Quinn's solution to "Palestine issue": "[L]evel it and then salt the earth so that nothing grows for a thousand years"
On the October 29 broadcast of The War Room, co-host Jim Quinn said that "[t]here's only one way to settle the Palestine -- the Palestine issue," and that "is to level it and then salt the earth so that nothing grows for a thousand years, because that's how the Muslims would have treated each other, and did." Co-host Rose Tennent added, "And nothing really did grow in their land, did it? They want -- Israel had the same desert land they had, and they made something out of it." Quinn replied: "They started growing grapefruits the size of basketballs, and all of a sudden, these wandering tribesmen said, 'Hey, wait a minute. Isn't that our country?' It's amazing, ain't it folks?"
Talkers Magazine lists Quinn & Rose among its "Heavy Hundred," which it describes as the "100 most important radio talk show hosts in America." According to the show's website, it airs on 18 radio stations and XM Satellite Radio.
From the October 29 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose:
TENNENT: It's all very confusing to me.
QUINN: Yeah, it's all -- it's all politics, all of it. And it will never change. There's only one way to settle the Palestine -- the Palestine issue --
TENNENT: Or Palestinian --
QUINN: -- Palestinian issue -- thank you -- is to level it and then salt the earth so that nothing grows for a thousand years, because that's how the Muslims would have treated each other, and did.
TENNENT: And nothing really did grow in their land, did it? They want -- Israel had the same desert land they had --
QUINN: Yep.
TENNENT: -- and they made something out of it.
QUINN: They started growing grapefruits the size of basketballs, and all of a sudden, these wandering tribesmen said, "Hey, wait a minute. Isn't that our country?" It's amazing, ain't it folks?
TENNENT: Ain't it?
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Isn't that what they did to Jim Quinn's brain?
I think that was pickling. I will give his co-doofus credit for one honest statement;
TENNENT: It's all very confusing to me.
If they both just repeated that sentence for their entire show, instead of trying to give demented history lessons, they'd have some credibility.
Quinn, like Joe the Plumber, probably can't even tell you where Palestine is on a map.
Quinn, like Joe the Plumber, probably can't even tell you where Palestine is on a map.
They can always ask Gramps McCain - he'll tell them that Palestine is near Persia and Transjordan, but not that close to Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary, or Siam.
Well if they would only ask Aunti Palin, she would tell them it's over there by Iranistan and North Koreastan.
right outside her window.
I predict that Palin would say that she can see Palestine from her house!
are you certain palestine exists
Patagonia exists.
Kashmir exists.
It's hard to know where to begin with this. They're obviously not quite up on the facts, so this is clearly misinformation. I don't think it's a liberal vs. conservative issue to acknowledge that Palestine has done some reprehensible things, but to reduce it to this hypothesis of "wandering tribesmen" saying "Hey ... isn't that our country?" is a pretty poor recounting of a complicated history.
But what really flies off the page is the description of Islam as a religion encompassing a bunch of people who deal with each other by levelling entire civilizations. Not exactly the most comprehensive understanding of a 1400-year-old religion.
Of course, I might be paying a little too much attention to a couple of intellectual dwarves.
No offense actual dwarves, of course.
Quinn and Rose couldn't find Wilt Chamberlain at a midgets(dwarf) picnic.
Gee, where have I heard that one before? Oh, I remember, it was at a McCain/Palin rally...
So, basically, the justification for treating the Palestinians like trespassing vermin is that the Israelis have a deed to this strip of land that (they claim) was issued by God? Isn't that what it all boils down to?
And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: Thou shalt grow large grapefruit and thy shekels shall flourish. Especially when thy country turneth mostly materialistic and secular.
But unto the Philistines will I pour a giant salt shaker unto part of the land much later, to destroy them utterly for lotsa years and wreck my own land which I gavest unto thee.
Lovely, Mary. You know I'm not religious at all, but I'm actually offended when nuts like these describe God as a maniac in order to package their agenda for their simpleton audience.
Yeah, verily; these louts needeth even a shtikel of common sense and compassion. But lo, these many years, they leveleth their brain pans to a desert and salt it without savor.
I prefer LAWRY's seasoned salt.
Only 100% sea salt for me!
Mary please...you're gonna have the Phony Christian Radio Rosie scanning HER bibles looking for that "quote". Rosie, you can find that exact quote at MARY 59.
Are these the compassionate conservatives people used to talk about?
"Are these the compassionate conservatives people used to talk about?"
'Go figure!' or would 'ironic, ain't it?' work better?
When it comes to hate-mongers such as these Rush Limbaugh wanna-bes..... who can tell?
I wasn't going to mention my "behind Barney Frank" discussion.
that is good, that is funny.
Note to self (and others)
Need to remember not to read the Colonel's posts with food/beverage in mouth. Can be dangerous to clothes, keyboard, monitor and personal health (chocking hazard).
Jeez "choking" not "chocking" (Although applying a chock to a rapidly moving mind could be hazardous also)
But IIRC, aren't we the "salt of the earth"?
And you know, with the new Bush II doctrine out, the bombing of Iran is even more possible (if McCain gets into the White House). I heard about this doctrine last night - and was floored that anyone would latch onto such lunacy.
Joe the Plumber thinks we should kill all middle-easterners with brown skin, not just the Palestinian kind.
Don't you love it when people who haven't the slightest idea of history spout off like they actually know what they're talking about. Then they get all of their "facts" completely wrong and act like they've made some sort of definitive statement, when all they've really done is show their complete and utter lack of knowledge on the subject.
People like them get their history from those little booklets handed out in Sunday School.
peebs755. keep this in mind..tehir base audience are the Trailer Republican crowd who will believe anything on the flip side of civility.
They're propagandists. They don't take pride in being correct, just persuasive to THEIR audience using 'truthy' assertions, not necessarily actual facts. If they stumble into the real world on occasion, that's gravy, but by no means anything for them to write home about.
These two haters again?
I don't understand. How can all "you people" find the time to listen to this crap? I'm retired, fer Christ's sake, and have loads of time on my hands. (Well, that's not true; I am pretty busy typing these posts.) Maybe since most of you listen to the radio while driving to work or avoiding doing anything productive while AT work, you can take "advantage" of talk-radio. You will probably have all the free time you want after your company throws you all into the street. (Now you KNOW I am just makin' a sick joke.) Dosen't Rose Tennent look like Dr. Sardonicus?
Colonel, you seem to forget that Radio Rosie and Sean the Sissie are quite tight...she absolutely loves the SissyBoy and Quinn the Jagoff used to pal around with Jeff (TheRushbo) Christie when he was trolling the streets here in Pittsburgh. So keep on Rosies' case and Seannie will call you an unrepentant Colonel about 100 times on his next show.
Prince, Shut up.
Did you just cut your own mic, Prince?
Looks like someone is signing on with someone else's screen name again...
Good point, pit.
The ignorant have been leading the ignorant in the US for the last 8 years - and the future looks bleak as a result.
and yet we are supposed to sympathize with the palistinean position? ummm. not
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You can get up to 14 years in prison for advocating genocide or inciting hatred against any 'identifiable group' in Canada, if convicted.
If their signal gets up there, a case could be made that these statements, while not made about Palestian-Canadians, could incite hatred against them.
eddy,
do you know if Savage's signal gets to Canada? 14 years would mean a lot of peace and quiet on talk radio.
A call for genocide. How sweet.