Hugh Hewitt is Insane
That, says Hugh Hewitt (in conversation with Jonathan Chait), was all Jimmy Carter's fault. No, not the disastrous aftermath, but the actual hostage-taking:
HH: How’d he handle the hostage crisis, by the way? Carter?
JC: How did Carter handle the hostage crisis?
HH: Yeah. Was he responsible for that?
JC: You know, he wasn’t responsible for the fact that Iranians took our embassy hostage, no.
HH: What are presidents responsible for, Jonathan? Honestly, if he gets away with inflation, he’s not responsible for Khomenei, doesn’t have to get them out of the embassy, not about the Afghans coming…
JC: Wait, are you saying that, like foreign…so then, is Bush responsible for September 11th? Because you know, I agree…
HH: Of course not. Only his response to events.
JC: Right. But the fact is…
HH: He is responsible for our not having been attacked…
JC: Right, but the fact that it happened is not Carter’s fault, right? Are you saying the fact that our embassy was taken hostage is Carter’s fault?
HH: Absolutely, it was his fault. Absolutely. He…
4 Comments:
Awesome post. So the only question is, who is the craziest? Hewitt, Althouse, or Instarube?
Decisions, decisions....
Sweet Jesus, Hewitt has slipped the surly bonds of reality.
Is it even ethical to let someone blog without their medication?
What's even more remarkable is that Hewitt thought this exchange reflected so well on himself that he highlighted it on his blog.
He's a real nutcase.
Go read the entire interview. I'm surprised Hewitt didn't just delete the whole thing and blame some nebulous "liberal blogger" for hacking his site.
In a word, he got spnaked.
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