In short, I think the book is an attempt to pass off easily exposed half truths and worse as objectively true assertions of fact in the service of a political agenda that Andrew Sullivan passionately wants the country to embrace but which it refuses to do. His anger throughout the interview stemmed, I have to conclude, from the sudden appearance across the microphone of a host who had read the book in detail, could call out its many flaws, and who refused to be diverted into non-book related subjects which required no defense of his own written words.On a related note, the site's audio clip of James Lileks discussing the weather proves once again that Lileks is da man!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Do you support tornados, Hugh?
Talk radio host and blogger Hugh Hewitt, in a massive favor to anyone who has been comtemplating a critque of the book "The Conservative Soul", had the book's author Andrew Sullivan on for an interview. After listening to the transcript, I have to agree with Hewitt's post-interview analysis:
What flaws did Hewitt call out? I must've missed them.
ReplyDeleteOr does "you know nothing about con law" qualify?