Tonight at 9 pm ET, Fox
Business Network’s The
Independents comes in with Part I of a two-installment
Stories of the Year package, leading off with discussion about
2013’s bombshell revelations about the National Security Agency’s
spying activities. Former NSA general counsel and Bush-era
Department of Homeland Security official Stewart
Baker does not agree with this word “spying,” and
generally does not share the same antipathy toward federal
surveillance activities as the show’s co-hosts. The resulting
interview is…contentious.
The left-right panelists, former Kerry/Obama aide Mark Hannah and GOP
Deputy Communications Director Sarah Isgur Flores, compare
the two major parties’ ongoing civil wars, and later try to outdo
each other in not answering the question, “Would you legalize
weed?” Reason Senior Editor Peter Suderman
talks about—wait for it—Obamacare! And TV’s Andy Levy, from the great
Fox show Red
Eye, talks about the best filibusters and/or celebrity
meltdowns of 2013. Syria also gets a mention in there somewhere, as
does the word “statists” (twice!).
It is a very good television program, which I can state with
confidence because it’s already done! I may lurk in the open thread
here, just to police the
Kmele Foster fanclub activity….
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/18/tonight-on-the-independents-former-nsa-o
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