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Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio

I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:13 PM

    And Derbig

    You asked about my restraint the other night? I can more than tolerate some bigoted buck toothed hillbilly troll advocating the murder of my people and the destruction of my culture. My assumption is that they are ignorant of what vast military actions really look like and are stuck in a cartoon perception of the world where violence has no real life component.

    But people like this, who seek to calmly and rationally explain the necessity of killing tens of thousands Arabs--or at least seek to exonerate those who called for such acts--really get to me. They do know better and just don't care.

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