{"id":25079,"date":"2007-03-26T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:45:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:45:23","slug":"rosie_implies_uk_hostages_are_a_hoax_to_start_war_with_iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/03\/26\/rosie_implies_uk_hostages_are_a_hoax_to_start_war_with_iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie Implies UK Hostages Are a Hoax to Start War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: There was a fascinating story yesterday in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>: ‘Capture of British Sailors All Too Familiar.\u2019 By the way, Scott Ott of ScrappleFace<\/a> had a great idea to solve this crisis. Dick Cheney suggested that we trade Jimmy Carter to the Iranians for the British hostages, that all it would take is an executive order, a presidential executive order. Karl Rove could handle that so that Bush need not be bothered with the details, and there would be a little poetic justice here in trading Jimmy Carter to the Iranians for the for the 15 British hostages. Anyway, this LA Times piece: ‘Capture of British Sailors All Too Familiar — Iran also seized three servicemen in 2004, but this time raises added alarm.\u2019 Let me read to you one of the quotes here from the story. <\/p>\n

‘One of the 2004 detainees, Marine Cpl. Christopher Monan…said the captives were ‘treated fairly well,\u2019 and were subjected to no physical abuse. But they were subject to mental abuse, he said. ‘There were the mock executions. Basically, they were taking us from one of the rooms to the toilet, and when you\u2019d turn you\u2019d hear the cock of their weapon, and them laughing, and then they\u2019d carry you on,\u2019 Monan said. A televised clip showed the men walking blindfolded through the desert, he said, and they were later forced into a ditch. There, they heard the cocking of weapons from the edge, as if the pit was intended as their grave.\u2019 Now, what is this referred to here in the Los Angeles Times? Why, this is referred to as ‘mental abuse,\u2019 is it not? Well, why isn\u2019t what we just heard described here called torture? The Iranians paraded the Brits that they captured in 2004 on television blindfolded — which, by the way, that is a violation of the left\u2019s precious Geneva Conventions. You don\u2019t blindfold prisoners. We never hear any criticism of the Iranians or Islamofascists and the way they conduct their prisoner of war tactics. <\/p>\n

Now we have the distinction between mental and physical abuse. Mental abuse, that\u2019s fine! The word ‘torture,\u2019 which actually applies here, is never used in this LA Times piece. But it gets even better, ladies and gentlemen, because today on The View, Rosie implied<\/a> that the captured Brit soldiers, the 15 of them, ‘are a contrived Gulf of Tonkin for war with Iran. Today on The View, Rosie O\u2019Donnell discussed the Iranian seizure, and she gave out false information on national TV and implied that this may be a hoax so as to provide the president with an excuse to go to war.\u2019 This is her quote: ‘But interesting with the British sailors, there were 15 British sailors and Marines who apparently went into Iranian waters and they were seized by the Iranians. And I have one thing to say: Gulf of Tonkin, Google it. Okay.\u2019 Now, Rosie may have missed the news here, but there\u2019s a fisherman, an Iraqi fisherman who was witness to this and said that the Iranians absconded the British soldiers and the Marines in Iraqi waters, that they had not crossed into the waters of Iran. They were not, therefore, in Iranian territory. <\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s identity is being protected in order to protect him, but you have to ask: this woman, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, is no different than the most embarrassing wacko caller we can imagine here, and if somebody who said things like the things Rosie O\u2019Donnell says on The View called this program, she wouldn\u2019t last. We don\u2019t tolerate kookery here, even on Open Line Friday where the rules are somewhat relaxed. This woman is arguably now the leader of the program. A lot of people say, ‘I can\u2019t believe Barbara Walters is putting up with this. I can\u2019t believe Barbara Walters lets her stay.\u2019 I think Barbara Walters has lost control of the show. It\u2019s supposedly her show and so forth, but, look, folks, it\u2019s this simple. When you have a major network like ABC television that has this kind of show on with this host, and this is by no means the first utterance of sheer insanity. If you don\u2019t do anything about it, you must want it to air. You must want this kind of stuff of your network. That\u2019s the way to look at this. To sit here and say, ‘I can\u2019t believe they\u2019re not doing anything about it.\u2019 Of course they\u2019re not doing anything about it! This is why she\u2019s there. Learn it. Love it. Live it. Whatever. Get used to it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was just thinking about Rosie O\u2019Donnell. You lesbians out there, I have a question for you: How do you feel? I know a lot of you people on the left out there, the lesbians, you group yourselves into groups obviously. How do you lesbians feel that Rosie O\u2019Donnell is the most prominent lesbian spokesman out there? I would think somebody would make a move to do something, but I\u2019m telling you, as far as ABC\u2019s concerned, that\u2019s how they want the program to air. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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