Posted on 11/01/2004 5:48:49 PM PST by wagglebee
I want to expand a little bit with the aid of Jim Geraghty at National Review Online. A lot of reaction over the weekend out there. When the bin Laden tape came out, you know, I was glued to it on Friday afternoon and all day on Saturday. I was watching to see what people thought of it, and I was stunned as the weekend went on. I was literally stunned at how desensitized - this is a guy that murdered 3,000 Americans, and we hear, "Oh, he wants a truce." That may be, but what does that mean, for crying out loud? And then I've seen posts over the weekend with Democrats saying, "Yeah, yeah, we need to negotiate with bin Laden." They really believe this. We really need to negotiate with him! Then I saw Cronkite Sunday night. Well, I haven't seen it but I've talked to enough people who have. Walter Cronkite on Larry King Alive on Friday night, did you hear about this, Dawn? Cronkite actually said that Karl Rove was probably behind the bin Laden tape! Now, the Democrats all this year have professed -- and it started with Madeleine Albright, well, actually, started probably with other people, but she picked it up and made it famous in a Fox News Channel greenroom and it got reported -- where the Democrats already thought Bush captured bin Laden and was holding him on ice somewhere, we were going to produce him. It was this giant big October Surprise to smash Kerry with. Lo and behold, we get an October Surprise on Friday, our good old friends at al-Jazeera happened to play the latest bin Laden tape and on Friday night there's old Walter suggesting that Karl Rove is behind this.
Now, for Karl Rove to be behind this it means that bin Laden has to be in our custody, bin Laden has to be under some threat that he actually fears, and somebody wrote a script for him, and that he dutifully read. And the Democrats are out there, you can find it, it's not hard to find, the Democrats are all agreeing with bin Laden. The Democrats want to negotiate, the Democrats think yeah, he's smacking Bush down, this sort of stuff. Let me hear the audio sound bite from Cronkite. This is audio sound bite number 16, Mike, and this is Friday night from Larry King Alive.
CRONKITE: I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.
RUSH: Now, you know, there have been people who said, "Well, Walter, he was only kidding." Kidding my rear end. He's not kidding. These people believe this stuff. That is the point. These people actually have come to believe this stuff. That is the point. Over the last three years or so, folks, we have seen an unparalleled deluge of criticism of the president. I mean, it's gone well beyond policy differences. You remember all this, he's tarred as a war criminal, a fool, an idiot, a warmonger, a man who trades blood for oil, a man who wants the oil for himself and Cheney for Halliburton, a mass murderer of innocent civilians, he's been portrayed as that, a stooge of sinister corporate interests, back to being a puppet of Cheney. He's been accused of being a terrorist himself, the anti-Christ, he's the Second Coming of Hitler, he's the slave to Ariel Sharon, he's an anti-Muslim hatemonger, he is worse than Saddam Hussein and I'm sure that there's plenty I've left out of this litany.
Now, the thing about this. I mean, it's one thing to have the Democrat Party in this country utter all this, but it has been picked up. It's been picked up and echoed by the left in Britain, by the left throughout Europe, by the Arab press, anti-American interests around the globe have picked all this up. And during it all, throughout all of this, not one Democrat, not one voice on the left has urged restraint, has stood up to disavow this, has stood up to say this is over the top, this is not who we are. Not one Democrat. They have all attempted to capitalize on it all the way up to John Kerry, the presidential candidate of the Democrat Party. They've all attempted to capitalize -- they've all been organized in putting forth this warped and sick view of the president of the United States. Then the Guardian comes out with this letter writing campaign to influence the vote in Ohio, and the left picks that up and endorses it. We keep hearing polls on what the people of the world think and how we ought to be agreeing with them. And there's not one voice of objection to any of this in the Democratic Party, not one throughout any of this entire episode, the last nine months especially.
Now, back to this bin Laden tape for just a second here. You know, it's obvious and there's no question about it, the left in this country, the Democratic Party, despises George Bush. They have a seething rage and a seething hatred for George W. Bush, and so does Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda hates George Bush, as does Osama bin Laden. Is it really so surprising, then, that the rhetoric of the far left would be picked up? It's damn close to verbatim in this bin Laden tape. Folks, do you realize bin Laden sounds more like Michael Moore and John Kerry and the 527 organizations like MoveOn than he sounds like an Al-Qaeda leader or a Taliban member? Do you understand this? He sounds more like a Democrat than he sounds like an Al-Qaeda member. All of a sudden he likes Democrats now. He's talking about goats and books in a Florida classroom. He wouldn't care about this, this is absolutely absurd that bin Laden would care about this. He's now warning people -- some of the things left out of the original translation, I'm going to get the audio here in a second to show you -- some of the things that he's warning, he's warning people in states that elect Bush that he'll make a deal with them to blow 'em up, but if they elect Kerry you can strike a deal with bin Laden and security is in your hands, it's not in Kerry's hands or Bush's. Meaning, you elect the wrong guy here and we're going to blow you up. Meanwhile, he can't back it up with anything. All he can do is send a tape in. We can play the Cronkite game, too. Cronkite says Karl Rove had bin Laden on ice, wrote a script, put a gun to somebody's head or bin Laden's, said, "Here, read this pal, or it's curtains for you," and bin Laden did it.
Try this theory, folks. Who does this tape sound like? This tape doesn't sound like sheik bin Laden to me. This tape sounds like Fahrenheit 9/11, MoveOn.org, George Soros, and John Kerry. So we know what modern medical marvels and technological marvels are possible. Bin Laden may not even be alive, but if you get an image of bin Laden's face -- we know that there are animation techniques and high technical production techniques from Hollywood -- we might not even be looking at bin Laden. We might be looking at a computer-generated picture, an animation, life-like, of bin Laden. It shows up at al-Jazeera. We don't know how it got to al-Jazeera. We don't know the source of this tape, we don't know anything about it. All we know is it aired on al-Jazeera and everybody thinks it's real. I'm not saying this. This is just how easy it is to sound as paranoid and loony as Walter Cronkite is. But the point is we don't do this. It doesn't even strike us. But the first thing Walter Cronkite thinks is Karl Rove is behind this, just like Rove was responsible for embarrassing Dan Rather over the Bill Burkett forged documents and pretty soon Rove is going to be responsible if the story the New York Times ran a week ago about the missing 370 tons. Realize how powerful this Rove guy is yet the Democrats are going to beat him easily in their minds? You know, this bin Laden tape, it seems to me, ought to cause a whole lot of people on the left to look at themselves in the mirror and ask them, what have I become? How is it you should ask yourselves, those of you on the left, how is it that the things that you are saying to make your own arguments are now being echoed by Osama bin Laden, a man who happily murdered 3,000 Americans and will be eager to do so as often as he can.
I can't relate to this, folks, I'm sorry. I can only ask the question. I cannot imagine how it must feel to look at myself in the mirror and understand that the things I believe and have been saying are echoed by a man who killed more Americans in one day than any foreign enemy has on our contiguous 48 state soil. And yet there it is. As Jim Geraghty said in National Review Online, how the hell did I reach the point where I agree with Osama bin Laden when it comes to George W. Bush? And, you know, whatever the liberals think or say, and the two are not mutually exclusive, a Kerry victory after the bin Laden tape will accomplish this. It'll give Osama bin Laden bragging rights all across the Middle East and, in the words of the left, create a whole new generation of terrorists. If John Kerry wins this race, and they got the bin Laden tape out there, do you realize what the conclusion will be by militant Islamists? That they did it, they had the ability to affect the election in this country without firing a shot, like they had to do in Spain. And you think that's going to make them want to appease with us, you think that's going to make them want to make peace with us? After all, they are the aggressors here. They started all this way back when. We are defending ourselves. This is going to make them less aggressive? This is going to convince them that this whole country has become Mogadishu. This will convince them that the whole country is just a larger version of Black Hawk Down, where with 20 casualties we cut and ran. After the bin Laden tape, how can they conclude anything else?
All right, here is audio sound bite number 1. This is Osama bin Laden via a female translator. If it's tough for you to hear, I'll translate it myself in a minute.
TRANSLATOR: Now we're in the fourth year after September 11th. Bush continues to mislead you about the real reasons. Therefore what happened could be repeated. I will talk to you about the reasons for these events, and I will be honest about the moments when the decision was taken. I tell you, God knows that we have never thought of hitting the towers until we were fed up with the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
RUSH: All right, so bin Laden says, "Bush continues to mislead you about the real reason, therefore what happened could be repeated. I will talk to you about the reasons for these events and I'll be honest about the moments when the decision was taken. " Here's John Kerry September 20th of this year in New York City, New York University, portion of his remarks.
KERRY: Bush has not told the truth to the American people about why we went to war and how the war is going. Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead our country.
RUSH: "Bush continues to mislead you about the real reason," said Osama bin Laden. Mislead? Show me the Al-Qaeda word for mislead. Here is a male translator on bin Laden. This is the school children and the goat and the book excerpt.
VOICE: President Bush was preoccupied by talking to children. He was talking to children how to treat their goats and sheep and animals at the same time that 50,000 people, American people were in danger, and this gave us three times the time we needed to attack the towers.
RUSH: Seven minutes he was delayed getting out of the school. Bin Laden here wants us to believe that because Bush is preoccupied, didn't take it seriously, he told Mohammed Atta he had 20 minutes to get this done but we were stunned when Bush stood there and listened to the girl read the story about the goats. Here is John Kerry August 5th, 2004, at the Journalists of Color Conference.
KERRY: Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear "America is under attack," I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the President of the United States had something that he needed to attend to, and I would have attended to it. (Cheers and applause.)
RUSH: It's example number 2 here, Osama bin Laden echoing the words of the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, who said his words on August 5th, and bin Laden's tape came in last Friday, on October 29th. This is highly suspicious to me, but it is what it is. I mean, bin Laden sounds like the Kerry campaign. Bin Laden sounds like John Kerry. And if it I'm a Democrat -- and I've got two more examples of this, and I could probably go on and on and on with more if I wanted to go through the whole tape, which I don't -- but if I'm a Democrat, if I'm a lib, I'd say, "Wait a minute, the man who happily murdered 3,000 Americans is echoing my arguments? The man who wants to murder 3,000 more as often as he can is echoing my arguments, saying what I'm saying? What's become of me?" I would ask. This does not appear to be happening out there, ladies and gentlemen, which is why I'm bringing it to your attention here.
Let me start at the top of my latest effort to buttress a point that I was making throughout the first hour. This bin Laden tape doesn't sound like anything we've ever heard from Al-Qaeda. This is not filled with threats, it's not filled with the braggadocio of Al-Qaeda, it is filled with Democrat talking points, predominantly from the 527 organizations, like MoveOn.org and George Soros and Michael Moore's movie. Now, I know it's one thing to say that, we even had a call today say, "Rush, really harsh, really, really harsh to make these comparisons." It's not harsh, it's true. I can play you segments of the translation of the bin Laden tape and play you accompanying sound bites of John Kerry which say the same thing. Now, you may not want to hear it and you may not want to face the truth, you have to have courage to face the truth as it's exposed on this program, but you should hear it. Let's start here at the top. This is an overview from bin Laden. Lets let the translator speak for it and then I'll explain later.
TRANSLATOR: Now we're in the fourth year after September 11th. Bush continues to mislead you about the real reasons. Therefore, what happened could be repeated. I will talk to you about the reasons for these events. And I will be honest about the moments when the decision was taken. I tell you, God knows that we have never thought of hitting the towers until we were fed up with the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
RUSH: All right, now, two things, maybe three about this. Number 1, bin Laden says Bush continues to mislead you about the real reason for the war on terror. Therefore, what happens could be repeated, meaning because Bush is lying, you are less safe. "I will talk to you about the reasons for these events and I will be honest about the moments when the decision was taken." So Bush continues to mislead you about the reasons and therefore what happened could be repeated. Listen to John Kerry September 20th of this year.
KERRY: Bush has not told the truth to the American people about why we went to war and how the war is going. Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead our country.
RUSH: Osama bin Laden said the same thing, but John Kerry said it first. John Kerry it said on September 20th, Bush hasn't told the truth, misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead our country. Bin Laden said the same thing. Bush has misled you about the real reason, therefore what happened could be repeated. Therefore, we're going to hit you again if you still have Bush misleading you. It's right out of the Democrat talking points, folks, it's right out of the playbook. Now, the last thing on this opening translation here. "I tell you God knows that we have never thought of hitting the towers until we were fed up with the U.S.-Israeli alliance." Is that one loaded. Is that one ever loaded? Bin Laden is saying that we hit you on 9/11 -- and the tape actually says when you joined Israel in the invasion of Lebanon back in 1982 -- but as a general theme, because you associate with Israel, we will hit you, and we hit you once and we're gonna keep hitting you because you associate with Israel. This is anti-Semitic. Bin Laden and these people hate the Jews and wish to exterminate them.
John Kerry seeks to turn the defense of this country and anybody else he has control over to the United Nations, which is the single greatest repository for anti-Semitism in the world today. The Israelis lose every resolution at the Security Council. It's only our veto that saves them. George Bush is the best friend that Israel has ever had. Yasser Arafat, whether by hook or by crook, is out of the country. Not sure he was really sick, could have been a ploy to get him outta there before the Israelis went in to get him. But the fact of the matter is the Palestinians are losing, they have lost this latest intifada. The idea that so many Jewish Americans, Jewish people in America, could end up voting for John Kerry because of a misunderstanding [about] George Bush. If you have any question about who's going to be more sympathetic, do you realize that France, ladies and gentlemen, almost embodies the new European anti-Semitism? France is where it's effervescing, it's coalescing, John Kerry's favorite ally?
This is stunning stuff that is not being reported, not being put in context for people. It's what I'm seeking to do today because so many people are voting from such an ignorant baseline, from such an incorrect baseline, from such an ill-informed, misinformed over the years, baseline. But when you have Osama bin Laden talking about how Bush continues to mislead us about the real reason we were attacked, and therefore what happened could be repeated? In other words, we could get hit again and again because you have Bush, we have Bush misleading us, and then you go to John Kerry's line, "Bush has not told the truth to the American people about why we went to war and how the war is going, misleading our nation, the war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead the country." You tell me the difference between what Kerry said on September 20th and what bin Laden said on his tape last Friday. I've got three more examples coming up.
Okay, time now for bin Laden-Kerry side-by-side comparison number 2. Here's the bin Laden -- I mean this is right out of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Here's the translator of the bin Laden tape.
TRANSLATOR: President Bush was preoccupied by talking to children. He was talking to children how to treat their goats and sheep and animals at the same time that 50,000 people, American people were in danger, and this gave us three times the time we needed to attack the towers.
RUSH: John Kerry, August 5th.
KERRY: Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, "America is under attack," I would have told those kids very politely, nicely, that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to, and I would have attended to it.
RUSH: Now, John Kerry himself admitted to being paralyzed for 40 minutes in his office in the Senate before they ran out of there when the Pentagon was hit and the World Trade Center was hit. John Kerry was paralyzed far longer than the president of the United States. But bin Laden doesn't even get it right. This tells me that somebody who gave him the DVD of the Michael Moore movie, it might have been a bootleg copy with a lousy audio track, they had trouble translating it because the kids were not reading to Bush, Bush was reading to the kids. They got that wrong. And I'm not even sure Bush was reading about goats and animals, but it was seven minutes. The point is this mainstream element of the Democratic presidential campaign shows up in a bin Laden tape? Bin Laden sends a tape to the American people to tell them how easy the attack was, and one of the reasons it was easy was because Bush kept listening to kids read to him about goats? And this is right out of the Democratic Party playbook and handbook for this campaign? And I can give you more than just this sound bite of John Kerry saying it, as you know. Now, you tell me who's echoing who. Kerry comes out and says this, Michael Moore says it in his movie, here comes bin Laden, repeating it on the Friday before our election? Let's go to bin Laden-Kerry comparison number 3. This is about Bush learning how to be a dictator from the Saudi royal family.
VOICE: When Bush the father visited the region, he learned from the regimes there how to be a dictator, and he learned oppression and exploiting wealth from our people.
RUSH: John Kerry, September the 8th.
KERRY: The Saudi royal family that said as far as they're concerned in the U.S. presidential election, it's Bush all the way. Well, I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity, on our own intervention, not the Saudi royal family.
RUSH: Folks, what are we to conclude here? Bin Laden compares Bush to the dictators of the Saudi royal family, and John Kerry has done so previously. And of course in Michael Moore's movie there's a huge segment devoted to that. When Bush the father visited the region he learned from the regimes there how to be a dictator. We've known how to be dictators before you were born, Osama baby, and we've dealt with countless of them, and dispatched them. George W. Bush is not a dictator, but there must be some on the left who think that he is because this tape from bin Laden is being applauded and echoed in certain Democratic and left-wing circles in this country. And what is this, learned oppression and exploiting wealth from our people, meaning the Saudi royal family? That is a reference to Bush's tax cuts for the rich. Bush learned how to exploit wealth. I could give you numerous Kerry sound bites on Bush and the tax cuts for the rich, and how he is aligned with the Saudi royal family. I could go back to Bob Woodward's book and talk about the deal that Kerry readily jumped on the Bush is gonna going to make a deal with the Saudi royal family before the election to get the gasoline price below two bucks to affect the election, a deal that didn't happen. But all this alignment, all this association conspiratorially dictatorship wise between Bush and the Saudi royal family, John Kerry has been saying it throughout the campaign. Lo and behold, here comes bin Laden on his tape Friday echoing the same thing. Here's a basic Democrat talking point -- get this. Osama bin Laden warning the American people about George Bush stealing the election in Florida?
VOICE: And at the same time he learned how to play around with elections at the time that they need it most as what happened in Florida.
RUSH: John Kerry, pick the date.
KERRY: I've met folks down in Florida, I've met folks in other states in the country, and they come up to me and they tell me, "You know, I went down there to vote. I was registered, but they told me I wasn't. By the time I was able to figure it out, it was too late." 57,000 votes in Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, just weren't counted. A million African-Americans were disenfranchised in the last election.
RUSH: All lies. There weren't 57,000 votes not counted. There were no blacks disenfranchised. And if they were, it was by Democrats who ran these election offices in these counties that Gore wanted recounted. But forget that. Here we have the terrorist, Osama bin Laden, who proudly in the same tape claims credit for murdering 3,000 Americans, he sends out a tape on the eve of the election designed to scare us and shake us all up, but what does he do? He blames Bush as though he's a Florida resident. He may be upset that Mohamed Atta's vote didn't count when Mohammed Atta lived here. You're telling me, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the stuff Osama bin Laden would care about, much less put on a tape, if he really were independent and on his own? He wouldn't care about the internal politics of this country, and if he does it's patently obvious who he favors. He is echoing the talking points that he has heard or has been told straight out of the Democratic playbook. I mean, do you realize the absurdity of a man who had the power within an hour and a half to murder 3,000 Americans using our own equipment, our own airplanes, our own security system, worried about vote counting in Florida? Here is a man who's never been elected to anything, he doesn't believe in elections, and all of a sudden he wants us to believe he's concerned that Bush is a bad guy because he stole votes in Florida? Who else thinks that? Today's Democratic Party and their left wing.
I lost it when Rush announced after a break that OBL now supports stem cell research.
Great post. And was it just me, or did the woman interpreter sound like Ariana Huffington. Coincidence or psychic phenomena? Rush reports. You decide.
Bin Laden basically was campainging for Kerry with his tapes. That should be enough said. The American people don't get to hear everything about the tapes because the MSM uses clips of them in which most Americans cannot see that Bin Laden clearly wants Kerry to win. I am sick to the stomach that Democrats seriously believe we can negotiate with a terrorist. They are cannibals who do not care about America. I don't think there is a way to negotiate with those extremists.
I was listening today and I think that is one of the scariest thing I have ever heard. First the UN directly interferes in our election and now this. Kerry and the DNC are pure evil.
I have a feeling, that as far as Rush (and many others among us) is concerned, Zell Miller is no longer a Democrat. Miller himself has said something to the effect of (and I'm paraphrasing), "I did not leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me."
"I noticed, today, even Rush is bewildered that it is still so close."
Yeah. It's crunch-time, and I think everyone's a bit frazzled.
I thought the female translator sounded like Terazuh.
Either one would work in the grand scheme of conspiracies.
This is a parody, but after listening to Rush today, it is truer than any of us could believe:
http://www.imao.us/sound/Osama.mp3
We need to negotiate with Bin Laden, all right. Just like Bruce Willis "negotiated" with the aliens in Fifth Element.
"we know that there are animation techniques and high technical production techniques from Hollywood -- we might not even be looking at bin Laden."
I'm glad Rush brought this up because I've been thinking the same thing. Seems strange to me that bin Laden would mention Bush reading to schoolchildren along with all the other stuff he said. This is just one example but the producers of the Sopranos had Nancy Marchand (Livia Soprano) in an episode having a conversation with Tony, after she had died in real life. Sounds crazy but I wouldn't put anything pass the Dems. Before this video, when was the last time bin Laden was in a video. 2001?
BTTT
Yeah, when I heard the tape I almost thought OBL was running for the Democratic nomination.
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