Walker’s interview debacle: How the movie “Trading Places” explains the Iran/Israel conflict!

[DonViejo]

Scott Walker’s interview debacle: How the movie “Trading Places” explains the Iran/Israel conflict!

A friendly interview with righty Hugh Hewitt gave Walker a do-over on his foreign policy flubs. Um, it didn't work

JOAN WALSH

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely viewed as botching his early opportunity as nominal frontrunner for the 2016 GOP nomination. Even on the right, some former admirers are lamenting Walker’s early mistakes handling questions about evolution, President Obama’s religion and how he would handle ISIS (he memorably compared the challenge to battling pro-union Wisconsin protesters in 2011.)

On Wednesday the National Review’s Eliana Johnson reported that even on the right, “the whispered doubts about whether Walker can successfully scale up are louder than ever.”

So Wednesday evening Walker visited the friendly confines of Hugh Hewitt’s radio show to get a do-over on some of his early flubs. With Hewitt’s careful coaching and supportive framing, Walker mostly did OK. But he still sounds like a high schooler trying to remember cram sessions when he’s talking about the Middle East. He talked tough on Iran, promising to overturn any nuclear deal struck by Obama “on Day One.” He took a Palinesque jab at the president as a “community organizer” who doesn’t know how to lead. Then he got even sillier, illustrating the Iran-Israel conflict with a reference to the movie “Trading Places.”

Walker: I remember the movie in the 80s, Trading Places…

Hewitt: Right.

Walker: …you know, with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, it’s like Iran and Israel are trading places in the sequel. In the eyes of this president, our ally is supposed to be Israel. Our adversary has been historically Iran. And yet this administration completely does it the other way around. We need to call radical Islamic terrorism for what it is, and a commander-in-chief who’s willing to act.

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[LuvNewcastle]

1. Oh yeah, I can't discuss foreign policy

in the Mideast without bringing up Trading Places. The Breakfast Club reminds me of economics, and Sixteen Candles can't be mentioned without a follow-up conversation on race relations. Those 1980's filmmakers were obviously deep intellects.

[calimary]

7. And I'm sure the ENTIRE republi-CON party belives it's under siege with its collective victimhood!

Like that "Home Alone" kid!

Just further proof this pampered little pipsqueak is NOT ready for prime time. And probably doesn't have it in him ever to be so. I heard him described yesterday on MSNBC as coming off like "the most important City Councilman" - with that small-time world-view, totally not ready for the big time, or the big show.

[DetlefK]

2. Trading Places. A movie that says that we are basically all the same.

And that movie is used as an argument to conserve hostilities, no matter what.

[calimary]

8. Sounds like he got the message from that movie as clearly as ted cruz got the message

from "Green Eggs and Ham."

I think this is what you get when you have this grooming thing that the GOP set up long ago. They'd take small-time players from the hinterlands who looked like they had some mojo and groom them, bring them along, school them in those wrong-wing one-sided think tanks, and teach them all the proper talking points and one-liners and zingers and slogans, and the deliberate repetition thereof, but it's less than an inch deep. They're a bunch of bots. And they really can't sustain on their own once they get into the BIG arena where the all training wheels are taken away.

This guy got pushed (or sweet-talked and flattered) into the deep end of the big pool - after having been formally relieved of his water wings.

[11 Bravo]

3. And "Legally Blonde" forms the basis for his judicial philosophy.

What a clown!

[tridim]

4. The entire GOP is "Better Off Dead"

Figuratively of course.

I had no idea that the basic message in "Trading Places" was so difficult to understand.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. So, in Trading Places, 2 insanely rich, evil brothers manipulate the world for their own gain

until the 2 unlikely allies gang up and stop them. I'm just wondering who could possibly play the brothers in Scottie's sequel?

I wonder if Scottie himself could pull off the Clarence Beeks role of the brothers' evil minion who does their dirty work while they relax in luxury?



And is he saying Iran and Israel should get together and stop the KochDuke brothers?

[Octafish]

6. Sad in so many ways.

Mostly for the nation and the good people of Wisconsin.

[calimary]

11. Yes, certainly, but please remember - that's how he got where he is now.

That's how he got to the governor's office in the first place. Thanks to the good people of Wisconsin - those who showed up to vote, AS WELL AS those who stayed home, claiming that voting was just gonna be useless. Well, how'd that work out for everybody?

Hey, I appreciate Wisconsin - the seat of the American Union Movement. I'm a union member myself, and I proudly and enthusiastically supported that boycott at the State Capitol and the whole Ian's Pizza thing a few years back. Many of us here on DU did. I don't know WHY that recall failed. I mean, I've seen the coverage and all, but it still doesn't make sense that that recall failed. And I find myself wondering whose fault that was. Did our side just not work hard enough? Did his side just lie more effectively? People were saying things like the recall wasn't necessary or it was overkill or they were just sick of having to go vote on something else yet again so soon after they already voted and blah-blah-blah.

The FACT is - the voters chose to leave him in office. Against the recall, and then next, when they had a chance to unseat him in his reelection efforts, they let that go through, too. So in my opinion, the problem still lies with THEM.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. Move over, Sarah Palin. There's a new know-nothing in town.

[Trillo]

10. As flawed as the analogy may be, it does provide insight into his thinking.

Iran was once bad, so they always shall be bad. There's no nuance in this type of thinking; no acknowledgement of improvement, of willingness to compromise, of desiring to be better than the past coupled with movement towards that goal.

Oh, you lied once as a 5-year old when you said you didn't take those cookies, so now you shall always be known as a liar to the very day you die, no matter what.