Matt Ortega

John Gibson, FOX News contributor and radio host, mocked the remarks made by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show from the first broadcast following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and the downed jetliner in Pennsylvania.

Read Stewart’s full speech from September 20, 2001, here.

In the radio program, Gibson was asked about the state of the media following the attacks and the first name he came up with was Jon Stewart? Jon Stewart is a comedian. His program is a comedy show. FYI, John: It is not a real news show.

GIBSON: Actually, you could. If you wait a little while, you’ll say, just as Steve Martin used to say, “Should I fight the terrorists? Should I listen to their phone calls? Should I follow them everywhere on the planet to keep America safe? Nah, let’s kick the hell out of Bush.”

Do we need another 9-11? …

That’s thing: Bush isn’t keeping the country safe, but Gibson is willfully blind to that fact because his career and paycheck rests upon his not “knowing.”

Check out this FOX News Channel hit job on Congressman Ron Paul’s (R-Surfside, Tex.) comments on 9/11 at the South Carolina Republican Candidates Debate.

Paul talked about “blowback,” a CIA term for unintended consequences from covert action. During the debate, Rudy Giuliani grossly mischaracterized his comments, which led FOX News to spin it around by calling the Congressman a “9/11 ‘truther’” and went off on a 9/11 conspiracy theorist tangent.

Then, FOX News commentator John Gibson completely misinterpreted a Rasmussen poll about Democrats and 9/11, and then to top it off, brings in Michelle Malkin, of all people, to push the talking point.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a FOX News television audience after the second Republican presidential debate, in response to Congressman Ron Paul’s “blowback” argument, that Democrats believed the U.S. deserved the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

There’s a world of difference between “the U.S. deserved the attacks” and “our own foreign policy brought this on us.” Either Giuliani knows that, or he is just as dense as the Republican base.For more on Giuliani’s total distortion of Paul’s words, check out Media Matters’ report.

Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility:

“In this book I make a claim that will seem startling at the outset. The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11. … In faulting the cultural left, I am not making the absurd accusation that this group blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I am saying that the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world. The Muslims who carried out the 9/11 attacks were the product of this visceral rage—some of it based on legitimate concerns, some of it based on wrongful prejudice, but all of it fueled and encouraged by the cultural left. Thus without the cultural left, 9/11 would not have happened. …” [emphasis added]

(Hat tip: Classical Values)

Jeremy Glick is the son of a former Port Authority worker who was killed on September 11, 2001 in the terrorist attacks on the United States. This “interview” was conducted February 4, 2003 — at the height of the “anti-American” charges in the lead up to the War in Iraq.

O’Reilly’s conduct during the interview was purely unprofessional and disgusting. He constantly bullies his “guest” and takes a position where he pretends to know Jeremy’s slain father and tries to use it against Glick.

Glick confronted O’Reilly with the known fact that, with George H.W. Bush as Vice President, the U.S. trained Islamic fighters in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets that gave rise to the the al-Qaeda terror network led by Osama bin Laden. O’Reilly backed down claiming he “didn’t want to debate world politics.” But what’s there to debate about that? That’s common knowledge.

Read the full transcript below.

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