GOP lawmakers have been engaging in
this pressure campaign threatening
representative Ilhan Omar for
speaking out against the possible
war crimes conducted by the Israeli
government toward the Palestinian
people in the Gaza Strip.
Now, the latest threats come from
representative Kevin McCarthy,
let's hear what he has to say.
>> I think Nancy Pelosi should
remove Omar
from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
This is an individual that has not
once, but on numerous occasions
been anti-semitic.
Her own entire Congress had to
rebuke her in the last one, but
she's just not anti-semitic,
she's anti-American now.
She's equating America to Taliban,
to Hamas.
She's discrediting our greatest
ally in the Middle East, Israel,
the only democracy.
But the Democratic Party and
the leader of that party,
the Speaker, said on her Sunday
show that she did not rebuke her,
she thanked her.
So the Democrats believe
this message,
that is what's in doubt for me.
I will promise you this,
if we are fortunate enough to have
the majority, Omar would not be
serving on foreign affairs or
anybody that has an anti-semitic
anti-American view.
That is not productive and
that is not right.
Now, his interpretation of Nancy
Pelosi's interview was inaccurate.
Wow, what a shocker.
It wasn't great, by the way,
I didn't agree
with Nancy Pelosi statements, which
we'll get to in just a second.
But I do want to remind the
audience about the offensive remark
that Representative Omar made
because I don't find it offensive.
She said this,
we must have the same level of
accountability and justice for all
victims of crimes against humanity.
We have seen unthinkable atrocities
committed by the United States,
Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and
the Taliban.
I asked Secretary Blinken where
people are supposed to go for
justice, because the United States
does not agree with the
International Criminal Court and
its probe into the Israeli forces
possibly doing war crimes against
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
So if the US doesn't believe in
that, doesn't support that,
how exactly would the Israeli
government and the Israeli forces
be held accountable for that?
That was her question, and Cenk,
Pelosi actually did rebuke her real
quick.
Politico reported that Pelosi's
leadership team released
a statement rebuking the remarks
and then later thanking Omar for
issuing a clarification.
And her clarification was simple,
I'm not trying to say that Hamas
is, or the Taliban is equal
to the United States, or Hamas is
equal to the Israeli government.
Although, all the party's mentioned
clearly have engaged in
possible war crimes, and she wants
to make sure that there's a fair
system that looks into all of it.
>> Okay, so first on
Kevin McCarthy, I've been trying to
figure out who does he sound like?
He sounds ridiculous.
I'm just going to make
a fun point first before we get
to the serious stuff.
And then I figured it out,
it's the guy from Boardwalk Empire.
So there was a loser,
hang around in Boardwalk, and
he would talk like this.
>> I remember that guy.
>> Yeah, okay, and I was like,
who talks like that?
Nobody talks like that,
he sounds so silly.
It was distracting.
It turns out I was wrong,
Kevin McCarthy talks like that.
Yeah, that's right, exactly.
That's a good one.
Ilhan Omar, she's anti-American.
Okay, anyway,
now on to serious stuff.
So first of all,
the Democrats are guilty here.
They needlessly through Ilhan Omar
under the bus themselves for
no reason.
12 corporate Democrats got together
pretending to be outraged by
non-existent anti-Semitism.
And I could prove that, let me just
ask those guys, anybody, of course,
the press will never ask them, but
she is clearly referring to cases
in front of
the International Criminal Court.
You guys are Democrats,
do you think that America and
Israel should not be subject to
the International Criminal Court
as every other country is?
Do you think we should be above
law when we torture people,
commit war crimes, etc?
It's an easy question,
because you're criticizing her.
You're saying, what,
it's an anti-semitic position to
say that American and Israel should
follow the the international law on
war crimes just like Hamas and
Taliban should.
So we're asking you
a simple question,
should we be above the law?
Should we be allowed to torture?
You guys, I get it, Republicans are
in favor torture and war crimes.
But you guys are Democrats, yeah,
they are in favor of those things,
let's just keep it real.
By the way, I have it on very good
authority from a very good source
inside Washington that all of this
was a stunt to distract from one
of the corporate Democrats
corruption scandals.
And when he got caught with this in
the cookie jar, by the way, David
Dan, it's Josh Gotheimer, okay?
David Dan and the American Prospect
wrote an excellent story about how
he was financed by some of
the financial industry,
including the worst of the lenders
that charge up to three, 400%.
As that was going on all
of a sudden, squirrel,
Ilhan Omar made a comment that is
perfectly legitimate, but we're
going to pretend it's anti-semetic.
Now, what is the cost of that other
than the truth and decency?
The cost is it allows
the Republicans to paint all
Democrats as anti-American,
anti-Semitic, etc.
And the Democrats willingly walked
into that.
It's not like they were like,
the Republicans will
probably let it go.
No, they knew they were gift
wrapping a present for
Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell,
Donald Trump, Matt Gaetes, etc.
Right, and Marjorie Taylor, and
they did that because they thought
rather smear the entire
Democratic Party and definitely
Ilhan Omar, who's probably received
the most death threats.
And yes, it's definitely because of
her race and religion, and
let's do it again.
Let's double down, let's be that
monstrous, just so nobody talks
about our corporate donors.
So that's who those corporate
Democrats are.
Everybody who signed that letter is
abhorrent, absolutely abhorrent.
So there is somebody who's
guilty here, but
it's certainly ain't Ilhan Omar.
McCarthy, look- >> McCarthy is
going to McCarthy.
Republicans- >> Exactly,
nobody's surprised by that.
>> This is politics.
They're going to do what they're
expected to do as the opponents to
the Democratic Party.
It's just that corporate Democrats
make it so easy for them over and
over again.
And so Danna Bash of CNN decided to
ask Pelosi about this,
about rebuking Ilhan Omar, and
here's what she had to say.
>> Rashida Talib,
one of her close friends, member of
your caucus tweeted the following.
Freedom of speech doesn't exist for
Muslim women in Congress.
The benefit of the doubt
doesn't exist from Muslim women in
Congress.
House Democratic leadership should
be ashamed.
>> Let me just say this, we did not
rebuke her, we acknowledge that she
made a clarification, so
before we go too far down the path.
>> Yeah, these aren't my words,
these are your caucus
members words.
>> No, I understand that, that's a
member. >> That's a caucus member.
>> A caucus member.
>> Yeah, so I just wanted to get
your response to that.
>> No, I'm not responding to that,
the Congresswoman Omar is a valued
member of our caucus.
She asked her questions of
the Secretary of State,
nobody criticize those about how
people will be held accountable if
we're not going to
the International Court of Justice.
That was a very legitimate
question, that was not of concern.
Members did become concerned when
the tweet that was put out equated
the United States with Taliban and
Hamas.
>> Rashida Talib is accusing you of
policing- [CROSSTALK] >> And
then she clarified it, and
we thanked her for clarification.
>> Her tweet did not equate
anything, and I think her tweet
rightly called out various
countries and groups of people that
have committed atrocities that
should be investigated.
>> So, let me go a couple steps
further here.
So first of all,
Dana Bash asked lots of questions
of AOC on that same show, but
credit to her she also asked tough
questions of Pelosi.
So now, Pelosi's answer is at
a bare minimum awfully misleading.
So number one, they did rebuke, and
then they thanked her for
the clarification afterwards.
Now, I can prove to you
that Nancy Pelosi has bad intent.
Now, if you had someone
who you were working with,
you could do one of two things.
You could rebuke them publicly, and
then ask for clarification, or
you can ask for
clarification ahead of time, and
you could do it privately.
The tweet was in
reference to the ICC.
In the tweet you referenced
Secretary Blinken, because that was
who your question was referring to.
Well, that clarifies it,
we don't have to rebuke you at all.
We did something very simple,
we just asked you, right?
They chose not to ask,
that includes Speaker Pelosi,
because they wanted to smear
Ilhan Omar, not the Republicans.
The Republicans are going to
do it anyway.
Nancy Pelosi gift wrapped that
smear and
handed it to Kevin McCarthy.
That's actually what happened, and
why did she do it, cuzyou got
to protect corporate donors.
The donors must be protected.
Payday lenders are giving one of my
members tons of money.
Gotheimers I think raised about $7
million if I'm not mistaken.
Read David Dan's piece in
the American Prospect on it,
overall in his career, okay?
>> $7 million?
>> Yeah, all these
guys are unbelievably corrupt.
>> Wait, from payday lenders alone?
>> No, financial industry.
>> Okay, got it,
it's still really bad.
>> And the payday lenders
are funneling money, etc, right?
And then the American Prospect
writes the story,
and then they're like, my God,
who should we throw under the bus?
Pick the Muslim,
no one cares, okay?
>> Jesus!
>> And so that's what
Nancy Pelosi did.
That's what she is.
Almost everyone in mainstream media
kisses her ass 24/7, and
they will almost stoop to nothing
to cover for her, but that's
why I'm giving Dana Bash credit.
Those are tough, good questions.
Always guys, hold them accountable,
but then give credit where
credit is due.
So, but they don't have a very
large majority at all in the House,
and Democratic
leadership is horrible at politics.
So it's very possible that they'll
lose the house in 2022 and
then the Republicans are going to
kick Ilhan Omar off
of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
So then one of the things that
we'll do is, then you'll silence
any voice of opposition
against Israeli policy and
American war crimes.
And one last thing I'll go further
on is who are we kidding?
Israel and America do war crimes.
So when you say, how dare you
compare that to Hamas' war crimes?
What do you mean,
they're both war crimes.
There, I just dared it.
And so that doesn't mean that
Hamas is great, guys, or
Taliban is great.
Of course not,
Taliban's monstous to women
to non-Muslims, you name it, right?
And we're not saying
everything is equal.
I'm not saying apple pie
is as bad as Taliban.
Okay, baseball, well,
it's arguable.
Okay, [LAUGH] all right, but
are our war crimes just as bad as
their war crimes?
Well, it depends,
what's the war crime?
And in some instances, absolutely.
And by the way when Israel kills 10
times as many civilians or
America in Iraq kills hundreds of
thousands of civilians, yes,
our war crimes are just as bad and
sometimes worse.
My god, he said something
that's true,
let's all pretend to get offended.
You can't argue with the facts of
what I'm saying.
And so we killed hundreds of
thousands of civilians,
then we turn around go,
can you believe a child died there?
Let's go bomb people, etc.
How many children did we kill
in Iraq?
No, you're not allowed
to say that because that will show
the ugly side of America.
Well, is it untrue?
No, it's 100% true.
>> Yep, I mean, Obama murdered a US
citizen with a drone strike.
No due process, no nothing.
I'm not saying the guy that he did
a drone strike on was innocent and
a lovely person, but
US citizens are supposed to
have their day in court.
They're supposed to be given
due process,
that is our constitutional right.
And Obama not only murdered him in
a drone strike, but
then murdered his teenage son and
I believe one other child of his.
>> Their eight year old daughter.
By the way, guys, and so
Anna said something that in
media is considered very harsh,
and I guarantee you any mainstream
media person watching this going,
how dare they say that.
Are you challenging the powerful or
are you comforting the powerful?
Because Anwar Al-Alwaki was
absolutely murdered by
the United States of America in
an extra judicial assassination.
They did not check with any courts,
they did not go to the courts.
He was a US citizen.
Now, you can see he was
a terrible guy, and
I'll probably agree with you,
although they never ever proved
that he did a terrorist attack.
They said he talked about
supporting the bad guys.
Okay, so but I'm not going to
litigate that because you know
who was supposed to litigate that,
a court.
But we didn't, we murdered
an American citizen on purpose and
said, yeah, but he's Muslim and
talked bad things about us.
And Eric Holder,
specifically, the Attorney General
for Barack Obama said, due process
does not necessarily mean judicial
process.
That is as absurd and
as terrible as anything
Donald Trump has ever said.
That means the executive branch can
just murder American citizens if
they're abroad and
maybe if they're homeless.
You open up that door without
checking with a judge ever, so
that is abysmal.
Yes, Barack Obama did that.
That doesn't mean that Barack
Obama, every part of him is bad,
that he eats his burgers the wrong
way, and he wears the wrong suits,
and that he's not a very
nice guy in other settings.
I'm sure he is, but
he did he do that?
Yes, he did, that's a fact.
But the corporate media covers for
corporate Democrats non stop.
And by the way,
they claim that his 16 year old son
was killed accidentally in
a completely different strike,
at a completely different time.
And then they claimed that his
eight year old daughter was also
killed accidentally,
all American citizens,
at a completely different strike,
at a completely different time.
Three different members of
the family killed in three
different strikes that were spaced
apart significantly.
And one of them was just
an execution with no grounds
at all, and
the other two were like, oops, so
did we happen to kill his kids too?
I guess so.
>> Collateral damage,
it was collateral damage.
>> Remember how mad everybody
was when Trump said we should kill
the terrorists and their family?
Obama actually did do that.
So if you say to him the best case
scenario is, golly gee, what a bad,
bad, bad, stroke of luck that he
happened to accidentally also kill
his family members.
That's not a great defense.
It might have been an accident, and
it might not have been Obama, it
might have been the CIA who did it.
>> And then- >> Under
Obama's watch.
Under Obama's watch and
then Obama covered for them.
That is also not a great fact
pattern.
So we don't know who ordered
the strikes and whether they were
actually accidental, but
we do know those three
American citizens are all dead,
and no one ever asked a judge.
So that's the reality.