I've mentioned before that I always like reading the transcripts from Mark Steyn's regular, weekly gig on the Hugh Hewitt show.
Don't get me wrong-listening to the clip is also fun (listen here via Flyover County) but I always find a couple of really thought provoking little nuggets in the transcript. There's something about seeing the words that makes some of the points jump out more forcefully than when listening to it.
Having a conversation on radio is like that though-you speak to the interviewer as though you are talking to a good friend-or explaining something to a friend. That's how good radio people prevent nervous voices. Some people are really good at radio because of this.
Anyway, here is the transcript, and I've already picked out my favourite bits.
In a conversation about the DOMA ruling, Steyn gets to the main point:
"...this is a very worrying precedent, because effectively, I mean, I
don’t like that the fetishization of judges, I don’t want an absolute
monarchy where you replace the king with nine robed judges, and you
pretend somehow are any more objective than just having an absolute
monarch."
"But if you’re going to have an absolute monarchy, it’s
particularly unhealthy to have an absolute monarchy that doesn’t even
address arguments, but simply says we declare disagreement with us
unacceptable and biased and bigoted, because they can do that not just
with gay marriage. They could do it with the JFK Airport parking lot
expansion bill...They could do that with every single thing that comes up on their panel."
Exactly-an entire county, full of individual citizens, becomes the hostage of a few robed, opinionated judges. What. The. Hell.
The other bit to consider is on Egypt:
"There’s millions of people from all over the world who go on tours down
the Nile, and they want to see the pyramids. My mother did it herself
last year. And if you can’t do that without tourists being blown up and
being killed and everything, then Egypt is just a broke, third world
bankrupt disaster. It’s the biggest importer of wheat for bread in the
world. And Morsi can’t run anything. He’s like all these guys."
Egypt is just not going to turn out well. With Barack Obama cheering for the Brotherhood government, and the people starting to get pretty pissed off with the Brotherhood government-it is just not going to go well.
Egypt is reaching it's boiling point.
