The Michael Medved Interview

04 Nov, 2003 by John Hawkins

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Last week, I got together with Michael Medved for a 45 minute long phone interview. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, Michael Medved has written 8 books and used to be one of the premier film critics in America. But today, his columns regularly appear in USA Today and his syndicated talk show reaches 1.8 million listeners in 124 markets.

We talked about a number of things including Michael Medved’s classmates at Yale, Bill & Hillary Clinton, his former boss, Barbra Streisand, Libertarians and why Medved calls them “Losertarians”, how Medved became conservative, the war on terrorism, Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion” which Medved has seen, how the Anti-Defamation League is trying to split apart Christians and Jews, and Hollywood’s love of the “F” word.

Medved pulls no punches in this controversial interview and you won’t want to miss a word of it. (Cont)

***Update #1***: The Libertarians at Reason’s Hit’N’Run have pulled 138 comments about this interview although a good chunk of those posts were because Paleo-conservative/whacko Justin Rainmondo committed a threadjacking….