Although we're no fans of local talk show host Hugh Hewitt, we couldn't help but to feel a twinge of sympathy for the man, who's also a professor of law at Chapman University. The latest edition of the school's Chapman Magaine has a mini-profile on Hewie, whom you can listen to every weekday at 3pm on KRLA-AM 870. In the story, Hugh tells the magazine that the reason his show succeeds is because he respects his audience. "It doesn't have to be about celebrity or salaciousness," Hewitt states, and his show--which frequently features Chapman Law dean John Eastman and new UC Irvine dean Erwin Chemerinsky--does stay away from tawdriness.

Not so much Chapman Magazine, though: just eight pages after Hewitt's profile, a brief, breathy item about Lindsay Lohan attending a lacrosse match at Chapman. "As word spread across the campus by cell phone and text-message," the absolutely pointless dispatch enthused, "scores of students, gawkers and hangers-on flooded to the game to try to catch a glimpse of the starlet." To add insult to Hugh's insight, the magazine placed the Lohan item next to a review of Salman Rushdie's March 31 appearance at the ever-growing Orange school. Is Chapman really that lame of a school that it wasted valuable space on Lohan? Considering the school's longtime Chairman of the Board of Trustees was OC GOP slumlord George Argyros and it granted yours truly a diploma in 2001, the answer is yes!

With his book subject Mitt Romney (thankfully) out of the presidential race, Orange County's own nationally syndicated yackmouth Hugh Hewitt is desperately trying to remain relevant in this year's presidential race by trotting out the lamest smear attempt since Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama's middle name. Here and here, Baby Hewie tries to make an issue of Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. "It has to be the most unusual book ever by a presidential aspirant," Baby Hewie writes, "and much of what he writes cannot be classified as mainstream, and some of what he wrote would shock the average American, including his causal use of profanity and his admission concerning past cocaine use." A strange assertion considering Lyndon LaRouche and A Charge To Keep, but fine, Hugh: we'll play your game. So what offends him so much about Obama's writing? He points to pages 72-74 at the beginning of Chapter 4 in Dreams from My Father. The shocking details after the jump!

Throughout his radio show yesterday, Hugh Hewitt kept emphasizing that true conservatives despised John McCain, that true conservatives must vote for Mitt Romney. He repeatedly cited the examples of Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson, who insisted they'd never vote for McCain. To stick to one's principles was honorable, Churchillian, great, and Hewitt's message was clear: everyone should do the same.

So what was the title o Baby Hewie's post-primary post this morning?

Seven Reasons To Support The GOP's Nominee

"Romney and Huckabee ought to begin to note Senator McCain's lead and urge their followers to recognize that if they cannot come back they and their followers will have to come in and join the party's eventual nominee," Baby Hewie wrote, and damn if those words don't clash with his railings yesterday. Really, Hugh: we actually thought you really were a principled person, that you had eclipsed your days as a GOP hack. Thanks for clarifying!

Spin, of course! And that's exactly what Hugh Hewitt is doing. Despite his book boy Mitt Romney getting slammed tonight from the moderate wing by John McCain and by the right via the suddenly resurgent Mike Huckabee, Baby Hewie continues to insist there's hope for Mitt.

All he can muster is that Rush Limbaugh and James "I Speak for Myself and Not Focus on the Family, Which is the Only Reason Why Anyone Pays Attention to Me" Dobson are against McCain, which he somehow translates as meaning Mitt has a chance. HA! They just called California for McCain. Even here, in rock-ribbed conservative Orange County, where Romney took in more money than any other presidential candidate and the endorsements of--amongst others--Hewitt, OC Blog's Matt "Jubal" Cunningham, congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) and Orange County overlord Mike Schroeder, Romney is losing--29 percent to McCain's 42 percent, with Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani each nabbing 10 percent. Oh, sweet defeat!

UPDATE: Jubal acknowledges, even congratulates McCain on his victory in a gracious way. Baby Hewie can learn from one of his acolytes, ¿qué no?

As Mitt Romney goes down in defeat after crushing defeat, Hugh Hewitt desperately continues to spin for his book subject by focusing on. . .the small margin of victory by which John McCain will win his home state of Arizona.

"Given the Rush blast, the Dobson declaration, and Huck's strength in the south," Baby Hewie gasps, "McCain can't be considered a frontrunner by any conventional standard."

And your boy Mitt will, Baby Hewie? Sucker's only won his home state so far--and the last time I ever saw people consider a loser a front-runner is when Dubya won the 2000 election.

...that his attempted branding of James Dobson's diatribe against John McCain as the "Dobson Declaration" smacks of lame Churchillian aspirations? Gracias.

Our beloved local conservative loudmouth Hugh Hewitt has spent the last half-year ranting about how Republican presidential candidate (and subject of his most-recent book) Mitt Romney is the next coming of Ronald Reagan to the point of nausea and idiocy.

"Romney has reassembled the Reagan coalition and may have done so just in time to save the GOP from lapsing into its pre-Reagan days," Baby Hewie wrote last night, and doesn't the man just love to gnash the hands that fed him? You'll remember that Baby Hewie was a speech writer for Yorba Linda boy Richard Nixon and also was the first executive director of his library--and we all know how Nixon felt about Reagan. So whither the Dickster, Baby Hewie? Whither the Dixter? By the way, Romney is Reagan like Hillary Clinton is Barry Goldwater.

Watch Baby Hewie shill for his boy at OC Blog alongside Dana Rohrabacher. Hey, Hugh: Dana palled around with the Taliban way back when. Why would you associate yourself, o chronicler of the Long War, with him?

Nothing is more schadenfreude than seeing a self-righteous loudmouth get schooled, and that's what's happening with Hugh Hewitt as we speak. His guy Mitt Romney lost the Iowa caucus yesterday despite spending mucho dinero. Baby Hughie will be on the radio in a bit--in the meanwhile, he's blogging like a teen girl scorned.

For the sake of space, let's focus on this post. Hughie begins by claiming Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee's past record is "largely unexamined," a flat-out stupid statement considering the New York Times, Politico.com, and almost ALL the MSM reported on various Huckabee shenanigans. He rambles for a couple of paragraphs more, then this:

Third, the conservative activists have to realize that there is an attempted coup underway.

A coup, Hughie? Seriously? How can it be a coup when your guy spent millions more than Huckabee, when much-better conservatives than you think Mitt's a flip-flopping robot. Coup, Hugh? And spare us your continued attempts to compare Romney to Reagan: they're the same only in that the two were once liberals but changed, except Reagan did it long before he ran for national office.

Over the weekend, Orange County's own nationally syndicated yack-mouth Hugh Hewitt announced what everyone who follows the fool already knew: He'll be voting for Mitt Romney in California's Republican primary. Even crazier, Baby Hughie spouted off this gem:

We need another Reagan. I think that is Romney.

Where to begin...instead, let's leave it at this: ever since the publication of his Romney hagiography this past March, Hewitt has insisted his mind wasn't made up on the Republican presidential candidate he'd support. BULLSHIT. Anyone who bothers to read and listen to Hughie knew he'd come around to publicly kiss Romney's ass--but a full-blown snowball with that Reagan reference? Next time, spare us months of false indecisiveness, Hughie, and just spill your junk pronto.

Heard about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's claim that his father marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1960s?

The Boston Phoenix rips apart that claim nicely, then Hugh Hewitt tries to provide cover for his book boy--but it's just not enough.

Orange County's most prominent talk-show host (take a seat, Joe Escalante) frequently proclaims himself independent of the Republican Party, but everyone knows that's a damn lie. Hugh Hewitt's latest example, however, is particularly egregious not only because he spins for the GOP, but he also skewers his old boss in the process.

In his post, Hewitt blames the Democratic Party of the 1970s for the Cambodian genocide and Vietnamese re-education camps and warns the Democrats of today that, similarly, blood will be on their hands if our troops pull out of Iraq. "America's Vietnam policy of intervention, manipulation, and then withdrawal represented a series of choices," Hewitt writes. "The Democrats of those years, urged on by a hard left anti-war front, finally made a choice to leave, a choice with awful consequences. This is the crucial point: The Democratic Party and their supporters made that choice, cheered on by the anti-war left. They own the consequences."

All fine and true, except for one crucial omission: it was Hewitt's old boss and fellow Orange Countian, Richard Nixon, who initiated troop withdrawals with his Vietnamization policy--any freshman history student can tell you that. So why not Hewitt? Why not implicate your boss in genocide, especially considering the Nixon-approved policies of bombing Laos and Cambodia largely sparked one third of the genocides (both old and continuing) you so decry? That's right--because that would mean admitting conservative culpability, and that's just something not included in the Hewitt dictionary. Hypocrite.

There are only two national blogs we read, and both of them are conservative: local loudmouth Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin, whose whiny diatribes we've been catching since her days as a syndicated columnist that appeared in The Orange County Register. Malkin is the Filipina-American columnist who wears her ethnicity only when politically convenient, who likes Muslims only when they renounce their faith, and thinks anyone who tries to respect their sensibilities is welcoming sharia law.

Malkin's latest target: No Doubt princess Gwen Stefani. Malkin is upset that Stefani agreed to dress more modestly for an upcoming concert in Malaysia after protests from Muslim students. I don't understand what Malkin's problem is, honestly. Does she want Stefani to rip up the Koran, then eat pork in front of everyone? Shout, "Praise be Jesus Christ—Mohammad was a pedophile!"? Malkin obviously doesn't understand that bands change their concerts from venue to venue to suit local tastes—"Hello, Cleveland," anyone? So, Godspeed, Stefani, and remember to change your latest hit to "Allahback Girl" for the Malays, m'kay?

Meet Shine Like Stars, an Irvine-based Christian-rock band that jams the Divine fantastic at Irvine Presbyterian Church, specifically in its Veritas form of service. They're playing this Wednesday at San Clemente Presbyterian Church in anticipation of a small Pacific Coast tour. Good for them, seriously.

But here's the rub: Recently, Shine Likes Stars received major promotion gracias to OC's own Hugh Hewitt, blogger extraordinaire, nationally syndicated radio host and successful author. Hewitt has devoted two mini-posts to Shine Like Stars and played the group's music on his radio show. Nowhere in the posts did Hewitt disclose that his "pals" are worshippers at Irvine Presbyterian, where Hewitt is an elder. In the interest of fairness, I can't say the same about the radio plug, as I didn't hear it—if Hugh mentioned the connection, good for him; if not, shame!

This isn't the first time (see the Tuesday item) Hewitt has plugged the efforts of pals while failing to disclose his friendships (in that instance, Hewitt later spilled the beans while taking a swipe at us). Will he come clean again? Will conservative bloggers froth at the mouth again about another instance of non-disclosures amongst media giants? Stay tuned . . .

The godfather of blogs trashes what he calls the MSM (mainstream media--essentially, anyone who doesn't toe the Republican line) every chance he gets. But in a post today on his blog, Hewitt reveals he's an investor in The News Right Now, a news aggregator, and calls it a "very wise move."  Here's the funny, hypocritical thing: of the 12 news sources, 11 are the websites of daily papers, and only two of them (the Moonie-controlled Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal are not part of Hewitt's hated MSM. The only non-daily paper link is to Real Clear Politics, itself an aggregator of daily newspaper articles (along with a couple of original conservative authors). Hey Hugh: better pray that the MSM's declining circulation bumps up lest your investment go sour, ¿qué no?

Throughout this election cycle, conservative blabbermouth Hugh "Baby Huey" Hewitt has insisted that the polls were skewed, that the Republicans would not lose control of the House, that the MSM was lying as they always do to protect the Dems.

Well guess who's conceding defeat.

Rather than us gloat, let us thank God, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Diós, the Santo Niño de Atocha, Jah, and all the deities for this. Even if the Republicans pull a PRI, at least we have this moment to savor...

Despite accusing the MSM ad nauseum of bias local yakker Hugh Hewitt makes no qualms about his politics: Republican (with a large -R). Yet the lead-in music for Hewitt's radio show today featured a clip of the quintessential Democrat, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Hewitt spliced it with a Dubya speech, insinuating that Bush is as much a statesman as JFK. Maybe someone should tell Baby Huey that JFK had most of his stuff ghostwritten and was a bad president, to boot.

BUT...the most fascinating thing in the short snippet of Hewitt we heard on the drive back to the office was the desperation in his voice. As Hewitt read off the preliminary election results from the East Coast, Hewitt urged all his listeners to vote "before it's too late." This wasn't the tone Hewitt has used in his blog, where the smugness of each post drips like a Balboa Bar in July.

Of course, the Republicans were biting their nails during the first results after the 2004 race and ended up winning. But please, God: por favor make it so that Hewitt gets to wallow in sorrow for the next two years.

The commies that read this rag probably don't know that conservatives sparked the blogosphere revolution (mostly OC-based blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt), but it's true, Huffington Post notwithstanding. And few blogs are more widely read that the hysterical fits of cutey-pie/bitch Michelle Malkin, the gal who supported Japanese internment during World War II, thinks the funniest way to mock Cindy Sheehan's recent hunger strike is to eat a lot of food on her Hot Air video segment and likes to visit Orange County and hang with Grand Sorceress Barbara Coe. Anyways, a recent Malkin post expressed disgust that the BBC show Time Trumpet staged something called the "Terrorism Awards, with the candidates being a jet crashing into Big Ben, a suicide bomber and a dead Tony Blair. In Malkin's defense, the bit ain't that funny. But that's not why the hottie harridan is frothing. It's bad because...take it, Malkin!:

We are a month away from the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I still pause, once a day, to think about what happened and how it has changed my outlook on life. How it has opened my eyes to the evils of jihad. How it has changed the focus of my work. How it affects my children. How it affects us all. Every so often, when I'm in Washington, D.C., and a plane flies low on its way to Dulles or Reagan Airport, I catch my breath. And I remember. I cannot fathom how the BBC, the once-revered British network of supposedly serious journalists, could pull a sick stunt like this.

Chula, mocking the fuckers who want you dead is the ultimate patriotic act. The Greatest Generation sure thought so: when Warner Bros. commissioned Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to screw with Nazis and Uncle Walt imagined Donald Duck as a brownshirt, the fighting men and women of this country laughed their asses off. They knew, and the BBC knows, what Malkin doesn't: if you can't laugh at the evil in this world, you truly are damned. Or a humorless twit.

The relentlessly reasonable Kevin Drum of the relentlessly tepid Washington Monthly asks a question many have asked before about increasingly unpopular unintentional radio comedian Hugh Hewitt: "Could Hugh possibly be any more pathetic?" The answer, of course, is Yes (this is Hugh Hewitt we're talking about, after all)-- though no one could deny this is pretty stunningly pathetic. (via TBogg, who also has an appropriate photo and one more question about Hughcifer: "Does the law school that he teaches at give you a bowl of soup with your degree?" Chapman University must be very proud.)

Bad news for our favorite unintentional radio comedian, Hugh Hewitt. According to the latest Arbitrends, the audience for the lawyer/pundit/Nixon fetishist/blogger/moralizer/George W. Bush worshiper/professional Vermont boycotter is shrinking right along with Bush and Cheney's approval ratings. Predictable really. This far into Bush's faith-based presidency, with its failures and mounting body counts from Baghdad to New Orleans, people must be wearying of the sort of nonsense that Bush and Hewitt peddle– a religio-political hybrid that envisions Jesus demanding tax breaks for the moneychangers in the temple and cheerleading for Caesar as he sends off his legions for yet another bloody conquest.

Meanwhile, the brilliant radio satirist Harry Shearer is busying himself with something Hewitt avoids: facts. In his Eat The Press column on the Huffington Post, Shearer has been reporting on Carnival season in post-Katerina New Orleans. The posts reflect his sharp eye and deep knowledge of the city, and are an excellent antidote to the dimwitted reporting that has been clogging TV news. Especially worthwhile is this Chris Rose column from the New Orleans Times-Picayune that Shearer cites– it punctures the fact-free bloviating that's surrounded discussions of New Orleans. You know, the sort of fact-free bloviating that's Hewitt's specialty.

Who at the Los Angeles Times got the idea of allowing moron extraordinaire Joel Stein to pen an anti-war column? We've always loathed Stein, a man whom some enjoy for his inane banter and those of us with a shred of intellect feel is the Times worst editorial decision since putting sports stories on the Web. But after reading Stein's Jan. 24 column, in which he called people who oppose the Iraq War but support the troops "wussy," we at least respected his choice to finally grow balls.

Cue Hugh Hewitt, emasculator of pussies.

On his radio show that very day, Hewitt embarrassed Stein (Listen here if you want to cringe in a way you haven't cringed since seeing Heather Graham's late TV show). The conservative blogosphere summarily applauded Hewitt's performance, but we want to point out that exposing Stein as a know-nothing smarm-ass takes about as much effort as cutting paper with a paper shredder. Nevertheless, anyone who screws with Stein earns our respect. And advice to Times opinion editor Andres Martinez: de un mexicano al otro, no dejes a pendejos hacer el trabajo de un hombre. ¿Y dónde dejaste la tequila?

Uber-blogger/radio host Hugh Hewitt doesn't like a lot of things: liberals, liberal journalists, liberal movies, liberal societal mores--and now, liberal oldies. Hewitt tells readers on Jan. 3 that KRTH-FM 101.1's Top 300 Songs of All Time countdown over the New Year's weekend was the "Worst Top 300 List Ever". We agree: any oldies list that has no "96 Tears", one Beach Boys pick and NOTHING by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, the Animals, the Kinks or Buddy Holly is an automatic joke. But Hugh's problem is of a more bigoted nature: seems K-Earth's Top 25 in particular "is obviously working ahrd [sic] to grab a slice of the urban audience" with its selection. Mr. MSM isn't exactly clear what he means by that, but we all know from our Jim Crow 101 class that "urban audience" is polite-society code for "seething colored masses. In that respect, Hugh's right: K-Earth's Top 25 is filled with such black-power anthems as the Temptation's "My Girl," "My Cherie Amour" by Stevie Wonder and the super-black "Unchained Melody" by local boys/original wiggers The Righteous Brothers. The few gabachos that made K-Earth's Top 25 are mostly super-liberals like The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Carole King and John Lennon. Hugh: Can you give us some clarification what "urban audience" means to you? What's your idea of good oldies? The Crew Cuts? Give us the Michael Hiltzik treatment, please, and let's talk rock!