| John Batchelor Show

China Wipes Bloggers

With co-host Gordon Chang, Forbes.com: Sarah Cook, senior research analyst for Freedom on the Net and East Asia at Freedom House, in re: XI Jinping, new Chinese leader: over the next decade, he'll supposedly take us toward _____. In fact, he censors, abuses, harasses Internet users in PRC....
May 23, 2013 0

Is Nixon a Fair Comparison?

Tuesday 21 May 2013 / Hour 3, Block A: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: Nixon Is a Fair Comparison Corner (National Review Online)
May 22, 2013 0

Radio Exclusive: CIA Honored Benghazi Chief in Secret

Tuesday 21 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent, Newsweek/Daily Beast, in re: Exclusive: CIA Honored Benghazi Chief in Secret Ceremony. Part of why the State Department has taken the brunt of the political blame for the Benghazi attack, writes Eli Lake,...
May 21, 2013 0

Trifecta Scandals

Monday 20 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Lara M Brown, Villanova and Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re: trifecta scandals. Day after day, irrespective of the subject of the latest dust-up, we've heard a similar refrain from the West Wing: "The President was not aware. The White House...
May 20, 2013 0

Storm Clouds over Oklahoma & Washington

Monday 20 May 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: John Avlon, CNN, The Daily Beast, and Newsweek International; John Fund, National Review Online; David M Drucker, Washington Examiner sr Congressional correspondent, in re: Mayor of Oklahoma City, Nick Cornett, en route back to town from a trade mission...
May 20, 2013 0

Turkey & Syria: Into Darkness

Thursday 16 May 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Rose Garden conversation today between the Turkish PM Mr Erdogan and the American president; it started to rain; the president called in the Marines. Syria: the PM was stronger abt Assad leaving than...
May 19, 2013 0

Outback Economics

Thursday 16 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: John Roskam, Australia, in re: $20bil deficit in Australia; Gillard claims a "sledgehammer" has been take to the budget – but it turns out that revenues are rising rapidly, and govt hasn’t a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. In parliament,...
May 18, 2013 0

Benghazi Document Dump

Thursday 16 May 2013 Guest: co-host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Larry Johnson, NoQuarter, in re: intelligence community was out in front; then White House, then State. It was the policy people returning to intell demanding changes; intell agreed under pressure from State and WH – who were second-guessing...
May 17, 2013 0

Cloak & Dagger Scandal

Wednesday 15 May 2013/ Hour 3, Block A: Rep Devin Nunes (CA-21), in re: The IRS dragnet included ht gallery of the House of Representatives: issue of the separation of powers between Executive and Legislative. The press there is reporting on the Legislative, who've been spied on by the...
May 16, 2013 0

Hong Kong's CY Leung: More Unpopular Than the IRS?

Wednesday 15 May 2013/ Hour 2, Block A: Mike Davis, professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in re: the screening of candidates in Hong Kong. XI speaks of economic control, but looks to increasing Party control. The success of China rests on the success of Hong Kong – can he risk...
May 15, 2013 0