NBC Gives Author Platform to Bash Rick Santorum as a 'Crazy Man' That 'No One Would Believe'
Hawking his new novel on Wednesday's NBC Today, author Josh Bazell launched into a rant against the GOP and Rick Santorum specifically: "If I were to create a character who, say, had been the senator from Pennsylvania...get up at a debate and say that global warming was a hoax and that we had to change the Constitution to limit the rights of gay people. No one would believe that." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Bazell, son of NBC medical correspondent Robert Bazell, further proclaimed: "And if I said then, you know, that the entire Republican establishment sat quietly through this, no one stood up and said, 'You know, that's a crazy man talking,' it would just seem like I was being biased." For his part, weatherman Al Roker simply nodded along with the liberal screed, offering no objection.
Bazell concluded: "If you're going to approach the Republican establishment, which I wanted to do in a book about sort of belief and the policies that come from rationality vs. irrationality, you kind of have to skirt towards the real."
As an afterthought, Roker remarked: "But you can probably do just the same with the – on the Democratic side as well." Bazell assured him: "Oh, absolutely. And in fact, I do a little bit in the book." However, Bazell refrained from smearing Democrats on air.
Here is a transcript of Roker's February 8 exchange with Bazell:
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AL ROKER: But there's a lot of dark humor, and also, I got to love a book where there's a former mob hitman turned doctor and you also work Sarah Palin in.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: "Wild Thing"; Bazell's Tale: Jaws, Lionel Azimuth & Sarah Palin]
JOSH BAZELL [AUTHOR, WILD THING]: Yeah, yeah. She needed to be there. You know it's, there's certain things that it's hard to do realistically in a novel. For instance, if I were to create a character who, say, had been the senator from Pennsylvania, as Rick Santorum was – Rick Santorum does not appear in the novel – and I had this character get up at a debate and say that global warming was a hoax and that we had to change the Constitution to limit the rights of gay people. No one would believe that.
ROKER: No.
BAZELL: And if I said then, you know, that the entire Republican establishment sat quietly through this, no one stood up and said, "You know, that's a crazy man talking," it would just seem like I was being biased.
ROKER: Yeah.
BAZELL: If you're going to approach the Republican establishment, which I wanted to do in a book about sort of belief and the policies that come from rationality vs. irrationality, you kind of have to skirt towards the real. Obviously it's not-
ROKER: But you can probably do just the same with the – on the Democratic side as well.
BAZELL: Oh, absolutely. And in fact, I do a little bit in the book.
ROKER: In fact, the book has been so successful Leonardo DiCaprio has optioned it, it's going to be an HBO series.
BAZELL: Correct.
ROKER: That's pretty cool stuff.
BAZELL: It is, it's awesome.
ROKER: Wow, well, congratulations. It is a terrific book, it is called "Wild Thing." And I just love this character, I think everybody else will too.
BAZELL: Thanks so much, and I love your books.
ROKER: Oh, thank you, Josh. That's high praise indeed coming from you. I thank you.
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Comments
What exactly is rational and
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:44pm.
What exactly is rational and logical about homosexual behavior? What is rational and logical about undefining marriage? Libs need to open up and admit their views stem from the emotional and not reason.
Not even emotion
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 2:13pm.
They have a mental disorder above and beyond liberalism. "Activist" homosexuals as a group, are about the most selfish people in America. If marriage is allowed to be redefined as anything but 1 man, 1 woman, then all that's left to do is redefine "consenting" and "adult." Then any combination of beings, of just about any age, will define "marriage."
Anyone that doesn't see that happening in the next 30 or 40 years must still think that non-smokers only want a separate place on the airplane for smokers.
Correcto, Phil, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 3:36pm.
... except it ain't going to take any 30 or 40 years.
They are already cranking up the argument for legalizing every perverted form of "looooooove making" on the planet just in anticipation of same-sex marriage succeeding.
My favorite term is "intergenerational love." Ain't that a great name for child molesters?
Kind of makes me wonder what people will think of when they hear the term "puppy love" in about 5 years. What will it really mean when your 13 year old son says that all he wants for his birthday is a little pu$$y? Is he a transvestite-in-waiting, gay, future president of LuGButT International, wants "The Operation" now, or is he really normal and just wants a kitten for his birthday?
See what a problem it can become?
Time to lower the age of consent
Submitted by Max Frisson on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:59pm.
At 13, it's not a feline that the boy be wanting!!!
In America the common age of consent is 18 same as Turkey
Spain 13
France 15
Germany 14
England 15
I shagged my first girl in my parent's room at the Greenbrier at age 13 [week before I turned 14], she was 16 I think, old enough that she had a car.
Get the idea? Welcome to Home of Prudes USA. Let's lower Age of Consent 15, age of majority to 18.
It's the tyranny of the 2%
Submitted by frank14 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 2:33pm.
It's somehow logical that we redefine the institution of marriage to please 2% of the population.
It's hawking
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:42pm.
Hawking a book, not "hocking," which is selling to a pawnbroker.
No one would believe
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:51pm.
No one would believe Santorum. But he just took three states in the primary.
batting .500
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:58pm.
Rick has won 4 of the 8 primaries/caucuses so far.
The Make Believe Media has to change the subject away from that.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Roker? LOL. What, was Willard Scott unavailable?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:57pm.
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You know what's really crazy?
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 1:02pm.
Taking something that's worked for 3,000 years, and trying to make it "better", by making it more "inclusive".
Where's the rationality in that?
How did that axiom go again? If it ain't broke....
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Here's an idea for a novel!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 1:05pm.
The USA elects a guy to be president who nobody can say for sure was even born in this country; no one can say they ever even saw him in college, much less see anything he ever wrote or what grades he made; who nobody can say where he got the money for all his education and travels; no woman has ever come out and said that he dated her or anyone else; who has several SSN's from states he never lived in; whose mom was a commie ho who got knocked up by an African Muslim who was already married to several other women; who was raised by his commie ho/mom's next Muslim "husband" in Indonesia; who thinks that the caterwauling Muslim call to prayer is "the most beautiful sound on earth;" and who promised, PROMISED!, to "fundamentally transform this nation" that is the greatest Republic on the planet, and doesn't ever say exactly what he plans on transforming it into!!!
... and the majority of the voters elected him!!
Now would anyone in his right mind believe a novel like that was possibly true in any way, shape, or form?
Hell no!
Surprise, surprise.
Only a science fiction editor
Submitted by celator on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 5:32pm.
Only a science fiction editor might publish the novel. Any other type of editor would reject the manuscript as beyond ridiculous.
Which, celator, is exactly how both ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 8:05pm.
Obama's tenure and administration have turned out.
Beyond ridiculous, indeed.
Surprise, surprise.
Indeed.
The surprise being, at least for me, that it has turned out far worse than I expected; and that there are so many bone chillingly stupid people in this country who are absolutely in love with Obama and his nasty visaged wife, the Queen of Travel and Spend.
MD
And if not in love
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 1:31pm.
And if they weren't in love with him and his nasty visaged wife(I like that!), they are far more than willing to accept him and his shenanigans anyway and care not one whit of how they violate the Constitution, even today he bypassed Congress yet again.
Doesn't matter what it is he's doing, he said in the SOTU that he'll do things without Congress and he is. He's put on his dictator hat and coat, he looks ridiculous in it, and no one seems to care enough to stop him, not even the American people, especially the majority who voted for him.
Ahhh, truth is stranger than fiction indeed, especially when you wish it WAS fiction.
-Jon
Calling your opponents "crazy" isn't science
Submitted by lgeubank on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 2:10pm.
These people who claim to be science experts, and then try to discredit opponents of their fads and enthusiasms by calling names, are amazing.
Calling your opponent "crazy" is not a scientific argument, and it doesn't prove global warming. You can't make people believe in the "hockey stick" graph by ad hominem attacks.
The fact that leftists resort to that kind of argument just shows that their notions of science are severely deficient. They're scientifically defective.
Politics and anti-industrialism with a veneer of scientific jargon isn't science.
He's not a scientist
Submitted by Conservator on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 3:33pm.
Josh Bazell has a B.A. in English Literature and earned his MD at Columbia University. Thus, when it comes to his misguided view on Anthropogenic Global Warming, just remember he's another leftist pushing a hoax without the scientific background to understand the Earth's history of climate change. I doubt he could answer a simple question like how much CO2 and other green house gases in the atmosphere are caused by human activities.
Here's an article that actually answers the question and it might surprise you.
Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
Another physician?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 5:59pm.
Oh brother. Looking at the reviews of his book and the excerpts publicly available, he definitely is not a psychiatrist.
So, in other words this guy is selling his book & his HBO series
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 2:21pm.
and NBC, frothing at the mouth as ever, is giving him a free platform to bash Republicans and conservatives in general.
So far, from a purely psychiatric viewpoint, Bazell's viewpoint of rationality versus irrationality is incorrect, and no amount of liberal claptrap will change that.
Nepotism is an ugly thing
Submitted by frank14 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 2:32pm.
Would he have even be let past the door to Rockefeller Center if he wasn't the son of the medical correspondent?
Not just nepotism
Submitted by Skunk Ape on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 3:11pm.
Don't forget, he was trashing a Repuplican, so that prbably would have gotten him in the door.
It is NBC
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 4:04pm.
I Do Not understand did you think that the premier DNC propaganda network (NBC) would provide any facts that would be less than inspirering of the Obama administration? What drugs are you on?
NBC (and affiliates) are full of “Obama bots” they repeat verbatim the Obamas, DNC, liberal talking point. Facts mean nothing, truth means nothing and honesty does not exist if it cannot be bent to meet the agenda. The possibility of finding a straight fact, truth or any honesty on this networks would take the second coming.
This networks no longer even try to hide their bias and openly proclaim their devotion to the Obama administration. They would be fine with an Obama announcement that he would no longer acknowledge the Constitution or the Bill of Rights (like he does).
They would be publishing and propagandizing how wonderful it would be for American society within seconds of the announcement. They do not understand what honest reporting is everything they produce is based on their options and their feelings; truth and facts mean nothing only the liberal agenda is valid.
In Lib-speak "no one" means most people
Submitted by T Walt on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 6:30pm.
"If I were to create a character who('d).....say that global warming was a hoax and that we had to change the Constitution to limit the rights of gay people. No one would believe that."
I guess "No one" refers to the majority of the American people.
t
Here they come for Rick
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 8:14pm.
Let me tell you, hope Rick has been paying attention to the smears on Bachmann, Cain, and Newt