I've been out and about on TV and radio these last few days. Herewith, a few highlights:
~I started this morning with Bruce & Dan on 89 WLS in Chicago. When I was living in the Windy City covering the trial of my old boss Conrad Black, I got used to waking up with WLS and the late Don Wade. I miss Don and certainly neither Bruce nor Dan is as lovely as Roma, but their show is always fun to do. We talked about affirmative action, the paramilitarized bureaucracy, and, for some reason, Peter Pan. You can hear the interview here.
~Last night, I was on Fox News talking climate alarmism with Sean Hannity. You can see the video here.
One of the points I raised with Sean is: Where has the warming gone? If you're entering college this fall, there's been no warming your entire life, so, after years of deniers pointing out this awkward fact, the settled-science crowd have belatedly tried to explain the 17-year "pause". Their preferred answer is that the 21st century warming is hiding somewhere - most likely in the depths of the Pacific, next to that Malaysian plane. This may buy the climate mullahs a little time, but not much: In a couple of years, we will be entering the third decade of "the pause". At which point, it becomes harder to make the case that the 21st century cooling is merely a pause in the 1970s-to-1990s warming trend, as opposed to, say, the 1970s-to-1990s warming trend being a pause in the 1940s-to-1970s cooling trend. Either way, it doesn't look like a hockey stick. Which is my cue to point you to the Steyn store, and invite you to help me win one for free speech.
~I also spoke with Benjamin Weingarten of Glenn Beck's multi-media empire The Blaze. It's what they call a wide-ranging interview - the new eBook of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade plus climate change, gay marriage, education and ...oh, yes, this:
Your editors always want you to get up close and personal with these political figures, and I felt, if nothing else, I'd done some serious heavy petting with Strom Thurmond.
But, you know, we live in hyper-partisan times... My view basically of the American situation — Mark Levin and I were actually talking about this one time, and Mark put it very well: it's a 50/50 nation and one side has to win, and the other side has to lose. And I tend to agree with that. All that said though, when you're being groped by Strom Thurmond, it's important to be able to recognize the comedy in your own side too. I like to think I could always do that.
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