Clovis Maksoud Walks Off Alan Keyes Making Sense Set-- Transcript

MSNBC ^ | June 18, 2002 | MSNBC Staff

[Keyes For President]

God bless Alan Keyes for standing up for the truth.

For the full transcript of the show Click Here

[Keyes For President]

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[B Knotts]

I watched this, and I was so happy to see Alan refuse to allow the kind of disgusting moral equivalence these terrorist apologists peddle go unchallenged.

I am sure going to miss his show.

[IronJack]

If I may make so bold as to recommend my own view of our enemies, please go to this thread.

[goldstategop]

Clovis Maksoud is an old Arab League hand. He's been a versatile apologist for PLO terror for as long as one can remember. And I don't think this particular fellow thinks anything was wrong with what happened on 911 either. I'm glad he walked off the Alan Keyes show.

[Keyes For President]

REGEV:...But Hamas doesn‘t want peace. Islamic Jihad doesn‘t want peace. These groups want murder. They are extremists. They share
bin Laden‘s fundamental theology and ideology of hatred.

You have to throw these people out of your midst. It‘s incumbent upon you, if you want to be accepted as members of civilized
humanity, not to tolerate these sort of extremists, who are a bunch of bloodthirsty murderers.

KEYES: Well I have to say that what you have just said there has, as you probably realize, been a position I‘ve expressed on this
show since it came on the air.

I think that‘s the only message, in fact, that we should be sending to those who aid, abet and facilitate terrorism all over the world,
and especially in the context of the Middle East. And anything that muddles that is actually facilitating their murderous path.

And I guess I just seriously demonstrated it, too, because I‘m not going to pull my punches in the hope that folks will keep coming
on my program just in order to make the same excuses for death that are contributing, in my opinion, to this terrible situation.

[ReveBM]

Even just reading the text of that transcript had a powerful impact. Thanks for the bold text.

[Commander8]

That's why I voted for Dr. Keyes in the 2000 Primary, he gives them the business.

[Keyes For President]

CLOVIS MAKSOUD, FMR. ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: Mr. Alan Keyes, I — the way you framed the situation seems to apply to both sides. I think that the sporadic suicide bombings, which have caused despicable casualties among the people of Israel and which has been denounced and continues to be denounced is matched exactly, if you frame the same language, the same discourse that you have applied to Israel,

Sporadic????? Sporadic???!!! If this weren't so tragic, his remark would be hilareous. And to equate this barbaric inhuman act of terror with Israeli military defense is ridiculous.

[Keyes For President]

Thanks for the link!

[Jagdgewehr]

MAKSOUD: I don‘t — I want you to live, so I‘m leaving.

What did he mean by that?

[Freedom2specul8]

Just a little FYI and hi!

[Lexington Green]

He won't walk off the Phil Donahue's show... Phil's lips will be locked on his arse

[Dales]

Good for Alan. I don't always agree with the man, but he is right on how to deal with their propagandists.

One should never let a propagandist talk as if they have an equal claim to the truth with their lies.

[Dales]

Yeah, that seems odd to me too. I am hoping that was just a transcription error?

[Aquinasfan]

KEYES: Well I am more than concerned. I am so outraged that I‘m sick to death of it. Ambassador Maksoud has walked off the set. He doesn‘t want to talk any more. And frankly, if I was in his position, I‘d walk out too, because having to continually repeat this kind of garbage in the face of the realities that are out there, I think would get tiresome for anybody. It gets tiresome for me to hear it. I‘m sure it gets tiresome for folks like the ambassador to do it.

The Mohammedan ambassador got what he deserved for the first time on a major, televised, public affairs program. I hope all of the Keyes bashers are happy now that his show is being cancelled.

[aimhigh]

IN every conversation I've had with an Arab, they try to overwhelm you with words. I've noticed the same thing on Keye's show.

[Aquinasfan]

MAKSOUD: I don‘t — I want you to live, so I‘m leaving.

What did he mean by that?

Now that I think about it, it looks like a death threat. "You don't want to be the next Salman Rushdie," in so many words. Filthy scumbag.

[goldstategop]

Hmmm... does Maksoud know something the rest of us don't or is he Mohammad Atta's kissing cousin? He sounded more like the latter than the former. Either way, he gives me the creeps.

[Keyes For President]

I think he was just trying to be witty--Keyes said "I'm sick to death..." so he responds, "I want you to live so I'm leaving."