post, made a big deal out of how Hewitt handed Perry his lunch by exposing him as an idiot, Hewitt didn't really come across as all that more informed. Specifically, when he referenced the Venona Files, which were decoded cable traffic from Soviet spies in the US to their Moscow masters. While Perry obviously doesn't know what the files are, Hewitt lords it over him, but doesn't ever demonstrate that he knows them either, and doesn't provide any more additional information--which would be important to helping make his case that there were spies in the US during the Cold War, much as McCarthy claimed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1121355828526634982005-07-14T10:43:00.000-05:002005-07-14T10:43:00.000-05:00What are you talking about? Hewitt asked Steyn if ...What are you talking about? <BR/><BR/>Hewitt asked Steyn if he knew what the Venona files were, Steyn said no, and Hewitt moved on.<BR/><BR/>Why would he get into explaining them? Steyn was completely ignorant. <BR/><BR/>You read something into the transcript that wasn't there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1121347391469813102005-07-14T08:23:00.000-05:002005-07-14T08:23:00.000-05:00I am a fan of Hugh Hewitt's but that interview was...I am a fan of Hugh Hewitt's but that interview was far from the one-sided bashing that you make it out to be. I would liken it to a couple of bantamweights slapping at each other--there were no haymakers connecting there. I would side with Hugh's interpretation regarding many of their discussion topics, but he just never pressed in for the kill. That part about the Venona files was very weak, since it appeared that Hugh couldn't explain them himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com