Fraters Libertas

Ohhh, Mr. Grant!

The ruthless Hugh Hewitt has claimed yet another victim. This time, it was noted space case Ed Asner. On Friday's show, Mr. Hewitt coerced Ed into stating that he thinks our own Elder is "a great, great guy". While none of us here at Fraters World Headquarters would dispute that fact, it was clear by his subsequent comments that Mr. Asner was either very, very drugged or just incredibly senile. In either case, Mr. Asner is quite simply out of his mind and, as a result, is highly susceptible to suggestion.

Consider Asner's statement that the average Iraqi is not better off with Saddam out of power. Consider that he also seems to think Afghanistan is no better off now than they were under the Taliban's rule. He seems to think of pre-war Iraq and the country of Burma as equivalent geopolitical threats and believes we should have ousted the Taliban by somehow imposing sanctions on them and starving them into submission.

No rational human being could ever concoct such lunacy, but that's exactly what listeners to Friday's Hewitt show were presented with just after Asner professed his adoration of The Elder, at Hugh's bidding of course.

I believe that this is yet another case of the puppet master, Hugh Hewitt, laying waste to another human soul. If Asner is, as I have always surmised, far beyond the definition of senile, then Hugh has taken advantage of a very sick and very old man in order to further his goal of total blogosphere domination. Reprehensible behavior, that.

If Asner has not fallen into the deep well of senility, then he was drugged...drugged at the hands of either Mr. Hewitt himself or his willing sidekick, Generalissimo. Again, this is reprehensible behavior.

Whatever state of confusion Asner was in, I believe that Hugh could have convinced him that he shot JFK, kidnapped the Lindbergh baby AND was the first man to walk on Mars. Instead, the wily Mr. Hewitt had him profess some unholy alliance with our own Elder and that is clearly not the case.

This leads one to question whether some of his other regular guests have suffered the same fate. We already know that this guy is irrevocably under Hugh's power (although he has yet to completely lose his senses). Bob Mulholland went so insane after appearing on the Hewitt show that he hasn't been heard from in months and frequent contributors Peter Beinart, Joshua Micah Marshall and Erwin Chemerinsky have shown clear signs of degraded mental capacity.

With the Elder currently on assignment in Europe, I have called an emergency meeting of the Hewitt Untruthful Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.) to decide the appropriate course of action. Members, please take note.