Contemptible commentary: Hugh Hewitt skewers pundits for snarling at America during her crisis

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, October 2, 2001 | Hugh Hewitt

[RonDog]

In the midst of a heated political battle, I was alone in pushing for a particular strategy. I stubbornly held my ground. One of my colleagues quoted her mother-in-law, a native of Ireland: "When everyone says you're drunk, you'd better sit down."

Ms. Dowd, Mr. Rosenberg, Mr. Rooney and the rest:
You'd better sit down.

LOL!!! BUMP!

[RonDog]

Revolutions swept Europe in 1848, and when order returned a year later, many of the leaders of the revolutionaries were condemned to die. The ruler of Austria at the time was a regent, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg. His advisers approached him and urged mercy for the rebel generals.

"Mercy by all means," Schwarzenberg replied,
"mercy is a very good thing.

But first let us [have] a little hanging."

GREAT quotes!!! BUMP!

[RonDog]

No reasonable person proposes the hanging of – or any violence whatsoever against – those who chose the hour of America's tragedy to snarl at her greatness, her military, or her president. But in the place of a little hanging, let us insist on a great deal of clarity.

Not much "CLARITY" with the ultra-leftwing media.

BUMP!

[KC_Conspirator]

Tenure protects the rest. But it doesn't matter who stays and who goes.

What matters, and what is simply irreversible, is the crashing even further down of any idea that elites in this country have any idea about what the country is really all about. Everyone of these named and scores of others simply do not understand the country that protects their foolishness. All of them have skills. Not one has wisdom about the country, and most lack even basic knowledge.

They will resist this self-knowledge, though all around them will whisper about it for years to come: In the test of their careers, they flunked. The journalists are particularly cursed. Such tests come only once in a lifetime. They join the November 1941 critics of FDR, and the critics of Churchill throughout the late '30s and the Reagan bashers after Reykjavik. We don't remember the names of any of these, except as I just have, with a generalized and deep contempt.

Right on! I say that the universities are the worst, with areas of the media not far behind.

[d14truth]

"Everyone of these named and scores of others simply do not understand the country that protects their foolishness. All of them have skills. Not one has wisdom about the country, and most lack even basic knowledge."

'Great Glory', Hugh. -bump-

[RonDog]

Thanks, KC_Conspirator!

BTW, no need for a "font fix" anymore. JohnRob's new robo-HTML eater is now operational!

BUMP!!

[RonDog]

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[RonDog]

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[Lucky2]

Bump, another good article written by a really good man. Too bad I can't hear him here anymore! I'm gonna miss you Hugh!

[jackbill]

Rooney wouldn't be there another week if Don Hewitt was alive.

Don Hewitt is dead? Or is the other Hewitt speaking metaphorically?

[RonDog]

'Great Glory', Hugh.

Good idea, d14truth!
BTW, Hugh has been reading our thread:
"Evening Grace?" Help time-shifted talk host Hugh Hewitt to replace "MORNING GLORY!"
Posted on 10/01/2001 19:43:41 PDT by RonDog

Hugh says that he "will continue to innovate with the salutation." LOL!!

We shall see. SHOW TIME in about three hours...

[jackbill]

We have power over Dowd, Jennings, Rooney, et al by simply ignoring them and boycotting their publishers/broadcasters.

However, we have no power over some professors and some students at taxpayer funded universities. They are the dangerous ones and we have got to find some way to stop them. They can spew anti-American garbage all that they want but I damned sure don't want them to do it on my dime.

[RonDog]

Too bad I can't hear him here anymore! I'm gonna miss you Hugh!

What about it, General? What's up with the Spokane area?

In the interim Lucky2, you can still LISTEN LIVE over the Internet via Hugh's Mothership station KRLA in Los Angeles.

NEW TIME for the Hugh Hewitt radio show:
3pm to 6pm WEST coast time, 6pm to 9pm EAST coast time.

See also www.HughHewitt.com

[DLfromthedesert]

Thanks, as usual, RonDog. Great piece!! These people are so arrogant they can't admit it when it's so obvious they blew it......BIG TIME!!!!

Hi, Hugh!! Infinite grace, infinite glory!!! LOL!!

[RonDog]

bttt

[habs4ever]

Ron, behind Hugh's altar boy like face, lurks the heart of a first rate hatchett man! He hit this one out of the park, and I love his swipe, very sly it was, at Don Hewitt from 60 Minutes.Good stuff.

Hugh, you made my day, bombs away!

[Howlin]

Bump them out of the ratings bump!

[Deb]

In Rosenberg's original piece ("Bush's Image Fais to Fill the Screen") he said of GW's return to the White House on the day of the attacks,:

"The Bush we saw, walking alone, appeared almost to be slinking guiltily across the lawn."

Not only is that mean and vindictive, it's a lie.

Rosenberg is a pig. Fortunately, more than 950 of my fellow letter-writers to the LA Times, thought so too.

[RonDog]

Bump them out of the ratings bump!

See also, from an EARLIER column:
Carping columnists: Hugh Hewitt nails journalists for petty, obstreperous attacks on Bush
Posted on 09/18/2001 00:54:10 PDT by JohnHuang2

But here in our country, we have bred not one but a score of commentators so eager to hack at a president they oppose, that not a week – indeed not a day – is allowed to pass between the single largest loss of civilian life at the hands of an enemy and their first salvo at the commander in chief.
and
To my colleagues in the commentary business who think it is their job to criticize the president of the United States in the aftermath of an attack on the nation: Would you please just shut the hell up.

Vintage Hugh!