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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 it's a terrific program.
Penniless foreign students like me get to come and study here.
And in return, two hundred Gitmo detainees get to go to art school in Saudi Arabia.
Art school.
I'm serious.
This is the latest update in the in the pantibombery.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab, uh the kid with the incendiary underwear.
Uh this is an update from ABC News that uh 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 hail to the alleged chief.
He said allegedly all the time in his statement yesterday, so we're going to say allegedly a lot uh 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 uh 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 uh airliner flying into the great Satan's hideous skyscraper is really uh evocative.
Uh you 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 uh accredited art school graduates.
Uh they get an NEA grant, they're uh they have an exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art with all their pictures, uh showing uh the uh jihadists conquering the world, the caliph conquering the world, you know, often a literal representation, some abstract work uh in there,
perhaps some uh nice uh Japanese wood block print type stuff showing Islam conquering the planet, uh, and it'd be a fantastic exhibit at uh 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.
Mohammed Atiq Al-Habi, Guantanamo prisoner number 333, and uh uh and Saeed Ali Shari, Guantanamo prisoner number 372, arrived in Saudi Arabia,
did the uh art therapy program, uh, and I'm sure initially they were pleased to get away from the all the old waterboarding and the torture, uh having uh what were they playing uh they were having uh Harry Potter read to them in a very loud voice and uh having uh Alicia Keyes 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.
Uh instead they were at art school in Saudi Arabia and doing the 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 uh went to Yemen, uh rejoined Al Qaeda, and were behind this uh Christmas Day plot to blow up the Northwest uh Airlines flight as it came down to Detroit.
Who to thunk it?
Who to thunk it?
So uh evidently the old the old uh the old replacing waterboarding with water coloring policy hasn't worked out uh perhaps as well as uh as we might have hoped.
We'll talk about that today.
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Lots of lots of details emerging on this plot.
We've now got photographs of the panties of the panty bomber.
Uh He would not we assumed the explosives were sewn into his waistband.
In fact, they were they were sewn into the crotch, which uh which is a better way of evading detection, but uh uh presumably you won't be in such good shape when you get to paradise for the 72 Virgins.
But uh evidently this uh this this guy uh Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab uh wasn't too bothered about that.
I had a letter from uh Susan of Woodstock, Georgia, uh after this uh interesting underwear popped up uh on the uh on the TV, and she said if we cannot profile the terrorists, obviously it would 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 uh 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 uh the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Underwear.
And no, wait a minute.
That it's the uh what is it, the ATF.
Yeah, they're renaming the ATF the ATF B V Ds.
And that is gonna that is gonna strike fear into jihadists everywhere.
So you'll you won't be able to get away with this special adaptive underwear anymore.
They're gonna they're gonna be right on uh 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 seventy-two hours uh since this plot came up on Christmas.
First the denial, the denial that this was a uh an explicit Islamic terror attack on the United States on what is uh the holiest day in the Christian calendar, the birth of Jesus.
I mean, the idea that December the twenty-fifth, just some coincidence, could have been, you know, no November the seventeenth, it could have been uh uh March twenty uh sixth, doesn't make any difference.
No, it was timed uh as an assault on uh what uh the Muslims uh still think uh is is the most holy day in the Christian calendar.
So uh Christmas Day was not an accidental choice.
First we were in denial about that, then we responded with all these this stupid stuff about how you can't go to the bathroom for the last hour of the flight, uh, which is would have been the usual bureaucratic stupidity because all the terrorists needed to do would have uh uh gotten out of his seat an hour and ten minutes before the flight.
So that w that was a stupid thing.
Then we sent Janet Incompetano out on TV to say that the system worked perfectly.
And finally, as the culmination of uh three to four days of complete stupidity from the global superpower.
Uh we had the President of the United States who came on the air more or less straight after uh this show yesterday and uh did this as usual cool thing.
Uh this kind of cool clinical detached routine he does when you want you want some sign uh of uh righteous anger, uh 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, uh, with the fact that uh some uh 250 people were nearly blown out of the skies because the fifty billion dollar uh homeland security system failed.
Um 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, uh 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 uh law enforcement matter is that you enforce the law after stuff has happened.
Uh 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 got a whole problem with uh uh with the the uh the the framing uh of what happened on Christmas Day as done by the president.
But there's worse things in this uh in this statement, by the way.
Um, this phrase, perhaps perhaps the the worst phrase in his remarks w was this, when he described the panty bomber as quote, an uh isolated extremist, unquote.
Now there's nothing isolated about him.
Uh members of Al Qaeda in Yemen uh have claimed responsibility for this.
Uh 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 uh 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 four million dollars.
So in other words, he is he is the guy they were looking for.
Uh Osama bin Laden, back in uh, 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 I 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?
Uh and they were looking for Westernized uh Muslims who had the right kind of passports with the right kind of stamps and the right kind of visas uh and had uh enough uh Western connections, Western uh 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 Mohammed Atter 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 from the back who's who's at the back of the cave slopping out uh Osama bin Laden's executive 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 and they put him on the plane.
They selected him.
So when 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 that this guy was targeted, uh m moved in radical circles in London, uh, was radicalized within an within the networks in London, uh selected by Al Qaeda operatives, uh 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 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 try tries to uh uh they tried to tell us about that.
Uh he's he's telling us, he's giving us a false characterization of what of uh of what happened.
Uh he thinks you're stupid.
Because you'd have to be stupid to follow that to to fall for that term, isolated extremist.
Ralph Peters in the New York Post, uh Ralph Peters makes a very good point today.
Uh he goes, Al Qaeda is far more than a formal organization.
It's an idea, a cause.
It's a t 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 uh 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 you can't get anybody.
I was talking to uh uh a couple of guys uh who uh uh uh shingled a roof for me, and they did some work for a uh uh an organization that takes money from the Federal Government, so they were obliged to go to ladder school.
Uh because even though one is a uh roofer and the other is a Mason, so they've been standing thirty feet up in the air, shingling and uh bricklaying for forty years, they have to go in America now.
If you 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 uh at tall heights up on the end of two pieces of wood.
That requires a credential now.
So we have the over credentialization of uh 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 uh the hair, uh 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 you 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 uh what it is that Al Qaeda does, uh which is that it's an ideology that uh 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.
Uh 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.
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Mark Stein on the Rush Memor Show.
Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network.
Uh great to be with you.
Other things we're going to be looking at in the hours uh head.
Uh the end of uh Barack Obama's uh amazing year.
Uh th a list has just been published at the Werum Serum website uh for for those of you who speak Latin, um Wiram Serum.com or Verum Serum if you do the new Italian pronunciation, but the top ten uses of stimulus funds, a 712,83 stimulus grant to develop machine-generated humor.
How is that gonna put America back to work?
A 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.
Uh funding of a Dartmouth call this was an interesting 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, uh, especially in New Hampshire, oddly enough.
Uh that um that's number nine on the list of the top ten most ridiculous use of stimulus funds.
And we'll look at some of the other ones uh coming up in uh in the uh in the hours ahead.
But I'm pleased to see actually.
I think one of the reasons why they roll r 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 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 them.
They think the longer the lines got and the and the and the more uh stupid little it'sy bitsy it impositions they're subjected to, uh 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, uh the more uh 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 uh the leaderless TSA announces these stupid impositions upon the general public.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Uh Mark Davis will be here tomorrow, and the great Walter E. Williams will round things out for two thousand and nine on New Year's Eve.
Remember these guys' names, actually.
These guys' names deserve to be better known.
Guantanamo prisoner number three three three Mohammed Atik Al Habi, uh Guantananamo prisoner number three seven two, Saeed Ali Shari, released from Gitmo to Saudi Arabia to enter a quote, art therapy rehabilitation program, unquote.
So they spend a couple of uh months painting this, painting that, doing, you know, flowers, maybe doing the old uh Van Gogh type sunflowers, maybe uh doing uh uh a uh little um uh Mona Lisa type thing, like uh like the old Leonardo, and then they decide nuts to this and they go back to Yemen and uh and go for the the jihad.
So the art therapy thing isn't working out.
Uh and they put together their their b they believe to be the guys behind this Northwest Airlines bomb plot with the panty bomber.
And I'm I wonder how many jihadists now have passed through the art therapy program.
Because you know, the uh the liberals out there who are all concerned about how torturing we're spending so much time torturing uh people, they ac they published a book of poetry from Guantanamo last year or the year before to raise money for these legal guys' campaigns.
And uh so we had all this uh all this attractive poems from Guantanamo, and it was absolutely terrible stuff.
I have observed the youths of Mohammed.
What splendid righteous young men they are.
Uh and that was just like your basic Islamo dog rule, and then there was some that was just kind of bad in a in a in a rather sort of dreary uh existentialist way.
Quote, what kind of spring is this where there are no flowers and the air is filled with a miserable sp smell, a miserable smell.
So these were these poems from Guantanamo that uh 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 uh NEA funding uh from uh from the whatever it's been used on at the wasted on at the moment, we could divert it all to poems from uh Guantanamo, paintings by people from Guantanamo who've passed through the Saudi uh Arabian art therapy system.
And we'll see whether that works, that maybe uh encouraging these uh these suicide bombers instead to become uh to become nice uh 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 the way to go.
Let's go to Gill in uh Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Uh Gil, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey Mark, how are you doing?
Uh actually it's Joe from West Florida.
Is it Joe?
Oh right, I've got I've I've got uh I've got Gil.
I apologize.
Oh, no problem.
Uh well what I was uh saying is uh I don't really see that this is uh a big deal, the he's not characterizing this as terrorist attacks activity.
Uh 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 uh terrorist attacks in his first term on American soil.
And that doesn't uh that doesn't do well when you're your uh your numbers are already in the tank.
No, no, and 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 uh attempted terrorist attacks.
We're not just talking now about Fort Hood where all these people died.
Uh fourteen people were killed.
Uh but but there's actually been an up an uptick in the number of attempted terrorist attacks.
And if you look at the arrests, uh these uh these cross-border arrests in uh the Detroit uh Windsor area a couple of months back, uh, that there's actually 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 gonna uh uh justify it now if uh Al Qaeda has actually come forward and said, Hey, this is 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 uh maybe it was a knitting class they have there too.
But uh 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, you're i that's interesting.
You're wondering whether the art therapy classes included knitting the knitting the incendiary underwear.
I hadn't considered that.
I hadn't yeah, art is art, that's true.
And actually, uh g given the sort of things that they have on uh 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.
Uh but you put him into a museum there.
That's right.
Okay.
Well be uh but by the by the way, uh as we said earlier, he hasn't actually nominated any people to head the TSA or uh customs and border protection either.
So presumably I don't know who would in who it's presumably only a low-level bureaucrat who'll be instituting the new underpants policy on what underwear you're allowed to uh wear on American uh airlines uh anyway.
So I don't know I don't know how that's that's gonna work out either.
But you're uh but you're right, that there have been if he actually identifies these acts as terrorism as opposed to just out uh rogue psychos going crazy one morning, then it it becomes a problem for him because we're ha w we seem to be seeing a pattern in which uh they have concluded that this president's this that the Bush era is over and that this president uh is is projecting an image of weakness uh 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 uh wily uh competitor uh in the international global trade who takes advantage of that.
It might be Vladimir Putin who takes advantage of your perceived weakness uh to scuttle the um missile defense thing for Eastern Europe because he knows you'll cave in and abandon your new Eastern European allies.
It uh might just be uh the Chinese or the Iranians, uh the Iranians decide to go ahead with their nuclear program because they uh recognize weakness when they see it and they know you're not gonna do anything.
But at some point it's also gonna be these uh non-national uh these non-state actors, these guys in Yemen, Somalia, Waziristan, these other places who are gonna take advantage and try to blow holes uh through your national security because they smell weakness too.
Thanks very much for your call, Joe, in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Uh 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 uh this this guy uh was in effect just an uh just an isolated uh individual.
Uh 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, uh Al Oa O'Lackey, uh, who was also the guy who uh who got Major Hassan all pepped up before he went and uh gunned down uh U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood.
Uh this is just one imam.
It's a U.S.-born imam.
Uh it's a westernized imam uh who's responding by email uh to interested applicants uh around the world who want to get in on the uh 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 they're um young Muslim men.
Sometimes they're lonely.
They have all the 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 this uh uh guy, the pandybomber, 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 uh to fill their lives and to find meaning in their lives, uh they find people like this American Imam, who's now in Yemen, and they start up a connection with him, and he uh directs their attention either to people who can help them locally in the United States or the United Kingdom,
or he uh gets them on the plane to Yemen as he evidently did with this guy, uh, and then they load up his underwear and he boards the 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 Inforush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, Infrarush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you in the dying days of 2009.
Uh December 29th, uh Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow, and then Walter E. Williams will close out the air.
You gotta love you gotta love the Yemen of govern Yemeni government.
Who says these Yemenis don't have a great sense of humor?
Yemen's government said Tuesday that the US 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 uh 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 Mutalab 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 Sanah, where students and administrators described him as friendly and outgoing with no overtly extremist views.
Now, uh don't forget the the the salient point here is that he had no overtly extremist views by the standards of the average Yemeni student.
That may be that maybe not quite as reassuring uh as it sounds.
Um but this is 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, uh 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.
Uh and then uh Obama became president, and he appointed her Secretary of State, and nobody's heard a word from her ever since.
Every every like four months, you'll see a picture of her uh in uh, you know, in in the capital of some banana republic on the other side of the planet, talking to a room full of students, or uh like she did in where where was it where she was uh uh uh balling out the guy,
was that in Uganda or somewhere where the uh where the high school student asked her what news she brought about uh 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 oh she it was uh uh was it Kampala?
I think it was uh Kampala.
Um was it Kampala or was it no, it was uh the Congo.
Uh it was somewhere in the Congo.
And obviously she's depressed.
She thought she was going to be the president, uh, and she was that 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.
Uh because even if and that's actually insulting for a Secretary of State, but what Obama did, he made her Secretary of State, and then he did what he does with everything.
He appointed all these Tsars.
So there's like an Afghan Tsar, and uh there's a Middle East Tsar, and there's a European Tsar.
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 mullers and its crazed millenarian loon of a leader,
John Kerry is going to be jetting in as the Iran Tsar to assure uh to assure the mullas and Ahmadinajad, not uh don't worry about it, we're behind you all the way.
This this is so all the cool gigs, all the A-list gigs, all the ones that get you on the front page of the uh uh 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 uh that notwithstanding, she is still the Secretary of State of the United States.
Uh and she is responsible uh uh for the fact that this guy's father went along to the US Embassy and reported this that uh 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 in Compatano.
Uh 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 uh in London, couldn't re-enter the United Kingdom, yet the United States State Department, sole proprietor Hillary Rodham Clinton, uh 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 in Competano because basically uh any 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 uh and 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 uh and runs American embassies and all the rest of it.
So if this State Department, uh sole proprietrix Hillary Rodham Clinton, is issuing multi-entry visas to people who are banned by other Western nations uh and have been reported uh to the United States embassy as a possible uh radical terrorist threat.
Why is Hillary Rodham Clinton not on uh any uh meet the press or uh uh all the rest of it?
I mean, say what you like about Janetine Competano, but at least she's on TV every twenty minutes talking contradictory drivel.
Uh 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.
Uh when you're uh when you got a uh you got a pressing engagement because you got to speak to middle schoolers in uh Timbuktu or whatever, but at some point she needs to tell us what is going on in the State Department and why uh the State Department is issuing visas to guys like this.
I mean, everyone thinks now, because we we think about this is how we think about the world, uh th 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 will 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 nineteen thirty-three to nineteen forty-five?
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 sixty-four 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 uh 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 uh in in in the old jail cell in Yemen, I can tell you.
I sat in the lazy boy recliner myself and I had my photograph taken.
There's a picture of it somewhere in the in 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 round the turn of the 21st century.
Markstein Inforush on the EIB network, lots more still to come.
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