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June 20, 2007
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I'll be on The Larry Kudlow Show arguing for universal health care around 5:20 Eastern.
Update: Video here.
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Comments
Yeah, I'm with the commenters on the previous post. What'd you do to deserve all this punishment?
Is there an audio archive? I have a meeting then.
Posted by: Nicholas Beaudrot | Jun 20, 2007 3:58:29 PM
Your facing down the most egregious serial violator of NotSneaky's ninth principle, huh? He for whom all good things everywhere are a sign of Republican economic wisdom and for whom all bad things everywhere are a sign of Democratic economic malfeasance?
Have fun.
Posted by: jhupp | Jun 20, 2007 4:02:20 PM
I already know the three talking points whomever you're debating will be:
1) Canada has really long waits, aieeee!!!
2) But so much research is being done in the U.S. thanks to private health care and the rest of the world mooches off us, aieeee!!!
3) Imagine the DMV running our health care system, aieeee!!!
So have fun.
Posted by: Media Glutton | Jun 20, 2007 4:06:09 PM
Ezra, have you instructed your friends and family where to send the pieces of your body and mind after Kudlow makes you sound like such a deranged fool that the CBNC crew draws and quarters you?
Kudlow makes the term 'serial prevaricator' sound like a nomination for the Nobel economics prize.
Don't forget to shower afterwards.
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | Jun 20, 2007 4:06:38 PM
Wow, Media Glutton offered 3 really great criticisms.
Posted by: Jason | Jun 20, 2007 4:34:45 PM
Wow, Jason, you're right. Being a right-wing media hack is easier than I thought, and much more lucrative than the alternative. I didn't even have to do any research! Get ready cable news: Here comes Media Glutton, "Republican Political Strategist"!
Posted by: Media Glutton | Jun 20, 2007 4:38:29 PM
Remember, if you should falter in any way or need to buy a second or two to formulate a reply to something, just shout out "now is a great time to buy stocks!" Everybody else on a CNBC show is required to shout out an approving response so you should get a few extra seconds there.
Actually, did you promise to shout that already as part of your guest spot?
Posted by: greg | Jun 20, 2007 4:59:12 PM
Raging Ezra!
Bonus: Somebody on CNBC was finally called out for "free market platitudes".
I loved that segment, thanks Ezra. Great Job!
Posted by: greg | Jun 20, 2007 5:45:49 PM
I couldn't hear what you were saying, some old jerk was talking over you.
Posted by: Eric the Political Hack | Jun 20, 2007 5:47:07 PM
Ezra did a great job. Such a great job that Kudlow eventually tried to fillibuster Ezra and wouldn't let him make his points. Still, Ezra got enough points across for a easy decision over Kudlow and his fellow traveler.
Posted by: .Ben Brackley | Jun 20, 2007 5:47:54 PM
For the record, my favorite line: "Which health care facility are you talking about? Walter Reed? Walter Reed is a army hospital!"
pwn3d.
Posted by: Eric the Political Hack | Jun 20, 2007 5:49:05 PM
Great job, Ezra! I love hearing Larry tell you to let someone else talk after he had just went on a 90 second rant. Well done!
Posted by: MacGyver | Jun 20, 2007 5:49:33 PM
nice job, I liked the list of groups who rate the VA as high quality. I've wondered who is watching Kudlow at this time of the day?
Posted by: k | Jun 20, 2007 5:50:11 PM
Mr. Klein,
I had not heard of you prior to your appearance on Mr. Kudlow's show. It is funny to me how the talking heads can smell that their asses are about to be handed to them in the form of actual facts and reason.
Despite being incessantly talked over; well done.
I'm a fan.
Demian Dellinger
Posted by: D. Dellinger | Jun 20, 2007 5:50:40 PM
Okay, someone find me internet video! I want to watch! (I have a personal obsession with people handing Kudlow's ass to him.)
Posted by: jhupp | Jun 20, 2007 6:02:32 PM
The people have spoken! We want video evidence!
Posted by: Nicholas Beaudrot | Jun 20, 2007 6:10:46 PM
Ezra, you completely annihilated Kudlow and Stu. Every point they raised, you shot down with stats about HSAs, the V.A., Canadian prices. Every point you raised, their response showed they didn't have a clue what they were talking about (even though somehow they keep yammering over you with nonsense).
I especially liked how you immediately put the debate on your own terms, as well. Brilliantly done, dude.
Posted by: Media Glutton | Jun 20, 2007 7:23:40 PM
"The people have spoken! We want video evidence!"
Indeed. There isn't a repeat on the CNBC schedule. YouTube it must be.
Posted by: Petey | Jun 20, 2007 7:57:07 PM
I've met Larry Kudlow, and I can tell you that there's a remarkable difference between the genial polite guy he can be offscreen and the annoying curmudgeon on the air - more than most, I can see the act (I wish he and Jim Cramer still worked together, because they're better together, though Cramer alone is more interesting than Kudlow alone). I think Ezra did as well as you can when faced with it, given that Kudlow wasn't about to let contrary facts get in the way of what he plans to think now and forever. Still, I don't think the ultimate segment was useful given all the talking over, the refusal to really have a discussion and to get meaningful data out in the open. I hope Ezra, that you can find a better program to go on and have this discussion... or something. Because I think Kudlow is a signal of how bad the "health care debate" could go once a real proposal is out there; a lot of people - who have no idea what they're talking about - will start in on any proposal, and that's going to be a big problem.
Posted by: weboy (I am not Spartacus) :) | Jun 20, 2007 8:07:53 PM
I missed it. Was Larry hitting the nose candy again?
Posted by: Joe Klein's conscience | Jun 20, 2007 8:12:58 PM
weboy,
I was thinking that Larry might be pretty nice offscreen. He has lots of people on the show over and over (Robert Reich, Jared Bernstein, Jason Furman, who would never show up over and over again unless this guy was pretty nice offscreen. Onscreen, he's a crazy dick, but a master of changing the subject when the facts are clearly against him, and he knows the value of saying simple, understandable statements over and over and over and over and over and over until people get it. We should watch and learn from this master.
I wish I had known earlier, I would have watched.
Posted by: mickslam | Jun 20, 2007 8:18:15 PM
thank you, ezra.
you stay in the light, even in the heartland of greed, vanilla flavored corruption and sulka ties.
lose not thy courage.
there, you were like the lotus...
in the mud, but not of the mud.
lose not thy courage.
keep speaking the truth.
stay in the light.
Posted by: jacqueline | Jun 20, 2007 8:26:40 PM
Damn, no video! Josh Marshall's team, or Crooks and Liars, or Media Matters should have been alerted ahead. Maybe The American Prospect needs to get the video equipment to make recordings of their folks and post them?
Weboy called it right: curmudgeon
But a fast-talking, overbearing, curmudgeon.
The kind of guy that in a bar-chat, you'd call an a**hole.
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | Jun 20, 2007 8:55:24 PM
Ezra, I didn't know who you were until today.
Exceptional performance. Some comments.
(i) Your argument regarding the VA were on point. You correctly hammered the point. Kudlow had not rebuttal, especially when you cited the Rand/other org. which supported your argument.
(ii) Your data regarding American sentiment toward private health care accounts were revealing, and caught Kudlow off guard, which brings me to..
(iii) Kudlow seemed flustered and flummoxed by you. I have never seen him move his arms so much. He seemed unstable.
Posted by: Patricia | Jun 20, 2007 9:32:48 PM
Somebody better come through with video...
Posted by: Petey | Jun 20, 2007 9:39:03 PM
