"Duh...I know what I'm talkin' about."
Posted on 03/20/2006 9:45:49 PM PST by infoguy
Appearing as a guest on tonight's episode of the O'Reilly Factor (Mon. 3/20/06), Medea Benjamin, a cofounder of the far-left group Code Pink, made the claim that "North Korea does not have a nuclear weapon." An overwhelming mountain of evidence suggests otherwise.
In October 2002, North Korea publicly admitted to having a nuclear weapons program (see here and here). This was a clear violation of the 1994 agreement it made under the Clinton administration not to seek to build nuclear weapons. (By the way, there may be evidence that President Clinton knew as President that North Korea was breaking its promise [see this]).
In April 2003, in three-way talks with China, North Korea told the United States that it had nuclear weapons (here and here).
In February 2005, Defense Intelligence Agency analysts "were reported to believe that North Korea may already have produced as many as 12 to 15 nuclear weapons" (source, emphasis added). (See also this.) Even Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Hillary Clinton have written that North Korea may have many nuclear weapons.
In September 2005, it was reported that North Korea agreed to "abandon its nuclear weapons programs." Follow-through on this agreement remains another matter, however. Since November, nuclear talks "have been on haitus" and "negotiations have bogged down."
It's quite unlikely that Benjamin can provide any evidence for her claim. In a January 2006, 60 Minutes report, a North Korean general told CBS, "What we can say to you definitely right now is that we currently have nuclear weapons."
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From tonight's O'Reilly Factor (Mon. 3/20/06) (audiotape on file) (emphasis mine), discussing the issue of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons:
MEDEA BENJAMIN: I believe in working through the international community -- (crosstalk) --
BILL O'REILLY: Just like we worked through in international community with North Korea.
BENJAMIN: Well, we are working through the international community --
O'REILLY: They did not have the bomb that they lied to us about --
BENJAMIN: No, they do not have the bomb just like Iran doesn't have the bomb.
O'REILLY: So North Korea, in your opinion -- (crosstalk) -- North Korea in your opinion, does not have a nuclear weapon? Is that what you just said?
BENJAMIN: North Korea does not have a nuclear weapon. We know that North Korea doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Whether they are trying to get a nuclear weapon is another issue.
O'REILLY: I believe - I believe when you go back, and you talk to your people, they will correct you on that. They do have a nuclear weapon in North Korea, and the reason they do is because they lied to us in the Clinton administration and developed it ...
That's O.K., Bill. We're happy correct Ms. Benjamin right here.
No, they do not have the bomb just like Iran doesn't have the bomb.
I turned off O'Reilly a few seconds into the interview. I was disgusted that he gave Medea a platform to spew her garbage and misinformation.
Benjamin has zero credibility on any subject, and is an enemy of this country. Of all of the people he could have had on, he had to have on a person whose organization demonstrates outside Walter Reed hospital against our recovering war veterans.
vaccuous waste
Well if they don't have a bomb I propose we deliver them one straightaway.
Remember the scene in "Team America" where Hans Blix meets Kim Jong-il? Think Medea instead of Hans...
here=her
You got her pegged but good!
I thought the lefties were shouting at the top of their lungs about North Korea having nukes during the begining of the Iraq war. What a bunch of hypocrites.
O'Reilly had her on so he could make a fool of her, as he did.
He spoke down to her, and the frequent camera shots reminded me that she could have been separated at birth from Haley Joel Osment.
Don't you think she bears an uncanny resemblance?
The Moonbat gods told him....
Code Pink? Like Hell, more like Code BLUE, as in "get the paddles, we've got no brainwave activity here!"
What a stupid tw@t.
Well, if there's anyone who would know whether or not North Korea has a nuclear weapon, it's.... Medea Benjamin.
(??!?!?)
;-)
Side note: My overall theory about Medea Benjamin is that her greenie/lefty followers vote for her primarily because her name is "Medea" and they think that sounds neat. This news tidbit does nothing to support my theory, of course, but it sure doesn't hurt it.
The next time I see that witch's face I hope it's on a milk carton!
For some reason, my necrometer is not working.
The interview was actually quite funny. Even O'Reilley was astounded at how stupid she was, but he didn't have the guts to say so.
It sounds like the needle is stuck on the Beach Boys 'Wouldn't It Nice' in her moonbat jukebox of a head.
Some day this person will realize her whole existence is bought by men and women guarding her life, liberty, and happiness.
The very same people she rallies against.
"No, they do not have the bomb just like Iran doesn't have the bomb."
A small correction:
No, Iran isn't working on the bomb just like Korea wasn't on the bomb after 1994.
Wow, Iran doesn't have the bomb........not.
Her code pinkos group are the idiots we counter at least twice a month near the Navy Hospital here in San Diego.
Talk about moonbats.
They have publicly said we should have gone after North Korea instead of Iraq, because Korea had nukes.
Next we will arguing with these moonbats whether or not the earth revolves around the sun. I am sure many of them don't know.
You have more intestinal fortityde--I could not stomach her. I try to listen to other viewpoints, but I have my limits.
As for the picture, I didn't know who Haley Joel Osment was, and the picture was a red "X", which I strangely found even more attractive than Medea.
I googled HJO, and saw his picture.
You may a point there, sink.
Yeah, he gave her a break but she is dangerous. Code Pink's
position is as always America is wrong.
Why are these ultra left women sooo ugly?
She said North Korea does NOT have the bomb! LOL
Now there's a woman who lives in another universe.
Because she asked the Ouiji board and it said no.
Because this blimp head is a woman and "everybody" knows women have some kind of "special unction from who knows where" that blinds them to facts and causes them to go to the public arena blabbing their heads off.
Because they are of the "weaker" sex they must be allowed special hearings and acceptance!
Some more of that PC "compassionate conservatism" malarkey!
I wouldn't believe anything someone like Medea Benjamin, or her other socialist wacko friends, said about ANYTHING!!! much less about matters of political dealings and foreign governments. The only thing I would believe that came out of her piehole is if she admitted that she and all other leftist wackos would like to dominate the world. That is the only thing I would believe from her.
Same here. What a spectacularly stupid person. And venal with it; she makes a huge chunk of money through her foundation squeezing money from other moonbats.
Democrats are liberals. There are only two forms of liberalism; socialists and communists.
5.56mm
If she is a traitor, then she does not deserve to be shot with an american weapon.
7.62 mm
I saw this last night. I did not turn it off though it disgusted me. To me, this was clear evidence that BO does not give one hoot or holler for the folks he claims to care so much about. There was no background on her, no telling the folks what her group is doing at Walter Reed, no mention of her communist background. And then he has the audacity to put on David Frum who I think was canned from the White House. I was hoping he have someone from FR on next but Kristin was too busy kicking arse on MSNBC.
I may be wrong but I think O'Rilly wanted his viewers to see how ridiculous this stupid woman is. She showed her true colors, I have a rock in my front yard smarter than Benjamin.
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