In a very candid, wide-ranging interview, the top military commander in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa discusses conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus also talks about interference from Iran and Syria, and describes the nature of our enemy.
This hour featured a encore of the General John Abizaid interview from the first hour, and some closing thoughts about a couple of pranksters in Arizona that decided to release snakes in a theater showing Snakes On A Plane.
This hour, with exception to a call-in from Yoni Tidi on the Israeli-Hezbollah issue, was devoted to callers, including a lot of nutters, who were reacting to the John Abizaid interview from the first hour.
The legendary economist, host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Co., joined Hugh and suggested some good sectors and stock picks to look at.
This was was a mix between the callers, and audio of the day, including the president’s press conference, CNN’s Jack Cafferty confirming the assumption he’s the most clueless political analyst on television, Oliver Stone’s thinking process in making WTC, and Chris Matthews claiming how independent he thinks he is.
Hugh covered the news of the day, and was joined by write-in Congressional candidate to replace Tom Delay, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier, and Yoni Tidi on the growing anger in Israel at the Olmert administration.
Hugh started the hour out discussing the impact of Oliver Stone’s new movie, WTC. Hugh saw it this weekend, and was very impressed. Listeners had mixed reactions.
The modern day Kipling of the American military, Kaplan joined Hugh with updates from his travels and embeds with U.S. military from Mali to Soviet Georgia, to Iraq, and Las Vegas.
Fridays, third hour usually means the movie hour with Emmett of the Unblinking Eye. This week’s movie list? In honor of Snakes On A Plane opening up, the top 10 snake movies of all time.
Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke, Fox News Channel’s Beltway Boys started out the hour with the political news of the week, followed by Kudlow & Co.’s Larry Kudlow. Colorado Congressman and candidate for governor, Bob Beauprez, also stopped by, as did California Congressman John Campbell.