Watch Nick Gillespie on Fox News' Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld Tonight at 11pm ET

I'll be on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld tonight, along with Patti Ann Brown and series regs Bill Schulz and Andy Levy.

We talk about everything from the Postal Service banning stamps that might encourage kids to do splash dives to Obamacare's disastrous rollout to New York Comic Con's warning about smelly attendees to the government shutdown. 

The episode runs on Fox News at 11pm ET. Go here for more details.

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[Live Free or Diet]

We talk about everything from the Postal Service banning stamps that might encourage kids to do splash dives

When I was a kid we used to shoot at each other with BB guns, go swinging out into a lake on a raggedy rope, ride bicycles up and down slopes that no bike of our day was meant for. Hell, we had fire crackers, cherry bombs, bottle rockets, sparklers, M80s and something we called "Silver Kegs." They would go off even if you tossed them into the water.

According to the nannies none of us should have made it out alive.

[Almanian!]

All of this, plus minibikes, dirtbikes, gokarts (some home made GASP!), motorcycles...and enough pot to drop an elephant.

And yet I am a productive 53%er making a shit ton of money and paying a shit ton of taxes.

Fuck off, slavers...

[TheZeitgeist]

I made a potato launcher in tenth grade that would land me in Gitmo these days.

Thing could cave a car door in from fifty yards away; had way too much recoil to hold. It needed a stand and might be described as a 'crew served weapon.'

[Live Free or Diet]

I made a potato launcher in tenth grade that would land me in Gitmo these days.

Somewhere around here I have a letter from Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (I'll bring the chips!) saying potato canons do not qualify to be under their jurisdiction.

No doubt the USDA will declare it an unregistered food processor and send in their SWAT team to knock on your door with the 120mm main gun of their Abrams.

[tres]

Shouldn't that be "Fuck off and die, slavers". Telling the slavers to fuck off does nothing, them going away permanently solves the problem.

[Francisco d Anconia]

In a fire.

[Ruckus]

You have not lived until you have tied yourself to a car hood and used it as a sled on a steep hill.

Fucking barbwire fence at the bottom always made things interesting.

[JeremyR]

Don't forget Evel Knievel.

He was huge among kids back in the '70s (until he beat up that promoter with a baseball bat).

Jumping over stuff on bikes and getting hurt was very common.

[Fist of Etiquette]

11PM doesn't seem very red eyeish.

[Almanian!]

I like it - means that once a week I might actually see it "live" and not have to DVR it.

[Flak Flak]

A very good report on libertarianism.

[Thane of Steelport]

Die in a fire, racist.

[Irish]

He's posting shit from American Renaissance.

I don't think there's a lower hell for him to sink to.

[Flak Flak]

I'm not a racist, I'm a race realist.

[Eitan]

How can you be a race realist when race isn't real?

[Francisco d Anconia]

No, you're a fucking racist and libertarianism is completely incompatible with racism.

So, please, fuck off and die in a fire...

...pig!

[Flak Flak]

Many leading libertarians have been race realists. The founders of our republic were all race realists.

[SIV]

A "race realist" is someone who would issue an immigration visa to a Swedish vegan Gender Studies professor while denying one to a Mexican stone mason.

[Pathogen]

A "race realist" is someone who would issue an immigration visa to a Swedish vegan Gender Studies professor while denying one to a Mexican stone mason. the Obergruppenf?hrer that keeps the trains running east, and on time...

[Flak Flak]

An "anti-racist" is someone who would issue a visa to the Mexican stone mason and his criminal brother and his sister and her kids she has no means to support, and the gender studies professor, and her Mohammedan terrorist boyfriend.

[Calidissident]

The Founders may have been relatively libertarian for their time, but I don't think any of them would be libertarians in the modern sense. And if you're appealing to the racial views of the late 1700s as some sort of authority, then I don't think I even need to refute that

[Irish]

Race realist is a term exclusively used by racists because they're too cowardly to admit what they are.

[Calidissident]

Indeed. I actually respect (and I use this term loosely here) admitted, open racists more than I respect the Americans of the world, who don't have the balls to admit what they are.

[Flak Flak]

I am a race realist. I don't hate other races, I simply want to understand them.

[Ted S.]

Why couldn't he have posted this in the same post that had the abortion thread this morning?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Interesting. I knew that conservatives were racists but did not know Murray Rothbard endorsed Strom Thurmond. That is pretty disgusting.

[Mint Berry Crunch]

Don't forget though, you're a racist too by one definition I frequently see liberals use: You oppose affirmative action.

[Palin's Buttplug]

I also support the use of team names like the 'Redskins' and 'Braves' so that might make me a racist too.

Many racists are simply unaware. Consider Joe the Plumber just today:

Joe Wurzelbacher, more commonly known as Joe the Plumber, wants Americans to "admit" they "want a white Republican president again."

"Wanting a white Republican president doesn't make you racist, it just makes you American," Wurzelbacher wrote on his website Oct. 10.

Wurzelbacher referred to the time before President Barack Obama was elected president as the "pre-black president era," saying at that time, criticizing the president "meant that you didn't like his policies."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....90529.html

I hear this type of racism often here in Georgia. They mean "I am not prejudiced against blacks. I just don't think they should hold certain jobs"."

[Flak Flak]

And I'd bet you live in a wonderfully diverse community, right?

[mad libertarian guy]

This post was very poorly written, and certainly has a very racist tone, but it does bring up a topic that is likely shared by most people here.

I'd like a white president not because I give a shit about the color of the president's skin, but because, at the very least, political opponents (not to mention the media) would be forced to address my arguments rather than simply calling me a racist for opposing The Light Bringer's policies. Obama being black has allowed for an environment where any criticism of his policy is de facto racism. Even lefties who would normally condemn certain policies (see when Hollywood moguls felt they couldn't speak out against war in Syria for fear of being labeled racist). The last few years have shown that it isn't the right that wasn't ready for a black president, but the left.

[Pathogen]

+1

[Palin's Buttplug]

Conversely, the fact that Obama is black invites an automatic conservative racist rejection of all of his policy moves. So a skepticism is on auto-pilot.

For example, the idiot Bush was given a free pass to launch a trillion dollar ground was in Iraq while Obama met tons of resistance for merely implying that he would launch a few grenades into Syria.

Even the NY Times via Judith Miller gave Bush cover on Iraq.

"Ole Bush is a good Christian conservative white man. Just what we need in the White House" is a view common even on Hit&Run;.

[Flak Flak]

It makes sense that you didn't know that about Rothbard. That's not the kind of thing you hear on left-libertarian publications like Reason.

[Flak Flak]

It makes sense that you didn't know that about Rothbard. That's not the kind of thing you hear on left-libertarian publications like Reason.

[TheZeitgeist]

That's not the kind of thing you hear on left-libertarian publications like Reason.

Reason is lefty-libertarian? Wow. And I'd never heard of American Renaissance - clicking around there was like watching a gruesome car wreck, just morbid fascination.

And you're no 'racial realist.' Racists - not Al Sharpton's version but real actual racists - hate other races. And your linked sites are just full of hate.

One can have a notion that different ethnic groups will have different strengths and weaknesses. Pundit supremo and academic Thomas Sowell, whom I believe you would term a 'monkey,' holds that view himself.

And that 'monkey' is ten times smarter than you, chimp.

[Flak Flak]

To anyone who thinks Reason isn't lefty libertarian, look at their position on anti-discrimination law. They don't have one! But they care a hell of a lot about weed. American Renaissance does not promote hate of other races.

[Kill all the economists]

According to the Reasonistas, Rothbard isn't a real libertarian, but Bill Maher is. Like too many other worthwhile political movements, the progs have co-opted it such that it's just a novel variation of the status quo. One might even suspect the goal of Reason and the cosmotarians was to derail and defang a radical political movement that actually had the potential to catch fire.

See Foseti on cosmotarians.

Supplicants of the Cathedral, one and all.

[mad libertarian guy]

According to the Reasonistas, Rothbard isn't a real libertarian, but Bill Maher is.

Shut the fuck up. You won't find a single person in the commentariat lauding Maher as any kind of libertarian.

[SIV]

Shriek?

[Francisco d Anconia]

Ah. The racist pig is back.

How does it feel to be the lowest form of life on the planet?

You are a disgusting shitstain!

[Flak Flak]

Look at their opposition to war. It appears laudable at first, but then when was the last time you heard them say the words "Israel lobby?" They never mention it. It's like trying to be opposed to abortion without mentioning conservative Christianity. Because political correctness matters much more to them than actually opposing war and imperialism.

[Francisco d Anconia]

I had an awesome afternoon. One Pheasant, one Sharptail Grouse and three Hungarian Partridge.

Life is good!

[SweatingGin]

Nice. Moderately buzzed from an afternoon of homebrew, watching the tiger's game.

Sanchez did 6 no-no innings, a little ugly. Which reminds me of maybe the best baseball moment ever

[Irish]

Which reminds me of maybe the best baseball moment ever

There's a documentary coming out about the LSD no-hitter.

Here's my favorite part of the website:

Thanks to the Center for Independent Documentary you can now make a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE contribution to help fund editing & post-production.

You can lower your tax bill while funding a documentary about a guy who got high on LSD and threw a no-hitter. This is the most libertarian sentence ever written.

[SweatingGin]

Well shit, donating tomorrow.

[Irish]

It looks like it's already funded and has been for over a year. Apparently the documentary is going to run as a 30 for 30 movie during the next batch that ESPN does.

[SweatingGin]

That's good, 'cause after halfway through the vid, it just made me sad.

[wheelock]

That story is amazing. Ill have to check that documentary. Looks like he was a pretty interesting character.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Gots me some Tanqueray and tonic happening.

[SweatingGin]

tanqueray and tonic

[Pathogen]

Mmmmm... Pheassss-ant....

[Francisco d Anconia]

The Huns are as good or better, just a lot smaller.

[Pathogen]

Years ago, I lived in the mid-west, Pheasant hunting was one of my favorite past times. Its been years since I've had one. My beloved Florida has many, many winged creatures... sadly, Pheasant is not one of them...

[mad libertarian guy]

I went to scout for some deer at a WMA (in central KY), but the weeds are still taller than I am, and with a deer trail being the only navigable path through the field, and it being a reasonably warm day for bushwacking through brush (high 70s), my 6 year old son just couldn't hack it after about a mile. They had the only access cabled off (fuckers) so I couldn't get my Polaris Ranger back in there. So we turned around and me and my son did one of his favorite things to do: throwing rocks in to a creek. It was pretty awesome.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Good day! 🙂

[Ted S.]

I've had a 6-pointer in my front yard twice in the past week.

I feel kind of bad for the guy who comes up to hunt on the back 40, since he can't shoot at anything that close to the house.

[SweatingGin]

@anthonylfisher: Jim Leyland just ate 3 nicotine patches.

Pretty sure I did today, too.

[SweatingGin]

Kid. 2 outs in the bottom of the eighth. Go take on Ortiz.

[Hyperion]

Ok, looks like I missed the jacket and that dude with the really furrowed brow on late nite FOX, or something like that.

And we had a racist ranter who wasn't Murikan.

Boring!

[Calidissident]

I'm pretty sure it actually is/was American

[Irish]

It was definitely American assuming that Hyperion is talking about 'Not An Economist.' He linked to American Renaissance, which is a dead give away that it's American.

There was also a second guy who 'just happened' to show up and support Not An Economist. Running a second sock puppet to talk about how right your first sock puppet was is pretty much American 101.

[Hyperion]

Ah, thanks, Irish, I was just assuming that he wasn't Murikan because no one ID'd him already.

And Nick is on Red Eye right now, didn't miss it, but he looks bored and sleepy in you know, A COSMOTARIAN sort of way.

[JeremyR]

Why he goes on Red Eye is beyond me. He never says or does anything, except maybe the occasional "Sure".

Every time he's one, is a time Kennedy could be on. She has a personality, she doesn't have to wear a jacket to substitute for having one.

[Pathogen]

Perhaps he would be more comfortable on.. *shudder*.. Real Time..

[Hyperion]

Actually Nick looks like he can't wait to get the fuck out of there. Sort of like me after a meeting has went past 1 hour...

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

yeah This marquez-bradley fight is a dud.

[Hyperion]

Ok, so Red Eye is over now, and it's time for the NEOCONS to spew their war mongering, *barf*, time to change the channel...

[Pathogen]

But.. but.. I'm almost certain Hannity is going to say something witty, and informative... you are really going to miss out.

[Hyperion]

Yeah, and he's gonna throw his foozball, wow, he's so dreamy...

[Pathogen]

I sense your sarcasm. Why do you hate Fox Nation? America, Hyperion?

[Hyperion]

They made me hate Murkia. I'm not sure who they are, cause I don't has no edumaction, but it's not my fault, I'm a victim.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Next to O'Reilly, Hannity is the biggest asshole on FOX. I think I have more respect for Limbaugh.

[Hyperion]

It's takes a mighty big asshole, like the size of the 535 AD Krakatoa caldera, to be a bigger asshole than O'Reily, gawd that guy is a dick. Not sure if Hannity qualifies, maybe Obama or McCain.

[AlmightyJB]

Idk. I think Hannity, O'Reilly, and Cavuto all hit maximum douchbag on the douchbag meter.

[Francisco d Anconia]

I don't dislike Cavuto. Kinda harmless.

[AlmightyJB]

Every once in a while he'll show his true colors which is that of a egotistical prick.

[PapayaSF]

All of them have huge egos, which I suppose goes with the territory. Limbaugh I find often funny and insightful, and the least annoying. He seems like the nicest, and the sincerest, of the lot.

Hannity is too often a dogmatic partisan, uninsightful, and never witty (though usually as good-humored as a dogmatic partisan can be). He seems like a boringly square ex-frat boy still cheering for his team. I may agree with him on some issues, and like it that he causes fits on the left, but I hate myself in the morning.

With O'Reilly, while I like it that he's not easy to pigeon-hole ideologically, I get the sense that he's partly sincere and partly playing to the crowd. While I'd wager that Limbaugh and Hannity are nice to the "little people" in the real world, I'm not so sure about O'Reilly. I can imagine him yelling at an assistant or a bellboy because something isn't quite perfect. So I'd agree: biggest asshole on Fox.

But if we expand the field to TV assholes in general, I think Olberman wins hands down. Ill-tempered, narrow-minded, self-righteous liberal smarm really pumps up the asshole rating. Rachel Maddow is in contention there, too. Hannity and O'Reilly criticize and sometimes mock their opponents, but they don't seem to drip with condescension like their lefty counterparts.

[Irish]

Maddow is worse than Hannity. Every bad aspect of Hannity, the way his show seems more like pro-wrestling than a news show, his smug demeanor, etc., are all also evident with Maddow. She just dials them up far beyond what Hannity does.

Hannity is smug and self-righteous, but Maddow brings that to another level. She's incapable of arguing in good faith or making a point that doesn't sound like the condescending utterances of a spiteful nanny.

Olbermann annoyed me. I don't like Hannity or O'Reilly. However, I can watch any of their shows without having to change the channel. Maddow is the only pundit whose show I cannot watch. Within 2 minutes I want to change the channel just to get away from that smarmy tone that she adopts regardless of what the story is about.

[Pathogen]

Yeah, the level of smug-douche among the parade of semi functional retards on the MSNBC is truly a sight to behold. It's concentrated in a way not seen since the everlasting gobstopper. The irony of their executives, and producers getting up and thanking god every morning for corporate America, and Comcast in particular for subsidizing that shitbird money chasm, is probably lost on their average viewer (all 5 of them who are not pundits from competing networks looking for red meat and gaffes). Their mortal terror of unbundled cable seems rational, when viewed through the Comcast/MSNBC prism, I suspect it wouldn't last long in the wild...

[mad libertarian guy]

Their mortal terror of unbundled cable seems rational, when viewed through the Comcast/MSNBC prism, I suspect it wouldn't last long in the wild...

If only bundled cable/satellite would fucking die. My internet isn't good enough to make the switch to online streaming (of whichever sort - bit torrent, Hulu, Netflix, whatever other ways I can procure what I want to watch online) from relying on satellite, so I have to have several hundred channels, when just a couple of dozen will do.

MSNBC wouldn't be one of them. None of the cable news channels would be now that I think on it. Maybe CNN. Not necessarily because I value their broadcasts, but because on the very odd occasion a event happens during which you actually want a national news channel. The networks are all fucking terrible beyond belief in their shifty government cocksuckery that is couched better as unbiased in all its seriousness. Places like CNN and MSNBC are unabashedly Team BLUE, while Fox is unabashedly Team RED, but CNN doesn't have the smug-douche factor (outside of Anderson Cooper and the newly added Crossfire with Newcular Titties) that either Fox or MSNBC have.

[Pathogen]

While I agree that some CNN programming isn't necessarily harmful in small doses with minimal exposure time, the LD/50 increases exponentially in proportion to the pundit journalist. Piers Morgan can deliver a brain damaging dose of 450 millisieverts millistupids an hour, more than enough to inflict lasting damage after 2 or 3 sessions. Wolf is somewhat more benign at around ~180 ms/hr. Erin Burnett, Soledad O'Brien, and Anderson Cooper had elevated levels of smug-douche (around ~265-330 millistupids /hr) in post clinical studies, suggesting their material was potentially harmful as well. Now, Tapper (~5-7 ?stupids) is somewhat like Iodine, to Sanjay Gupta's 385 ms/hr ionizing stupid smug-douche insult, but your results may vary...

[Ted S.]

Get rid of bundling, and probably several of those "couple dozen" channels would go, becuase not enough people would subscribe to them to make them profitable.

[Pathogen]

"..I'm not so sure about O'Reilly. I can imagine him yelling at an assistant or a bellboy because something isn't quite perfect..."

Oh yeah, he'll do that.

[AlmightyJB]

These peoples votes count the same as yours.

http://m.nbcnews.com/health/lo.....8C11375653

[Hyperion]

You telling me that there are not big warning labels on the side of all toasters in the UK, warning people to not insert their penis into the toaster?

Fucking barbarians.

[AlmightyJB]

It's hard to imagine how they survived as a people.

[Hyperion]

Well, they're doomed any day now like the rest of us, unless we get MOAR GOVERNMENT NOW!

[lap83]

I'd be interested to know what percent of those men are collecting "benefit" as the Brits would say. I think people with jobs don't generally do stuff like that. Not enough hours in a day

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Japanese : Weird :: American : ?

[Eduard van Haalen]

That question stopped me from getting a perfect SAT score.