Reason Writers on TV: Matt Welch Talks Occupy Wall Street, Independents, and Czech Bank Orgasms on RT's The Alyona Show

On Friday, Oct. 21, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch appeared on Russia Today's The Alyona Show to talk about Occupy Wall Street:

He then hung around to be part of the show's whimsical Happy Hour segment:

Comments

[albo]

She's the cute face of the post-communism Russian state. Putin in a little black dress.

[Blight Engine]

Really? You saw that Czech brunette squirming all over the screen and that's your comment?

[albo]

Didn't watch that one. Talking about Alyona, the hostess.

[Maxxx]

What's the meaning of that symbol on her necklace?

[Fist of Etiquette]

"We had a Tea Partier on the show and I kept trying to ask him, "Well, you know, don't you line up here in terms of values?' and he only wanted to talk about how classless and dirty these people are."

Yeah, ask the majority of Occupiers what they think of the Tea Party. No doubt you will hear only solidarity for their common ground against corporatism. I'm sure the blind hatred is one-sided.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh, and top video, Welch calls Alyona out on her partisanship. 5:20 mark. Awesome.

[Calling out social engineering]

Is restricting people's free movement to forage and hunt about plain and forest a social engineering program that libertarians support?

I'm calling you out!

Is that awesome?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I suppose I deserved that.

[Joe M]

PWND

[Blight Engine]

If I want to do as I please in the wild, I can damn well buy some wild acreage.

Would he still not want property rights once some drunk teenagers decided to build a bonfire out of the shelter he'd busted his butt building against the cold January nights? Or would it be no big deal because it was never his anyway?

[Fist of Etiquette]

7:40, Welch bites the hand that feeds him. It was such a drink! moment that it should have saved for the Happy Hour segment.

[Joe M]

You guys should really post transcripts for the video impaired among us.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bottom video, skip ahead to 7:40. You're welcome.

[Joe M]

FoE, doing God's work in some of the toughest blogs in America.

[Colin]

I didn't watch the second video, but I can say for certainty that, during all my years in Prague, Czech banks gave me anything but orgasms.

[Platypus]

You were in the wrong line.
Yes, I'd like to speak to the.. uh.. "Moan Officer"...

wakka-chakka-wakka-chakka

[Pubic Picasso]

I find these videos extremely easy to masturbate to, except for the parts with Matt Welch.

[Almanian]

See, this is why I visit H&R, right here

[BakedPenguin]

So I guess Reason and RT got over their mini-feud about Syria.

[SugarFree]

They are totes besties again! Yay!

[James Anderson Merritt]

If the bank gives too MANY orgasms, is that a Czech that the body can't cash?

[Almanian]

Oh, cum on...

[BoscoH]

Matt, that reflective table makes your tie look very long.

[Cytotoxic]

It would be nice if libertarians stopped patronizing state propaganda outlets like Russia Today and Press TV with their business. Kind of makes a total hash out of your pro-freedom bona fides.

[Atanarjuat]

Kinda seems like Alyona needs to get laid at the end there. Maybe she's one of those women who ends up alone because guys are too intimidated by her looks.

[Pakhan Mark]

Is good show, yes? Was problem earlier but we send to Gulag.

[Joe M]

Matt, you lived in the Czech Republic? The Friends of Beer sounds like it needs an American branch.