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Legacy of Ashes
Did anyone see when Colbert had O'Reilly on his show (well he was brought in through video)? At one point I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe.
He and Stewart are just not human. They are just too quick with the comeback. It’s like their minds just run faster or something.
I just read Tim Weiner's History of the CIA "Legacy of Ashes". It was an interesting read but man is Weiner an arrogant prick. There is not a single person in the book he doesn't make completely look incompetent except maybe George H.W. Bush.
He makes Carter and Clinton both look like total idiots. I don't think I agreed with one thing Carter did, and I disagreed with much of what Clinton did, but you can't call these two men stupid. He also tried to make Nixon and Kissinger sound like they knew nothing about foreign policy.
If he knows so much why doesn't he run the agency? It is just too easy to be an arm chair quarterback and second guess everything the team does.
I don't read the NYT but is he always this critical and arrogant? But if you can put up with his arrogant criticisms and condescending attitude the history part of it is pretty interesting. The guy definitely did his research and has a lot of information that has just recently come to light about all sorts of stuff like the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy Assassination and Iran-Contra.
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