I'm going to be at The Strand in New York on Thursday at 7PM talking about my book, Heads in the Sand and signing copies.
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HITS in NYC
09 Jun 2008 05:03 pm
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See you there Matt!
CSPAN2/BookTV will be filming the event.
Um, don't you think this is something you might want to highlight for people? Instead of, you know, hoping people will click through and see it?
rock'n roll man, as long as it ain't 100 degrees I'll go
Finally!
Agreed. Time to buy some pies...
...and explaining why I was so wrong about the war
Shit my dad still has my copy from when I gave it to him for his flight.
Maybe I should bring up Matt's post in early 2003 that began, "Reader Mitch Schindler writes in to say that the Bush is administration is lying while making the case for war. I'm not so sure lying isn't too strong..."
5+ years later I will take the high road and say: Nyah Nyah Nyah.
Good one, Mitch.
Matt, you still plugging this loser book of yours?
What are the sales figures up to by now? 500? 2,000?
LoL, I had two highschool friends contact me since I left my old neighborhood. One turned out to be a psycho out for revenge because I wouldn't date her in HS, and the other ended up being on the run from the cops.
I don't even answer inquiries from old friends anymore.
To Richard Steven Hack: I'm actually a fan of MY's and I've been reading him since he was on blogspot. Remind me why you don't like him again? I've seen you say some smart things here, but if my memory serves mostly you're just fighting and flaming.
Richard,
Why do you expect MY to answer a gratuitously nasty question? Perhaps it was merely rhetorical, though if so it seems unfortunate that you would pursue such crude satisfactions, which, after all, convince no one of the merits of your views, nor even present their substance. Nor do they change MY’s views in any way, I feel safe in assuming. An alternative, of course, is reasoned argument, which can, in fact, be impassioned, and which has a chance of getting people to actually agree with you. I admit it often takes more time to compose your case with this method.
I'll be there.
"Remind me why you don't like him again?"
Actually half my comments - like the one above - are more jokes than anything. I mean, I really don't care about his book - although his constant hyping of it was, let's say, juvenile.
The other half of my comments have to do with his complete cluelessness about a lot of subjects that he babbles about with great authority such as national security and foreign policy - specifically Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and the like.
So his writing a book on the subject, even though it deals mostly with Republicans vs Democrats - which is the only area he can actually claim any expertise, i.e., political kibitzer - rubs the wrong way.
Anybody notice that if the book were selling well, he'd be here giving out sales figures? What does that tell you?
Jason: In case you haven't notice - and I don't recall your name recently, so perhaps you're new here - I've posted long screeds with carefully reasoned points about Iran and the other foreign policy topics that interest me. I just don't make every post like that.
I've also asked Matt to answer two simple yes/no/I don't know questions about Iran. Even after he said he would answer questions about his book and his foreign policy opinions, he has ignored these questions.
You would think somebody who wrote a book on foreign policy might like to be on record where he stands on THE major foreign policy issues of the day - Iran and the Palestinian issue. You'd think... I mean, Bill Kristol doesn't seem to have any problem issuing opinions, despite having been uniformly wrong for the last five years, if not longer.
Look in vain in all Matt's past blog posts for anything substantive on Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria or the Palestinian situation.
What I'm saying is there are reasons for that lack.
The reality is that Matt is a "college kid" just four years out of college, with a degree in philosophy, and no apparent knowledge of anything else other than sports.
Why I'm required to take him seriously in serious issues of foreign policy when he can't even take them seriously is beyond me. He can't even proofread his posts which are loaded with egregious typos, bad grammar and let's say a lack of thoroughly cogent reasoning.
And if you've seen his performances on "The Table" videos, he's an arrogant screecher to boot who doesn't let anybody get a word in edge wise.
Don't get me entirely wrong. When he's right, he's right - and he's been right on a number of issues. So has Josh Marshall, who I also have a beef with. I give credit where credit is due. But that doesn't excuse cluelessness, ball-lessness, and snarky arrogance.
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Heads in the Sand
Finally!
Posted by Freddie | June 9, 2008 5:13 PM