{"id":31402,"date":"2016-02-16T17:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31402"},"modified":"2016-02-16T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:43:43","slug":"conservative-host-labels-trump-a-radical-kook-close-to-being-a-911-truther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31402","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Host Labels Trump A \u2018Radical Kook,\u2019 \u2018Close\u2019 To Being A 9\/11 Truther"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Talking heads take swipes at anti-establishment frontrunner<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSteve Watson<br \/>\nPrisonplanet.com<br \/>\n<strong>Following Saturday\u2019s GOP debate, establishment conservative talking heads have rounded on front runner Donald Trump, in yet another effort to derail his campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the debate Trump returned to criticism of former President George W. Bush, saying the 43rd president lied about Iraqi WMD, and illegally took the country to war after failing to stop the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4ThZcq1oJQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s words did not sit well with those with influence on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Talk show host Mark Levin labeled Trump a \u201cradical kook\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump attacked George W. Bush, not because of his liberal domestic policies, not because he expanded Medicare, not because he was weak on the First Amendment. Not because of those things\u2026 expanded the government, increased the debt, was for comprehensive immigration reform. \u201d Levin stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the fact that he attacked George Bush as a commander-in-chief. Not because he disagreed with him. He attacked him as a liar who knew there were not weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and said he was responsible for 9\/11 and he was responsible for those towers coming down.\u201d Levin added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies and gentlemen, that\u2019s why I posted on my Facebook this guy sounds like Code Pink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sounds like a radical kook,\u201d Levin leveled, going on to pull out the outrage card.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-zBjnBAOfU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the rest aside. All of it aside. I know too many Gold Star families who lost sons over there to hear this 9\/11 truther crap, which is pretty close to it. Pretty damn close to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf George Bush went to war in Iraq and was lying about weapons of mass destruction there could not be a worse thing a president of the United States could do, or human being for that matter. And there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And he was not responsible for 9\/11.\u201d the host claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have the leading Republican nominee for president of the United States to make these statements, and he\u2019s been praised by Code Pink. He should be praised by Code Pink and every kook organization out there and every left-wing kook organization that hates America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have him praised for what he said? Terrible. Absolutely terrible. You and I\u2019ve lived through this. You and I have lived through this. This isn\u2019t distant history.\u201d Levin concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Rush Limbaugh also took the opportunity to slam Trump, telling his audience that \u201cThe things that Trump said and did Saturday night came out of nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t make any sense. Here we are in a Republican primary, and Donald Trump, out of the blue, starts blaming the Bush family for 9\/11, for knowing that the intelligence was made up, that there never were any weapons of mass destruction, and they knew it.\u201d Limbaugh added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NpfZxDfOY4o\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The host then claimed that Trump is lying when he claims that he expressed opposition to the Iraq war in 2001, and that he also also expressed support for Planned Parenthood at Saturday\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the abortion stuff\u2026 but the fact that they do great things for women\u2019s health. Folks, there were a number of occasions where Donald Trump sounded like the Daily Kos blog, where Donald Trump sounded like the Democrat Underground, sounded like any average host on MSNBC.\u201d Limbaugh urged.<\/p>\n<p>Limbaugh went on to speculate that Trump was \u201cstrategically was making a move on independents and Democrats in South Carolina since it\u2019s open,\u201d and that he does not really believe what he said in the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the latest polls show that Trump now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/269494-south-carolina-poll-trump-up-17-points-ahead-of-primary\" target=\"_blank\">17 point lead<\/a> in SC, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/269493-online-poll-trump-leads-gop-field-by-20-points-nationally\" target=\"_blank\">20 point lead<\/a>\u00a0nationally. Establishment favourite Marco Rubio has slipped to third with 14 percent, while Ted Cruz is in second with 18 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The same talking points raised by Limbaugh and Levin were trotted out by Bush\u2019s VP Dick Cheney, who said Trump sounded like a \u201cliberal Democrat\u201d in the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s wrong, and he\u2019s I think, deliberately promoting those views in order to advance his political interests,\u201d Cheney said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0SIldShS0bc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of WMD charge that the administration lied, that was thoroughly investigated by the Robb-Silberman Commission. They found absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support that.\u201d Cheney claimed (which is up for debate as the commission never investigated \u201cthe use of intelligence by policymakers,\u201d according to co-chair Laurence Silberman.)<\/p>\n<p>Cheney also claimed that there was \u201cno actionable intelligence\u201d in the lead up to 9\/11, despite the fact that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/11\/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353\" target=\"_blank\">the CIA<\/a>, as well as multiple foreign intelligence agencies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/11\/opinion\/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html\" target=\"_blank\">warned the US of impending attacks<\/a>, and even that terrorists working under Osama Bin Laden <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">planned to strike in downtown Manhattan using aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow up appearance on ABC News this morning, Trump appeared to soften his tone on Bush, saying \u201cI don\u2019t know if he lied or not\u2026I just know that there are no weapons of mass destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"699566639616950274\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump doubled down on the 9\/11 accusations, however, stating \u201cI know that the CIA and various other agencies knew that something bad was going to happen and they did nothing about it. They got it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heads of the CIA and the various other agencies weren\u2019t speaking and it was a big problem,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of establishment criticism, Trump also spoke about the possibility of a third party run, claiming that the Republican National Committee is \u201cin default\u201d of its agreement to treat him fairly and on an even par with the other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Trump repeated his dissatisfaction at the fact that the debate audience on Saturday was stacked with supporters of the establishment candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RNC gave all the tickets to special interests that represented Cruz and Rubio. They had all the tickets,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey walked on the stage and the place went crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is the RNC is controlled by the establishment and the RNC is controlled by the special interests and the donors and that\u2019s too bad,\u201d Trump added, saying that the RNC has \u201ctotal control\u201d over Rubio and Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/conservative-host-labels-trump-a-radical-kook-close-to-being-a-911-truther.html\">http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/conservative-host-labels-trump-a-radical-kook-close-to-being-a-911-truther.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking heads take swipes at anti-establishment frontrunner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}