But lets start first by showing an appearance of yours, first time on cspan, back in 1986. Here we go. Guest the general point i was trying to make was that the people seem to sort of assume the responsibility. Journalists campaign for hall monitor in second grade and they have been running every since. Jeb bush started late but he had business jobs that depended on celebrity. Christie was from the prosecutors office. And their motives are slightly more suspect because this is the next rung on the ladder for these guys. It is like getting to the nfl or making the major leagues. This is to show you are the king of the group you get to run for president. It is the next step in their profession. Cspan i want to viewers to know they should go to google and type it in ferguson and republican and guest not anymore. Cspan they can find all of your columns or the last several years. That is what i want to do is dip in and talk about the writing. This is a column you wrote early in 2015 about h
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[video clip] Andrew Ferguson the general point i was trying to make is that people seem to sort of assume the responsibility, journalists assume the responsibility to become experts in everything, in every manner of public debate and hold forth on them and i do not see that they have done much work, Much Research on the pieces that they do. I think that in magazines like the spectator, you seldom see people popping off for the sake of popping off. Brian lamb that was 1986. Andrew ferguson looks like i had taken a quaalude or something. I remember i could smoke during the interview, thats how long ago it was. Brian lamb only callin show somebody called up any of lung dying of lung cancer and said put that cigarette out, and that might have been the last time anyone smart. Anyone smoked on the show. Andrew ferguson christopher hitchens. Brian lamb you have been a pundit all your life . Andrew ferguson i would hate to think i was a pundit. It was interesting to think about that, 30 years
Lets start with showing an appearance of years, your first time on cspan in 1986. Andrew ferguson the general point i was trying to make is that people seem to sort of assume the responsibility, journalists assume the responsibility to become experts in everything, in every manner of public debate and hold forth on them and i do not see that they have done much work, Much Research on the pieces that they do. I think that in magazines like the spectator, you see people popping off for the sake of popping off. Brian lamb that was 1986. Andrew ferguson looks like i had taken a quay looter something. I remember i could a qualude or something. I remember i could smoke during the interview, thats how long ago it was. Brian lamb only callin show, somebody called up any of lung cancer and that might have been the last time anyone smart. Andrew ferguson crist for hitchens. Brian lamb christopher hitchens. Brian lamb you have been a pundit all your life . Andrew ferguson i would hate to think i
Need to do that, but we are determined to have the localities to participate in it. And also what you might call or they call it here the poststabilization forces. That is another issue. That is an area we are working on. Mosul, the scale of the city the police officers, the local services, needed to be provided, bear in my we have a clock that is ticking and we have refugees inside the country. Refugees always create social upheaval in any area they go to because of the nature of that problem itself, accommodations schools, everything else. We need them to go back to their homes. It is an area we have come to before, that politically we know each other, preconditions of localities. As far as washington is concerned, and i am an open book, as you know. In essence, there are quite a few requests we have made. The key issue we have had has been the administration. The administration has been very understanding of the challenges. Because of the people and the traffic flow on both sides an