Singing 'Onward Christian Generals'

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Byline: Douglas Burton, INSIGHT

Singing 'Onward Christian Generals'

G. Gordon Liddy, Westwood One Radio Network, Washington, www.theGGordonLiddyshow.com

As many have pointed out about radical Islam, you've got three choices: You either convert to Islam, or you can live without many rights or you can be slain!

We have a general over here, [Army Lt. Gen. William] Boykin, a deputy undersecretary of defense, who mentioned that the problem is Islam and he's being figuratively beaten about the head and shoulders for having expressed that.

Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network, San Francisco, www.MichaelSavage.com

His [Gen. Boykin's] crime is that he says he believes in God. His crime is that he says he's a Christian. His crime is that he believes in Israel. He believes in the Jewish people. And so the atheists particularly those in the Democratic Party and the media are demanding that he be fired. ... When you have a general who is a true believer ... look at what I am saying, you have a Christian general. The very same liberals who were silent when the Malaysian prime minister said that Jews run the world the very same liberals are attacking a good Christian general. I ask you: Is there not an enemy within?

Rush to Judgment

Laurie Morrow, True North Radio, Burlington, Vt., TrueNorthRadio.com

By now you've probably heard a lot about a driven man, admired by millions, who made some gravely wrong choices in his personal life, including substance abuse.

Seems to me that genius and addictive personality are inextricably linked. Success at the highest levels, especially in a field requiring public performance, necessitates having an addictive personality. People of moderate temperaments and talents just won't exert the relentless effort great performance demands. Normal people won't tolerate the unending criticism from without and from within.

The kinder among us understand that the great man was merely trying to assuage pain, and that his fear of deafness deafness which threatened to rob him of the one thing that mattered most to him propelled him along a downward spiral of substance abuse.

Yet, for all that, his driven nature ensures that he was, is and always will be one of the few great men in his field. I'm talking, of course, about Beethoven.

And Rush Limbaugh.

Billy, We Hardly Knew Ye

Tom Marr, WCBM-680 AM, Baltimore, www.WCBM.com

He [Bill Clinton] brought Yasser Arafat off the violent ash heap of history, put this monster in play again, and then he got together with Ehud Barak trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He screwed up the whole Middle East peace process really badly and yet the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, CBS, ABC will not tell the truth about that today!

Policy Genius of George W. Bush

Tom Adkins, The Common Conservative Radio Show, Philadelphia, www.Common Conservative.com

First, George W. Bush exposed the U.N. as useless wimps. Then he made China blink with North Korea. Now they all knuckled under and signed the George Bush resolution. And they all crawled back and signed it. Why? Because Bush stood his ground, just like [Ronald] Reagan at Reykjavik. Euro-wussies said Reagan lost. Democrats said Reagan lost. The press said Reagan lost. But he won. And George Bush has done exactly the same thing.

It's like any other negotiation: Sometimes the best move is the one you don't make. Funny ... those "brilliant" liberals always make the biggest diplomatic blunders, and conservatives always pull off the greatest diplomacy. We are a lot smarter than liberals think. And liberals are a lot stupider than liberals think.

The FCC's New Obscene Standard

Phil Paleologos, The National Radio Network, New Bedford, Mass., www.DinerShow.com

Unlike others, I have no problem spelling out what obscenity is on the people's airwaves. In an unconscionable conclusion recently, a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated that airing the f-word in certain applications, while crude and offensive to some, was a-okay.

Let's reason this out together. Although the FCC agrees that uttering the f-word on-air is reprehensible and uncivil, nonetheless, badmouthing four-letter words, when used in a nonsexual context, is hunky-dory. This reminds me of the proctologist who informed his patient that he finally located the patient's head!

This decision also underscores the vast wasteland that exists with some, not all, of the appointed FCC watchdogs. In a real sense, this X-rated milestone is the equivalent of the FCC flipping off their middle finger to decency and decorum.

Douglas Burton is an associate editor for Insight magazine.