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Pawlenty calls on Attorney General Holder to resign

By Andy Birkey | 11.19.10 | 4:00 pm

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt at the Republican Governor’s Association convention in San Diego on Friday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that Attorney General Eric Holder should resign because he wasn’t able to prosecute a Guantanamo Bay prisoner effectively in civil court.

Pawlenty, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved headline health care repeal rally

By Andy Birkey | 04.22.10 | 2:08 pm

Gov. Tim Pawlenty will join conservative talk radio hosts Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt for “Undoing Obamacare: America Unplugged Tour” on April 28 at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall. With tickets ranging from $12.50 to $149, the event is sponsored

Equality is ‘not an American value’: Righty tub-thumpers stump for Minnesota Republicans

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.29.08 | 9:01 am

The so-called “Three Tenors” of talk radio — conservatives Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager — spoke before a crowd of 3,000 at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall in an event attended by Republican candidates Michele Bachmann, Norm Coleman and Erik Paulsen as well as Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

And though embattled Minnesota Republicans have been steering to the center of late, the event was full of right-wing red-meat rhetoric — like Prager’s declaration that “Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value.” Video of Prager’s talk inside.

When McCain is done with Ayers, will he take the Rashid Khalidi bait?

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10.10.08 | 10:58 am

He’s no Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers, but Palestinian academic and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi (pictured) may be next in the parade of radical ghosts from Obama’s past.

Palin: Don’t fight it, invite it!

By David Noon | 10.01.08 | 2:46 pm

Sarah Palin’s Sept. 30 interview with Hugh Hewitt demonstrates, among other things, that she’s equally goofy and incomprehensible in a situation where the risk of encountering actual journalism is approximately zero.