Zeoli’s Can’t Miss Opening Monologue + Bob Menendez Indicted AGAIN
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1:
- In a post to the social media outlet X, Reason editor and podcaster Nick Gillespie discussed the libertarian response to the October 7th Hamas terror attacks against Israel. Gillespie explains, “I'm increasingly frustrated by whataboutist libertarian takes on indefensible Hamas terrorism that seemingly deny Israel's unquestionable right to respond to war crimes committed within its own borders. If your first—or second, or third—response to civilian deaths is to point out that not all the children were decapitated, you're doing it wrong. These takes tend to conflate questions of legitimate national self-defense on the part of a country and possible US intervention that is often morally, strategically, and pragmatically suspect. A similar conflation was evident when Russia invaded Ukraine, with too many libertarians justifying Putin's war-of-choice as the inevitable result of US foreign policy, impugning Ukrainians defending themselves, or waving away solidarity with and empathy for the invaded as ‘CIA talking points.’ Same with Taiwan and Hong Kong. But the righteousness of self-defense and American military involvement are totally separate matters. More than most nations, Israel is capable of defending itself (and will do so with greater restraint than most countries would in similar circumstances). The US should not become involved militarily even as we should offer humanitarian aid and assistance, including to Gazans suffering under Hamas rule. We shouldn't be the world's policeman (the past 20 years of our foreign policy testify to that) but we also can play a role in minimizing conflict and suffering.” You can listen to Gillespie’s podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBfQXtaCpKg
- Kara Scannell of CNN reports that, “[f]ederal prosecutors on Thursday announced an additional charge against New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, alleging they conspired to have the senator act as a foreign agent of Egypt. The superseding indictment filed against Menendez, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time of the alleged actions, adds a new dimension to the case by alleging a US senator was working on behalf of another country.” In September, Menendez was charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes with federal prosecutors finding $500,000 in cash, as well as gold bars, in Menendez’s home—some of which contained fingerprints or DNA of Fred Daibes, a real estate developer accused of bribing Menendez and his wife Nadine. You can read more about Menendez’s most recent indictment here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/politics/bob-menendez-superseding-indictment-foreign-agent/index.html
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| 0:30.0 | Well, the question, of course, is where do we go from here? I mean, the Phillies! After last night's amazing, amazing win! We'll be down the ballpark tonight, absolutely, and, um, Joanne Chesemard has died. I just received that news from my friends in the law enforcement community. They much rather would have dealt with her on their own. I remind you of that story of how she killed in a Jersey State trooper years ago. Uh, welcome to the show. Glad you're here. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, the, um, the people up there who are justifying the brutality, savagery, and terrorist attacks by Hamas, as if this is some sort of a political issue regarding Israel and Palestine, are some of the sickest, most depravis people on the planet. They truly are. And I told you yesterday that I believe that the people in Hamas are fanatics. They are some of them. |
| 1:30.0 | They are the most fanatical people on planet. And they want to see Jews dead. They want to see Christians dead. They want to see, uh, see infidel Muslims dead. They're calling for a day of jihad. These are, these are not people you reason with. These are not people that you can have breakfast with. These are not people that you can have a conversation with. All these phony college kids and all these campuses across the country, with all their woke signs and their rainbows. I did not understand that Hamas would kill all of them if they had the opportunity |
| 2:00.0 | to go to GBTQ plus plus IA every letter of the alphabet. Uh, orthodoxy. Do they understand that Hamas does not believe that books called the gender queer should be in libraries like they've been fighting for. Do they understand that Hamas would not want to see somebody who is a man identifying as a woman like they would be had that person, or even just somebody who has adultery, for example, do they not understand these things or they just not care because it's the cause of a juror. And that's it. And it sounds like, oh, Hamas. Oh, |
| 2:30.0 | you mean the oppressed people of Palestine? No, we mean the vicious terrorists who are using the excuse of Israeli Palestine politics to kill Jews because they want them wiped off the planet. And that's what's happening. And for anybody who says it's anything different, you're just an idiot. You're an idiot. You're, you're no different than the people who deny what the Nazis were doing in the 1940s. You're no different. The Nazis want |
| 3:00.0 | to see the extermination of the Jewish people from the planet. They believe that. And they were inspired a lot. Adolf Hitler was inspired a lot by the beliefs of the people in the Middle East at the time. But it wasn't, of course, until really the radicalization that occurred in the 1960s out of Egypt, Egypt, which by the way is now denying passage, safe passage for Palestinians. And the reason why is, and Qatar is doing the same thing is because Qatar and Egypt want to see as many of their faith. |
| 3:30.0 | Hello, Muslims killed as possible so they can blame it on Israel. Blame it on Israel. And then say that Israel is responsible for the death of all these Arabs, all these Muslims. That's their goal. It's what they're trying to do right now. |
| 3:46.0 | You know, yesterday we had a call from a couple of lunatic anti-Semites who called the show one guy who called up and he goes, you know, I've been calling shows all across the country today. |
| 3:55.0 | I said, well, that's interesting. So I have been on the air all across the country today, even though I should be. I think we all agree on that point. |
| 4:02.0 | But he said, you know, you are advocating for the extermination of the Palestinian people. I said, I'm not. I've never at one point said that. I've never said that. I've never said exterminated anybody. |
| 4:12.0 | But literally, Hamas is calling for the extermination of the Jews. That's literally what they stand for. That's what they want. |
| 4:20.0 | And you've got all these college kids on campuses, all these Wilt college kids out there who are out there with their signs of solidarity with Palestine. |
| 4:29.0 | So if you're a Palestinian right now and you're worried about being killed because the Hamas doesn't give a damn whether you live or die. |
| 4:37.0 | And their mind, you die in this. You're just, you're going to Allah. You're going straight up to, you know, Allah, your cause of, of G-Hod. |
| 4:44.0 | You're just your casualty. And you'll be given your seat at the table with your 72 versions, which by the way, to me, sounds like an awful lot of work. |
| 4:53.0 | But anyway, you'll be given that seat at the table. They don't care. So the average Palestinian right now is going, why are they looping us with Hamas? |
| 5:04.0 | But that's exactly what these people, these, these fanatics are doing. They're not, they're not separating the two. They're not, they're not, they're not making a distinction. |
| 5:13.0 | And the reason why is because the left does not know how to make distinctions. The left only knows how to generalize. They don't have the capacity because they're driven by emotion to separate things. |
| 5:24.0 | And I've noticed this about the left over the years. And I've noticed this for a long time. It's very hard to have a rational conversation with them because everything gets lumped in by emotion. |
| 5:34.0 | And everything becomes about oppression and everything else. Like there's a Black Lives Matter meme that's out there of some of these Hamas terrorists with their power shoots, power shooting in. And it's just something like, you know, Black Lives Matter stands with you or something, something like that, you know, something along the lines of that. |
| 5:52.0 | And they believe this crap. They really do. They believe this crap. They believe that this is what they, they need to do. They need to fight against the oppressors. Hamas is not there to fight against the oppressors. Understand something. And I said this on the show yesterday, if tomorrow Benjamin Netanyahu came out and said, I tell you what, you get 50% of Israel. |
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