This time, Rush Limbaugh also speaks for plenty of liberals, though few could ever bring themselves to admit it.
El Rushbo could hardly contain his indignation on his radio show yesterday in response to the bizarre spectacle of Secretary of State John Kerry sheepishly trying to compensate for the lack of a high-profile American presence at last weekend's unity march in France by bringing folky pop singer James Taylor to serenade the French with "You've Got a Friend." Life imitates The Onion indeed.
Limbaugh also offered a compelling theory as to why President Sharpton, uh, Obama is releasing Yemeni jihadists from Club Gitmo just as we're witnessing a spike in violence from ... jihadists in Yemen (audio) --
John Kerry -- this is unbelievable! My friends, I'm embarrassed! I'm literally embarrassed! John Kerry went over to France, they're trying to make up for the fact that Obama didn't go and be part of the big rally over there. So they sent John Kerry over for some sort of press conference with the French and the French media and intended for the French people. He actually dragged James Taylor and Kerry spoke French again, which is embarrassing enough in itself, and then James Taylor sang "You've Got a Friend."
... which you thought you'd never hear again thanks to Pandora and Spotify. Yeah, I was wrong about that, too. Rush's denunciation continues --
I'm embarrassed to be an American today. To have to take James Taylor over there, you know what's going to happen? John Bolton's going to be a secretary of state someday, we hope, and I can't wait until he goes someplace in the Middle East and takes along with him the famous rock group, the Clash, and they can sing "Rock the Casbah," whatever. This is, and James Taylor just, of course, I'll be happy to sing "You've Got a Friend," and they sang it and the French are sitting there and listening to this. Oh my God, what a bunch of wusses! What a bunch of mush! It's squishy! And the militant Islamists all over the world cannot believe the good luck that they're been handed.
And then you add to this, you want to hear more absurdity? What is the focus of militant Islamism today? It's Yemeni al Qaeda, is it not, Mr. Snerdly? Al Qaeda in Yemen is the new focus. They're the guys that supposedly blew up Charlie Hebdo and all that, so what's Obama doing? He's releasing al Qaeda from Yemen prisoners from Club Gitmo! In the middle of all this!
I'm watching Fox News today and of course they're trying to understand it because nobody can come to the grips, I'm listening to them ask questions of each, (sarcastically) you know, is it possible that maybe, uh, you know, Obama's sooo far off the beaten path of where most Americans are, is it possible that maybe, oh it couldn't be, but I know a lot of people are, is it possible that he's like really doing this on purpose?We're into our seventh year and there's still people that can't get their arms around all this ... is it possible that Obama might be, oh no ... let me ask you a question -- why, when the focus of the most recent terror attacks happens to be al Qaeda in Yemen, why the hell's Obama releasing al Qaeda from Yemen from Club Gitmo? Why is he doing it? Two reasons -- yeah, in your face is part of it. But I'm going to give you the charitable reason and it's going to be pretty close to right. Obama really believes that the prison at Guantanamo is responsible for all of this. I think Obama and a number of leftists actually believe that when a terrorists says, yeah, I saw those pictures at Abu Ghraib, boy, that's what made me a terrorist, he believes it. They're so invested in Bush being the devil. They're so invested in Bush being to blame for all of this. They're so invested in having the convenience of being able to blame George W. Bush, and Gitmo's Bush. I think Obama can tell the world, I'm just trying to stop this stuff. I'm just trying to stop these attacks. He doesn't realize that by releasing al Qaeda in Yemen prisoners, they're free to go perform jihad. He thinks releasing them is akin to appeasing them.
No other explanation makes sense, unless PJ Media's Roger L. Simon wasn't being entirely facetious when he wondered if the White House harbors a sleeper cell.
No rational person could believe the jihad ends if the prison at Gitmo shuts its doors. After all, we'd been under attack for nearly a decade before the prison was even built, starting with the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. No rational person could believe the jihad ends if every prisoner at Gitmo is released or acquitted in courts or tribunals. Jihadists would see none of this as conciliatory. They'd see it as weakness, and they'd be right.
Obama apparently has to learn the hard way, as did kindred spirit Neville Chamberlain, that throwing meat to wolves doesn't make them go away. It makes them multiply.
