They're back! Yay!
Tonight's guests are Ilario Pantano (ex-Marine, "Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy") on TDS, and Amy Sedaris on Colbert. So, we all know Amy, but I looked that guy up...
Remember the Marine who killed two Iraqis -- shot them 60 times, left a sign saying "No better friend, no worse enemy"? He was charged with premeditated murder, facing the death penalty, but the charges were
dropped and he
resigned his commision. That's this guy. He's got a book out. From the Booklist review on Amazon:
The impetus for this memoir is the military hearing U.S. marine Pantano underwent in 2004 for the alleged murders of two Iraqi insurgents during a raid in Al Anbar (chronicled in a New York magazine cover story and featured on NBC Dateline). What is initially fascinating about Pantano's story is how 9/11 galvanized him. His first reaction after seeing the smoke and debris choking streets in Manhattan was to run to his barber and get a military haircut. Pantano had been a marine in Desert Storm but then morphed into a commodities trader and the founder of an interactive TV think tank. The core of his book is how 9/11 re-upped the semper-fi side of his identity.
Via google, and from reading the comments at
Amazon (not so much at
B&N), he's a hero of sorts to
ahem The Other Guys. So it'll be interesting to see how wingnutty he is, if at all.
Amy Sedaris we know. It's billed as "from Strangers With Candy", but we'll see.