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Dec. 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today.
And this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be behind the eggnog-colored EIB microphone for another three hours.
I'm from the foreign exchange wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a terrific program.
Penniless foreign students like me get to come and study here.
And in return, 200 Gitmo detainees get to go to art school in Saudi Arabia.
Art school.
I'm serious.
This is the latest update in the Panty Bomber story.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab, the kid with the incendiary underwear.
This is an update from ABC News that lets us know that two of the four leaders allegedly, we have to say this now because the president says allegedly all the time, hail to the alleged chief.
He said allegedly all the time in his statement yesterday, so we're going to say allegedly a lot today.
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the alleged Al-Qaeda plot to blow up the alleged Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were a couple of guys who were released from Gitmo and sent to Saudi Arabia to enter a quote art therapy rehabilitation program unquote after which they were set free.
This is great news.
You know, the old discredited policy was waterboarding, but the new policy is watercoloring.
I think you're.
I think you're you, Mohammed.
Your use of light and color in that picture you've drawn of the airliner flying into the great Satan's hideous skyscraper is really evocative.
Your, your use of color is is just superb.
Very, very affecting.
This is the way I think, this is the way to wean these guys.
Take them from Gitmo, send them to art school in Saudi Arabia.
Couple of years later they come back to America as fully accredited art school graduates.
They get an NEA grant, they're.
They have an exhibition at the Museum OF Modern ART with all their pictures showing the jihadists conquering the world, the caliph conquering the world, you know, often a literal representation, some abstract work in there, perhaps some nice Japanese woodblock print type stuff showing Islam conquering the planet, and it'd be a fantastic exhibit at the Museum OF Modern ART and these rehabilitated Jihadists would be winning all these art prizes and we wouldn't have a problem anymore.
That was the theory.
That was the theory, brilliant theory but, as with so many other plans, it didn't quite work out that way in in practice.
Mohamed Atik Al-Habi, Guantanamo prisoner number 333, and and Said Ali Shari, Guantanamo prisoner number 372, arrived in Saudi Arabia, did Art therapy program.
And I'm sure initially they were pleased to get away from all the old waterboarding and the torture.
Having what were they playing?
They were having Harry Potter read to them in a very loud voice and having Alicia Keys songs played to them.
And they were anyway, so they no longer had to suffer all this torture of having to listen to filthy American pop music and having Harry Potter read to them.
Instead, they were at art school in Saudi Arabia and doing the old art therapy rehabilitation program.
And can you believe it?
At some point, Mohammed and Saeed say, screw this.
We didn't sign up.
We didn't sign up with the jihad to become Nancy Boy artists and get some grant from the NEA.
We're out of here.
And they left the art school therapy program and went to Yemen, rejoined al-Qaeda, and were behind this Christmas Day plot to blow up the Northwest Airlines flight as it came down to Detroit.
Huda-thunk it!
Huda-thunk it!
So evidently, the old replacing waterboarding with water colouring policy hasn't worked out perhaps as well as we might have hoped.
We'll talk about that today.
1-800-282-2882.
Lots of details emerging on this plot.
We've now got photographs of the panties of the panty bomber.
He would not, we assumed the explosives were sewn into his waistband.
In fact, they were sewn into the crotch, which is a better way of evading detection, but presumably you won't be in such good shape when you get to paradise for the 72 Virgins.
But evidently, this guy, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab, wasn't too bothered about that.
I had a letter from Susan of Woodstock, Georgia, after this interesting underwear popped up on the TV.
And she said, if we cannot profile the terrorists, obviously we can't profile the terrorists, can we profile the panties instead?
I have never seen real men's panties look like the ones I saw this morning.
Oh my Allah.
And Susan is very eager for us to start profiling the Panties.
And I think this is an interesting idea.
And I gather Washington's getting right on it.
Apparently, they're renaming, what is it, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Underwear.
And no, wait a minute, it's the what is it, the ATF?
Yeah, they're renaming the ATF, the ATF BVDs.
And that is going to strike fear into jihadists everywhere.
So you won't be able to get away with this special adaptive underwear anymore.
They're going to be right on top of that.
This hasn't worked out well for President Obama.
The United States of America has looked like a fool to the world for the last 72 hours since this plot came up on Christmas.
First, the denial, the denial that this was an explicit Islamic terror attack on the United States on what is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, the birth of Jesus.
I mean, the idea that December the 25th, just some coincidence, could have been, you know, November the 17th, it could have been March 26th, doesn't make any difference.
No, it was timed as an assault on what the Muslims still think is the most holy day in the Christian calendar.
So Christmas Day was not an accidental choice.
First, we were in denial about that.
Then we responded to all this stupid stuff about how you can't go to the bathroom for the last hour of the flight, which would have been the usual bureaucratic stupidity because all the terrorists needed to do would have gotten out of his seat now in 10 minutes before the flight.
So that was a stupid thing.
Then we sent Janet Incompitano out on TV to say that the system worked perfectly.
And finally, as the culmination of three to four days of complete stupidity from the global superpower, we had the President of the United States, who came on the air more or less straight after this show yesterday and did this as usual.
Cool thing, this kind of cool clinical, detached routine.
He does when you want.
You want some sign of righteous anger, some sign of empathy or, if you don't like righteous anger, which is supposed to be some swaggering Texan cowboy thing, what about a little bit of empathy?
That's what these Democrats are supposed to be big on.
He didn't seem to empathize, as the word is, with the fact that some 250 people were nearly blown out of the skies because the 50 billion dollar homeland security system failed.
Here's what he said, quote, this is president Obama.
Here's what we know so far.
On Christmas Day, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was en route from Amsterdam Netherlands, to Detroit.
As the plane made its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire.
Allegedly notice that word allegedly.
Thanks to the quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew, the suspect the suspect, that's another word keep an eye on that one the suspect was immediately subdued.
The fire was put out and the plane landed safely.
The suspect is now in custody and has been charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft.
Keep that word in there, charge too.
This is what it is now.
The alleged suspect has been allegedly charged with allegedly trying to take down this aircraft.
This is the dead clinical desiccated, legalistic view of what is a war.
This guy didn't hold up a liquor store.
He's not an alleged suspect, he's an enemy combatant.
He's an enemy combatant trained by an avowed enemy of the United States.
And the trouble with viewing this situation, as Obama does, as a law enforcement matter, is that you enforce the law after stuff has happened when, when a jihadist pulls some stunt, you put the yellow crime scene tape around it and you investigate it and you find a quote suspect to quote charge.
You can't win a war that way and these guys see it as a war okay.
So I've got a whole problem with, with the the the, the framing uh, of what happened on Christmas Day, as done by the president.
But there's worse things in this, in this statement, by the way, you know this phrase perhaps, perhaps the the worst phrase in his remarks was this, when, And he described the Panty bomber as, quote, an isolated extremist, unquote.
Now, there's nothing isolated about him.
Members of al-Qaeda in Yemen have claimed responsibility for this.
He himself has traveled to Yemen.
He was selected by al-Qaeda operatives in part because he's a kind of plausible guy.
He was educated at the British School in Togo and then at University College London.
So he speaks very good English.
He passes as a perfectly westernized Muslim.
His dad is a big shot banker in Nigeria whose second home in London, as we discussed yesterday, is worth 2.5 million pounds.
That's about 4 million dollars.
So, in other words, he is the guy they were looking for.
Osama bin Laden, back in, I think this was the summer of 2000.
He'd had his guys, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other guys, had put together the 9-11 plot.
They'd assembled the, they'd come up with the idea, they'd figured out how to do it.
They just had one problem: who was going to carry it out?
And they were looking for westernized Muslims who had the right kind of passports with the right kind of stamps and the right kind of visas and had enough Western connections, Western universities, to be able to move easily from one Western country to another.
And he was thinking, we'll never find anybody like that.
And then Mohamed Atta walked through the door, this Hamburg engineering student who was just what they were looking for, a middle-class, westernized Muslim.
These are the fellows they select.
They don't go and try and put a goat herd from Waziristan who's at the back of the cave, slopping out Osama bin Laden's executive Latrine.
They don't try and get those guys on the flight to Amsterdam.
They look for westernized, middle-class Muslims.
And so they found this guy, University College London, and they put him on the plane.
They selected him.
So when the President of the United States tells us that this fella is just a quote isolated extremist, he's giving us a wholly false portrait of what happened.
He thinks you're stupid.
He thinks you're so stupid you don't understand that this guy was targeted, moved in radical circles in London, was radicalized within the networks in London, selected by al-Qaeda operatives, shipped out to Yemen, given his training and all the rest of it, and then put on the plane.
He's part of a network.
So when the president tries to pass this off as, oh, just some crazy guy, go psycho, which is the same thing they tried to tell us about Major Nassan, Major Hassan at Fort Hood, exactly the same thing that they tried to tell us about that.
He's telling us, he's giving us a false characterization of what happened.
He thinks you're stupid because you'd have to be stupid to follow that, to fall for that term, isolated extremists.
Ralph Peters in the New York Post, Ralph Peters makes a very good point today.
He goes, Al-Qaeda is far more than a formal organization.
It's an idea, a cause.
If a terrorist says he's al-Qaeda, he is, even if he doesn't have a union card from Jihadi Local 632.
And that seems to be all that our boneheads in the federal government are going by now.
They're saying, well, it doesn't count as terrorism, doesn't really count as terrorism, unless he's got his al-Qaeda card.
It's part of the over-credentialization in life.
You know, everybody in America now has got to be licensed and credentialed up to the hilt.
You can't get anybody.
Was talking to a couple of guys who shingled a roof for me, and they did some work for an organization that takes money from the federal government, so they were obliged to go to ladder school.
Because even though one is a roofer and the other is a mason, so they've been standing 30 feet up in the air, shingling and bricklaying for 40 years.
They have to go in America now.
If you go to do it at a facility that receives federal funds, you have to go to ladder school.
You've got to be credentialed in standing at tall heights up on the end of two pieces of wood.
That requires a credential.
So we have the over-credentialization of American life.
You know this.
If you go to your hairdressing salon, they've got all kinds of licenses and permits and everything up on the wall there now.
Because you need a permit to do the hair, you need a permit to color the hair, you need a separate permit if you're also going to do a manicure.
You need another permit if you're going to do a pedicure.
You need a separate license for disposing of the chemicals used to colour the hair.
Over-credentialization of American life.
And because that's the way we live, we're now telling ourselves, ah, if some guy gets on a plane, it doesn't count.
It doesn't count as terrorism unless he's a fully licensed, credentialed member of a terrorist organization.
That is to miss the real potency of what it is that Al-Qaeda does, which is that it's an ideology that people are attracted to and they spontaneously sign up for.
That's a huge advantage on the KGB.
You don't have to have control officers from Moscow through the fella in the embassy in Washington meeting in the park and leaving the secret message under the third tree on the left anymore if people spontaneously are attracted to the ideology and then seek you out.
And that's what this guy is.
So the president falsely characterized this man and his mission.
And that is disgraceful.
We'll talk about that in the hours ahead.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein on the Rushman Book Show.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you.
Other things we're going to be looking at in the hours ahead.
The end of Barack Obama's amazing year.
A list has just been published at the Wirham Serum website for those of you who speak Latin, wirhamserum.com or Verum Serum, if you do the new Italian pronunciation.
But the top 10 uses of stimulus funds.
A $712,883 stimulus grant to develop machine-generated humor.
How is that going to put America back to work?
Machine-generated humor.
Doing the jobs Americans were outsourcing it now to machines.
Doing the jobs Americans won't do.
712.
We'll look at some of these other ones.
Funding of a Dartmouth college.
This was of interest to me because I'm in New Hampshire.
Funding of a Dartmouth College study involving sexual arousal in anesthetized female rats.
You know, I've had dates like that, especially in New Hampshire, oddly enough.
That's number nine on the list of the top 10 most ridiculous use of stimulus funds.
And we'll look at some of the other ones coming up in the hours ahead.
But I'm pleased to see, actually, I think one of the reasons why they rolled back some of these stupid responses, you've got to sit with your hands on your knees, you can't have a paperback book on your lap, and all this stuff.
I think one of the reasons we pulled that back was because of the ridicule they got since they announced it.
And it's important to keep up the pressure on that.
Too many people, when you go to the airports, too many people are just shuffling through there.
They think the longer the lines got and the more stupid little itsy bitsy impositions they're subjected to, the more that's a sign that the government is keeping them safe.
That's absolutely untrue.
The more that the government wastes time telling you you can't have a paperback book on your lap and inspecting your toothpaste, the more it is actually giving you the illusion of security at the immense bureaucratic cost of doing anything for real security.
And that's why it's important to heap ridicule whenever the TSA announces the leaderless TSA announces these stupid impositions upon the general public.
Mark Stein in for rush.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow and the great Walter E. Williams will round things out for 2009 on New Year's Eve.
Remember these guys' names, actually.
These guys' names deserve to be better known.
Guantanamo prisoner number 333, Mohamed Atik Al-Habi.
Guantanamo prisoner number 372, Saeed Ali Shari, released from Gitmo to Saudi Arabia to enter a quote art therapy rehabilitation program, unquote.
So they spend a couple of months painting this, painting that, doing flowers, maybe doing the old Van Gogh type sunflowers, maybe doing a little Mona Lisa type thing like the old Leonardo.
And then they decide nuts to this and they go back to Yemen and go for the jihad.
So the art therapy thing isn't working out.
And they put together, they believe to be the guys behind this Northwest Airlines bomb plot with the panty bomber.
And I wonder how many jihadists now have passed through the art therapy program.
Because you know, the liberals out there who are all concerned about how torturing, we're spending so much time torturing people, they published a book of poetry from Guantanamo last year or the year before to raise money for these legal guys' campaigns.
And so we had all this attractive poems from Guantanamo.
And it was absolutely terrible stuff.
I have observed the youths of Muhammad.
What splendid, righteous young men they are.
And that was just like your basic Islamo dog rule.
And then there was some that was just kind of bad in a rather sort of dreary existentialist way.
Quote, what kind of spring is this where there are no flowers and the air is filled with a miserable smell, a miserable smell.
So these were these poems from Guantanamo that the liberals put together and released to expose the hell these guys were living in.
And now there's painting as well.
I mean, we could actually divert all the NEA funding from whatever it's being used on it, wasted on at the moment.
We could divert it all to poems from Guantanamo, paintings by people from Guantanamo who passed through the Saudi Arabian art therapy system.
And we'll see whether that works.
That maybe encouraging these suicide bombers instead to become nice trained art school Saudi art school graduates and get a nice exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, that that's maybe the way to go.
Let's go to Gil in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Gil, you're alive on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, Haijonus is actually Joe from Worcester Keppel, Florida.
Is it Joe?
Oh, right.
I've got Gil.
I apologize.
Oh, no problem.
Well, what I was saying is I don't really see that this is a a big deal.
He's not characterizing this as terrorist attack activity.
I mean, if he does, if he says it's a terrorist attack and these people are linked to terrorist organizations, then he's already got two terrorist attacks in his first term on American soil.
And that doesn't do well when your numbers are already in the tank.
There's no way that he can do that.
No, and actually, it's worse than that because there's been a significant uptick in the rate of attempted terrorist attacks.
We're not just talking now about Fort Hood, where all these people died.
14 people were killed.
But there's actually been an uptick in the number of attempted terrorist attacks.
And if you look at the arrests, these cross-border arrests in the Detroit Windsor area a couple of months back, there's actually seems to be more attempted attacks going on in this first year of hope and change.
And that presumably doesn't accord with his general philosophy either.
Yeah, well, how's he going to justify it now if Al-Qaeda has actually come forward and said, hey, this is one of our guys.
And yeah, we gave him the training, we gave him the information.
It wasn't just artwork.
It was actually maybe it was a knitting class they have there too.
But I mean, since they actually said that it's now part of them, I mean, he can't really deny it now.
Right.
Right.
That's true.
You're wondering now, that's interesting.
You're wondering whether the art therapy classes included knitting the incendiary underwear.
I hadn't considered that.
Art is art.
I hadn't.
Yeah, art is art.
That's true.
And actually, given the sort of things that they have on exhibition in New York, going and seeing some pair of modified underpants would not be that unusual in a New York exhibition.
Maybe I was being too Squaresville, thinking they were just doing traditional painting.
You put them into a museum there.
That's right.
Okay.
Well, but by the way, as we said earlier, he hasn't actually nominated any people to head the TSA or customs and border protection either.
So presumably, I don't know who would, it's presumably only a low-level bureaucrat who'll be instituting the new underpants policy on what underwear you're allowed to wear on American airlines anyway.
So I don't know how that's going to work out either.
But you're right.
There have been, if he actually identifies these acts as terrorism, as opposed to just rogue psychos going crazy one morning, then it becomes a problem for him because we seem to be seeing a pattern in which they have concluded that this president's, this Bush era is over and that this president is projecting an image of weakness.
And as Donald Rumsfeld said back in the 70s, weakness is provocative.
That if you appear weak to the world, people are going to take advantage of that.
Now, it might just be some wily competitor in the international global trade who takes advantage of that.
It might be Vladimir Putin who takes advantage of your perceived weakness to scuttle the missile defense thing for Eastern Europe because he knows you'll cave in and abandon your new Eastern European allies.
It might just be the Chinese or the Iranians.
The Iranians decide to go ahead with their nuclear program because they recognize weakness when they see it and they know you're not going to do anything.
But at some point, it's also going to be these non-national, these non-state actors, these guys in Yemen, Somalia, Waziristan, these other places, who are going to take advantage and try to blow holes through your national security because they smell weakness too.
Thanks very much for your call, Joe, in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
We're talking about these latest developments on the Panty Bomber.
The president gave a false characterization of what's going on here when he said that this guy was, in effect, just an isolated individual.
And that's not the case.
This guy was plugged in.
He was plugged into the jihadist radicalized networks in London.
He was in communication with this U.S. citizen, U.S.-born Imam, Al-Owalaki, who was also the guy who got Major Hassan all pepped up before he went and gunned down U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood.
This is just one Imam.
It's a U.S.-born Imam.
It's a westernized Imam who's responding by email to interested applicants around the world who want to get in on the Jihad Express program.
And it's stupid for the president to try and present this, like Major Hassan, as just a guy who just one day wakes up and goes nuts.
It doesn't happen like that.
These people exist in a context.
They're young Muslim men.
Sometimes they're lonely.
They have various other pathologies.
Major Hassan seems to be some kind of social misfit going to the strip joints every night before he went to Fort Hood to kill everybody.
This guy, the pandy bomber, seems to have been a lonely guy in London.
But lots of people are lonely.
So what?
That's not what matters.
What matters is when they go looking for something to fill their lives and to find meaning in their lives, they find people like this American Imam who's now in Yemen, and they start up a connection with him, and he directs their attention either to people who can help them locally in the United States or the United Kingdom, or he gets them on the plane to Yemen, as he evidently did with this guy,
and then they load up his underwear and he boards the plane at Amsterdam.
And the idea that this is just a lone rogue is completely false, and the President of the United States should not be telling that to us.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein, in forush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you in the dying days of 2009.
December 29th, Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow, and then Walter E. Williams will close out the year.
You've got to love the Yemeni government.
Who says these Yemenis don't have a great sense of humor?
Yemen's government said Tuesday that the U.S. should have shared its warnings about the Nigerian suspect in the botched Christmas Day airline attack and said it was tightening restrictions on student visas like the one that allowed the young man to enter the country.
So Yemen is saying, Yemen is saying, why didn't the United States tell us?
They're the ones who gave this crazy guy a multi-entry visa.
We thought he was perfectly respectable.
If the State Department of the Great Satan says he's bona fide, who are we to question it?
So Yemen's government is after, well, you know, Information Minister Hassan al-Lozi confirmed that Umar Farouk Abdul Muttalab spent two extended periods in Yemen as recently as this month, and that authorities were trying to determine what he did during that time.
Investigators said he spent at least part of the time studying Arabic at a school in the capital of Sana'a, where students and administrators described him as friendly and outgoing with no overtly extremist views.
Now, don't forget the salient point here is that he had no overtly extremist views by the standards of the average Yemeni student.
That may be not quite as reassuring as it sounds.
But this is what it's come down to now.
The Yemenis are blaming the Americans for not keeping them up to speed on this guy.
And you know something?
They have a point.
While we're all mocking Janet in Competano, it's important to ask, where is Hillary Rodham Clinton on this?
You remember her?
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
She used to be in the papers all the time.
And then Obama became president, and he appointed her Secretary of State, and nobody's heard a word from her ever since.
Every like four months, you'll see a picture of her in, you know, in the capital of some banana republic on the other side of the planet, talking to a room full of students, or like she did in where was it where she was bawling out the guy, was that in Uganda or somewhere where the high school student asked her what news she brought about Mr. Bill Clinton's views on this, and she slapped the kid down and said, I don't speak for Bill Clinton.
I'm the Secretary of State.
I represent the United States government.
The poor woman was depressed because she didn't.
Was it Kampala?
I think it was Kampala.
Was it Kampala or was it?
No, it was the Congo.
It was somewhere in the Congo.
And obviously she's depressed.
She thought she was going to be the president and she was going to bestride the world like a colossus.
And then she finds herself at this dump in the Congo talking to a room full of high school students.
Because even if, and that's actually insulting for a Secretary of State.
But what Obama did, he made her Secretary of State.
Then he did what he does with everything.
He appointed all these czars.
So there's like an Afghan czar and there's a Middle East czar and there's a European czar.
So she basically, yeah, yeah, John Kerry now is going to be jetting into Iran at a time when the Iranian people, God bless them, are trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic and all its wretched, corrupt mullahs and its crazed millenarian loon of a leader.
John Kerry is going to be jetting in as the Iran Tsar to assure the mullahs and Ahmadinejad, don't worry about a thing, we're behind you all the way.
So all the cool gigs, all the A-list gigs, all the ones that get you on the front page of the foreign news in the Washington Post and the New York Times have been given to other people and Hillary Rodham Clinton is stuck talking to grade school students in Lusaka or whatever she does all year long.
So at any rate, that notwithstanding, she is still the Secretary of State of the United States.
And she is responsible for the fact that this guy's father went along to the U.S. Embassy and reported this, that his son had become a so-called extremist.
Why wasn't this moved up the chain?
Hillary Clinton ought to be answering that, not Janet Encompetano.
Why did the United States government, with all it knew about him, including the fact that he'd been banned from re-entering the United Kingdom, this guy had been banned in London, couldn't re-enter the United Kingdom, yet the United States State Department, sole proprietor Hillary Rodham Clinton, issued him a multi-entry visa.
Why is nobody asking Hillary, why isn't Hillary Clinton doing Meet the Press?
Why is Janet, as much as I like the buffoonish Janet Encompetano, because basically anyone can take a pod shot at her, where is Hillary Rodham Clinton?
The State Department loused up this.
Seriously, big time.
And we're not, and the State Department ultimately, I mean, basically, this only becomes a homeland security issue if something goes wrong.
The normal interaction of the world with the United States of America is done through the State Department, which processes visas and runs American embassies and all the rest of it.
So, if this State Department, sole proprietrix Hillary Rodham Clinton, is issuing multi-entry visas to people who are banned by other Western nations and have been reported to the United States Embassy as a possible radical terrorist threat.
Why is Hillary Rodham Clinton not on any meet the press or all the rest of it?
I mean, say what you like about Janet Incompetano, but at least she's on TV every 20 minutes talking contradictory drivel.
At least she has some sense of being accountable to the American people.
Where is the so-called Secretary of State?
I know it's a big deal when you've got a pressing engagement because you've got to speak to middle schoolers in Timbuktu or whatever.
But at some point, she needs to tell us what is going on in the State Department and why the State Department is issuing visas to guys like this.
I mean, everyone thinks now, because we think about this is how we think about the world, that everybody on the planet has some kind of God-given right to enter the United States.
I went through the paperwork.
I made a big mistake.
Wouldn't do that again.
There's two kinds of immigrants to this country: there's undocumented immigrants and documented immigrants.
And believe me, you don't want to be a documented immigrant.
It's hell, you waste time with all the paperwork.
But I well remember the paperwork.
It asked me whether I had ever been a member of the National Socialist Party of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
It asked that of everyone who wants to come to the United States.
Were you a member of the National Socialist Party of Germany in the years 1933 to 1945?
Now, isn't that a bit germanophobic?
Isn't that profiling?
How come we don't mind doing profiling with regard to the war that was over 64 years ago, but we're not interested in profiling now?
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network, lots more straight ahead.
By the way, you know, back in Gitmo, they interrogate the suspects in a lazy boy recliner.
Did you know that?
You don't get that when you're back in the basement in the old jail cell in Yemen, I can tell you.
I sat in the lazy boy recliner myself and had my photograph taken.
There's a picture of it somewhere in some filing cabinet in the Pentagon, and no doubt some opposition research guy will drag it up when I run for office in 20 years' time as a sign that I was really a big-time al-Qaeda operative around the turn of the 21st century.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
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