Former Congressman Linked to Terrorist Funding

[MarieLouiseLa]

Maybe you should read SIljander's hopeful book. Do you allow that in a nearly thirty year period a person can change, often radically? SIljander tracks his amazing, life-changing journey in his book, 'A Deadly Misunderstanding.' Are you aware that in 2004 nearly every Arabic/Islamic organization was labeled terrorist by the U.S.? They were all guilty until proven innocent! Similar to American Japanese internment in WWII. READ THE BOOK!

[mowriter]

What if...what if Siljander is trying to brisge the divide between Muslims and Christians, and by doing this has put himself at odds with elements of our government who have NO vested interest in peace between Muslims and Christians?

hmmm...makes you think...especially in terms of "Disaster Economics". Seems Siljander is actually LIVING that Jesus faith, not just pushing in people's faces.

What's wrong with that?

[robbin312]

why dont i ever see anything on ron paul???

[bach2berylium]

James, seriously, I think it's about time to change the background music. Really annoying, though not as annoying as the platitudes and falsehoods that you spew. You're just a kid, you don't have to pretend that you understand what's going on, because, even though you try to show that you do (mainly by being loud), you clearly don't. Ever thought of looking at the subaltern in the supposed "democratic project"? Now that would be a worthwhile project!

[RogCBrand]

Well most of the people who watch James like his stuff, so maybe you should just slink back to whatever hateful, partisan, propagandist sites you enjoy, that way you can be happy and we can happily enjoy James' stuff without the snarky, self-righteous, arrogant garbage that you spew.

Just a suggestion!

:D

[rocinante316]

so basically what you're saying is that critics should shut up--what a fantastic position to take

[breanainn66]

LOL! Oh! So, bach can spew his hatred at James, but I can't tell him that if he disagrees so much that he should just go to other sites where his mindless propaganda is celebrated? How enlightened of you!

[rocinante316]

also, what does it mean for hillary to 'come a long way' since embracing the wife of yasser arafat? does it mean that, perhaps, hillary's 'gotten serious' and 'grown beyond' any (gasp!) sense of solidarity she might have felt for the plight of the palestinians?

[RogCBrand]

Uh, Arafat skimmed millions from the aid going to those Palestinians and his wife lived the good life in Paris on money that should have gone to people living in poverty... But let's ignore facts and just attack James, because that makes us feel better about ourselves, doesn't it?

[rocinante316]

let's talk about 'facts':

the article james cites makes no (explicit) claim about hillary's having 'come a long way' since the 1999 embrace. It notes that she has "spent her Senate term taking a hard line on Israeli security."

it also notes that obama has "drawn some substantive criticism" for taking on

zbigniew brzezinski as a consultant, as he has been found to have "clashed with pro-Israel groups since the 1970s."

[rocinante316]

given the rather horrendous pro-israel bias in the america media (and american society in general), i think it's entirely fair to take issue with james on this, both for his accepting of smith's zionist analysis and his extending of it (the orientalist 'come a long way' comment)

[breanainn66]

Ah! The great Zionist conspiracy! LOL! I thought you were some extremist loon, but now I see you have no propagandist agenda!

LOL!

You can always find that anyone who attacks James on here is an extremist, as he tries to remain rather unbiased, dealing fairly evenly with all candidates, but that upsets some people when they feel their views are the only acceptable views.

[rocinante316]

i'll have you know that john mearsheimer and stephen walt have corroborated the 'great zionist conspiracy' thesis in their recently published _the israel lobby_. mearsheimer and walt are hardly 'extremist loon[s],' too--they are major figures in the school of realism...

[rocinante316]

though they find that the US' unconditional support for israel harms the US' 'nationa interest' in the middle east, mearsheimer and walt couldn't care less about the plight of the Palestinians. they find the apartheid imposed by israel objectionable only insofar as it contributes to violence on the part of palestinians vs. israel and thus harms US/israeli 'interests'

so you see, they're hardly 'loon[y]'

[rocinante316]

the assumption here that a representative of the US congress does not a priori promote 'terrorism' (ie, he has to have ties with the IARA or some such organization for this to hold) is straight-up disingenuous and highly offensive. tell that to the peoples of iraq, palestine, afghanistan, vietnam, chile, haiti, or guatemala

also, i don't know what 'links' you see between hekmatyar and the taliban--the taliban overthrew hekmatyar/rabbani's regime in 1996, after which hekmaytar fled to iran

[Eisenmond]

I'll never forget you uary... spelled uray...

sounds like it is gone, forgotten, and disrespected!

[megamandapop]

aww typo. hate when that happens.

anyway youuuuuuu're funny! :)

[inertia720]

Bwahaha. Your original comment about the "easter eggs of failure" is still incredibly funny to me, James. It should become a new meme; it says so much with so little, and it makes everything better!

Also, I really liked the new hand-movement that accompanied "Playbook TV" (by which I mean, it was slightly overused in this video. Please use more!)

[TheTallestTree]

I loved it when you said FBI and showed a picture of Dr Lector and Clairyce (sp?) from Hannibal Lector! FUNNY!!!

[RogCBrand]

James enjoys doing his Politico Playbook with some fava beans and a nice chianti, thp, thp, thp...

[ALiberalDemocrat]

RIP "uray" ??? LOL. I think you meant "RIP uary".

[CitizenWorm]

You look good today.

[ContemplativeGirl]

aww, poor 'uary', what shall we do without it?

[myohomojo]

Siljander looks like Chucky! You should picture them side by side so we can compare.

[graumwytheredux]

DID YOU KNOW THAT?!

NOW YOU KNOOOW!!

I love that show.

[jdoty7878]

Great energy, funny, also informative.

[ChillinDude00]

Good show as always.

FYI, January is spelled J-a-n-u-a-r-y. So, unless I am missing a joke, it should have said "RIP, 'uary." not "RIP, 'uray."

[SparklestheClown]

Talk about tough talk! Wow - I wonder just how much of this type of misappropriation of money is happening?!?!

[JXintheZ]

Mechanical pencils are Awesome!

'uray will be greatly missed...

[inertia720]

Oh, and I almost forgot, whoever came up with the "pumped full of lead" joke gets major kudos. It's the little things like this (and Beakman) that keep me tuned in almost every day.

[njsykora]

Slight overuse of the captions maybe. Please use more, they make good jokes.

[PoliticoPlaybook]

wait so should i use more or less?

[njsykora]

Use more, they make good funnies.

[RogCBrand]

LOL!!!

[classic14rider]

Even a fourth place finish is a good showing? Talk about spinning a failure. And then there is Hillary: She really IS the candidate of change. Where once she engendered the ire of the insurance lobby and also of right-wingers within the Jewish community, she now collects more campaign contributions of the insurance industry than any other senator and she is tightly embraced by the right-wing elements that once opposed her.

[lawlzur]

haha

NOW YOU KNOW! i love these videos.

and you know. easter eggs of failure are easily found

[ShortJoe21]

great stuff

[Jamandell]

Last time I checked the end of January was..."uary", not "uray".

Woops?

[PoliticoPlaybook]

another easter egg of failure!

[Jamandell]

There were a few in this one ;)

Don't worry though, it doesn't detract from the experience :D

[RogCBrand]

LOL! The end of January is the 31st...

:P

[AwkRando]

A Bill Nye AND a Beakman reference in one video! Amazing.