Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Terrorism and the Middle East are continuing to roil the California Republican Senate contest after a letter written by former congressman Tom Campbell emerged that appeared to contradict statements Campbell and his aides had made about his dealings with a radical Muslim professor. The professor, Sami Al-Arian, contributed to Campbell's unsuccessful campaign in 2000 for the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 26, 2001, when he was teaching at the University of South Florida, Al-Arian gave an interview to Fox TV host Bill O'Reilly in which he conceded that he had said, "Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem."

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so I thought a 'big tent' was something that the gop needed...and since we now know without A DOUBT That there is no such thing as a dnc big tent...and if you think there is then you havent heard of harold ford or governor of ny or massa and others who are 'turned out of the plantation"

I think the point of the article was that Cambell lied about what he did.

Pay no attention to the BABBLER behind the curtain...

Hey Sami...

...how's Jihad working out for ya?

Wow, now they're morphing into closeted self loathing Muslims who hate America.

R's are going down hard.
And this time, not on each other.....

"That's too zealous," he said. "Unacceptable. Calling for death to a country or individual is unacceptable."

Dear Mr. Campbell.

For at least a decade now, probably more like three, one of your political party's calling cards is a daily hoping, wishing, praying for the death of bad guys Osama bin Laden, and before him Saddam Hussein (and before him Qadaffi, or Arafat, or, well, you get the picture).

And now, they're engaged in a witch-hunt to name all the terrorist sympathizers, associates past and present, which you seem to have got yourself all caught up in.

Mr. Campbell, you are correct: Any witch-hunt is perhaps by definition too zealous. But that won't stop anyone from trying to make hay with it, just as McCarthy did back in the '50s.

Will you stand your ground? Or is the zealotry in your party overwhelming, and you'll soon be purged into political non-existence?

Oops. What's the lesson here?

Never, ever trust a Muslim?

#6 | Posted by snoofy

Snoofy,

What about middle-eastern people running for office who have friends, neighbors, 3rd cousins, etc. who hate Israel?

lets have some transparancy in who contributed to moron in chief!

Butt-pirate, teabagger, poo)

#10 | Posted by axe at 2010-03-10 03:54 PM | Reply | Flag: Like a junky who can't say no to heroin

Now go get your BBoB mask and spank yourself

Now I am getting a little queasy. You're going to have to continue this round of "fantasy poopy words" without me. Hope you can find someone else to play, axe. Good luck!

What about middle-eastern people running for office who have friends, neighbors, 3rd cousins, etc. who hate Israel?

What about them?

I guess I missed the part of the Constitution where Americans are required to love Israel. I certainly don't. :)

P.S. Just posting to flag Axe and Goatman for ruining yet another perfectly reasonable thread.

Why is it that Republicans Love Muslim Terrorists.

I want to see Tom Campbell's Birth Certificate RIGHT NOW DAMN IT!!!!

RIGHT NOW!!!!!

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

The birth requirement is only for the President. Just a little civics lesson for ya Dupmling. :)

The birth requirement is only for the President. Just a little civics lesson for ya Dupmling. :)

#17 | Posted by snoofy

I guess you have seen a certified copy of little o's.

So he now admits the letter was written in 2002--not 2001.

www.campbell.org

What a dork!

And this is not a stupid guy.

He has been around for a while--liberal on social issues and conservative on fiscal. Like Arnie..

Huge mistake by him and then talking before he got his facts straight.

It really appears that he sent a letter for some guy on free speech issues--without reading what the guy actually said.

Big--big mistake..

He just wanted to do Jihad Jane.

What about middle-eastern people running for office who have friends, neighbors, 3rd cousins, etc. who hate Israel?

What about guys like Dubya and Rummy who's friends have historically included saudistan royalty and Saddam Hussein? Or Reagan, who's friends ran hezbollah and Iran?

For the hand ringers who cry about 7 Justice Dept. attorneys who represented "terrorists", how about this:

As Scott Horton points out in Harper's magazine, the McCarthyite list would have to include Michael Chertoff, who headed the Justice Department's criminal division before President Bush nominated him as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Among Mr. Chertoff's clients in private practice was a New Jersey doctor named Magdy el-Amir, identified as a conduit for money-laundering to Al Qaeda and other jihadist outfits. He became a Chertoff client when the State of New Jersey sued him to recoup illicit money from a health maintenance organization he controlled, which had sent more than $5 million by wire transfers to bank accounts "where the beneficial owner is unknown." In other words, a very dubious character who had been under surveillance by the F.B.I. for years.

There was never any reason to believe that by representing Mr. el-Amir (who was recently arrested in a prescription drug racket), Mr. Chertoff somehow disqualified himself from government service. But similar phony questions could be raised about Michael Mukasey, the former Bush attorney general whose law firm provides pro bono representation to Guantnamo detainees. Or Rudolph Giuliani, the mayor of 9/11, whose firm has also represented detainees because, like all prisoners, they are entitled to counsel.


www.observer.com

Since when, when people are accused of a crime in America, aren't they entitled to representation? Aren't the same screaming meemies wailing about the 7 Justice Dept. attorneys aware the Constitution guarantees those accused of crimes receive representation? Aren't they aware that many Republicans have represented those accused of 'terrorism'. Evidently not.

Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol are nothing more than what the article calls "The New McCarthyites".

They should be ashamed of themselves. This is America we live in.

Bill Kristol, Neocon, who was a signatory to PNAC, and has been wrong about everything under the sun, most importantly, the invasion of Iraq. But, of course, FauxNews is willing to pay him to spout his nonsense.

"Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kristol have charged that certain lawyers in the Justice Department represented alleged terrorists held at the Guantnamo Bay prison campand that by so doing, those attorneys rendered themselves unfit for government service. "Whose values do they share?" asks an ominous advertisement aired by their front group, known as Keep America Safe."

America's long standing values. Except when it was swept up by alcoholic liars like McCarthy, whose 'list' he held up of purported State Dept. "Communists" was a phony as can be.

Fuck Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol. Their ilk sure fucked us over with a mountain of bullshit.

"Their ilk sure fucked us over with a mountain of bullshit.

And that's exactly what it is!

When someone like Ken Starr comes out and wags his finger at Liz Cheney, we can know for a fact that that she has crossed over into psycholand (where her father lives).

Hmmm . . . I wonder if it's genetic? Well nevermind.

She's getting reamed from all sides on this anyway and rightfully so.

Hi TWINPAC

Ya, the "New McCarthyites" would be a better term for the NeoCons than NeoCons.

They're absolutely out of their minds. It's baffling Kristol still gets paid by FauxNews after having been so wrong so many times for so long.

Just examine the "conservatives" on this site. One outlandish conspiracy, finger pointing, scare mongering line of bullshit after another.

Back Page has a 240+ thread on how Obama's gonna arrest grandma by the fishin' hole when those pants pissers don't have a clue what is and what isn't in the coastal water plan. I took the time to read the 31 page Interim Report. Anyone with two braincells would have, but I doubt a single one did. ESPN's editor had to print a retraction today and explain it was one (conservative's) opinion. God, these people are out of their minds.

Oops. What's the lesson here?
Never, ever trust a Muslim?
#7 | Posted by BENDOR

.....the Muslim in this case may be a Jihadist, but he was honest in his beliefs.....

.....its the Republican that was bullshitting.....

.....so what is the lesson here ?......

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