Gillespie and McLaughlin Go One on One (Plus One)

Nick Gillespie | February 11, 2005

This weekend, I'll be a guest, along with the Cato Institute's David Boaz, on John McLaughlin's interview show One on One (you do the math).

The topic? George W. Bush and libertarians. Or something like that.

In Washington, DC, One on One airs on the NBC affiliate WRC-TV; across the rest of the country, it airs on PBS stations, usually around 7:30AM on Sundays. Consult your local listings.

Bye-Bye.

Comments

|2.11.05 @ 1:43PM|#

How does one prepare for that format?

|2.11.05 @ 1:48PM|#

Probably a stifff drink to relax in order to endure the 20-40 second questions.

Tim Cavanaugh|2.11.05 @ 2:06PM|#

I insist that all comments on this thread must end with the signoff "Bye-BYE-EEE!"

Bye-BYE-EEE!

|2.11.05 @ 2:13PM|#

How does one prepare for that format? - Jason

Being Jesuit-educated helps. McG is a self-defrocked Jebbie, and that hectoring style passes for the Socratic method at many an S.J. university. One reason Pat Buchanan has been a mainstay of The Group over the years is that he attended Georgetown, and was used to that type of machine-gun questioning.

Kevin
(Marquette, `84)

|2.11.05 @ 2:16PM|#

McG is a self-defrocked Jebbie.. - Me

Of course, that should be McL.

And I forgot to say...

Bye-BYE-EEE!

Kevin

|2.11.05 @ 2:28PM|#

ISSUE ONE!

McLaughlin is Socrates compared to Hannity or O'Reilly. Or perhaps he is more John the Baptist, paving the way for those guys.

Jesse Walker|2.11.05 @ 2:28PM|#

Did he call you "Nicky 'The Beatle' Gillespie"?

|2.11.05 @ 2:32PM|#

I think there should be a TV show named 60 Minutes of Yelling at Nick Gillespie.

Bye-BYE-EEE!

|2.11.05 @ 2:46PM|#

Please talk slowly Nick. I always watch that show at the gym while I'm on the treadmill and when people talk too fast the subtitles get messed up.

Fave recent instance of the above - a discussion of the political power amongst Iraq's shiites of "The Ayatollah Allah Cyst Annie". PREDICTION! Iraq's first punk band will take that name.

BYE-BYEEE

Franklin Harris|2.11.05 @ 2:52PM|#

ISSUE TWO!

This show is much better now that Mort and Fred are gone!

BYE-BYEEE

Franklin Harris|2.11.05 @ 2:53PM|#

Nick!

Nickle back!

Nick-knack paddy whack!

|2.11.05 @ 3:48PM|#

On a scale of 1 to 14, 1 being lowest degree of unlikelihood, 14 being absolute metaphysical certitude...

Bye-BYE-EEE!

Mike H.|2.11.05 @ 4:00PM|#

ISSUE THREE!

"What's with the bald chick? I'm lookin' at the cue ball over there and I'm thinking, '9-ball, side pocket!'"

|2.11.05 @ 4:13PM|#

i've always thought the mclaughlin group was an excellent model for how drunking arguments about politics should be conducted.

|2.11.05 @ 4:27PM|#

Oh dear. I had never actually seen/read that SNL sketch. I came dangerously close to asphyxiating and/or wetting myself from laughter.

|2.11.05 @ 4:45PM|#

do yourself a favor and find an mpg.

|2.11.05 @ 5:38PM|#

ISSUE FOUR

Please get on that show. Since the fat guy left it sucks.

Bye-BYE-EEE

|2.11.05 @ 11:49PM|#

Is it just me, or does PBS' website blow monkey turds?

It doesn't even include the show in its list of shows. Nothing turns up for a search of "one on one" either.

I can't even find it on my Tivo. I must be losing my mind.

When is it airing in, say, Los Angeles?

Bye-BYE-EEE!

|2.12.05 @ 12:23AM|#

More TMG fun from SNL:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90ksinatra.phtml

Swing, baby!

Kevin

|2.12.05 @ 7:36AM|#

Did he call you "Nicky 'The Beatle' Gillespie"?

Beatle or beadle?

|2.12.05 @ 2:25PM|#

I get it, this is a joke, right?

There are NO listings for this show under any permutation of the words "Mclaughlin, One on one", for any of the three PBS stations in Los Angeles. As far as they're concerned, it doesn't exist.

In fact, the show's own website has no schduling info either.

Here endeth the strongly worded post.

|2.14.05 @ 10:43AM|#

Always a breath of fresh air when I see Libertarians on talk shows. Gillespie and Boaz do more than defend freedom, they promote it. Thank you!!!