When: Thursday, 3 PM EST
Where: Rightalk Radio
Guests: Ace, from Ace of Spades HQ, Val Prieto, from Babalublog.com.
Topics: The state of political discourse; social cons vs. libertarians; pop-culture; Cuban-Americanism; literacy rates; free health care.
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Disclaimer: Sometimes, radio shows just aren’t very interesting.
Offer: If you have any questions you’d like me to ask Ace, leave them in the comments. You asked some great questions last time. Keep it up.
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We still need questions for Ace. Anything you’d like us to ask? Leave your suggestions in the comments.
Also, don’t forget you can call in and ask Bill and me questions, too. Don’t be shy. And anyway, we like to feel included.
Hey, good for Val. Hell of a good guy.
Val, the font selection on your blog is difficult to read and it makes my head spike with pain like the time I remembered about the priest and the touching and the burning. Would you ever consider changing it?
Ace, tell us about your in-jokes.
Hey guys, Sorry to threadjack. I’m going to try my hand at designing a t-shirt featuring the logos of some prominent right-wing blogs and give the design to one of the right-wing t-shirt printers. I want it to be similar to the “life is full of choices” shirts and just basically be a montage of logos and urls. So tell me which blogs you would like to appear and I will seek their permission – or alternately- if you run one of them just give me your url and e-mail address indicating you would like to be included. I will be accepting logos in any format you have – but would prefer eps or pdf files. Leave a comment on my site at http://www.conservativeright.blogspot.com, or e-mail me at .
I don’t give a crap what Ace “wants”; I NEED to know what his obsession with Kim Richards is all about (merely to justify my own obsession with Kim Richards).
Pleasing Ace usually means I’m going to have bloody stools in the morning.
I mean he likes to come round my house with his cheap valu-rite vodka, and sit on a stool at my breakfast bar till he falls off, usually cracking his head on the table and getting blood everywhere.
Turing Word : Word – as in ‘You can take my word for it, but not Ace’s cos he’s a lying sack of crap’.
No inside Ace jokes? Loose shit, man.
Jeff,
Your voice and Bill’s sound an awful lot alike on-air. Would either of you mind ever so much using one of those cool voice modulators they use for witness protection? Thanks so much.
Oh, and I understand Ace’s voice sounds like a pre-pubescent Paul Anka so don’t let him use the modulator. Thanks again.
I had no trouble telling Jeff and Bill apart.
See, guys –
Kelly thinks one of you needs a timbre-changing punch in the nuts before the show as well.
But, on to the questions that will not be asked.
BAM
Ace, you recently were heard to say “screw hobbit holes, I’m building Minas fucking Tirith” … my question is, do you live near some easily minable substrata or were the drugs particularly good that week.
BAM
Ace, Miller Analogy Test qeustion:
‘slice like a hammer’ : ‘like kryptonite to stupid’ ::
_____________ : “Oliver Willis”
BAM
Ace, I have a really, really funny knock-knock joke to tell you … okay here it goes, you start
{pause}?
{pause}?
Real good, Ace … way to keep up with the times
BAM
Ace –
Has Tom DeLay become the StayPuft Marshmallow man to the ‘soft-right’ … rendering them into an Igon-like state where they’re incapable of rationale thought.
Does the soft right like to be called the soft right – or would they prefer the term ‘Flaccidian’?
BAM
Ace – I don’t read your site so much as cut-and-paste your text to this Text-to-Speech program and listen to your blog. Your stuff sounds better if you were, in fact, a French woman named Juliette.
Did you know that?
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
BAM
Ace,
Allah thinks you’re due for blogger burn-out. I’ve got $10 that says you’ll be blogging until Memorial Day. Your thoughts?
For Ace:
Your first Instalanche occured while you were out of town and actually wasn’t a ‘lanche after all. Is Glenn Reynolds a sick, malevolent Machiavelli?
Is nanotechnology treatable with ordinary antibiotics?
Delinking. Justifiable action or a desperate cry for help?
Will codpieces be the “new black” this year?
If Andrew Sullivan boarded a plane in New York and it headed south by southwest at 450 knots with a slight headwind, at what hour would he cease to be a whiny, one-note, harridan of the blogoshpere?
We’re all familiar with the “I’ve had it with blogging, I’m going on indefinite hiatus” schtick. Have you ever considered threatening to blog more if people didn’t toss more coin your way?
Speaking of Sullivan and cash, if you raised 80 grand on your blog, would you blow it on hookers and valu-rite vodka?
I just recently started reading ACE. I’m not sure I am totally in sync with him yet enough to ask questions. Although since I seem to be the only social con around these parts, perhaps I should do my part.
Well, RWS, if you read the flame war thread at Ace’s … that should fully prepare you to read his site. Although … Cederford didn’t participate. That was the missing link there.
Oh, I dunno, RWS; I’m often social-con-ish, more so than most secular libertarians anyway.
Or I would be if it weren’t for Jeff Gannon’s mesmerising cock. But that goes without saying.
Is this show going to be replayed on RightTalk like the first one? I can’t listen during the regular hour, but I’d be inclined to do so later if it were available.
When will Frehley’s Comet have a new album out?
Ace –
When you post that you’d give up blogging for some of that “Gannon/Guckert 8” Cock” … you were being metaphorical, right?
BAM
Ace – Jeff asks to be added to blogrolls, and is subject to delinking from blogrolls, yet he doesn’t have a blogroll – and is a Jew.
Is he a putz or what?
BAM
Ace –
Is the Enemy of Your Enemy Your Friend?
Do you sleep with them on the first date?
BAM
Ace –
Several people who know you irl remark that you’re the kind of guy who makes a public display of buying the first round of drinks, and then trys to make it through the rest of the night remarking ‘But, Hey! I bought the first round!” … is that true?
BAM
Ace –
If you could add scent to your blog – what would it be? A musky sandalwood? Old Spice? Drakkar? Blogoiste?
BAM
Ace –
Who was hotter – Linda Gray or Mighty Isis?
BAM
Ace –
You have a Headquarters.
What franchising opportunities are there for Ace of Spades brand blogs?
Do you charge a fee?
BAM
Ace –
Which word is more over-used on blogs “meme” or “risible”?
BAM
Ace –
Which Chick Blogs to you read?
A Small Victory?
Virgina Postrel?
Baldilocks?
Small Dead Animals?
Protein Wisdom {Jeff writes like a girl, you’d have to admit}?
TalkLeft?
BAM
Val–is tourism good or bad for the average Cuban? What will happen when/if the travel embargo is lifted?
I haven’t seen a lot about refugees making a go of it on rickety boats lately. Why is that?
BumperStickerist..ummmm…you forgot one…and he DOES read it.
Ace-
Why did you decide to make your blog humorous, rather than strictly political?
Do you think that the rude language and sex jokes hurt your numbers because they make you seem less serious and respectable, or do they help to make you stand out among so many competitors-P.J. O’Rourke style?
If I knew why he began blogging in the first place I probably wouldn’t have to ask this, but there it is. Jeff could probably say something about it too.
Oh, and this comes from someone who generally only reads funny blogs.
Ace: According to you, no one is listening to this (cough) broadcast, so just between us, what’s the deal with you and that hottie, Malkin?
Ace: Are you truely “A Helpful Hardware Man?”
He said no one listens?
Fucker.
Two sort of serious:
Do Cedarford-types play an important role in developing a community of blog commenters?
He’s one of my favorite bloggers, but I still think of him as a poor-man’s Allah. Does that make him want to punch me in the face?
Two not-so serious:
Has he ever tried to get an interview with Paul Anka?
Is the lack of recent cowbell an indication that the economy isn’t doing very well?
Ace or Jeff
Why didn’t either of you write about the reception given to Jeff Gannon at the National Press Club? It was on C-Span–and between the panel and the audience it was like the Salem Witch Trial.
Have you ever considered selling items on your site with the Ace of Spades logo? Like T-shirts? If not, why not?
That would be a question for Ace.
? for Ace:
Rumor has it you slice like a fuckin’ hammer. Is that Just. The. Fucking. Way. It. Is?
Ace,
If we listen to the broadcast, do we get shirts? The guys need shirts. Of course, we realize that you’re the only important one in the studio, but we still need shirts.
Signed,
The guys
Spottswoode: A question for Ace.. Ace, have you ever seen a man eat his own head ?
Ace of Spades: No…
Spottswoode: So then you HAVENT seen everything ..
Ask Ace what kind of audience he thinks his writing attracts.
He’s also said that his audience is largely male. Why?
Oh, and if you have time, ask him to define the difference between D&D, LARPing, and the SCA.
Later,
bbeck
ummm … hi .. first time blog commentor – long time reader … my question is for Ace …
Which is the more definitive 80 movies ‘Remo Williams – The Adventure Begins’ or ‘Rustler’s Rhapsody’?
Remo Williams.
Of course.
Jeez.
Ahhh…The House of Sinanju.
For Ace,
Inquiring minds need to know- when you go out on your “man-dates” and see a movie, have you given up the need for a homo seat?
I can’t believe nobody’s asked the following question:
“Where’s Joe?”
And who’s Kevin?
His audience is largely male? It appears to me that it’s pretty well balanced. No sense going down the list of women who post there. And apparently, he wasn’t paying attention last week when Sondra picked up Megan at his site. Come to think of it, if his audience really is mostly male, that might be why. Who doesn’t like hot lesbian action??
Spamword, “turned,” as in…..mmm, better not.
Ace,
Have you ever called a spade a spade or did you, through ignorance, call a spade a mattock?
BAM
Have you ever watched Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” while holding a razor blade .. stroking your eyebrows … at the planetarium? Just wondering…
BAM
Brian Eno is one of the most influential, yet relatively little known, figures in rock/pop/alternate music – is Karl Rove the Brian Eno of politics?
BAM
Do you know who grew the Freaky’s Tree?
BAM
Quake?
Quisp?
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The correct answer is “King Vitamin”
BAM
Body on Tap required a warning label reminding people to not drink shampoo … will you finally admit that was you and that you were simply trying to wash your hair from the inside out?
BAM
Which is more a more worrisome scenario – Jack Bauer becoming a terrorist or Sydney from Alias becoming one?
BAM
Isn’t it somewhat ghey for Duncan Black to refer to himself as ‘atrios’ when everybody knows he’s Duncan Black? I mean … hello! … time to stop wearing the Underoos and playing Captain Schmitty-o there, Dunc.
BAM
Within the past year there have been a spate of ‘Blogger Births’ .. people who blog having kids added to their families through miracle of birth followed by the purple veiny horror of afterbirth .. does that give lie to the notion that bloggers are pajama wearing geeks who have nothing better to do?
BAM
If a Blogging Secret Santa were held – $10 gift maximum – what gift would you get for the following bloggers:
Virginia Postrel
Matthew Yglesias
Kos
Hugh Hewitt
Glenn Reynolds
Oliver Willis
Ezra Klein
John Aravosis
BAM
Was that you I saw at GenCon wearing the linen table cloth with the hole and the rope belt with a Spade sort of dyed in to the fabric?
BAM
George Bush’s iPod – deep insight into the soul of the man or just some techno-gadget that an aide put together for him?
BAM
Sandy Berger said he destroyed classified documents he spirited away from in his clothing using a pair of scissors ..
my question is “How is it that a former National Security Adviser doesn’t own a personal shredder, like the kind that they sell in Staples for $15, $20 for the cross-cut model? I mean scissors ? Jeez …”
BAM
Craig, Ace has called his site a “sausage hang” on many occasions. I assume that means it is predominantly a male hangout. I shudder to think what ELSE that could mean.
Later,
bbeck
Christ, they’ll find any excuse to brag about how “largely” male they are…
<rimshot>
Unless he means that his audience is largely male but has, you know, a feminine side.
<Margaret Cho>
. . . and Margaret Cho has never met a rimshot she didn’t like.
Whatever do you mean?
VERY GOOD INSIDER QUESTIONS FOR ACE:
1) Weren’t you one of the original “Fraygrants” at the first incarnation of Slate’s the Fray where Glenn Reynolds got his internet start?
2) Isn’t it true Glenn Reynolds joined the Fray long after you did and immediately wanted to be your friend, that you spurned him, and that the reason Instapundit refuses to link your site to this day is because of that rejection?
3) Will you ever change your name back to “BullElephant”?
4) Weren’t you kicked off the Fray during the time you used the name “BullElephant”?
5) Which ass you rather tap: a) Maureen Dowd, b) Wonkette, c) Tina Brown, or d) Jeff Gannon?
The Citizen-Journalist Drinking Game
– Beer Edition –
Each time any of the following takes place – chug a beer – one of those 5 ounce size glasses found at VFW posts and local tap rooms – upscale C-J listeners can pour beer in a white wine glass – downscale C-J listeners just drink from the bottle until you need to take a breath.
______________________________________________
Drink if:
: The call-in number of the show is given incorrectly
: Oliver Willis is referred to by something other than his proper name
: the word ‘pie’ is used
: Bill interrupts Jeff
: Jeff interrupts Bill
: Bill and Jeff share an awkward silence, neither sure who should speak next.
: Bill and Jeff talk simultaneously to cover the silence
: a producer is overheard on-air using profanity.
: the word ‘heuristic’ is used by someone other than Jeff
: Bill offers to jam his signifier up Jeff’s signified.
Shots and Beers!
Do a shot along with the beer if:
: Allah calls in as ‘Allah’ during Ace’s segment
: Bob Schieffer calls in to support his old friend Bill Ardolino
: Oliver Willis makes it on air and doesn’t sound like he’s eating Jell-O brand pudding
Jeff, Bill, and Ace: O tempora, O mores!
As a nation we are largely under-educated and over-entertained, under-nurished and over-fed, and we don’t even know it. Has it always been this way?
What’s it going to take to shake this nation out of being fat, happy, and stupid? (and don’t give me a bunch of crap about punctuation and spelling.)
Jeff, Bill, Ace:
What do you think of Boortz?
Is Rush a closet Neolib?
What the hell is up with James Dobson?
Jeff/Bill: Are you going to have Mike Adams on the show anytime soon? Walter Williams?
hmmm
… from the Official RighTalk Radio webad
as seen on, I think, Powerline:
That’s some quality marketing behind the show – so to speak.
Hey! What happened to O-Dub? He bail on you again?
Ace – which side (Conservative/Liberal) makes a better attempt at criticizing its own excesses (e.g. Tom Delay, Sandy Berger, Trent Lott, Bill Clinton?)
As a follow-up, why are the Congressional Republicans such spineless wussies? And I mean that with all due respect.
Jeff,
I did not say “no one listens.” Many people listen. The chronically unemployed, the shut-ins, the lunatics who have conned their psychiatrists into allowing them internet access.
I just keep noting that I’m going to be on coughInternetcough “radio.”
Which I think is a fair description.
No offense intended. I’d kill to be part of such a goofball venture.
Question for Val Prieto, if I’m not too late for the show.
Aren’t monolithic voting blocks taken for granted by the parties, both Republican & Democrat?
–j.scott barnard