Silver/Ziegler
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:07 pmYes, the How Obama Got Elected site that Russell linked to yesterday is weapons-grade stupid, but it also led to funniest interview I’ve read in a long, long time. After Nate Silver denounced the site, and described its method of polling Obama supporters and spouting false “facts” at them as “push-polling,” the site’s proprietor, John Ziegler, asked Silver to interview him. Hilarity ensued:
NS: Would you consider yourself well-informed
JZ: I’d consider myself extremely well-informed.
NS: Who are the two senators from South Dakota
JZ: Thune and, uh, Johnson.
NS: Very good. South Carolina?
JZ: Go fuck yourself. I’m done with this interview if you’re going to ask me stupid questions like that. Obviously I know who Lindsay Graham is.
NS: Well, since you’re running a website calling people misinformed, I’d like to see if — there are certain things you’ve said that I would consider misinformed.
JZ: Misinformed? You’re a piece of work! You are never going to have the guts to post a representative transcript on your website! I thought you actually ran a legitimate website!
NS: Thank you, have a good day.
JZ: Go fuck yourself.
Note that this is after Silver edited out “two or three rapid-fire ad-hominem exchanges.” Read the whole thing.
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