The Ed Morrissey Show: Amanda Carpenter, John Randall

posted at 1:34 pm on August 26, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Amanda Carpenter will discuss her latest post in which she wonders if Barack Obama has another radical in his past to explain. We’ll talk about Obama’s collapsing poll numbers as well. In the second half, we’ll check in with John Randall of the NRSC to talk more about the various Senate races. We’ll also preview their new ad in the Minnesota race, which is a little NSFW — and that’s the point!

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Amanda Carpenter? Your ratings just increased tenfold.

DanStark on August 26, 2008 at 1:46 PM

From: “The Professors”
By Jamie Glazov, FrontPage Magazine, February 21, 2006
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EF3AB960-FF17-4212-A0E0-B5E67A35215B

Frontpage Interview Excerpt:

David Horowitz: ….The task of the academic revolutionaries is to seize the power at its source.

FrontPage: I found this a haunting read. Many of the cases here literally sent chills up my spine. One entry that particularly disturbed me was the one on Professor Bill Ayers (pp.29-32), where you remind us that this 60s radical was the leader of the terrorist “Weatherman” cult. One detail that has always been on my mind throughout the years in studying this character and his group was that his girlfriend, Diana Oughton, died in a Manhattan townhouse when the bomb they were making accidentally blew up. You would think that the death of his girlfriend would have perhaps led to some second thoughts on Ayers’ behalf. But apparently not. And throughout the Left’s history in general, there is this same disturbing theme: never looking back and never reflecting on the evil consequences inspired by leftist ideas. Could you give us a few words of wisdom here on this phenomenon — which Paul Johnson has referred to as “the heartlessness of ideas.”?

David Horowitz: Even when I was a leftist, Bill Ayers struck me as a superficial human being, and essentially thoughtless. You’re right, however, that the left is endemically thoughtless in this regard. It is incapable of confronting its failures and crimes – of being minimally accountable – because its agendas are not pragmatic to begin with. Leftists don’t really care about the balance sheet of what they have done. What they care about is the future – their fantasy of a world redeemed. Their calculus is analogous to that of the suicide bomber. When you get to the garden of Allah what you’ve left behind is trivia that doesn’t matter.

RBMN on August 26, 2008 at 1:52 PM

Ed just has her on the show so he can post that picture.

lorien1973 on August 26, 2008 at 2:46 PM

Sigh…

ronsfi on August 26, 2008 at 2:55 PM

Ed, do you pick Amanda Carpenter’s picture over John Randall because she’s much prettier than he is?

If so, I couldn’t agree more. Keep up the good work! :)

Andy in Colorado on August 26, 2008 at 3:05 PM

I echo that *sigh*… not only is she a sharp cookie, Amanda is just dreamy…

kiltedscotsman5 on August 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM

Amanda Carpenter is to dreamy goddesses as Nancy Pelosi is to blood-sucking harpies.

Pcoop on August 26, 2008 at 3:27 PM

Pcoop on August 26, 2008 at 3:27 PM

I actually had that question on the SAT.

Nosferightu on August 26, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Amanda, if you ain’t spoken for, I’d like ta come-a-callin’ on you sometime iffin that’s okay with you.

slug on August 26, 2008 at 4:17 PM

John How? I can only see Amanda.Sigh

El Coqui on August 26, 2008 at 10:18 PM

Ed:

Just a little bee in my bonnet. You have taken to labeling your issues with the epithet “open source production values”. I’m an IT professional, and the crappiest software packages I have to work with are commercial offerings. Many open source software packages are more stable and easier to use than their commercial competitors. Given my experience, I find your equation of “open source” = “buggy” to be mildly annoying. What experience have you had that has given you such a skewed view of open source?

dljessup on August 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM