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Mediamatters.Org - During a panel discussion on the June 29 edition of
ABC's This Week, Hugh
Hewitt claimed that his comment
that the upcoming September 13 football game between Ohio State University and
the University of Southern California, will "probably [be] the last
football game we'll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by
the Islamists under Obama" was distorted by co-panelist Arianna
Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post website. Huffington said:
"Hugh Hewitt, on his show this week said -- and I quote Hugh -- that
he's trying to get tickets to a football game between USC and Ohio, and he said it's probably the last football
game we'll get to see before the United States gets blown up by the
Islamists under Obama." Hewitt responded: "Take 10 seconds of
distortion. ... Ten seconds of distortion followed by hours of fury.
Here's what I said. I was talking about the attack on the Jewish student
in Paris who
had been attacked for wearing a kippah.
And then I went into a very long conversation about the level of danger in the
world today. And then I used irony to chart the fact that we are living as
though there is no war in this world. Talking about football tickets, changing
the subject."
In fact, during the June 25 edition in which he discussed
the reported attack on a Jewish student in France and made his comments about
the USC-OSU game, Hewitt predicted that Obama would not be able to deal
strongly with terrorists, at one point calling an Obama election "an
invitation to disaster." Hewitt asserted that "here we are in the
1930s, and we're about to elect Chicago's
Neville Chamberlain as president. Forty-odd percent of the United States think that Barack
Obama is qualified to be president. That in itself ought to send ice water
through your veins. It is an invitation to disaster. They will not mess around
with John McCain. We get four years at least with John McCain, of additional
reticence on the part of the jihadist crazies running Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas."
He went on to claim, "[Y]ou put Barack Obama in there, and it's
running wild time. They're going to see him for the punk politician he is
out of Chicago.
For a kid who doesn't know anything, a lightweight."
Additionally, during a discussion with a caller Hewitt
claimed, "Obama has promised everyone everything, and at an expense
that's ridiculous, but he doesn't know what he is doing when it
comes to the key issue of our time -- the existential threat to the world. He
is a patsy." Hewitt continued: "He is an absolute pushover, and the
bad guys know it, and that is why I'm feeling that in the end --
I've got a couple of pessimistic emails here -- I just do believe that
this country is not going to vote for appeasement. I just don't think
that they are going to go, and say, 'Yeah, we'll go with the
rookie.' "
Hewitt also discussed his appearance on This Week during the June 30 edition of
his nationally syndicated radio program, claiming that a "good time was had by all, including
Arianna trying to get me." Hewitt subsequently said: "She was reading something from my
show, when I did the big, long monologue on the Jewish kid with the kippah, who
got beaten up in Paris, and I ended up talking
about the Ohio State game, and how we were going to get
attacked if Obama won. I had to go to the Ohio State-USC game at USC before,
because they're not going to be back here before we ever get attacked
again. It's just -- irony is lost on the left completely." After
again claiming that Huffington "doesn't get the irony of talking
about USC and Ohio
State at the end of a
long monologue about getting hit by terrorism," Hewitt asserted: "I
believe we're going to get hit by terrorists under Barack Obama. I defy
anyone to tell me that he is a stronger candidate against terrorism than John McCain."
From the June 29 edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
STEPHANOPOULOS: On that issue, we
also saw this week, Charlie Black --
of course, a McCain adviser -- come
out and say a terrorist attack would end up helping John McCain. McCain obviously did not
condone that, took it back right away.
But, Byron, let me ask you this. You
know, that was considered a Michael Kinsley gaffe, that he actually spoke the
truth.
I wonder -- and right now, is it still true, that an
attack, if it were to happen, God forbid, would redound to the benefit of John McCain.
BYRON YORK (National Review White House correspondent): I think it is. And
if you look at the polls of voters on what issue do you trust McCain or Obama
more, McCain loses on everything --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Except
national security.
YORK: -- except terrorism. So that's his one
issue. And it -- you know, and Black has said, "I
shouldn't have
said it. I didn't
mean it." McCain
really criticized him for it. But
it is self-evidently true.
But it's
something that nobody can, or should, be talking about.
HUFFINGTON: But it isn't just Black, it's Hugh. Hugh Hewitt, on his show
this week said -- and I
quote Hugh -- that
he's trying to get tickets to a football game between USC and Ohio, and he said it's probably the last football
game we'll get to see before the United States gets blown up by the
Islamists under Obama.
HEWITT: Classic lefty tactic there,
Arianna.
HUFFINGTON: Why?
HEWITT: Take 10 seconds of distortion --
HUFFINGTON: The truth is a classic leftist tactic?
HEWITT: Ten seconds of distortion
followed by hours of fury. Here's
what I said. I was talking about the attack on the Jewish student in Paris who had been
attacked for wearing a kippah.
And then I went into a very long conversation about
the level of danger in the world today.
And then I used irony
to chart the fact that we are living as though there is no war in this world. Talking about football
tickets, changing the subject. But
I wish the left would focus on the danger that this country faces right now --
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL (The Nation editor and publisher): The danger this
country --
HEWITT: -- which is
extreme.
HUFFINGTON: I think it's
really important, it --
VANDEN HEUVEL: But it's not
going to be dealt with through military escalation.
HUFFINGTON: First of all, it's
really important here to say that I just quoted something you said. Every word is exactly what
you said.
VANDEN HEUVEL: Yeah.
HUFFINGTON: And that is going to be
the fear-mongering
technique --
HEWITT: Arianna, do you think that we live in a dangerous
world?
HUFFINGTON: -- that the right is going to use in this
election. Of course we --
HEWITT: Do you think we live in a
world with Islamists who want
nukes and weapons of mass destruction?
HUFFINGTON: I believe that we live in a dangerous
world, and I believe
that John McCain's election would make it much more dangerous. That's what I believe.
HEWITT: That's our central
difference.
From the June 25 edition
of Salem Radio Network's The Hugh Hewitt Show:
HEWITT: I read an online
number of newspapers from Israel, because it's
important to keep track of what they are saying. They're
on the front line of the struggle with jihadists and Hezbollah and Hamas. One of them is Israel
Today, and you know about Haaretz
and you know about the Jerusalem Post, but Israel
Today -- I wonder if Yoni reads that. I'll
have to talk to Yoni about this in a moment. We haven't heard from Yoni.
Yoni mad at us? I hope not. I really don't want Yoni to ever be mad at
us.
Yoni and Scott are my
personal instructors on firearms -- the
two of those guys together. But, anyway, I read Israel Today, and I went there, it's
triple-W-dot-Israel Today-dot-C-O-dot-I-L. Triple-W-dot-Israel
Today-dot-C-O-dot-I-L. And --
well, John in Minnesota
carries their weaponry, but they can teach me how to use it.
Here's the
headline. This just -- it's one incident.
It's just one incident, but
it's so jarring. "Jewish
boy beaten into coma in Paris." Let me read you the
story. A 17-year-old Jewish boy was severely
beaten in Paris
on Saturday evening in what families and friends are calling a serious act of
anti-Semitism. According to a French Jewish group, the boy was surrounded by
some 15 people while
walking home in a largely Jewish neighborhood. He was easily identifiable as a
Jew, as he was wearing a kippah. The gang proceeded to beat the youth, some
reports said with iron rods, until he was unconscious. He slipped into a coma,
from which he woke on Tuesday. French police told the Associated Press they had
questioned five people in the attack.
The investigation is still ongoing. Also, over the weekend, a
synagogue in a Jewish elementary school in Western Canada
were defaced with graffiti and hate-messages.
In related news, the results of a
survey conducted recently in Britain,
published in the Sunday Telegraph, revealed that Muslim youth
in the United
Kingdom are increasingly radicalized. The
report noted that radical Islamic leaders operating in the UK are having far
greater success than in the past at attracting young Muslims to their causes.
The researchers who conducted the survey warned that the trend is so severe
that they fear the number of British Muslims willing to participate in terrorism may have
increased significantly.
Now, have you heard any
of those stories? Did you hear about the British survey? Did you hear about the defacing of the
synagogue, and the Jewish elementary school in western Canada, of all
places? I thought Mark Steyn
was the hate-crime guy up in Canada,
but mostly, had you heard that a 17-year-old
Jewish boy was severely beaten into a coma in Paris? Welcome to the new Europe.
And I guess, when I
read through this, I thought to myself, here we are, debating -- well, we're not really debating. Obama is ducking. Here we
are, we've got an out-of-control United States Supreme Court. Today they
struck down a Louisiana
law that made it capable for child rapists to be murdered -- to be executed, even if they didn't murder the child.
A clearly constitutional
exercise of state-authority struck down 5-4 by the same court that gave the
Gitmo detainees their habeas rights. It's like Alice Through the Looking
Glass. Now, child rapists have got protection from the Supreme Court inventing
8th amendment ambits.
And we'll talk to the smart guys in the third hour about this, but then I -- it's unworldly. We're -- next hour I'm going to
replay for you the interview I conducted with John McCain in yesterday's
third hour, in case you missed it. In which he says we've got to prevent
a second Holocaust. And here's why I've been depressed all day --
nobody really believes him. I do. I know where we are in the world -- we are on
the edge of the knife. What's that famous phrase from The Lord of the Rings? I
wish you could find that, Generalisimo. We are balanced on the edge of the
knife. When we come back, we have to play a little bit of Men of the West
Stuff. We have to go back to our Men of the West Stuff.
It's -- it is so precarious right
now. There is so much momentum behind radical jihad,
in Iran, in Hezbollah, in Hamas, in the diaspora of
radicalized Muslim youth.
It doesn't mean that it's anywhere near a majority of Muslims; it's not. But it is enough. Neither
were the Nazis a majority of Europe when they
started out. But here we are in the 1930s, and we're about to
elect Chicago's
Neville Chamberlain as president. Forty-odd percent of the United States
think that Barack Obama is qualified to be president. That in itself ought to
send ice water through
your veins. It is an invitation to disaster. They will not mess around with
John McCain. We get four years at least with John McCain, of additional reticence on the part of the jihadist crazies running Iran,
Hezbollah, and Hamas.
All right, John McCain
goes in there with that Nixon-like don't-mess-with-me attitude, and the jihadists get that. Until
they get their nukes. And they may even
abandon a nuke --
you put Barack Obama in there, and it's
running wild time. They're going to see him for the punk politician he is out of Chicago. For a kid who
doesn't know anything, a lightweight, who can walk off -- talk off of a teleprompter. With no
experience in anything, no understanding of anything, and they're going to push him. They're going
to push him hard. They're going
to -- they're going to absolutely going to push him around,
like Jimmy Carter. At least they had to wait awhile to figure out
that he was a punk kid
from Plains, Georgia, who didn't
know anything either. And that is the reality that we're facing, is that
Euorpe is falling deeper and deeper into an anti-Semitic grip. Hezbollah is armed to the
teeth. Israel
is led by this knucklehead [Ehud] Olmert,
who survived today because he agreed to be replaced in September. In essence, they did a deal in Israel
today that Olmert gets to keep his job until September, and then he will get
thrown out by Kadima. I was hoping for early elections, because we have to get [Benjamin] Netanyahu or
somebody who is serious -- even
Barak -- Ehud Barak -- is better than Olmert.
We're manning up in Europe.
That's the good news. We've got [Silvio] Berlusconi back in, in Italy.
[Nicolas] Sarkozy in France.
[British Prime Minister] Gordon
Brown has turned out to be serious, and if he gets thrown out, he'll be
replaced by his -- hopefully Liam Fox, his minister of defense in a new
conservative government. The
only problem we have in the world right now in terms of being ready is here in
the United
States -- is we're tired. A lot of you people are
tired. You're driving around right now, and you just wish it would all go
away. You really just want to be left alone, and you'd like something to happen to the gas
prices, and I understand that. I'd
like something to happen to the high gas prices, too. I'd like them to go
down, but they're not going to go down because the don't-drill
Democrats, the triple-D Democrats, will not go get any oil. Do you know what
the price of oil is going to be?
Or maybe right now there is a
certain level of tension with Iran factored into
the price of oil. But when the shooting starts -- and it's going to
start. As certain as I am of anything that I've ever broadcast, Iran has
been at war with the West since 1978, and they're not going to change,
and the trends in the world are not going to get better, and the violence in
the world is not going to go down until there is a cataclysm with Iran,
Hezbollah, and Hamas.
Give them the credit of what they say and what they believe.
Look at the fact -- why
would you beat up, to
the point of death into a coma,
a 17-year-old Jewish boy for wearing a
kippah? By the way, what
the heck's a
kippah? I don't
know what a kippah is. One of my Jewish friends, send me an email, hewitt@hughhewitt.com.
What's a kippah? I know, nice goy, doesn't know anything. But
what's a kippah? And why would you -- what is it about the hatred? I know anti-Semitism has been around as
long as anti-Semitism -- as long as the Jews have
been here, which is forever, anti-Semitism
has been here. But it's just one of
those things where you just become completely amazed at the indifference of the
American people to the threat around them, that we would -- we'd go get Chicago's Neville
Chamberlain and put him in power.
It's
an invitation for the Islamists to go on the warpath. I was
talking to a friend today who's
trying to help [Foundation
for the Defense of Democracies senior fellow and Fox News contributor] Walid Phares get the word out, and
I want to help with that, too. And John
McCain and I disagree on so many things, but at least he -- the most important
thing, he gets it. He
gets it. He gets it. What is it that's hard to understand?
Hannah in San
Francisco, KNTS. Hi, Hannah.
CALLER
(Hannah): Yeah, hi. Well
you just asked a question if the jihadists know the difference between John
McCain and Obama, and I was going to say they probably do. The problem is the
people who vote for him, those thousands and thousands of young people, they
don't -- they don't get it, and they don't give a hoot, and
they don't know what he's all about, and they don't care.
HEWITT: And they do not
understand the peril in which the world sits right now.
CALLER
(Hannah): No. They don't know anything, in fact.
HEWITT: All right,
Hannah. That's it. I've got a new book coming out, probably next
week or the week thereafter,
directed at young Obama voters. And it's a little book -- a little tiny
book -- because they don't have much of an attention span, and I'll
be telling you about it next week. But the fact of the matter is, they've
got to understand this. It's 1933, it's 1938 -- I don't know
what it is -- but Jewish boy beaten into coma in Paris. Wow. 1-800-520-1234,
we're coming right back on the Hugh Hewitt show.
[...]
HEWITT: Kippah. Kippah's a
yarmulke. Did you know that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well,
it sounded appropriate.
HEWITT: Well, I didn't. Did you know that? Kippah?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I
would guess it was.
HEWITT: I got about 5,000 emails in
a nanosecond. My Jewish audience is concerned that I do not know what a kippah
is.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But
they are Internet-savvy.
HEWITT: They are Internet-savvy. I'm sorry. I
blame Dr. Jerry for that -- my dentist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is somebody
now calling you to tell you that to tell you that, too?
HEWITT: Yes. Now my phone --
it's Leonard. I put it on the microphone, Leonard.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is he
telling you what a kippah is?
HEWITT: He's probably -- I'm sure he is.
He's telling me what a kippah is. But their friendly neighborhood goy has
no idea that you can have two words for the same thing. You know, why
wouldn't the Paris
-- why wouldn't the Israel Today newspaper
say yarmulke as opposed to kippah? I suppose it's fewer letters, but I
digress. I just think people are not
aware of what's going on out there. Bill in Phoenix, Hi, Bill.
CALLER (Bill): Yes, hi. How are you doing?
HEWITT: Great. Thank you.
CALLER (Bill): By the way, it's kippah. That's Hebrew.
HEWITT: Oh, now
I'm getting hit for the pronunciation!
CALLER
(Bill): Well, it -- that's
the Hebrew word.
UNIDENTIFIED
MALE: He can't even pronounce English words.
HEWITT: Yeah, I can't even
pronounce English words. What do you want from me? OK, go ahead.
CALLER (Bill): That's OK. And anyway, I
wanted to talk a little bit about the world-wide anti-Semitism. That is never
going away, because the Islamic book, the Quran, basically Jew hatred and Christian hatred, and basically anybody who is no
Islamic as the interpreter wants them to be. That's why the Sunnis kill
the Shiites, the Shiites kill the Sunnis.
HEWITT: Well, I
understand that we're never going to get rid of anti-Semitism, and a lot
of it's got nothing to do with Quranic verses. A lot of it -- you know, the Nazis weren't Muslim,
but a lot of Muslims are anti-Semitic. It's just that, in other eras,
when the West is united and strong, it dare not raise its head. It's when
the West is weak and uncertain about what it stands for, especially the
protection of religious minorities, that it does come out of its underground
sewers and breed.
CALLER
(Bill): And also,
I think a lot of it's related to the weakness that the Israeli government
is showing now. When Israel is strong, you don't
have the terrorism, but you have such a weak government, the terrorists feel
they can get away with it, and
look, they have been getting away with it. Look at all the terrorism that comes
out of Gaza
on a daily basis. Yoni Tidi -- Yoni the
blogger talks about it a lot on your show. By the way, I do have a show on the
Middle East here in Phoenix
on the same affiliate, KKNT.
HEWITT: Oh, well, Bill,
what time's it on?
CALLER (Bill): It's on every Sunday at noon
here in Arizona.
It's on the web at Middle East Radio Forum-dot-org.
HEWITT: Hey, this must
be Bill Strauss, then.
CALLER
(Bill): No, William Wolf.
HEWITT: Oh, OK, William. Good to talk to
you. Thank you, friend.
Bye. Genevieve in San
Diego. Hi
Genevieve.
CALLER (Genevieve): Hi. I just called to tell you I'm a black woman
born and raised in Philadelphia,
living in Spring
Valley, California, right now, and I knew what
a kippah was.
HEWITT: Well, you
didn't pronounce it right. It's
a kippah.
CALLER (Genevieve): It's a kippah, but I knew what a kippah was.
HEWITT: Well, all right. You know, you're
ahead of me on that one. You got an advantage, but no need to rub it in. The
story stays the same.
Frank in L.A. Hi, Frank.
CALLER
(Frank): Hey, Hugh. I totally agreed with your monologue at the beginning. My big concern is that John
McCain won't say so, vigorously and forcefully, where do we find a
Republican conservative spokesperson who the media cannot ignore, who will say
the things you said with force and energy, who will show Obama for who he
really is, will not let him play these word games. I'm very, very
concerned, as you have expressed. Bumy
biggest concern is that we do not have a mouthpiece out there who will get the
attention of the world.
HEWITT: I think -- I think McCain's
getting better. And Frank, listen, did you hear him yesterday on the program?
CALLER
(Frank): Part of it, yes.
HEWITT: OK, I'm
going to replay it next hour. He's getting better, and I think he understands that this
election, if it's going to be won, it's got to be won on the big
issues, not on the little ball.
We can't beat Obama at
outbidding people. Obama has promised everyone everything, and at an expense that's ridiculous, but he doesn't know
what he is doing when it comes to the key issue of our time -- the existential threat
to the world. He is a patsy. He is an absolute pushover, and the bad guys know
it, and that is why I'm feeling that in the end -- I've got a couple of pessimistic
emails here -- I just do believe that this
country is not going to vote for appeasement. I just don't think that
they are going to go, and say,
"Yeah,
we'll go with the rookie."
[...]
HEWITT: Jim in Concord, California, calling in with a particularly
inane comment. Hi, Jim.
CALLER (Jim): Hi.
Here's my inane comment. You said earlier that the -- all the Muslims are
killing the Jew in France. Welcome to the new Europe. Remember the --
HEWITT: I didn't
say that, Jim. Jim, I didn't say that. I said 15 people surrounded and
beat a Jewish youth senseless into a coma, reflecting the rising tide of
Islamic extremism in Europe. I was specific
and said that, in fact, the vast majority of Muslims are not anti-Semitic. So that's
just a correction. Go ahead.
CALLER (Jim): But you
did say -- but you did say welcome to the new Europe.
Well I just remembered --
HEWITT: Yes, I did.
CALLER (Jim): I remember
the old Europe where Christian Italy and Germany
slaughtered 6 million Jews.
HEWITT: Hitler was not
a Christian. Jim, just stop the nonsense. Hitler was not a Christian. He was a pagan
crazy man. He was --
CALLER
(Jim): No, he loved -- he loved Christianity. Read Mein Kampf's two chapters on
religion. He loved Jesus.
HEWITT: Jim, Jim, OK, what's your proposition? It's
all the Christians' fault, right? The Christians are behind this?
CALLER (Jim): Well
I'm sorry, one-third of Hitler's army was Catholic, the other --
HEWITT: Yeah, I know
Jim, it's all our fault. Anti-Semitism
by Islamic extremists that result in the beating death, or the beating coma of
a Jewish boy is all about the Christians. You betcha.
That's an Obama
supporter. That's an Obama supporter. That's what we're up
against. The Obama
supporters do not want to look at the world that it is. They want to imagine a
world where it's George Bush's fault. It has not got anything to do
with the people who are arming Hezbollah to the teeth. It doesn't have to
do with Nasrallah's unprovoked attack of thousands of missiles into Israel.
It doesn't have anything to do with Hamas going over and blowing up
people and sending rockets into southern Israel every single day. It's
all the Christianists. That's -- that's the Obama world, and I
don't think America
is going to vote for an appeaser. That's an appeasement right there. You
just heard a class-A appeaser. It's our fault. We did it.
It is just amazing to
me. Shane in Colorado
Springs. Hi, Shane.
[...]
HEWITT: Sam in Menlo Park. Sam?
CALLER (Sam): Yeah, hi, Hugh. I just want
to tell you from the point of view of this Jewish American -- and I think
I'm pretty well informed on world Jewish affairs -- the guy who called up
and tried to blame Muslim anti-Semitism
on Christians is totally nuts.
HEWITT: Yeah, he is. I mean -- but that's an
Obama supporter.
CALLER (Sam): Yeah, well
that's why I'm not voting for Obama, and I'm working hard to
convince other Jewish Americans to vote for McCain. You know, anyone who's tuned in,
who's, you know, watching the program that's unfolding understands
that Christians -- religious Christians in America are the
Jews' best friends,
and they are our vital allies in the fight against Islamofascism and rising
anti-Semitism.
HEWITT: Absolutely
true, but that does not include Obamicons.
Thank you for the call.
[...]
HEWITT: Kelly, Colorado Springs. Kelly.
CALLER
(Kelly): Hey, Hugh. Want to talk about the Donovan Papers. Wild Bill Donovan was a colonel in the USS, and he
set up the CIA. At the end of the Nuremburg Trials, they were going to shred
and burn all the documents. They didn't want anything to do with them. He
brought them back, and they were recently translated, and Hitler was planning
on killing Christians next. There were 14 million people killed in the death camps. Six or seven
million were Jews. The rest were
Christians, as well as everybody else.
HEWITT: Yeah, they
killed -- they killed
gays, they killed gypsies, they killed political prisoners. But he wasn't
a Christian -- silly
Obama people think that stuff. Dale in Medina, Ohio.
Hi, Dale.
CALLER
(Dale): Hi, Hugh. I heard your earlier clips from Bill Richardson. The Democrats keep rolling
out this bit about leases that aren't being drilled on, as if it's
the evil oil company's fault, and they really don't want to drill.
HEWITT: Right.
CALLER
(Dale): If they really believed in that, what would be the risk in
allowing drilling in ANWR?
HEWITT: That's
true. Just take the
lease --
CALLER
(Dale): By their logic, the fuel companies won't drill
there.
HEWITT: Good point.
Obviously an Ohio
man. By the way, I -- I'm still trying to find two tickets to the Ohio
State-USC game. And none of the USC people will give up their tickets to me.
I'd pay fair price. They -- they know Ohio State's gonna slaughter the Trojans. They know that they're gonna
slaughter the Trojans, and therefore they do not want me there at the
bloodbath, since it's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see
before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama.
I -- I would like to see Ohio State slaughter USC.
This is what I'm living for right now. I'm keeping my -- all the bad news, I just focus on the Ohio State upcoming
slaughter of USC. So if you are a USC fan willing to sell me two or perhaps
even three USC tickets to the Ohio State game, hugh@hughhewitt.com, or if you're a
Buckeye fan with those tickets back in Ohio, I'll trade you some Browns
tickets. New York Giants, Monday night game? Think about it. Hugh Hewitt Show.
From the June 30 edition of The
Hugh Hewitt Show:
HEWITT: So you don't want to have anything to
do with Ralph Nader, but other than that, it was a fine time. A
good time was had by all, including Arianna trying to get me. And George Stephanopoulos looked like her at -- like she was from Mars. She was reading something from my show, when
I did the big, long
monologue on the Jewish
kid with the kippah, who got beaten up in Paris, and I ended up talking about the Ohio State
game, and how we were
going to get attacked if Obama won.
I had to go to the Ohio State-USC game at USC before, because they're not going to be back
here before we ever get attacked again. It's just -- irony is lost on the left
completely. Katrina
says to me afterwards, you know, irony is out of favor in New York after 9-11,
and I -- that's right. Ralph Nader is the walking brownout of
American politics -- of
green rooms, at least.
[...]
HEWITT: Disagreeing with Karen is
Charles in Inglewood. Hi, Charles.
CALLER (Charles): Hi. I thought that you did do a good
job, but I thought Arianna and Katrina was better, and I thought Arianna did catch you in a lie. You did say that, 'cause I happened to be
listening to your radio at that time, and I thought she was right. She quoted you.
HEWITT: I didn't say -- I didn't say I
didn't say it. I
said she didn't get the irony.
CALLER (Charles): No.
HEWITT: I said she
distorted it.
CALLER (Charles): But how
could she distort it? She
quoted you --
HEWITT: Because
it's --
CALLER (Charles): -- exactly.
HEWITT: How can
you distort it? Let me
tell you something. If
you had listened to a Jon Stewart monologue for 10 minutes, and you take a sentence out of it,
are you distorting Jon Stewart?
CALLER (Charles):
That's not what she did, though.
HEWITT: That's what -- she took two sentences.
CALLER (Charles): I watched
the show, Hugh. She didn't do that. She quoted you. She even --
HEWITT: Charles, she did quote me. I didn't disagree with
that. She just
doesn't get the irony of talking about USC and Ohio State
at the end of a long monologue about getting hit by terrorism. Obviously, neither do you.
CALLER (Charles): But it's not the first
time that you have said that. You
have -- you do try to
push fear-mongering,
and it's not working.
HEWITT: Yeah, wait, wait. Charles --
CALLER (Charles): Even
the polls say it's not working.
HEWITT: I believe
we're going to get hit by terrorists under Barack Obama. I defy anyone to tell me that he is a
stronger candidate against terrorism than John McCain.
CALLER (Charles): If John
McCain --
HEWITT: The whole
country agrees with me, and if you want to call that fear-mongering, I can't stop you. Most of the rest of the
country thinks you're insane, though, because everybody knows he's
weak on this.
CALLER (Charles): If John McCain wins, we -- it makes no difference who
is in the White House.
HEWITT: I know you believe that. You're just wrong. That's why we haven't been
attacked since 9-11,
and we were attacked on 9-11
because of the consequences of Bill Clinton's fecklessness, and if you go
back to fecklessness, we'll get hit again. Now, I know you disagree with me on that --
CALLER (Charles): Because that's not
true.
HEWITT: I know. That's your disagreement with me, and I
say to the American people,
if you don't care about people who don't care about homeland
security, go ahead and vote for Barack Obama, and we will, to quote Jeremiah
Wright, the chickens will come home to roost.
CALLER (Charles): OK, let me
ask you one question then.
HEWITT: Nah, Charles, you're done. You had a good chance. Mark in Dallas -- hi, Mark, you're on The Hugh
Hewitt Show.Media Matters - On This Week , Huffington confronted Hewitt about Ohio State-USC football game comment {...} On This Week , Hugh Hewitt claimed that a comment he made during the June 25 edition of his show -- that the September 13 Ohio State-USC football game will "probably [be] the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama" -- was distorted by Arianna Huffington. {...} Published: July 4, 2008, 12:13 am - Indexed: July 4, 2008, 6:23 pm - Page Size: 50KB |