Wake Up and Smell the Freedom: Matt Welch on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" Program From 8:30-9:15 a.m., Beltway Time

I'll be talking about our special 3-D issue, "How to Slash Government Before it Slashes You," and various other scary monsters. Tune in, watch the online stream, maybe even call up and heckle!

Comments

[John]

http://www.harpers.org/archive.....c-90007650

This is just disgracful.

[John]

ah shit the links sugar freed. Reason you suck!!

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/107351/

[John]

http://projects.usatoday.com/n.....ice/cases/

Read this and fear for the country.

[heller]

Learn how to href already!

[.]

Reason is not kind to narcissists.

[?]

Matt gets to follow the awful Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is spinning for all she's worth. It's almost like she lives in a whole different universe!

[James Ard]

That was one of the most dishonest segments I've seen in a while. Thank God we get Welch to cleanse the pallet.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I can't liveblog this; I'm at work. How inconvenient.

[Fist of Etiquette]

OMG, they're taking callz.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You want to get a grin out of Matt, use the phrase "another libertarian hero".

[Matt Welch]

Though in fairness, it helps to be coupled with "Murray Rothbard."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, a question about unfunded mandates. That questioner was a total plant.

[James Ard]

Actually, Mr. Happy is a Washington Journal regular. He is close to the lead for tweets read.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A question about Reason donor disclosures.

Hey, I donated. Am I on the donor list? (Right under the Koch brothers.)

[Fist of Etiquette]

Did Matt just pander to the veterans lobby?

Hippie cred = gone.

[Matt Welch]

Some of my deadest relatives were veterans!

[Fist of Etiquette]

We donors aren't paying you to shill for the deceased. (Or maybe we are. It was never made totally clear to me what our sinister agenda was.)

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, this caller has Matt's number. Reason living off their sugar daddies, who only want Social Security pulled out from under old people instead of making Wall Street pay their fair share.

[matt2]

Welch is pwning NYT commenters left and right, this is hilarious.

[?]

Anybody notice that the callers are a little less crackpotty when the guest is not an entrenched partisan hack?

Great job, Matt.

[Fist of Etiquette]

OMG, the teachers unions have gotten to Matt!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Roseanne wants higher taxes. I can't believe this breathless call is coming from the Democratic line. Good luck answering this incoherence, Matt.

[matt2]

EISENHOWER EISENHOWER COMMUNAL POT 91%

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, "Richie McRichpants".

[Fist of Etiquette]

Matt just outed Ron Bailey.

[James Ard]

Grand slam on the Koch question.

[James Ard]

Greta usually rips libertarians to shreds. I think the glasses threw her off her normal, statist game.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Koch callers seemed to be lined up and ready to go. Matt is supremely unflappable.

[?]

Washington Journal is like the Leno gag (or is it Letterman?) where he walks the streets with a camera crew and asks ordinary Americans difficult questions like "Who is the Vice President?" and "Who did America fight in the Civil War?", just to prove how stupid we are; the difference being WJ is live and unedited and is not supposed to be funny. It's all rather depressing--if one may apply this small sample to the population as a whole--to see ourselves exposed as so utterly shallow and clueless.