INDCJournal: Things That Move Me About This Interview with Mort Kondracke

June 28, 2006

Things That Move Me About This Interview with Mort Kondracke

Posted by Bill

1. Its avant-garde rejection of commas and hyphens, known in some circles as "antiquated tools of the burgeoise English Establishment."

2. My hostile jealousy over the fact that a blogger other than me scored an interview with my personal pundit hero.

3. The recurring, wistful daydream it stirs: Mort and me, meeting in line at a Capitol Hill Starbucks, strike up an immediate and close friendship characterized by long debates about politics, sage advice and endless, hilarious practical jokes targeted at a sputtering Fred Barnes. Eventually, Mort legally adopts me, teaching me to fish, whittle, oil my baseball glove and tie sailor's knots during our hours upon hours of quality father-son time. We form a private stem cell research company (Mort & Bill's House of Cytotherapy), where we cure cancer, repair spinal cord injuries, virtually eliminate wasting diseases from the medical vernacular and vex both bio-luddites and hard righties into rage-induced apoplexies - the neurological damage and other complications of which we then cure with our magical stem cells!

Sigh.

Anyway, check out the interview. This bit about his relationship with Fred Barnes is interesting:

TUA: So you guys kind of over time came to respect each other and become friends.
Mort: yeah were about as close as you can get.

TUA: Now you guys don't always agree on things but you do agree quite a bit. Did you find yourselves agreeing more over time as you had both been exposed to Washington politics for so long?

Mort: no we're different. You know he's a dyed in the wool conservative. He's a born again Christian, fundamentalist; I don't know Evangelical not Fundamentalist but evangelical. I'm a moderate. I'm liberal on some things conservative on foreign policy. I'm a moderate you know serious Christian but I don't believe every last word in the bible and I think Fred almost nearly does so and I think he's much more conservative socially. I'm for stem cell research. I'm pro-choice, ya know I believe in evolution all that stuff, and he doesn't. And on economics I tend to be a little bit more liberal than he is. I'm basically a free marketer but I believe in estate taxes, I believe in raising the minimum wage. We agree on immigration, lets see, he hasn't met a tax cut he doesn't like. I think it's more important to have enough revenue for the government and not run up big deficits and have to borrow a lot of money so there are things we disagree about.

In foreign policy we tend to agree. I mean, I think he thinks that the Iraq war was the right thing to do, in view of the fact that there were no WMD found. I wonder whether it was the right thing to do, all I think now is that we need to win, so I'm for hanging in there. But weather it was the right thing to do under the circumstances I question but now we have got to win so I'm for it, I support the policy. So we have differences.

Legibility quibbles aside, it's an interesting interview featuring good questions.

(Via AoS)

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Mort is my hero as well, until you get him talking about taxes. He's a big fan of them, and wants me to fork over more. That's a losing issue with me. The government needs to work with the money it makes now, or move out and let someone new do it.

Posted by: Kevin at June 28, 2006 02:18 PM

Thank you for the link and for the laugh Bill.

I just can't take time to correct all the grammer,in an interview as long as this one.

Hopefully after this weekend I can pod cast them.

I have also interviewed Fred Barnes and Juan Williams and a few other folks. If your interested you can see them here

As for the title, it was just too catchy to resist. Although he signed his emails Mort, I always referred to him as Mr. Kondracke.

Posted by: The Ugly American at June 28, 2006 08:04 PM

Me too. Though someday, maybe ... "dad."

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LOL.

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