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Home Front: Culture Wars
Huffington and Hanson to Debate (Buwahaahaa!)
2005-08-26
Hat tip: LGF, which aptly headline this "Mismatch of the Century)
aka Pop-culture Bambi vs. Intellectual Godzilla
NEW YORK Tribune Media Services columnists Victor Davis Hanson and Arianna Huffington will square off in a debate about whether the U.S. is "internationalist or imperial."

The debate is scheduled for Sept. 14 at the Gerald R. Ford Museum Auditorium, Grand Rapids, Mich. It's the first in a series of events (also taking place Oct. 6-7 and Nov. 17) on "War and Empire" hosted by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University. Huffington and Hanson are also authors, and Huffington is the namesake behind the high-profile Huffington Post group blog/news site.
Note to Huffy's handlers: Don't bring a squirt gun to an artillery duel.
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#16  I'm surprised Hanson agreed to debate her.

I didn't think he'd be willing to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-08-26 23:35  

#15  or judge of character (including whether your husband sleeps with men instead of you)....
Posted by: Frank G   2005-08-26 23:13  

#14  Is the ex Mrs. Huffington really anyone to take America to task about the proper way of gaining and keeping power?
Posted by: jules 2   2005-08-26 21:51  

#13  I posted this the other day.

More debates in this series:
Michael Moore vs. Christopher Hitchens

No, it's Hitchens vs. Galloway, also on September 14, in New York.


Posted by: Angie Schultz   2005-08-26 12:00  

#12  I haven't seen a beating like this since Rodney King!
Posted by: Raj   2005-08-26 09:47  

#11  If all else fails, Victor can tell her, "I have the perfect part for you in my next movie."
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2005-08-26 09:31  

#10  I can see the ads now: "Hanson vs. Huffington.If you saw it on the street, you'd call the cops."
Posted by: tu3031   2005-08-26 08:34  

#9  The LLL is falling all over themselves to try to demonstrate who the biggest fool is.

Screamin-Dean is not even on the radar screen. What a bunch of losers.
Posted by: anymouse   2005-08-26 08:32  

#8  She is snarky and persistant. Most people haven't trusted her since she went over to the dark side.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom   2005-08-26 07:57  

#7  Emotion versus Logic.
Mobs are more likely to buy the emotion appeal.
"Friends, Romans, Country, I have come to bury Caesar not to praise him..."

Wonder if Victor has a say in the probable stuffing of the audience seats? Not like that has happened before.
Posted by: Ulase Snimble3984   2005-08-26 07:42  

#6  I have to agree with Steve White on this one: while all signs should point to a VDH victory, based on his higher moral integrity, IQ, and superior wisdom, no one should ignore Arianna's debating experience. Unfortunately, sometimes quick, glib answers appear more cogent in "real-time" than solid, forthright responses do, especially ones that require a background of laborous study, so typical of VDH's columns. I mean, I hope there's not too short of a time limit on answers; longer is better for Hanson and worse for Huffington-- G-d forbid she actually has to explain what she says....

I've been dissappointed before, and I'm sure I will be again-- hopefully not this time. This is our #4 hitter coming up to bat with men in scoring position against their crummy middle reliever, so he is expected to not waste the out. He'd better pull through.
Posted by: Armchair in Sin   2005-08-26 07:29  

#5  Huffington is a publicity whore.

Her stature can only improve (from nowhere) debating Hanson. Hanson shouldn't debate her, shit, she lost her ass in the Caleformia governer debates. She has the intellect of a flower pot.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-08-26 05:09  

#4  Frankly, I wish America was an imperial power. Iraqis and Afghanis should be liivng under American law, rather than Sharia perversity.

And I am with Robert Spencer on putting US - and Western - security needs over self-determination pablum that appeals to 3rd world infants and their State Department indulgers. Hitler had overwhelming democratic support during the height of Nazi power. Should we have respected those democratic wishes? Hell no! But, VDH appears to be an absolutist on the universality of self-determination and nation building obligation. His position is not that far from Huffington's air-head diplomacy.

Frankly, the following savages are personna non grata on my human scale: post-Roman "palestinians"; Pashto Pakis and Afghanis; Arabist Malaysians and Indonesians; Sunni Iraqis; Qom Shiites; Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwanis) and Wahabis and Jamaat-i-Islamis. The counter-terror war can't be won until we write off that scum. The problem is: their lives. Read Spencer on inclusivist myths, before you embrace sham VDH's quixotic liberationism.
Posted by: Vlad the Muslim Impaler   2005-08-26 02:37  

#3  VDH should be careful. I watched Huffy when she ran for governor. She's articulate, glib and never at a loss for words. I've not heard VDH speak; he's a superb writer but that doesn't always translate into polished speaking skills.

Don't get me wrong, I think VDH is not only right but by far the brighter of the two. I wouldn't want him to get manuevered into a bad position.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-08-26 02:28  

#2  ROFL! Talk about the Moonbats having no grasp of reality and buying their own bullshit. If this isn't a puff-piece circus, it will be the most one-sided "debate" in modern history.

AC - are you kidding about the others, lol?

Let the blood flow. Kosher, or Halal?
Posted by: .com   2005-08-26 02:23  

#1  More debates in this series:

Michael Moore vs. Christopher Hitchens
Alec Baldwin vs. Paul Wolfowitz
Kos Zuniga vs. Zell Miller
Al Franken vs. Tony Blair
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-08-26 02:09  

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