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On This Week , Huffington confronted Hewitt about Ohio State-USC football game comment

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.

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Dobson falsely suggested Obama accused Dobson of "want[ing] to expel people who are not Christians" from the U.S.

During the June 24 broadcast of his radio show, Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson falsely suggested that Sen. Barack Obama claimed Dobson "wants to expel people who are not Christians" from the United States. Dobson was referring to a speech Obama gave in 2006 in which Obama actually asked: "And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would it be James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's?" After airing that statement, Dobson responded: "I don't want to be defensive here. Obviously, that is offensive to me. I mean, who wants to expel people who are not Christians? Expel them from what? From the country? Deprive them of constitutional rights? Is that what he thinks I want to do? Why'd this man jump on me? I haven't said anything anywhere near that." From Obama's June 28, 2006, speech before the Call to Renewal organization: OBAMA: And moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's populations, the dangers of sectarianism are greater than ever. Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would it be James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith. Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount -- a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? We -- so, before we get carried away, let's read our Bibles now. Folks haven't been reading their Bible. From the June 24 broadcast of Focus on the Family: TOM MINNERY (host): Later in the speech, he says, "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers." Well, I say, "Excuse me?" Seventy-six percent of the people identify themselves as Christian. There are only six-tenths of 1 percent who are Muslim, seven-tenths of 1 percent who are Buddhist, four-tenths of 1 percent who are Hindu. That's from last year's Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Religious Survey. So he's diminishing the idea that people of Christian faith have anything to say. And then he begins to diminish you. OBAMA [audio clip]: And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would it be James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? MINNERY: Well, we have to camp on that for just a moment, because he has compared you somehow as being on the right what Al Sharpton is on the left. Al Sharpton achieved his notoriety in the '80s and '90s by engaging in racial bigotry, and many people have called him "a black racist." And he is somehow equating you with that and racial bigotry. DOBSON: You know, Tom, I don't want to be defensive here. Obviously, that is offensive to me. I mean, who wants to expel people who are not Christians? Expel them from what? From the country? Deprive them of constitutional rights? Is that what he thinks I want to do? Why'd this man jump on me? I haven't said anything anywhere near that. He also equates me with Al Sharpton, who is a reverend. I am not a reverend, I'm not a minister, I'm not a theologian, I'm not an evangelist. I'm a psychologist. I have a Ph.D. in child development from the University of Southern California. And there is no equivalence to us. So I don't want to overreact to it. But, you know, I -- this comment was made two years ago, and it's taken me two years to find about it, so -- MINNERY: Well, you're in good company, because from there, he proceeds to disparage serious understanding of the Bible.

Monica Crowley falsely claimed Obama's half brother "went on the record to The Jerusalem Post " and said "Obama's got a really solid Muslim background"

On the June 19 edition of The Laura Ingraham Show, guest host Monica Crowley falsely asserted that Malik Obama, Sen. Barack Obama's half brother, "went on the record to The Jerusalem Post, of all places, and said, 'Oh yeah, Obama's got a really solid Muslim background.' " As the broadcast was going to commercial break, Crowley aired a clip of Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume from the June 16 edition of Fox News' Special Report, in which he pointed to a statement on Obama's campaign website that Obama "has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian." Hume stated: "But Obama's half brother is not so sure. Malik Obama tells The Jerusalem Post that 'if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.' " But as Media Matters for America noted, Hume's claim that Malik Obama told the Post that Sen. Obama had a "Muslim background" is false. Indeed, as ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper reported, according to The Jerusalem Post, Malik Obama did not speak directly with the Post but, rather, the article was referring to an interview Malik Obama gave to Israel's Army Radio. Moreover, Tapper wrote that "nowhere in [the interview] does Malik expressly say anything about Obama having a Muslim background," adding, "Malik did not say that or come close to saying that." Earlier on the Ingraham segment, Crowley had asserted that Obama "was born to a Muslim father, which, in Islam, automatically makes him a Muslim." She added: "Now, he left the faith, does that make him an apostate? I don't know. It's unclear. Punishable by death for leaving Islam, OK? He says he became a Christian in his adolescence, and he's a Christian now." Crowley's comments recalled a May 12 New York Times op-ed, in which Edward N. Luttwak asserted, "As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood." Luttwak also labeled Obama's "conversion" to Christianity as "a crime in Muslim eyes," adding, "it is 'irtidad' or 'ridda,' usually translated from the Arabic as 'apostasy.' " New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt refuted Luttwak's assertion in a June 1 column, writing, "I interviewed five Islamic scholars, at five American universities, recommended by a variety of sources as experts in the field. All of them said that Luttwak's interpretation of Islamic law was wrong." Hoyt also noted: "Interestingly, in defense of his own article, Luttwak sent me an analysis of it by a scholar of Muslim law whom he did not identify. That scholar also did not agree with Luttwak that Obama was an apostate or that Muslim law would prohibit punishment for any Muslim who killed an apostate." Discussing Obama's name later in the broadcast, Crowley said, "I want to point this out, because nobody else has: Barack Hussein Obama -- given name. That was his given name. Throughout his teenage years, he went by the name 'Barry.' He went by the name of 'Barry' until he got to college and found himself, and then he switched back to Barack Hussein Obama." She went on to say, "Now, here is the point: African-Americans in particular in the United States when they convert to Islam, most of the time, they will change their name or at least take a Muslim name. Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Malcolm X -- the list goes on and on and on. ... [T]he explicit point of that is to signal to everybody that they are, in fact, now a Muslim -- hence the name. ... They are signaling to the world that they have converted to Islam and they are a Muslim." Crowley then stated that this "[r]aises the question: What is he signaling with that name? What does he want you to know?" As Media Matters has repeatedly documented, Obama is, in fact, not a Muslim. Obama has said, "I've always been a Christian," and has also repeatedly stated that he has never been a Muslim or ever practiced Islam. From the June 19 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Laura Ingraham Show: CROWLEY: The most prominent so-called lie is that Obama is a Muslim, right? And this is the one that they are so up in arms about, "Oh, this is a viral lie. It's vicious. It's horrible. Everybody knows that Barack Obama's a Christian. Well, his own brother-in-law, Malik, in Africa, went on the record to The Jerusalem Post, of all places, and said, "Oh yeah, Obama's got a really solid Muslim background." Barack Obama was born to a Muslim father, which, in Islam, automatically makes him a Muslim. Now, he left the faith, does that make him an apostate? I don't know. It's unclear. Punishable by death for leaving Islam, OK? He says he became a Christian in his adolescence, and he's a Christian now. OK. But you're not allowed to say that about Obama, all right. Nobody's out there -- nobody's supposed to be out there saying, well, he's a Muslim, 'cause that's just a vicious lie. But the Obama team can go out and do vicious lies on McCain all day long, and nobody says boo. By the way, you're also not allowed to tell the truth about the Obamas either, right? Not allowed to go out there and tell the truth about Barack and Michelle Obama -- can't raise Reverend [Jeremiah] Wright; can't raise Father [Michael] Phleger; can't raise the domestic terrorists, Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn; can't raise the Syrian immigrant, now convicted con, Tony Rezko, and his relationship with Obama. So you can't lie about Obama and you also can't raise the truth about the Obamas. Oh, we're in a real fix here, aren't we, America? 800-876-4123. I'm Monica Crowley. Back in a flash. [begin audio clip 1] HUME: Barack Obama is a practicing Christian, married in a Christian church, whose children were also baptized in that church. His campaign has emphasized his faith in part to dispel what the campaign calls an online smear campaign, which contends, among other things, that Obama was raised a Muslim. There is even a statement on his official campaign website reading, quote, "Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian." But Obama's half brother is not so sure. Malik Obama tells The Jerusalem Post that "if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background." The article was also accompanied by an image of Malik Obama holding a photo of him and Barack Obama both in Muslim dress, reportedly taken when the two first met back in 1985. [end audio clip 1] [begin audio clip 2] UNIDENTIFIED MALE 1: Well, he's got his own beliefs, with the Muslim beliefs, and couple issues that bothers me at heart. UNIDENTIFIED MALE 2: Hmm-mm. You know this -- that's not true. UNIDENTIFIED MALE 1: No. I'm just -- this is what I'm being told. [end audio clip 2] CROWLEY: Another thing you're not supposed to point out about Barack Obama -- and this is a very serious point that I want to make that nobody else has made. We were talking right before the commercial about the -- what Obama calls the smear that he's a Muslim. And I was pointing out that he was born to a Muslim father, which automatically makes you, under Islam, a Muslim. So, does that make him an apostate or what? I don't -- it's still unclear, although he claims to have switched religions in his adolescence, and there is part of Islam that says that that's OK. If you do that before you are technically an adult, you sort of have a shield to that. But I want to point this out, because nobody else has: Barack Hussein Obama -- given name. That was his given name. Throughout his teenage years, he went by the name "Barry." He went by the name of "Barry" until he got to college and found himself, and then he switched back to Barack Hussein Obama. Get back to his roots, trying to find his identity -- the whole nine yards, right? So he goes back to Barack Hussein Obama. Now, here is the point: African-Americans in particular in the United States when they convert to Islam, most of the time, they will change their name or at least take a Muslim name. Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Malcolm X -- the list goes on and on and on. And the point of that -- the explicit point of that is to signal to everybody that they are, in fact, now a Muslim -- hence the name. Muhammad Ali. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. They are signaling to the world that they have converted to Islam and they are a Muslim. So Barry goes happy-go-lucky through his teenage years as Barry Obama, and then he changes his name as an adult back to Barack Hussein Obama. Raises the question: What is he signaling with that name? What does he want you to know? I think this is a completely legitimate question, which, of course, everybody is afraid to ask because everybody is petrified of offending Barack Hussein Obama. 800-876-4123.