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May 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 9, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And greetings to your music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, tax cutters all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast, rhetoric and residence for the starved masses.
At the same time, redefining hip on the radio, telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com if you'd like to be on the program today.
If you permit me a personal little story here, I uh uh, as you people know, we celebrate entrepreneurism on this program, and I have a friend who uh uh had an idea, and and it's it's uh it's a little sauce.
It's uh sauce is not the word for it, it's a marinale you put it bloody marries and this sort of thing, it's called Dr. Tillet Suits.
And I thought the name is just cute as a Dr. Tillet Suits, T-I-L-L-I-T-S-U-I-T-S, Dr. Tillotsuits.
And it comes in a bottles about oh, six, seven inches high.
And after playing golf for the guy, we're very proud of this.
He's very excited.
He said, You got to come over, I gotta fix your bloody merry.
I said, Well, it's it's uh still early in the afternoon.
How about a virgin mercy?
Whatever.
So I went over to his uh place, dropped him off home, went up to his uh apartment.
He made me this Virgin Mary with uh with his Dr. Tillotsu stuff, and it was it was it was delicious.
And I said, How are you gonna sell this?
How are you gonna get it out there?
Well, we're we're working on getting it in some in some stores and so forth.
He finally told me the other day that he got it on the shelf at William's Sonoma.
Uh Pardon.
It is impressive.
Uh William Sonoma is a major, major concern.
Uh you know, huge, huge retailer, retail's catalogs, and so forth.
And uh it's just it's just a heartwarming story.
Uh what this stuff is, it's uh it's a he he markets it as a culinary cure.
A culinary cure.
Uh it's a great marinade for meats and chicken, and it uh enhances recipes.
You can crab cakes or chicken, shrimp, lobster salad, whatever, soups, stews, sauces, uh, it makes salsa better, gaspacho better.
Uh, and this guy's a cook.
He's uh he's in a hospitality business.
So he's he's superb cook.
When I have him over for dinner, when I have a bunch of people over and he's there, he always makes the Caesar salad at table.
Uh so he's he's got this stuff bottled, he's uh it's on the shelves at uh at Williams Sonoma.
Uh uh, but it's it's its primary purpose.
I mean, you can use it in all these things I mentioned, but it's really great in uh in in Bloody Marys.
And you you just you know you make your bloody merry with your with your however you make it, and you start adding Dr. Tillet suits till it suits.
And the idea is you just use it and use it and use it.
It's a great, great marketing.
I just wanted to mention this because uh it's it's entrepreneurial and it's clever, and it's no mean feat to start from scratch and get something on the shelves at uh at uh at Williams Sonoba.
So I mean, it makes your recipes come alive, is the line that I would I would attach to it.
Now you know we've had fun all week uh with the Barack the Magic Negroes story, uh, particularly with uh local TV station in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
And interestingly today, there are two pieces on this, and I wanted to bring both of them to your attention.
The first by John Sanders at Townhall.com.
And the title of his piece is Liberals Don't Get the Joke, but they'll try to get the one who made the joke.
The Roman satirist juvenile famously quipped, well, I don't know Latin, so I'm not gonna repeat the words, but what it means is it's difficult not to write satire.
It was difficult nearly two millennia ago, and it still is today, or it is difficult not to write satire.
What seems even more difficult now, however, is for the parentally offended in the media and academic understand satire.
Just ask Rush Limbaugh and Mike Adams.
Limbaugh and Adams have recently weathered ill-conceived attacks on their parodies.
Limbaugh's song Barack the Magic Negro and Mike Adams' article, supposedly advocating terrorism against gay bathhouses in San Francisco.
Opportunistic critics acted as if Limbaugh and Adams were Seriously promoting racism and mass murder when the truth is both were turning to satire to denounce racism and mass murder.
One wonders, reading the overreactions to and the deliberate misreadings of satire in today's climate, whether Jonathan Swift's publicist would have resigned or tried to defend his client from reports that he advocated cooking kids in stews.
There's a simple but effective test of satire, one that hails back to Aristotle.
Humor is the only test of gravity.
By the way, folks, when you start talking about humor, it's not funny, and this is you know any comedian will tell you when you start talking about it, it's not funny.
Humor is something to be done, and if you have to explain it, it loses some of its bite too.
Which is why I sort of cringed when I went through the line-by-line translation and uh and then and uh representation of Barack the Magic Negro the other day, but I had no choice because there are people who are not listening to this program, forming all kinds of conclusions about that song without any information whatsoever.
And of course, it was the first tutorial from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative School of Studies Journalism School.
So it was uh it was necessary.
But Aristotle said humor is the only test of gravity and gravity of humor.
For a subject which will not bear railery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Note that the great logician pinpointed a very compelling reason for using humor.
It's the best test of ideas.
Humor is a challenge to the very core of an idea.
It's gravity, it's seriousness, laughter demands a response.
As Aristotle explains, an idea that cannot withstand mockery is suspicious.
And you you go try, you try making fun of liberalism and see what happens to you.
They it will not withstand mockery.
They won't put up with it.
Which means it's false.
Which means it has no substance, which means it cannot be allowed.
Liberals cannot allow for liberalism to be truly exposed and explained.
An idea that can't withstand mockery is suspicious.
You shouldn't trust it.
Those who cannot tolerate jokes, cracked at their ideology's expense, betray their ideology's weakness.
And I'll give you an example.
Not long ago, somebody called this program and asked me what if I liked about um uh if I like Boston Legal.
I said, Yeah, it's one of my favorite shows, the William Shatner character.
He says, You do?
All they do is make fun of conservatives.
I said, No, but it's funny.
And Shatner's a buffoon, but I love the character.
It's a television show.
I can watch it and I can laugh.
Now, last night's was a little bit over the top.
But I don't think that show is gonna persuade anybody.
I don't even want to talk about last night's show.
The point is I'm able to laugh at the jokes made about the things I believe all the time.
We all are.
You know, we're not sitting around wringing our hands waiting to be offended and then strike out and silence everybody who laughs at us and makes fun of us.
We join in the joke.
Liberals will not.
And that's what John Sanders' point here is about Aristotle.
An idea that cannot withstand mockery is suspicious.
You shouldn't trust it.
Those who can't tolerate jokes, cracked at their ideologies' expense, betray its weakness.
Weak ideologies require something other than citizens' shared ideals and support to maintain their power.
Frequently they resort to the power of the gun.
It's no coincidence that Khmer Rouge and the Taliban banned laughter, or that citizens of Soviet Russia had to tell each other jokes behind their hands, hiding in bathrooms with the water running, because they were afraid of who was going to hear them.
Reminded that reminded me of the story that Natan Sharansky told me when I interviewed him about his book about the concept of the yearning spirit of freedom it's inside all human beings.
And I asked him, you were a dissident, you were in a Soviet jail.
He said, Yeah, but you know, I was free.
While I was in jail, I could tell jokes about the Russians and the Soviets.
I could tell the jokes and I could laugh at them.
The guards couldn't tell one joke.
I was the one free in jail.
They weren't.
And this is uh uh it's right on the money.
Liberals will not laugh at themselves.
You can't I mean, they have no sense of humor about anything.
Also note that Aristotle provided a way to test the humor and to try an idea.
It's not enough that there is a joke.
The joke has to be defensible, must bear serious examination.
In other words, humor or Satire should present a serious challenge to the idea, a challenge that can be investigated in its own right.
If the humor fails to have a serious basis, then it's false wit.
That's why I've always said humor has to be has to contain elements of truth, or it's not even funny.
The satirist should therefore be able to defend his jest.
So back to Limbaugh and Adams.
Controversy was slow in finding Limbaugh's months old spoof, but it has been growing recently.
On Monday, Sacramento TV station suggested the song was racist and implied it might even be responsible for putting Obama in mortal danger.
On a show that day, Limbaugh proved the parody wasn't false wit.
In a line by line defense of the song, Limbaugh showed that it spoofs the absurd problems Obama's candidacy poses to race obsessed Democrats.
Its lyrics make clear that its provocative title and some material hail from David Erenstein's LA Times article, Obama the Magic Negro.
He showed how other portions were inspired by the Obama Sharpton feud and the steady drip of media reports doubting whether Obama's black enough.
In short order, Limbaugh left no room for doubt that the racism his song revealed was racism from the political left.
If media members and liberals truly find it objectionable, as their reaction to Limbaugh's parody suggests, they know where it originates.
Dare they root it out?
Dare they root it out of themselves.
Incidentally, the difficulty with understanding satire isn't universal.
The Sacramento TV station ran polls of its audience to see if they shared the misreadings of the parodies.
86, well, 95% of respondents at last check to the Sacramento TV station poll disagreed that Limbaugh's song is racist.
So the point is, liberals don't get the joke, but they'll try to get the one who made it, the one.
Their ideology doesn't stand the test of examination.
You can't joke about it because when you joke about it, you're telling the truth about it.
And that's what liberals cannot allow, is for the truth about liberalism to be exposed.
And of course, especially in humor, because that is a persuasive way of communicating.
The second such article is a stunner today from the Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page.
Satire about Obama isn't the same as Amos Flub.
Clarence Page is black, is an African American, and I want to read you portions of this because it too is amazing.
We'll get to that right after this.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
I I don't I really don't want to harm Clarence Page by quoting him here.
When I uh when I happen to quote favorably uh people in the mainstream media, their their colleagues sometimes think they've sold out.
It's called a raspberry effect.
Uh but regardless, uh, I have to share with you what he said uh today in the Chicago Tribune.
Satire about Obama isn't the same as Imus Flub.
Let me just read you some excerpts of this.
Remember when media pundits were asking whether Senator Obama was black enough to attract black voters?
That was the old media narrative.
The new one goes sort of like this.
Maybe he's too black.
Take, for example, his conservative adversaries, such as talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who seems to take gleeful delight in reminding everybody how black Obama is, and even more delight when the rest of us notice.
Now that is a bit over the top because I've been very, you know, uh supportive of Obama.
My suggestion to Obama was he called all these people that are mentioning race and get it out of the stories.
It's they who were questioning his race.
Uh what I delight in reminding everybody of is how that's the it's the it's the Democrats, it's the liberals who are judging his blackness and his authenticity and whether or not he's down for the struggle.
That's the fun of this.
Not questioning his race or anything of the sort.
Back in mid-March, L. Rushbaugh began to air a satirical song titled Barack the Magic Negro.
He didn't make up the term.
He hijacked it fair and square.
And he goes on to mention it came from the LA Times and so forth.
Um Aaron Stein, who's black, the author of the LA Times piece, described white guilt as the minimal discomfort that the white film characters feel about the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history.
Limbaugh in the fashion of our times chastised Liberal racism for bringing up race in this fashion, and then proceeded to air a song about it repeatedly.
Sung to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon by voice impersonator Paul Shanklin, imitating Sharpton.
This song goes in part like this, and then he quotes some of the lyric line and says, if Limbaugh get this line if Limbaugh was looking for something to prove that he is worth caring about, he struck pay dirt.
I'm worth caring about.
Meaning, hey, you know, you people on the left, you better start paying attention here.
It probably says something.
This is what this is one of the most fascinating lines in the piece.
It probably says something about how isolated Limbaugh may be from the rest of us, meaning in the media.
That the song didn't generate much mainstream media controversy until last week, and that was when Obama became the first presidential candidate to qualify qualify for Secret Service protection besides Senator Clinton.
It was the earliest assignment of Secret Service protection since another black candidate, the Reverend Jackson ran for president in 84 and 88.
Citing a large number of wackos in the world.
A lot of people on the web and on talk radio, particularly listeners to Sharpton Show, think Limbaugh should meet the same fate as Imus.
But I don't.
I may not be in sync with Limbaugh's politics, but the two cases are quite different.
As satire, Limbaugh's song passes three critical tests that IMAS offhand comment flunked.
It's funny.
It took at least half a brain to think it up, and it contains a nugget of truth.
Now this line, it probably says something uh about how isolated Limbaugh may be from the rest of us.
That the song didn't generate much mainstream media controversy, it's right on point.
I would rewrite it.
I don't think I'm isolated from them.
I think they are isolated from me.
I I they are the ones that don't listen to this Clarence Page obviously does.
But most of them don't.
They get what they think they ha that what happens on this program from websites like Media Matters and other things.
They miss the context.
They purposely avoid listening to the program.
Uh and that to me, that that's the critical line.
He understands, he really understands what's going on.
This is up for two months before anybody raises think about it.
And it wasn't my audience that raised this think about it.
So he says, says something about how isolated Limbaugh may be from the rest of us.
I mean, they have purposely tuned out on purpose.
Limbaugh's targets a wildly popular presidential candidate, precisely the sort of political expression the first amendment was written to protect.
I may not agree with Limbaugh's politics, but he has a right to express them.
Besides, if the potentates of political correctness come after conservative commentators like Limbaugh today, they'll come after liberal commentators tomorrow.
And if voters think uh Obama can close that divide, they really do believe in magic.
So that is Clarence Page.
Those two pieces I wanted to share with him, they'll be posted at Rush Limbaugh.com later today.
Dave in Miami, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's uh nice to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh going back to the Fort Dick story, uh, if we can, uh I remember an incident not too long ago where there was a shooting at a mall uh by a young man that I believe was an Albanian descent.
And uh I was wondering if anyone has tied the uh the dots uh with uh whatever.
Where did that happen?
I don't recall them all, but I do recall part of the story that he was a young man that had come uh to the U.S. after the war in Yugoslavia.
And uh the uh he had grown up here in the States.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
That was uh Salt Lake City.
Uh that's shopping, that's right.
Salt Lake City shoop uh shooting spree, Salt Lake City Mall shooting spree.
Right.
And I was just wondering if anyone has tied the uh the dots with the uh what happened in New Jersey as far as the Albanians uh since uh he he might be part of that same group that uh came over after the wheel.
Well, it's interesting that you ask.
Um I have I have a a story here from a a website that is called uh ADNKI.com.
It's uh it's uh andikronos uh is I guess how I'm pronouncing it here, adnakronos Uh international.
Uh and I'm not sh I'm not sure where this website is.
But anyway, this uh this story, what country it's in.
Uh, but this story quotes a Balkan terrorism expert named Darko True uh uh Trifunovic.
And it is I I'm gonna get to this after the break, because you people have to hear this.
And we will uh we'll and it's dated today, uh, and we'll link to this at Rush Limbaugh.com as well.
Uh but it's it's it's interesting you should call about this uh right as this story is is made available to me because uh not only does this story say there's a connection to the Salt Lake City thing and what happened at Fort Dix or what was planned for Fort Dix, but it's even more intertwined and complicated than that.
So sit tight out there, Dave, and all the rest of you.
You you really need to hear what's coming next, right after this on the EIB network.
A man a living legend and a way of life.
All right, folks.
Now a lot to discuss here because um we're we're we're doing research and show prep at the time we are performing the show.
Doesn't happen anywhere else in modern media.
They go in with their scripted wow, hour or two and then um and then execute it, and then anything it doesn't and it happens while they're on the air and doesn't make it.
But here have to hear this.
Now, this is this is from the ADNKI.com website.
I'm not sure where this is from, because I haven't had time to to to source it.
It's international.
Uh, but it's a story out of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
So I'm assuming it's it's it's there.
The arrest of four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian and a Turk in the U.S. on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack at Fort Dix, New Jersey, confirms the existence of a white Al-Qaeda Balkan terrorism expert Darko Trifunovic said.
And he told this website, uh Nokronos International, on Wednesday today.
Trofunovic said the arrest showed white Al Qaeda at work.
He compared the Fort Dix plot to a February attack in Salt Lake City, when a Bosnian Muslim youth went on a shopping mall shooting rampage.
Six people, including the shooter, were killed.
Another four were injured in the attack.
Now, Darko Trifunovic is a professor at Belgrade University's faculty of security studies.
He was the first to develop a theory of white Al Qaeda, which he says was introduced to the Balkans during the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia, when thousands of mujahideen from Islamic countries came to fight on the side of local Muslims.
Many of the Mujahideen have remained in the country and are believed to be indoctrinating local youths with radical Islam and even operating terrorist training camps.
Uh Trifunovic said, quoting Western and Balkans uh intelligence sources.
Al Qaeda has adapted uh, or I'm sorry, adopted uh a new tactic of using white European youths for terrorist attacks because of their non-Arabic appearance, he said.
The strategy is to indoctrinate or poison the hearts and minds of youngsters to psych them up for the future terror operations.
And that's exactly what is now happening in the United States, said Balkan terrorism expert Darko Trafunovic.
The U.S. authorities arrested three ethnic Albanian brothers from Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province, another ethnic Albanian and a Jordanian, and a Turk.
Uh spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Newark said that the suspects were planning an attack on Fort Dix, which you all know.
Several of the suspects said they were ready to kill and die in the name of Allah, according to court papers.
The defendants, all men in their twenties, reportedly include a pizza delivery man suspected of using his job to scout out Fort Dix, three builders, and a taxi driver.
They were arrested while trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons and M16s from an informant.
Now, many Balkan terrorism experts have been warning for years that Al Qaeda had active cells in Muslim majority Kosovo in a training camp in the village of Ropotovo.
Kosovo's been under UN control since 1999 when NATO airstrikes drove Serbian forces out of the uh province.
U.S. authorities said that one of these people here was a sharpshooter in the Kosovo Liberation Army before fleeing to the U.S. uh to the United States.
Fort Dix is a training ground for American soldiers and reservists before they're sent to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a caller mentioned earlier.
And so the target of Fort Dix is not just random, doesn't appear to be just random.
Serb immigrants websites noted that U.S. officials carefully avoided identifying the four ethnic Albanians as such, calling them only Islamic militants from former Yugoslavia.
A commentator on the SERB blog said that Washington, which backs independence for Kosovo, is embarrassed by the discovery of the Fort Dix plot because the truth might mess up the PR for Kosovo Albanians getting to rip off a piece of Serbia to create their own country, a move that has the full support of the U.S. State Department.
Hey, that's one story.
The bottom line is of this story from this terrorism expert in the Balkans, Darko Trafunovic, that there is a an existence of white Al-Qaeda to fool everybody here.
that do not look like Arabs, but they're being trained to hate and plan and execute terrorist attacks.
Now, a couple more things, and I've just I just saw this about 30 seconds before the break ended.
And I haven't had a chance to peruse all of it.
This uh this first is from Findarticles.
Where is this from?
I'm not I'm I I need to be able to quote a source for this stuff, and I can't.
Uh which is the danger of this stuff coming in during the during the show.
Let's see.
Uh uh Findarticles.com.
Well, no, the up the up the other.
Whatever, I don't even have a date on this one.
Um, there it is, June 7th, of 1999.
Here we go.
It's yeah, insight on the news.
Here it is.
Stuff is so tiny I can barely read it.
Insight on the news, June 7, 1999.
The White House ordered the quick evacuation of 20,000 Kosovar refugees that the U.S. pledge to take, shortcutting normal procedures and background checks.
In the burgeoning refugee village at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where as many as 3,000 of the 20,000 ethnic Albanians the U.S. will take in or being uh housed pending settlement.
There are many such tales, heart-rending but unverifiable to be sure.
This is about separated from families and uh and all of that.
So this just confirms that uh the early story that we had that uh Islamic refugees, Kosovar refugees were brought in by the Clinton administration and settled at Fort Dick.
Dix.
Uh meanwhile, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service, and U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service were busy conducting the medical screenings and criminal background checks normally completed before a refugee can set foot on U.S. soil, but which were deferred in this case because of what some government officials saw as emergency circumstances.
The change in procedures was called completely atypical by a government official and highly unusual by the head of a major relief organization.
Let me translate that for you.
We bring in all these refugees from Kosovo, and we didn't screen them for disease or backgrounds, criminal backgrounds, anything else.
We did that after they were here.
This is 1999.
This is summer of 1999, and the Clinton administration deferred all of this.
They eventually got around to doing all these checks and so forth, but after they were here.
Let's see.
One of the concerns, the first was an administration worry that the flood of Kosovo refugees was overwhelming some neighboring nations that might prove destabilizing to others, particularly Macedonia.
A second was a concern that the overcrowded camps presented a growing health risk to refugees.
This is back in uh in Kosovo.
Finally, at least one top congressional aid says a contributing factor to bring in all these people in without the prior pre-screenings.
May have been a sense among officials that we helped create this mess, and we better help to do something about it.
Meaning our Kosovo war with uh NATO and so forth and so on.
Uh the look at the import of all this is that there is a terrorism expert in the Balkans claiming that a new white Al-Qaeda is operating here that has been uh trained and planted here from the Balkans and from Kosovo.
Uh and they are here to exact this kind of uh damage that Fort Dix six were apprehended before they could get moving on it.
But the Salt Lake City mall shooter, who had what he killed six or killed four, whatever it was, was part of the group, is uh uh what this expert in the Balkans is saying.
Now, let's see, where is this from?
Uh, let me take a break.
I don't I don't want to read something, and I don't know what it's from.
And it's good this stuff is such oh, it's a it's a military website.
Here's a quartermaster.army.mil.
So it's a military website.
A 1996 book by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton titled It Takes a Village became part of a theme for designing the refugee processing center at Fort Dix for these Kosovar refugees.
The first lady's book centered on rekindling a society that totally sustains and supports its families and individuals, especially its children.
It was a 530th soldier who had read the First Lady's book and recommended naming the processing center's physical location the village rather than a camp or a compound.
Well, holy cow.
Holy cow.
So the refugee location, the camp, the compound, was renamed the village in honor of Hillary Rod.
Can you imagine what Clinton Inc.
is doing right now with this news out there?
We've got two CNN stories.
We've already shared with you.
We've got this uh this Yugoslav website talking about white Al Qaeda, and it all ties back to the Clinton administration bringing 20,000 Kosovar refugees into the country in 1999.
And you've got a Balkans terrorism expert saying that the Salt Lake City uh mall shooting and the attempted uh shootings at Fort Dix, that plan, are all related to a new white Al Qaeda.
And uh uh as First Lady, Mrs. Clinton wrote columns about this, the village.
Mr. Sturdley has just printed them out now.
She wrote columns.
That's right, she did have a column.
I remember that now.
Mrs. Clinton had a column, and and uh so she wrote about this.
We'll get those in due course.
The refugee population in the village at Fort Dix experienced a complete life cycle from beginning to.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, but uh you get the point here.
We brought the refugees in from Kosovo without prior screening.
We didn't screen them for disease or criminal background checks.
We did that after they got here.
We deferred them.
Then they got here, and they were so pleased to be here and so happy that they named their compound the village after Mrs. Clinton's book.
And of course, you remember the Clinton administration.
I never worked hard on this my life fight terrorism.
That was that was that was uh that's also all thought got up.
I got up, I worked the middle of the day, I thought about it, I even thought about it in a study with Monica.
I thought about terrorism.
Yeah, we did it.
We worked as hard as we could.
Richard Clark and me talked to him about it.
Can you imagine the spin room at Clinton Inc.
and what it is doing right now, folks?
I got these two columns from Mrs. Bill Clinton uh from May 5th of 1999, May 19th of 1999.
But I want to go back to one of the CNN stories.
The first lady said nothing makes the case more powerfully for why the United States and our allies are pursuing their mission in Kosovo and why we can't give up until the evils perpetrated by Milosevich and his regime have been stopped and the refugees return home in peace and safety.
Where is that attitude regarding Iraq?
Mrs. Clinton, perfectly fine with taken out after Sloboda Milosevic.
And talking about we we gotta help these people, we gotta help these allies.
We are we and our allies have got to bring them back home.
This uh Milosevic regime must be stopped.
The refugees return home in peace and safety.
Where is this same attitude that Mr. Clinton had uh about Milosevich back in the late 90s?
Now, here is her column was called Talking It Over.
And the first one we have here is from uh May 5th of 1999.
Whenever and wherever people are in need, Americans stand ready to help, except Iraq.
Well, Democrats don't stand ready to help.
This week I traveled to Fort Dix in New Jersey to represent the President and the people of the United States in welcoming the first group of Kosovar refugees from Macedonia arriving in our country, like hundreds of thousands of others, they've witnessed appalling atrocities.
In one twenty-four-hour period earlier this week, more than 11,600 Kosovars arrived in Macedonia, bringing nearly seventy, seven hundred thousand the number of refugees and displaced persons who have fled the terror that Slobodan Milosevic and his regime have inflicted on the ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo.
Some of those coming to the U.S. have relatives anxiously awaiting their arrival.
Families, churches, agencies around our country will sponsor housing for others.
Literally tens of thousands of Americans have offered help of some kind.
Here's what you can do.
And then she goes on to ask you to drive them around and take them to the store.
Get them set up with relief agencies and get on welfare programs, all the great things that liberals believe in.
Every offer of help is an offer of hope.
The people of America are sending the people of Kosovo a very strong message.
You are not abandoned.
You are not forgotten.
Slobodan Milosevich has not succeeded in erasing your identity from the pages of history, and he will not succeed in erasing your presence from the land of your parents and grandparents.
They hated Milosevic.
Don't forget what this is all about.
This is about the Fort Dix 6.
And how they the Clinton set all this up.
The Clinton set up the refugee camp at Fort Dix, and the refugees are so happy they named it the village after her book.
And we've got a Balkans terrorist expert saying, oh, yeah, these things are being set up all over the United States.
White Al Qaeda.
Jihadists and Islamists who don't look Arab.
Claims that the Salt Lake City shooter was one of them.
The May 19th, 1999 piece from Mrs. Clinton's Talking It Over column.
We cannot let these people down, meaning the Kosovars.
We must tell and retell their stories because there is no more powerful argument for why the United States and our NATO allies are in Kosovo.
There is no more powerful justification for why we will not give up until the evils perpetrated by Milosevic have ended.
And these refugees are once again living in their own homes in peace and secure.
First lady eight years ago writing this.
Now, remember what Kosovo was about, folks?
Ethnic cleansing.
We weren't going to put up with it.
Fine and dandy.
But was there any U.S. national interest at stake?
There wasn't, was there?
Sectarian war is what that was.
It was a civil war.
It was a sectarian war.
Of course, we had NATO fight it from 15,000 feet.
It was our war, but uh we did it with our NATO allies.
Move to Iraq.
Sectarian war.
Civil war.
Nobody's used the term ethnic cleansing yet, because if they did the Libs would have to join forces with us on it.
But there are clearly U.S. national interests at stake involved in Iraq.
Al Qaeda and international terrorism.
And I bring all of this up, uh, well, it's it's it's obvious, isn't it?
Uh the conclusion you can draw here is is obvious.
The Democrats start a war, it's all fine, and it's valorous.
And it is moral, and it is worth it.
And it's obviously no U.S. vital national interests were at stake.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, who was leading this effort, or claiming to, with all these public pronouncements, visits to Fort Dix, the bringing of uh refugees, Kosovar refugees to Fort Dix, now running for president, doing everything she can to please the anti-war crowd in this country that Iraq's not worth it.
Just isn't worth it.
Uh anyway, I got to take a brief time out here, folks.
There won't be time for any more phone calls, uh, sadly, but we'll uh we'll have all this stuff at our website tonight so you can uh peruse it in more detail.
I've just read excerpts of all of this in the interests of brevity in time.
Well, we didn't get to the global warming stack uh today, ladies and gentlemen, and it's growing.
And there's some really good stuff in there, but we had breaking news today.
Breaking news that you will not hear anywhere else.
And that is the involvement of the Clinton administration in establishing these uh refugee camps called the Village at Fort Dix and the existence of a white Al-Qaeda, as reported by a Balkans terrorist expert.
Uh we'll see.
I can I can just imagine the feverish, feverish activity at Clinton Inc.
in the war room going on right now.
I mean how to spend this, you know, where were we gotta send Sandy Burglar purgoin some documents?
We've got to straighten this out before Limbaugh takes it too far down the road.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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