ThinkProgress has a transcript from Thursday's Imus in the Morning:
MCGUIRK: She strikes me as the kind of woman who would wear one of those suicide vests. You know, walk into the, try and sneak into the Green Zone.IMUS: Oh, no. No, no, no, no.
MCCORD: Just because she always appears in traditional Arab garb and wearing a burka.
MCGUIRK: Yeah, what’s with the head gear? Take it off. Let’s see.
IMUS: No, no. This is not –
MCCORD: That’s why the Arab world called for her to be released, because, you know, she defended Iraqis. She was against the war in Iraq and, I wouldn’t be surprised if —
IMUS: Well, so are we. So am I!
MCCORD: Exactly. She cooked with them, lived with them.
IMUS: This is not helping.
MCGUIRK: She may be carrying Habib’s baby at this point.
[laughter]
IMUS: Shut up! I’m begging you to shut up. Both of you. I’m going to murder both of you.
MCCORD: Just because she slept with them doesn’t mean she slept in the manner he’s talking about.
MCGUIRK: Something stinks.
IMUS: You are an SOB Steve McCord. Stop it! I am begging you both. Stop it! Stop it now! Stop it! This is outrageous.
Bernard McGuirk is the executive producer of Imus in the Morning. Charles McCord is billed as Imus's "sidekick."
A commenter at Little Green Footballs says of Carroll:
"I've been watching this traitor bitch fawn all over her captors this morning. "Nice furniture, safe, nice clothes, they NEVER threatened me". I'm very glad you were so comforatble while working to undermine our efforts in Iraq. Now, wipe that muslim DNA from your face and confess to pre-planning this?""She's probably coming home with a suitcase full of cash (her kickback) and a dose of the clap."
It's almost like these guys are disappointed that Jill Carroll wasn't raped and tortured.
Carroll was still in captivity when she gave an interview wearing a headscarf in which she stressed that her kidnappers hadn't abused her in custody. Howie Kurtz mentions this almost as an aside:
As my colleagues in Baghdad point out, when that interview was taped, Carroll was still in the custody of a Sunni political party with ties to the insurgency. [WaPo]
Of course, the right wing attack squad won't be deterred by the fact that Carroll was forced to make the propaganda video as a condition of her release. [CSM] These smear mongers won't hesitate to use terrorist propaganda if they find it useful. These guys would just as happily cite a snuff film as "proof" that Jill Carroll was sleeping with the enemy.
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