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Oct. 13, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Tragedy in Perspective - October 12th, Hour 2
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If you want to be a part of the program, well, we've got what is imminent, a ground incursion into Gaza.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, and we're going to bring New Kingrich back into this in seconds, has said and has been very, very clear that what will happen in Gaza will be remembered for generations to come.
That this incursion, this defensive incursion, will forever change the Middle East.
I believe BB.
Israel has now been warning.
Innocent people.
So-called collateral damage.
That is inevitable.
Please leave.
Leave or you will die.
Now, he also said that every Hamas member is a dead man.
Every one.
Now I take that to mean Gaza as we know it, as a launching ground for missiles being fired into the country of Israel.
Those days are ending.
And Hamas will no longer exist.
He vows to crush and destroy the militants that he says have beheaded soldiers, beheaded even young babies, and have raped women and have taken many hostages.
He has formed his unity government to direct the war.
And every Hamas member is a dead man.
Hamas is calling for a global day of jihad tomorrow.
I urge all of you in this audience to take it seriously, especially if you're in a big city like New York City.
I'm not telling my staff, stay home tomorrow.
And we're figuring out other means of bringing this program to you.
Um we'll make it work.
We'll be here.
Anyway, former Speaker of the House, New King, which a rare in-studio appearance, which we love.
Um I wish we could do this like once a week.
And anyways, new book is out, and Republicans that are scrambling in this battle for speaker.
It's called March to the Majority.
They'd all be wise to read it.
It's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
Um I want to get your overall take on on this terrorist attack.
I've extrapolated out looking at the Israeli population, a little over 9 million versus the U.S. population.
It would be the equivalent of over 37,000 Americans being killed in a day.
Bigger than way, way bigger than Pearl Harbor, way bigger than 9-11, which is bigger than Pearl Harbor.
And I mean by by ten times.
Well, you know, I I want to start with the New York Post.
Because uh they had a front page uh entitled School to Unhate, and they have a whole bunch of nice students uh at an elite American university, namely Harvard, and they're holding a sign that says Justice for Palestine.
Well, I want to say to these students, you're about to see justice for Palestine.
People who behead babies are gonna get justice.
It's called killing them.
People who rape women on their home phone while sending it to their family are going to get justice.
People who kill grandmothers, people who take a survivor of the Holocaust in her 80s hostage.
People who have indiscriminately killed students who ironically were at a rave for peace.
They're going to get justice.
And nothing that can be done to take down Hamas lacks justice.
I've written two pieces now at Gingrich 360 arguing that Biden was right.
Biden said, you know, this is evil.
It's absolute evil.
Well, fine.
If he believes that, then he ought to be on behalf of eradicating absolute evil.
He shouldn't be sending Blinken over to say, oh, gee, you know, we don't have too much collateral damage.
How do you have c how can you talk about collateral damage?
As you point out, if 27,000 Americans died, 37.
If 37,000 Americans died, I don't think we'd talk about collateral damage.
No.
We firebombed Tokyo.
We firebomb Hamburg.
We decided that the only way to deal with the Nazis was to eradicate them.
And we did so.
I've lived my entire life.
I have watched this going on.
And uh I can tell you that if any of Hamas is left, and I would say the United States should be issuing uh a demarch to uh, for example, to Gutter that says if you if you do not kick out all of the Hamas leaders who are living in nice apartments, you should expect those apartments to be killed.
To be bombed.
Yeah, to be bombed and wiped out, because we're not going to tolerate anywhere they go.
They should be hunted down and killed.
And and I'm uh this may sound harsh to some of our listeners, but look, when you have people who say not a single Jew will remain, you had better think that they're real.
And by the way, having now watched how much damage they can do to human beings, you better take seriously the Iranians when they chant death to America and death to Israel.
As a historian, I have a simple rule.
When a fanatic says something like that, believe them.
It's the reason Churchill understood Hitler.
Churchill is the only Western politician who read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book about what he wanted to do.
And when Churchill read it, he realized this guy, this guy may be nuts, but he's going to be a nut who's powerful.
And he actually wants to do the stuff that's in this book.
And that's why, very early in the 1930s, Churchill said, we are going to have no choice.
Well, I would say the same thing here.
This is a warning to America.
The Iranians are trying to get nuclear weapons with ballistic missiles.
They hate us.
They honestly mean they would like to kill America.
They would like to kill Israel.
Uh they have funded Hamas, they have funded Hezbollah, and I hope that the naval force we have sent to the Eastern Mediterranean has specific orders to take out Hezbollah if they get involved and try to open a front in the North.
We have the capacity to do it, but we have to have the will and the willingness, and I hope no one in the American government, no one in the State Department starts talking about, oh, I'm really concerned about the poor people of Gaza.
The poor people of Gaza tolerated, put up with, and supported a terrorist dictatorship.
They've been warned for days now.
Stay and you will die.
Right.
And so they need to leave.
I would, if if I were the Israelis, I'd only let them back in after this is over by checking each person biometrically.
And anybody that I thought might be Hamas should be arrested.
Period.
The burden of proof ought to be on that person, not on the Israeli government.
And I don't see any other way to deal with this except to take President Biden at his word.
This is evil.
I don't have any faith in Biden.
Now I will tell you this.
Um there's really two things that need to happen in my view for long term, because I I go right to the Iranians on this.
And you know, we now had the Wall Street Journal.
We saw it over the weekend and And various reports that it was even the Iranian revolutionary guard, it was Iran itself funding, providing the weaponry, the planning, the scheming of all of this.
Hamas leaders have thanked them and praised them for their leadership here.
So there's no doubt that Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, you're much smarter than me.
You're the history professor.
Um so I'll rely on on your intellect here.
Maybe you can explain to me this very strange phenomenon that has occurred now for a second time, first with Obama and Biden and their desire to get along with the mullahs in Tehran, the ones that chant death to America and death to Israel, um, to give them billions of dollars in crazy deals.
Uh in in the first case it was uh about nuclear capability.
We didn't even have a single American inspector as part of that deal.
And as a matter of fact, they didn't even have any place anywhere, any time inspections uh to see if Iran was complying with what they agreed to for billions of dollars.
And then, you know, Donald Trump put an end to that madness, and Joe Biden right away wants to do another deal with the mullahs of Iran and you know is willing to pay six billion dollars for ransom for five Americans.
Now, please tell me why my gut instinct is right in thinking that is really dumb.
Well, it is really dumb.
And I would say a couple things.
One, I just did a piece for the New York Sun pointing out that there are at least four people who were Iranian agents who are in the U.S. government.
That the lead negotiator for Obama was an Iranian agent.
Uh now I think you have to assume that Obama Obama really was in many ways anti-American.
Uh I mean, he was he goes to Egypt to give a speech explaining that everything this bad is America's fault.
Uh he consistently, I think on the Bible is going to go crazy who said that, just like they wouldn't go crazy when I point out Reverend uh Jeremiah Wright, Bill Air's Bernardine Dorn, or Michelle's comments made not once, but a couple of times for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.
Right.
Uh well, I think requiring us to hire to elect her husband so she could be proud is a bit high as a cost goes.
Uh I'm actually doing a series, it'll be a 30-part series ultimately, at the American Spectator, going back and looking at the origins of all this, starting, frankly, with the Soviet spies in the late 40s and coming up through the 60s and 70s.
And what you get is, and and you were the one person in 2008 who really understood this, and I have to confess I didn't get it until years later.
Obama was a neighborhood organizer in the left-wing activist sense.
He wasn't that wasn't the boys and girls club.
Yeah.
He he had been schooled, he'd gone to school on uh the whole concept of Sololinsky and the whole concept of revolutionary movement and organizing people.
And Obama's closest friends were radical pro-communist left-wing extremists, a number of whom have been involved in violence.
Frank Marshall Davis, Doran and Ayers, uh Reverend Wright, uh uh black liberation theology.
And yeah, we you did try to warn me, you did say you're ruining your career, I think was the word you said to me.
Well, at the time it sounded weird, but the more the more we've learned, the more you were right, and you had somehow broken the code.
I I always pay attention when you call.
I paused.
I really thought about it, and I just made sure everything I reported was accurate.
Yep.
That's how I that's how I looked at the.
And I I think it was because maybe because I'm you know, my dad was in the army for 27 years, and uh I came out of a immediate after World War II generation.
I didn't I don't think I could believe an American president could be this bad.
And I mean bad in the sense that he deliberately and maliciously increased racial tensions.
He deliberately and maliciously gave away American power.
Don't you think Joe Biden is worse?
The borders, energy.
Well, yeah, Biden is worse.
No, Biden is worse because Biden is Obama.
This this is the you have to think of this as the third term of Obamaism.
He has he has all of Obama's people.
Uh they all get together.
They they believe in destroying traditional America.
They love having millions of illegal immigrants.
They love having us have schools where nobody learns anything.
I mean, nothing easier to manipulate than people who don't know how to read.
They love the idea that America will no longer be able to dominate the planet because after all, we're a bad country.
These are the people who uh I always tell folks the problem with liberals is they saw the Lion King, and they thought it was a documentary.
And they think that lions and zebras sing and dance together.
And when we try to explain to them that actually lions eat zebras, they go, no, that can't be right.
Didn't you see the movie?
And so they go, This is true with crime.
You mean that you mean that carjacker rapist that we let out yesterday went back to carjacking and raping?
Gosh, I can't understand why they would do that.
And they believe it about foreign policy.
You mean the Hamas people might go back and kill more people if they get a chance?
I don't really believe that.
This is why liberals are so dangerous.
They live in an alternative universe, and because it's such a weird universe, they have to lie.
To be a liberal in America, you have to lie all the time.
You have a podcast.
How do people listen?
Uh they just they just go to uh next world if we're podcast or they go to Gangers 360.
March to the majority, Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores all around the country.
One other great thing is you're gonna be on the set of Hannity tonight.
I don't think you've been.
I've not done this before.
I did this with you in Pennsylvania with a candidate, but I haven't done this new set thing in New York.
So it's it gets a lot of people.
It's gonna be last night was the most subdued, obviously, because of the sensitivity of the topic, but it gets rowdy and raucous, and we're throwing footballs around.
We have a lot of people.
If you and I between us can't get them to be rowdy, we should go we can.
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Always great to see you.
You like family.
Uh I can't thank you enough for all the support you give me all these years.
It means so much to me personally.
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That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
So we are going to be in New York City tomorrow.
And tomorrow is a day of rage that has been called for Hamas.
What does this mean worldwide?
I don't know what it mean means worldwide.
I don't know, but I know it's not good.
Do I think some of these lunatics, some fanatics are going to take it seriously?
I actually do.
And what have I been saying about by the end of this year, Joe Biden will have aided and abetted eight million people getting into this country illegally with no vetting and a congressional report last week?
99% of them stayed.
They were not returned home.
No vetting.
We did catch some people on the terror watch list.
How many people on that list got through because Joe did not uphold his oath to defend our constitution, which is the root of every law that we have in this country.
He has created nothing but lawlessness as policy.
You know, and it is it I I pray to God that I am wrong.
But I guarantee you, with that 8 million figure, there are terror cells that Joe is allowed into this country.
I want you to remember that I said it.
And if five, ten years from now you want to call the show Hannity, you said that they were here.
And you said that they're they're plotting and that they're planning and they're scheming, and one day they're going to attack us.
And you said one day we'll look back and realize Joe has blood on his hands.
And I stand by that.
I pray that you're right and I'm wrong.
I pray that never happens.
You know, you think about what Israel's gone through.
You extrapolate out the numbers.
It's not hard to figure out.
1,200 confirmed dead Israelis.
By the way, now it's 20 some odd Americans we know were killed also in this attack.
And that's as of now.
They have we don't know how many hostages, over a hundred.
And I don't really hold out a lot of hope for them, and I pray to God somehow we're able to save them.
But um when that day comes, just remember I told you.
This is the danger, the security danger of open borders.
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Yeah.
What, Linda?
You're your mic's not going on.
After all this time, you don't know how to work out.
You know what?
It's funny.
Yeah, it's funny.
I blame you.
I think you probably had it turned off on purpose because you don't want to hear my mouth.
But anyways, putting it in the middle of the way, what have we got?
Where's the conspiracy theory come from?
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
You told us that you are admitted to being backsliding, and I and I I said I was going to call your past.
Well, you said your past already knew because I want to call your pastor, but you won't give me his number.
Well, you know, some of us have a sane part of their lives like Sunday morning.
Okay, but you brought back your hate list.
It's well, let's be very clear.
My hate list never went anywhere.
It's just a little shorter.
I hate a lot of people, and they deserve every piece of it.
But you know, you were supposed to forgive each other.
I forgive some people, doesn't mean I forget, doesn't mean I don't hate you anymore.
Well, if you forget if you genuinely forgive, you forget.
Yeah, that's a load of crap.
I don't know who thinks that they're believes that so when Jesus on the cross to uh sacrificing his life for our reconciliation to God, our fathers said, forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.
Do you think that he forgave and forgot?
Yeah, well, he's Jesus Christ.
You know, I'm not trying to emulate Jesus Christ.
No, you well, you actually are as part as a Christian, you want to you want to be a disciple of the bigger.
Let's be real clear about this.
It doesn't mean you're perfect.
Let me tell you something.
Every day, I'm here to protect babies and puppies all day long.
But if I see a PLO sympathizer on the subway and he comes at me, I'm going at it.
I'm not being kind to him.
I'm just letting you know.
That's not a thing.
Okay.
Okay.
Not be I I don't think it's a rule that you have to be nice to terrorists or people.
Exactly.
So my what I'm saying is Jesus Christ would look at all of these people.
You meant you talk about somebody that maybe is like wearing uh like today when I was on the subway and the guy said to me, Ah, Allahu Akbar, praise Hamas.
And I was like, shove it up your ass.
Well, you know, that moment that I had on the e-train today.
I'm just saying, like, you know, you know, I'm just saying.
I heard Greg say in the background, what a mouth.
Wow.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Um anyway, let's go to Michigan.
Don is standing by.
Hey Don, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, uh, thanks, Sean, for taking my call.
So I hear a lot of people uh talking about uh their support for uh for Palestine.
And they're they're really conflating it.
What they're really saying is that they're supporting Hamas.
Right?
You and I both support Palestine.
Twenty percent of Israel's population is Palestinian Arabs.
They live there, they're Muslims, they worship, they thrive, uh their neighbors are Jews, they all seem to get along.
We rarely hear about instances of violence between the Palestinians that actually live in Israel as part of the Israeli people.
So like Rashida Talib from Michigan and all of that and the students at Harvard.
What they're really saying is they're not standing with Palestine.
They are standing with Hamas, and we need to call them out for that.
We need to stop using that language that they use, and we need to call them out for their support of Hamas uh strictly.
Look, I think anyone that's carrying these days, anything uh representing the Palestinian flag um is doing it to support Hamas.
And and this, you know, you I think this global day is jihad.
I would urge everybody in every town and every city to take it seriously.
Because there are people that that are sympathetic to this.
We we've seen this all week.
We've seen protests in cities like New York.
You know, I never thought I'd hear out of Australia gas the Jews uh F the Jews.
I never thought I'd hear that my lifetime.
I never thought I'd see what was going on in London happening uh in our lifetime.
I mean, I never thought I'd see little babies with their heads chopped off, you know.
I and yeah, and I I I know I'm getting some negative feedback from people for showing as much as I'm able to show, which is not everything that I want to show.
You know, the Prime Minister of Israel today tweeted out this is Benjamin Netanyahu.
You don't believe the story about dead babies?
Here's some pictures.
Look at them.
He put it on X, put it on Twitter.
And I'm sorry, adults need to know what evil is and what it looks like.
Sadly, there are people that buy into this idea, this notion, this insanity we experienced on 9101.
They believe that if they are a martyr and they kill innocent men, women, and children, uh, and and are involved in jihad, holy war, and they blow themselves up that they're gonna be rewarded in heaven with 72 virgins.
There are people that believe this.
It is sick to its core.
Now, do I think every person that has that background or lives in Gaza, for example, believes this?
Of course not.
We don't use broad sweeping generalizations, but those people that buy into this ideology buy into it.
And and we we so we saw the devastation.
When you extrapolate the population of Israel and you compare the population of the United States, it would be the equivalent of over 37,000 Americans killed in a single day.
On 91101, we lost 2,977 Americans in a single day.
Lost many more later from you know 9 11 related illnesses.
They were very real, by the way.
And don't let anybody kid you.
I know up for a fact they were real.
So I I urge everybody, please be careful tomorrow.
Take it seriously.
You know, I'm I'm a safety first person.
You know, I I I train in martial arts every day for an hour and a half.
Um, and I will tell you, if if I would avoid a fight, and I knew I was being videotaped, and I knew that I was gonna be mocked and look like a coward and called a coward, I'd still run away from the fight if I could get away, rather than use the knowledge and the skill that I have built up and acquired over these many years.
Okay, I can be I can take being called a coward.
I've been called a lot worse.
I know I'm not a coward.
I know I don't want to have to hurt somebody.
I just don't.
I would prefer to run.
I'd prefer to be called a coward.
That makes sense.
Absolutely, sir.
Do I sound like a coward to you?
Nah.
I know you're not, brother.
All right, my friend, God bless you.
I mean that.
Quick break, we'll come right back.
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It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's get back to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Alan in Virginia.
Owen has a good question.
How are you, sir?
Sean, thanks for taking my call.
What's going on?
Hey, uh, Sean, you said something a couple of days ago that really surprised me.
Uh, I think you might have been a little distraught from the images that you were seeing.
But um you were talking about fungible.
And you said that uh people who didn't know what fungible meant were too stupid to listen to the Hannity program.
And I think you're missing uh a teachable moment.
This is not a word that's taught in school nowadays.
I think maybe you should be able to educate people and help them understand how money can be diverted from different priorities in order to accomplish what happened in Israel.
Well, all right, maybe maybe maybe I'm gonna take your your mild criticism to heart, and you're probably right.
It's not a term that people use on a regular basis fungible.
What it means is, and and thankfully, because of public pressure, um, you know, the the six billion dollars is now hopefully frozen and hopefully taken back for good, and maybe Joe Biden will get it out of his head uh to enrich uh Iran in any way, frankly, I would not be upset if uh uh Israel or Israel and the United States took out their refineries, which is the core of their money.
Uh one day the world's gonna have to take out the nuclear sites buried deep in the ground.
It will take American support to make that happen.
Don't hold your breath that Biden would ever be brave enough to do what is right and prevent a nuclear on Iran.
Um I think Trump would have, I think Trump will if he's ever elected again, and BB's still prime minister, that'll happen.
That'll definitely happen.
But just to explain, so in other words, once once Iran has another six billion that they know is coming to them, then any of the monies that they would have spent on issues involving anyway uh humanitarian assistance, although the president of RAN said directly, you're not gonna tell us how to spend the money.
Um, then that means that frees up that money so that they can go forward and and again advance their number one cause, which is state sponsored terrorism, and they are number one in the world responsible for this.
So it means that it frees up that that amount of money to be used for terror.
That's all it means.
If you want to know what the actual definition is, being something like money or a commodity of such a nature that that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account.
That's the official definition if you wanted the official Merriam Webster definition.
Okay.
Right.
Right.
And I think you I think you're right.
I think I I probably misspoke when I said, you know, I assuming that people would understand that.
Um, you know, it's like if uh when I give out the phone number, I've said this before, 1800-941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
You've heard me say that maybe once or twice, right?
Uh once or twice, yeah.
Okay.
And I'm like, if you can't spell my name, Sean, you're not smart enough to be on the program.
You're probably not going to make it past Katie anyway.
And it's you spell Shaw in the the Irish way, which is S E A and there are other spellings of Sean.
However, the four-letter spelling actually fits in with a real phone number, so you have to figure that part of it out too.
Um I don't want to sound, you know, arrogant or condescending.
I'm I'm I promise you I'm not.
I understand.
Well, like I said, the the images that are being shown around the world now are kind of grotesque, and you sounded pretty depressed and and just almost out of it because the way you said that, it was it was pretty defeated in the way you were speaking.
Well, to be honest, um after Obama and Biden and their original deal with Iran, and now Biden, you know, you know, paying ransom for five hostages and moving the money where where it was safely secured in in South Korea and a South Korean bank that would never give it to the mullahs in Iran and into Qatar.
Uh it was I I was I was feeling defeated.
I'm like, well, we're funding the number one state sponsor of terror.
We are stupid.
You don't pay ransom for hostages because you get more hostages in the end.
It doesn't work.
Better precedence of of doing the same thing again.
Exactly.
You're right.
Because, you know, hostage taking pays in that case, right?
Anyway, you are you you I stand corrected.
I I do thank you for for your call.
I really do.
Thank you.
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