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Hinderaker-Ward Experience #26: The Amateur
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Another Saturday night special edition of The Hinderaker-Ward Experience is ready for your listening pleasure. It’s John Hinderaker of Power Line and Brian Ward of Fraters Libertas breaking down the big stories of the week. These include President Obama’s straight-faced claims of leading the most fiscally responsible administration in the last 60 years and Obama’s perhaps not unrelated difficulties in cracking 60% of the vote running against convicted felons and “none of the above” in Democratic primaries around the country.
Special guest this week is New York Times best selling author Edward Klein. His latest book is THE hot buzz story on the Internet this week, it’s The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. Via hundreds of personal interviews with political and Obama insiders Ed provides previously undocumented details on the President’s background and performance in office over his first term. Lots of juicy tidbits as well, including Bill Clinton’s real opinion of Obama, Valerie Jarrett’s undue influence in the White House, and the acrimonious rivalry between Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey.
Later, Loon of the Week (top Democrat official claims of unnatural relations between Romney and a corporate entity) and This Week in Gate Keeping (how changing one word can REALLY affect the accuracy of a story).
We hope you enjoy, and comments and feedback are always most welcome.
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Thanks very much for an always informative and enjoyable HWX podcast. I second The Amateur as a “must read”. I started it one evening and had to stay up late to finish it. Just a reminder: Ronald Reagan took Gerald Ford to the Republican Convention in 1976 with a very strong primary challenge. Ford subsequently lost to Carter.
Someone needed to turn down his microphone while Klein was talking. Otherwise, an interesting interview.
Brian Ward—can you turn down your microphone when you’re not talking? The heavy breathing every 3 seconds or so is annoying.
Got it, less respiration. Breathing is over rated.
Or I can remember to NOT engage in my deep knee bend regimen during the taping. Good tips.
Here is a passage from The Amateur documenting what Ed Klein said in the interview:
The passage continues:
In 1969 Cornell University was taken over by radical students, some of them armed. Political science professor Walter Berns conducted an experiment that revealed the true soul of the American Left:
(from Democracy and the Constitution, 2006)