My Front Line

I cannot let this day pass without commenting on this. Check out this load of crap from conservative Hugh Hewitt. For background, Hewitt is interviewing Time magazine reporter Michael Ware. Ware has been living in, and reporting from, Baghdad for years now. Ware has been on the front lines and behind them. Hewitt has not, but do you think he knows the difference, I think not. Read on:

MW: That is fairly accurate, and let's look at it this way. I mean, you're sitting back in a comfortable radio studio, far from the realities of this war.

HH: Actually, Michael, let me interrupt you.

MW: If anyone has a right...

HH: Michael, one second.

MW: If anyone has a right to complain, that's what...

HH: I'm sitting in the Empire State Building. Michael, I'm sitting in the Empire State Building, which has been in the past, and could be again, a target. Because in downtown Manhattan, it's not comfortable, although it's a lot safer than where you are, people always are three miles away from where the jihadis last spoke in America. So that's...civilians have a stake in this. Although you are on the front line, this was the front line four and a half years ago.

Holy shit! Hewitt has the nerve, the fucking nerve, to compare his sitting in an office, in Manhattan, to the mess, to the violence, to the horror that is Iraq. Please, give me break. Hell, I'm sitting in an office building right next to the Citicorp building. A building named by the terrorists themselves as a target. Holy shit, I'm doomed! Or, am I a brave little soldier deserving of a medal for coming to work each day and risking my life? What a load of crap.

Mr. Hewitt get over yourself, please. You are an ass.

I would say go read the whole interview and I would usually link you right to it. However, I do my best never to link directly to right-wing fear mongers (they do not deserve my links), so here is a link to Memeorandum where you can then reach the ass known as Hugh.

And speaking of direct links, I will encourage you all to go to PBS, where you can watch a compelling FrontLine, featuring Michael Ware as he takes us behind the lines with the insurgents. I promise, you will learn a whole bunch.