Peter Suderman Talks Gary Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Star Trek on The Federalist Radio Hour

I joined guest host Mary Katherine Ham on today's edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.

We talked about all things 2016: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Republican and Democratic conventions, Gary Johnson and the possibilities for third-party candidates. Also: Star Trek. 

You can listen to the whole thing below. 

Comments

[ant1sthenes]

Shouldn't you be guest-hosting "All Things Considered"?

[Citizen X]

Y U TLAK JONSSNO U AR LIBRAL PORBALTY MAK CASE FOR HALIRLIALY

[This Machine]

Okay, oooookaaaay, maybe we're going a touch too far with the yokel-caps.

[Citizen X]

You know who else went too far?

[SoCal Deathmarch]

Amelia Earhart?

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

She probably didn't go far enough.

[Crusty Juggler]

Michael Richards?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Gary Larsen?

[IndyEleven]

Cornelius Ryan?

[Raven Nation]

+1 Montgomery's folly.

[Slammer]

Donatella Versace?

[Doctor Whom]

Kylie Minogue?

[R C Dean]

General MacArthur?

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

I think Montgomery would have been the better pick

McArthur 'shall return'.

[R C Dean]

He didn't return to the Yalu River.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

The Starship Enterprise?

[Wizard with a Woodchipper]

The First Allied Airborne Army?

[Stone Cold Snark]

Jared Fogle

[The Fusionist]

You?

[Trump's Penis Logo, Jr.]

A: You can never go to far

B: If I get busted, it's not gonna be by a guy like that

[Fist of Etiquette]

Who would Kirk vote for? Who would Picard? Or Sisko? We all know who Janeway would pull the space lever for.

[Crusty Juggler]

Kirk is an alpha make, so he would vote for Trump.

Picard would probably vote for Jill Stein. Ugh.

[Idle Hands]

Yeah Kirk is a Trumptard all the way. I have to disagree with you on Picard, he's a Bernie Sanders fan in the primary but ends up coming around to support Hillary after the convention.

[Pro Libertate]

You're both wrong. When he votes in past elections, Spock tells him who won, so Kirk just writes in "I AM KIROK!"

[Chipper Morning Wood]

What would Locutus do?

[Idle Hands]

Um Sisko is a Democrat through and through. Have you even seen a picture of him? Something about him just screams democrat.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

It's his eyes, isn't it?

[John Titor]

The weird new age religion stuff?

[Rhywun]

We all know who Janeway would pull the space lever for.

I wouldn't be so sure. She didn't tolerate that prog-title "Sir" and she was pretty handy with a space-rifle.

[Jed Templin]

I think if Sisko were feeling particularly squirrelly that day he'd probably write in McAfee. For him, Clinton would be a non-starter; she's too much like Kai Winn.

[Rhywun]

Sisko spent most of the first season ensuring a free market on the station and thwarting Odo's autocratic tendencies. LP for sure.

[John Titor]

Sisko also had an extreme dislike of power abuse and corruption. A good half of his best freakouts were about inappropriate uses of power.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know what, everyone, I might have been thinking of Star Wars. My bad.

[Crusty Juggler]

Spock would vote for Ben Kenobi.

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

Please, Spock is a Vader supporter all the way. And that's only because Jar Jar caved. Romulans always cave.

[CE]

He's our only hope.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

We all know who Janeway would pull the space lever for.

Best euphemism today.

[CE]

I heard Janeway likes Johnson.

[Crusty Juggler]

We talked about all things 2016: Donald Trump

!!! NO SURPRISE THERE !!!

[R C Dean]

Just to finish up the scorekeeping:

Number of articles last Friday on the RNC convention/election:

16 critical of Trump, one critical of Hillary (AM/PM links not counted).

Number of articles today on the DNC convention/election:

3 critical of Hillary*, one fairly straight reporting article on the Bernie protest during her speech, and two critical of Trump/Repubs (AM/PM links not counted).

[R C Dean]

Dammit, don't know what happened to the finish:

So, that's more than five (5) times as many articles critical of Trump than of Hillary the day after their nominations, and two (2) times as many critical of Trump than of Hillary the day after their opponent was nominated.

And that doesn't count the more qualitative issues re the tone of the stories, why mirror-image stories weren't written that could easily have been sbout Hillary to match one written about Trump, etc.

[tarran]

RC, this is a good thing.

The appropriate coverage of the conventions would have been a number ? one article per day.

They blew way past that limit wasting oodles of man hours and electrons on the RNC.

They did a better job on the DNC.

Hopefully by the time the green party has their convention, Reason magazine will reduce its coverage to levels appropriate to the lack of newsworthiness of political conventions.

[Citizen X]

Tarran HATES political conventions. I think a political convention stole his girlfriend in high school.

[tarran]

Not quite. I just want to return to getting meaningful and timely news articles again.

If I wanted frivolous meaningless shit, I could read about the Taylor Swift's latest feud with Kim Kardashian in people magazine.

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

OMG! Did you see what fatass said about TayTay? And the video! I hope fatass and he retard husband get thrown in the slammer for that shit!

[tarran]

and as far as my girlfriend in high school goes, it was the (((((((((jews))))))))*.

*Literally: her parents didn't like her dating a goy and wanted her to go out with a nice marriageable Jewish boy.

[R C Dean]

Its just that back during the All-Hate All-Trump RNC convention, cooler heads urged that we wait to see if Reason would direct the same level of hostility to Clinton as they did to Trump.

Obviously not. Not even close, not even arguable.

I completely agree that a handful of articles a day would be plenty (absent actual news happening, of course). But, having seized the opportunity of the RNC convention to open the floodgates, its odd that the DNC coverage was so . . . muted in comparison.

Make of it what you will.

[Citizen X]

Hitler?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

No... Goebbels.

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

They did it because they hate you. Not the general you, the specific R C you.

But anyway, WDATPDIM?

[Calidissident]

What do you think the difference in page views and comments between Clinton and Trump articles is? People complain about Trump articles, and there have been a ton from pretty much every media outlet the last year, but when those articles consistently get views and comments, it's hard to blame the media for responding to demand.

Also, one of the Trump-critical articles is from Harsanyi, who doesn't actually work for Reason. They just publish his articles weekly (it has been pretty funny to see Harsanyi go from possibly the favorite person published here among the conservative-leaning crowd to being accused of being a deranged Clintonite just because he's been vocally critical of Trump).

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Just to finish up the scorekeeping:

I see no "johnson score"

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

Euphemism, sad!

[Trigger Hippie]

He's still a solid 8, baby.