UPDATE: Listen to Scott Ott on The Michael Koolidge Show.
ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott will be “live” on the Mike Koolidge Show (NewsTalk 1060 WRHL) at about 4:05 p.m. Eastern today (11/8) to share his vast insight into politics, foreign policy and world events.
The show streams live at www.Koolidge.com.
31 responses so far ↓
1 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 4:06 pm
God bless America and Scott?
2 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Hoo Hoo!! First time!
3 Darthmeister // Nov 8, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Scott, be sure and mention how the elections were stolen by the Donks when they negotiated a new contract with Diebold™ after the 2004 Elections. WE WERE ROBBED!
**moonbat mode/off**
4 Godfrey // Nov 8, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Congrats CAT!
5 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Scott - Many elderly voted so we could expect some irregularity at the polling places?????? grooaaannn
Good interview…but ya’ll talk funny.
6 Godfrey // Nov 8, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Aw, crud…I missed Scott’s interview. Scott, can you post it? Is it webcast anywhere?
7 Darthmeister // Nov 8, 2006 at 5:15 pm
CAT, are you saying that election judges should be passing out glasses of prune juice to seasoned citizens when they come in to vote? I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!
8 upnorthlurkin // Nov 8, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Good Job Maestro Ott! You done us proud!!
9 camojack // Nov 8, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Guess I done missed it. Have to wait for the rerun…
10 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Darthmeister, actually that was Scott’s insinuation, so you will have to take it up with him. I was just repeating what I heard on the interview. However, I’m thinking that if they want to give me an ice-cold glass of orange flavored Metamucil, I might be induced to vote with all the fiber of my being.
11 camojack // Nov 8, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Ele…ction coverage?
12 RedPepper // Nov 8, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Are we implying that elections are a load of crap?
Or just this one … ?
13 Darthmeister // Nov 8, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Ele…phants, Ele…ction?
camojack is an Ele…tist!
14 woodnwheel // Nov 8, 2006 at 8:22 pm
The show is now in the audio archive. Download the MP3 (16.2MB) here: http://www.koolidge.com/audio/KOOLIDGE.COM-S-OTT-11-08-2006.mp3
I’ll put it on my iPod and listen to it this evening… I look forward to it
15 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Darthmeister and Camojack:
Ele-mentary Watson
Camojack may be an Ele-tist, but his manner is ele-gant.
16 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Redpepper, it wasn’t the election that was a load of crap…just the parties involved.
17 camojack // Nov 8, 2006 at 8:37 pm
The show is now in the audio archive. Download the MP3 (16.2MB) here: http://www.koolidge.com/audio/KOOLIDGE.COM-S-OTT-11-08-2006.mp3
Comment by woodnwheel — November 8, 2006 @ 8:22 pm
Thanks for posting that; I’m listening to it now…
18 camojack // Nov 8, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Camojack may be an Ele-tist, but his manner is ele-gant.
Comment by conserve-a-tips — November 8, 2006 @ 8:35 pm
Ele…mentary! Thanks.
19 woodnwheel // Nov 8, 2006 at 9:02 pm
camojack: my pleasure
20 bystander // Nov 8, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Interesting interview Scott !
You and I do share one very important point ! I want to know what any pol believes in. It’s a rare pol that tells you straight out.
As A Dem I could not take Bush’s last rival candidate, Kerry, as there is no way to know what he stands for. He has still yet to make up his mind about the wind farm off the coast of Nantucket. I did not vote for Kerry then and I cannot perceive myself voting for him at any time in the future.
21 Darthmeister // Nov 8, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Good interview, Scott.
WIRE: World Welcomes Shift in U.S. Politics…
… as it prepares itself to welcome the peaceful Islamic Caliphate.
Harry Reid: Days Of A Do-Nothing Congress Is Over …
as we end our filibusters and obstructionism that the corrupt Republicans made us engage in.
Nancy Pelosi: I will bring civility back to the U.S. House…
…now that Democrats will quit equating Bush with Hitler, stop calling American troops Nazi stormtroopers and GITMO a Soviet gulag, but only after we subpoena every Republican in sight as political payback.
Our Long National Nightmare Has Just Begun
Yes, Ted Rall, you are still a moonbat. And the Democratic leadership is actually serious about beginning civil discourses and a “new direction” while this kind of crap goes on in their own backyard?
22 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 10:57 pm
To the conservative Scrapplers, I have a question…well…you liberal ones can jump in if you like.
I just read an article that said that this election positions McCain even better. What do you think?
I took this election as a message that Americans want leadership. They booted the Republicans because they forgot their conservative principles. This was not about the war. It was about spending and illegal aliens and “comprehensive immigration reform” nonsense and the farm bill and the transportation bill. Bush got whacked becaause he isn’t being a conservative leader. I say all of this because the Democrats who were elected ran on conservative platforms.
So, back to McCain. McCain is more wishy-washy then Bush ever thought about being. Why would this country want to vote for a man who thinks that riding a fence is a method of transportation? He and his gang of 14 are one of the reasons that the voters said, “Out with the bums.”
23 Darthmeister // Nov 8, 2006 at 10:57 pm
…John Kerry took my post to Cambodia.
24 conserve-a-tips // Nov 8, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Darthmeister, regarding my post #22, do you think there is any chance that the Republicans got the message and will dig their heels in to stand up for conservative principles against any shenanigans by the Democrats? Or are they going to be the “peace makers” who will do anything to keep the peace of bypartisanship?
25 bystander // Nov 8, 2006 at 11:52 pm
“…John Kerry took my post to Cambodia.”
Or was it Thailand, or maybe it was Cambodia?
Or maybe he took it to the Ketchup factory ?
Was it Cambodia before it was Thailand or was it really the Ketchup factory ?
26 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 9, 2006 at 12:15 am
After three short segments, I finally finished the interview. Good one Sir Scott. You got a good radio voice so you need to do that more often.
27 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 9, 2006 at 12:16 am
er, you have a good radio voice. Dad burn it, I;m starting to talk like an Ohioan. sigh
28 Godfrey // Nov 9, 2006 at 12:27 am
CAT: I think the election is indeed about Bush abandoning key principles but I think it’s quite plainly also about the war. There are two aspects of the war that I think hurt the Republicans yesterday: first, it’s not being covered very accurately in the mainstream media (not exactly news here at SF) and second, let’s face it, the occupation wasn’t exactly a stroke of military genius on the part of Rumsfeld (although the invasion was downright spectacular).
I have little hope that the first factor will see any daylight soon but ousting Rumsfeld is a very good start on fixing the second (and this comes from a guy who actually likes Rumsfeld…always have; I can only imagine how people who don’t like him feel).
Yesterday may have been a defeat for the Republicans, but it’s nothing compared to what would have went down in 2008 if they’d retained control of Congress and Bush had retained Rumsfeld. Now the Democrats can shoulder some of the blame for a war they helped start.
As for McCain, of course last night helped him. The whole country veered to the center last night, and he’s a centrist.
Politics just got interesting again.
29 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2006 at 4:58 am
c.a.t.,
Now that the Democrats will be controlling the Senate, too, there’s a distinct possibility that in the coming storm in Congress, nominally conservative Republicans will go into CYA and betray this nation in the impeachment proceedings which are sure to come. I’ll explain in a minute.
Godfrey, I love your optimism but I believe its misplaced. And you’re absolutely right, the invasion and the defeat of Saddam’s regime was spectacular but the subsequent aftermath has been disappointing in its minimalist approach. I hope its true the “whole country veered to the center last night” (I guess it depends on how you define center since my own voting record defines me as center though I’m sure you and some trolls would say I’m extremely right-wing), but I fear there is an ideological component you are missing. I’ll explain.
Gentlepersons, I had a very disturbing conversation this evening with what I thought was a level-headed Democrat conservative. In our community there were two referenda that the formerly good people of our community voted on (actually there were more but I’m concerning myself with these two). These have no force of law and are quite unactionable, but they demonstrate a disturbing mentality that seems to indicate what may be in store for this country over the next two years. One referendum called for the impeachment of George Bush AND Dick Cheney, the other called for the “immediate withdrawal” of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The popular chatter on the local talk radio was these referenda were a waste of time and taxpayer money, quite unenforceable and just another example of general moonbattery on the part of local left-wing activists which are sure to populate communities with a major university. Well, I hate to tell you this, but the referenda barely passed in our people’s republic and barely failed in the city next door.
I found out that my Democratic “conservative” friend voted for both of them! Keep in mind that national support for going into Afghanistan and taking care of the Taliban and their al Qaeda surrogates was originally around 90% - and how quickly we forget these things, right? Also, public support for taking out Saddam was around 74-78% depending on the poll.
But because of the relentless negativism of left-wing elements in our country, the nearly five years of overly negative lamestream media narrative that has misrepresented the actual accomplishments we’ve achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan in the war on terror, and now the American public finding itself lacking the will and resolve to see this war on jihadism through for the next five to ten years, America is teetering on the precipice of what one author described to be “like a dog tearing at its own belly”.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and possibly Condoleeza Rice will be the sacrificial lambs of a nation gone insane. I hope I’m wrong. The Democrats won’t shoulder any of the blame for Iraq, they will continue their meme of having been “tricked” into going to war and now someone is going to have to pay, i.e. the fascist George W. Bush. That’s how leftists think and act and I’m afraid that whatever was “liberal” in the Donk Party has now gestated into radical leftism.
Hate being so negative, but all this premature blather about “civility” and “comity” will go by the wayside as the more radical leftist elements in the DemDonk Party will seek to justify its palpable hatred by conducting it’s horse and pony impeachment trials. And given how liberalism is a religion, this is their version of an exorcism.
But if real Americans can awaken from this destructive self-flagellation and realize the horror of what the radical elements of this country are trying to do to legitimate, elected leadership during a time of war against a very dangerous enemy, this powergrab by leftist Democrats could backfire and utterly destroy the Democratic Party … or we could become thoroughly socialist with Nancy Pelosi as President! God forbid and wash my mouth out with soap!
I’m afraid, however, that all this talk about “civility, “healing”, “sharing power”, “supporting the troops”, blah, blah, blah will turn into two years of the darkest times in American history as Democrats venially seek political payback.
I pray that I’m wrong and despite whatever happens we must continue to keep our humor and wits about us during these potentially perilous times. And even as the drumbeats of impeachment begin sometime in the next six months we can always rest assured that we can find solace in our great God and Savior as this nation attempts to tear itself apart in some perverted left-wing attempt at expiation.
Right now I don’t want to get into the distant possibility of our own personal exposure to this madness since we might be considered the political supporters who empowered this “fascist Bu$Hitler.” Whatever happens, God is with us. Never underestimate the evil of leftism. Hope I’m simply paranoid.
Sorry Scott, I’ll be tipping the jar again.
30 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2006 at 5:12 am
Oh, and I have little doubt there will be the moonbats in Congress who will seek to put Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld on trial for war crimes. Mark my words. Never underestimate the raw hate that is camouflaged so well by leftists. When I look into the eyes of Pelosi and Reid I see nothing but moral emptiness and death.
31 Darthmeister // Nov 9, 2006 at 9:10 am
Another post-election analysis:
Such a rare alignment of the planets gave Republicans the authority to enact bold measures that could have dramatically benefited the nation for decades. This was certainly the goal expressed by President Bush during his September 2, 2004, acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention:
I am running for president with a clear and positive plan to build a safer world and a more hopeful America. I am running with a compassionate conservative philosophy: that government should help people improve their lives, not try to run their lives. I believe this nation wants steady, consistent, principled leadership and that is why, with your help, we will win this election.
Nice sentiments all. Unfortunately, two years later, the following critical planks from this platform remain woefully unresolved:
• To create jobs, my plan will encourage investment and expansion by restraining federal spending, reducing regulation and making the tax relief permanent.
• To create jobs, we will make our country less dependent on foreign sources of energy.
• In a new term, I will lead a bipartisan effort to reform and simplify the federal tax code.
• We must strengthen Social Security by allowing younger workers to save some of their taxes in a personal account, a nest egg you can call your own and government can never take away.
On these issues, a Republican president, with a Republican House and a Republican Senate, went 0-for-5. How disgraceful.
My thought: Yes, indeed. It wasn’t conservatism which lost this last Tuesday, it was inept Republicanism which did.
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