Ep. 2317 A Libertarian Journalist in a Non-Libertarian Profession Tells His Stories
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Veteran journalist Bill Steigerwald, a libertarian who interviewed people across the spectrum -- like George McGovern, Robert McNamara, Christopher Hitchens, Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, and yours truly -- talks about being the ideological oddball in his profession. Plus, how to be a good writer, what advice he has for aspiring journalists, who the most interesting people he interviewed were, and more.
Book Discussed: Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show Episode 2317. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. |
| 0:11.3 | The Tom Wood Show. |
| 0:14.3 | If I was believing that the end of the world might be a bad thing that we should try to avoid |
| 0:19.1 | is not a Russian talking point. But if we are going to avoid World War III, |
| 0:24.0 | it's important for Americans to understand what's been left out of the CIA's narrative |
| 0:30.0 | about Russia and Ukraine. |
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| 0:34.9 | Your Facebook friends are wrong about Ukraine. |
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| 0:42.2 | Hey everybody, Tom Wood's here. So glad to talk to Bill Stiger-Walt. |
| 0:46.0 | Bill, I've never had you on the show before, but we got to know each other quite some time ago. |
| 0:50.9 | I want you to give people the specifics, but I knew you as a journalist in Pittsburgh, |
| 0:57.2 | and you were sympathetic to what I was doing, and we got to know each other a bit. |
| 1:00.8 | And just the other day, just yesterday, yesterday's episode of the Tom Wood Show. |
| 1:04.6 | I mentioned your name, and that's what made me think, why have I never had Bill on? |
| 1:09.0 | Because we were talking about children's books that spread our ideas, and I know you just recently |
| 1:14.7 | written one. I want to talk about much more than just that, but I do want to start with that. |
| 1:18.8 | You have a book called Grand Pop Bear Goes to Washington, the fantastic voyage of a freedom-loving |
| 1:24.9 | polar bear. And I mentioned that as soon as it came in the mail, you sent it to us. |
| 1:28.8 | My wife read it, loved it, said it. It's the best of its kind. But first, you've had quite a |
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