{"id":7174,"date":"2014-06-13T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2014-06-13T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T14:14:08","slug":"rollicking-interview-mises-institute-president-jeff-deist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/rollicking-interview-mises-institute-president-jeff-deist\/","title":{"rendered":"My Rollicking Interview with Mises Institute President Jeff Deist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7180 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute.jpg\" alt=\"Logo Mises Institute\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I had a lively chat yesterday with <a href=\"http:\/\/bastiat.mises.org\/2014\/06\/mises-weekends-jim-bovard-libertarian-muckraker\/\">Mises Institute President <strong>Jeff Deist<\/strong><\/a> regarding Hayek, Mencken, Washington venality, the Great Books, that bastard Nixon, \u00a0and some of my\u00a0muckraking over the past\u00a0decades.\u00a0\u00a0I was not aware that folks had considered me a unicorn &#8211; I&#8217;m more accustomed to being compared to weasels or guttersnipes.\u00a0 Their interview description refers to my &#8220;incendiary career&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0a characterization which will hobble my efforts to rebrand myself as\u00a0a moderate.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff was Ron Paul&#8217;s speechwriter from 2000 to 2006, and\u00a0I mentioned how impressive Ron Paul was immediately after 9\/11 when almost everyone\u00a0 else on Capitol Hill was cowering.<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciated Jeff having me on his show and <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/authors\/1124\/Floy-Lilley\"><strong>Floy Lilley<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0setting up and organizing the interview.\u00a0 The interview is\u00a0part of the Mises Weekend series <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/media\/categories\/283\/Mises-Weekends\">available here<\/a>. You can download the interview as an MP3 from that site or by clicking below &#8211;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7174-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jim-Bovard-Libertarian-Muckraker.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jim-Bovard-Libertarian-Muckraker.mp3\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jim-Bovard-Libertarian-Muckraker.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Bovard: Libertarian Muckraker\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kd-0JGjARGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The interview is also available at iTunesU:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/itunes-u\/mises-weekends\/id884207568\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/itunes-u\/mises-weekends\/id884207568<\/a><br \/>\nand on Stitcher:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/mises-institute\/mises-weekends\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/mises-institute\/mises-weekends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in some of the recollections in this interview, you might want to take a look at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\"> Public Policy Hooligan: Rollicking and Wrangling from Helltown to Washington<\/a>. That includes\u00a0more background on how I became so skeptical of political saviors, not to mention police, teachers,\u00a0editors, and angry women with knives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6537\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kindle-image-pph-small-41uE-S8IwyL__BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA278_PIkin4BottomRight-6422_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" alt=\"kindle image pph small 41uE-S8IwyL__BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-64,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kindle-image-pph-small-41uE-S8IwyL__BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA278_PIkin4BottomRight-6422_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kindle-image-pph-small-41uE-S8IwyL__BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA278_PIkin4BottomRight-6422_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lively chat yesterday with Mises Institute President Jeff Deist regarding Hayek, Mencken, Washington venality, the Great Books, that bastard Nixon, \u00a0and some of my\u00a0muckraking over the past\u00a0decades.\u00a0\u00a0I was not aware that folks had considered me a unicorn &#8211; I&#8217;m more accustomed to being compared to weasels or guttersnipes.\u00a0 Their interview description refers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[149,22,15,52,213,45,399,214,245,289,38,221,123,125,158,37,26],"class_list":["post-7174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-attention-deficit-democracy","tag-congress","tag-democracy","tag-farm-subsidy","tag-freedom","tag-mises-institute","tag-mp3-2","tag-nixon","tag-nixon-2","tag-obama","tag-philosophy","tag-public-policy-hooligan","tag-public-policy-hooligan-2","tag-radio","tag-ron-paul","tag-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions\/7188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}