Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
Blue Yeti ·
March 30, 2012 at 3:19am
Blogging BFF's Mickey Kaus and Jennifer Rubin talk Trayvon Martin, the media's tendency to play fast and loose on Twitter, a Left Coast/Right Coast wager on the SCOTUS health care ruling, whether or not Santorum ought to hang it up, whether not making a deal on the budget's will be Obama's undoing, and wind up with the infamous Russian missile gaffe.
Members, subscribe and get this podcast on your mobile device (and get the direct link) here. But do what we do and listen on Stitcher. Everyone else, listen in below.
- Comment (8)
- · Quote
- · UnfollowFollow (0)
Comments:
Feb '11
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
Mickey says at about 32:50 that health care is not like other things, because obviously we don't buy cars or broccoli for people, but we should give accident victims health care because they need it.
Leaving everything else aside, I'd ask Mickey if he thinks that plastic surgery, sex changes, abortions etc etc are more like cars or more like accident victims in this context.
May '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
Mr Kaus' oft expressed view that everyone should be able to get all of the medical treatment they want, never addresses how is it supposed to be paid for? It would be interesting to hear him talk about that at length sometime, if Ms Rubin will allow him to get a word in edgewise
Mar '12
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
Re: Mickey's notion that this is not a first principles issue since a state can issue a mandate.
We should allow the states to have more coercive power. We're closer to state-level elected officials and have a greater say in changing bad laws. If the laws are onerous enough, we can move to another state. Competition between states checks their power. A federal mandate is much more likely to be a permanent infringment on freedom.
Oct '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
Jennifer Rubin once again achieves the impossible by forcing me to back Rick Santorum. Truly, has any candidate been so ill-served by his supporters than Romney?
Aug '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
I genuinely like Mickey; I can't stomach reading or listening to Ms. Rubin. This is the only one of Ricochet's podcasts that I studiously avoid.
Apr '11
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
I'm sorry to say that I found this podcast unlistenable. I have listened to a few of these but Jennifer Rubin's umming and ahhing was at Obama levels and I had to shut if off after 15 mins.
I'm sure this can be improved upon.
Sep '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
Certainly Jennifer Rubin doesn't need me to defend her—and I agree that she takes too long to answer (I get the sense she's pulling down essays from her brain) and interrupts too much, but it's clear that she does a great deal of dogged reporting, which is why she feels so confident in her point of view. I also thought that this podcast in particular points out the impenetrable divide between conservatism and liberalism, however friendly the antagonists: Mickey assumes that the state is a workable mechanism for achieving the ends of what is essentially charity, while Jennifer recognizes that the state is incapable of achieving such ends and that great dangers are inherent in the attempt to do so. Leaving it up to the individual and those who care about that individual does not satisfy the great swath of Americans who so fervently wish to believe that there's a way to make life fair and are willing to give up their personal power (however unaware of their own they are) to follow that dream into darkness.
Apr '12
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast with Kaus and Rubin #17: Stand Your Ground
It is valuable to hear other sides to the news stories making headlines. It does seem Mickey is interviewing Jennifer rather than having a balanced conversation.