Are You Ready To Rumble?

If you missed the second hour of the Hugh Hewitt show tonight, you missed some fast-paced and fun radio. Hugh invited fellow Salem talk radio hosts Michael Medved and Dennis Prager as well as noted blogger Joe Carter of the evangelical outpost fame, to appear on the show to discuss the "cartoon wars."

I think that Hugh intended it to be a roundtable forum, but instead it quickly became apparent that it was more like a tag team wrestling match with Hewitt and Carter arguing that supporting the cartoonists would damage the GWOT effort while Prager and Medved's position was that we should not compromise our freedoms to avoid offending Muslim sensibilities. It was a rough and tumble affair and quite entertaining for the listening audience.

Joe deserves a lot of credit for agreeing to step into the ring in the first place and he hung in as best he could. But he was in an impossible situation. He was going up against Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan with Bobby The Brain Heenan as his partner.

After a bit of messing around, Prager and Medved took control of the match and were bouncing Hewitt and Carter off the end ropes like rag dolls. Many Double Gut Busters, Sandwich Clotheslines, Irish Whips, and Spiked Brainbuster Suplexes later it was clear that Medved and Prager were just toying with their opponents. The coup de grace was administered when they backed Hugh into a corner and administered the legendary Piggy Back Off the Second Rope Double Stomp. He barely had the strength to tap out and Joe had to help him out of the ring.

The belt is now in the hands of Prager and Medved and I don't see a lot of challengers on the horizon stepping up to try to take it away.

UPDATE--Vox e-mails to suggest a possible match:

I'd be more impressed with Prager, Hewitt or Medved if they ever dared to mix it up with me or Pat Buchanan. Pat can be a little strange at times, but his column today on WND destroys the Prager-Medved position that was being argued in the show you described. It's hard to argue the sanctity of "press freedom" in Europe when they're tossing people in jail for merely asking uncomfortable questions about the Holocaust, among other things.

Of course, most Americans pontificating about Europe have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Michael Ledeen being the obvious exception, it's not like they ever read the Corriere della Sera or the Neue Zuercher Zeitung. These are two little resources for English-only speakers, however:

Corriere della Sera - International

swiss information

In fairness to Prager and Medved, my summary of their argument was greatly simplified. If you missed the show, you can now read the transcript at Radio Blogger.

But Vox is on to something. I would love to hear him and Buchanan mix it up with Medved and Prager. We could bill it as a Paleo vs. Neo smackdown. Are you ready to rumble? Again?