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<title>Richard Winger - FishbowlDC</title>
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<title>The FishbowlDC Interview With Roger Stone</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone  wp-image-94946" title="fishhead" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2013/01/fishhead1-300x54.jpg" alt="" width="403" height="72" /></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-95001" title="2970209f23dfcd6ca761228ed03d1851" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2013/01/2970209f23dfcd6ca761228ed03d1851.jpeg" alt="" width="256" height="256" />Say hello to<strong> Roger Stone</strong>, the GOP consultant and strategist who is among the more colorful Twitter handles around these days. He&#8217;s also an unpaid contributor to <em>HuffPost</em> and writes <em>TheStoneZone</em>, <a href="http://stonezone.com/">a blog</a> about whatever the hell is on his mind. He shoots from the hip with just about anyone who can stand it. For example, when CNN Contributor and Washington Watch&#8217;s <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Roland-Martin-profile.html">Roland Martin</a></strong> recently called him the <strong>Pee Wee Herman</strong> of GOP Politics, Stone replied, &#8220;And your the Sir Mix-a-lot to TV- fat, ignorant and poorly dressed.&#8221; When Martin suggested that Stone douse himself in holy water, Stone had a simple question in return: &#8220;Who made you God, Fattass?[sic] Eat some more Popeye&#8217;s.&#8221; Late last night, he sent us his interview with a preface note. It read, &#8220;In your inbox, Warning  &#8212; ADULT MATERIAL.&#8221; When we phoned him this morning, Stone&#8217;s voicemail is a dignified-sounding woman with a British accent telling you to leave a message at the beep. It&#8217;s his longtime assistant, <strong>D.J. Thorne</strong>, who has been with him for more than two decades. Asked about being an unpaid <em>HuffPost</em> Contributor, he says, &#8220;Yeah, it would be nice [to get paid], but it&#8217;s a great outlet.&#8221; Writing there twice a month serves a purpose. &#8220;When I write, I would like to get beyond right-wing extremists,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to have a broader audience. I&#8217;m not your conventional conservative. I&#8217;m a Libertarian and a Libertine.&#8221; Every Tuesday morning he posts on <em>TheStoneZone</em>: &#8220;I post on politics, food, something obnoxious. I have a pretty decent following. I&#8217;d like to post everyday, but I can&#8217;t do it all the time.&#8221; <strong>His feelings about Twitter: </strong>&#8220;I love the format of Twitter. You get in, you get out.&#8221; He says he tries to avoid fighting and admits he gets a sizable amount of hate mail that he ignores. He points to <em>BuzzFeed</em>&#8216;s <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Alex-Kacynski-profile.html">Alex Kaczynski</a></strong> as a proverbial thorn in his side. &#8220;He insists that my white dinner jacket is wrong,&#8221; Stone says. &#8220;He&#8217;s wrong. If he engages me, as he occasionally does, then I have to respond with the correct sartorial rules.&#8221; Stone says it&#8217;s okay to wear the white dinner jacket between Memorial Day and Labor Day. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right anytime,&#8221; Stone says. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t get the white dinner jacket thing. He never checked with <strong>Sean Connery</strong> obviously.&#8221; Stone also incites people by introducing political disputes into the zeitgeist. &#8220;<strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> constantly lies,&#8221; he says. &#8220;She&#8217;s lying about Benghazi. If I put that up, you get hundreds of retweets. There are certain heavy retweets. If I write about the<strong> </strong>fine points of Austrian economics, no one will retweet that. No, I don&#8217;t write about that. It&#8217;s a little dry.&#8221; <strong>Stone doesn&#8217;t just fight online.</strong> Stone, who lives in Miami Beach, says he&#8217;s currently in a dispute with  <em>WPLG Channel 10&#8242;s Bob Norman</em> because I have helped a couple of young men start a new <a href="http://browardbugle.tomnast.com/">community blog</a> called <em>The</em> <em>Broward Bugle</em>. &#8220;They object. They say this isn&#8217;t real. 100,000 readers.  Sorry, welcome to the new media,&#8221; says Stone. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have a monopoly on the new media. They&#8217;ve gotten a few scoops. They resent the competition. My attitude is get off your dead ass, report the news or someone else will.&#8221;<strong><br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-95003" title="Unknown-2" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2013/01/Unknown-2.jpeg" alt="" width="184" height="245" />If you were a carbonated beverage, which would you be? </strong> I would be Pellegrino.<strong> </strong>I’m half Italian. I’m Italian from the waist down.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>How often do you Google yourself? </strong>Permanent Google News and Blog alert.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>What’s the worst thing you’ve ever said to an editor/boss (or vice versa)? </strong> Fuck You.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Who is your favorite working journalist and why?  </strong><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Matt-Labash-profile.html">Matt Labash</a></strong>, <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Weekly Standard</span></em>, no one does it like him.</p>
<p><strong>Do you have a favorite word?  </strong>Fuck-it’s so descriptive.</p>
<p><strong>Who are you named after and what are people’s general reaction to your name? </strong>Named after my father, a well digger his whole life. It’s a good name. Fits on a bumper-sticker.</p>
<p><strong>Who would you rather have dinner with – <em>NBC’s Brian Williams, CNN’s Roland Martin, ABC’s Sherri Shepherd or Fox News’ Megyn Kelly?</em> Tell us why. </strong><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Megyn-Kelly-profile.html">Megyn Kelly</a></strong>. She’s hot. Roland Martin? The guy’s a buffoon. I know so many other men, black and white, who are smarter, more articulate and better on TV. Why Roland? Besides – a black man in a fuscia ascot ? No.</p>
<p><strong><img class="size-full wp-image-95002 alignleft" title="Unknown" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2013/01/Unknown.jpeg" alt="" width="187" height="242" />The Earth’s human population is dying out and you must save it. You will spend a romantic evening with either Scandal’s Kerry Washington, Homeland’s Claire Danes or any of the women from FNC’s “The Five”. Who will it be? (None is not an option.) </strong><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Kimberly-Guilfoil-profile.html">Kimberly Guilfoil</a></strong>. No Question. Can I have two? Will also take Krystal Ball (MSNBC) for 3-some action.</p>
<p><strong>What swear word do you use most often?  </strong>Fuck . Nixon said it constantly.</p>
<p><strong>You’ve just been told the big news: You get to have your own Sunday morning talk show. Who will be on your roundtable? (Pick four journalists or pundits types.) </strong><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Maggie-Haberman-profile.html">Maggie Haberman</a></strong> <em>Politico, </em><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Richard-Winger-profile.html">Richard Winger</a></strong> from <em>Independent Political Report,</em> <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Erroll-Louis-profile.html">Erroll Louis</a></strong> from <em>NY-1</em> and <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Nick-Confessore-profile.html">Nick Confessore</a></strong> of the <em>New York Times.</em><strong><em> </em></strong></p>
<p><strong>On a serious note for a moment, if you could have dinner with a person who has died, who would it be? Napoleon</strong>. Born in Corsica, he was in fact Italian, which is why he was able to conquer most of the civilized world. No Frenchman could do this.</p>
<p><strong>When you pig out what do you eat?  </strong>Pizza. Pizza is like sex. Even when it’s bad it’s still pretty good ( Stone’s Rules) All pizza is good when it’s 3am and you’re high.</p>
<p><em><strong>Stone reveals a secret about himself he says few know&#8230;</strong></em></p>
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