Speaking with Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller gave his take on the Fort Hood rampage, specifically the failure by many to call it what it is -- an act of Islamic terrorism.
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BILL O'REILLY: Let's start with the Fort Hood situation. Are you seeing any glaring problems as far as reaction to what happened?
DENNIS MILLER: Yeah. This is the worst I've ever felt about this. I think for the first time I can see a way how good can lose to evil.
Now, after Mogadishu, bin Laden said we were the weak horse. I think it's even worse than that, Bill. I think it might be to the point where we're the blindered horse. And if we're not even going to concede who the enemy is here... I mean, you got a guy going out the door with 'Allahu akbar' and we're trying to glean it. 'Allahu akbar' is to insane radical Islamic fundamentalists as 'Miami Beach audiences are the greatest audiences in the world' was to Gleason. We know what that means and we best wise up or we're going to get, we're going to lose this thing.
O'REILLY: OK. Now, the counter to that, as Alan Colmes, President Obama, other people who say, 'Yeah, we all know what this, but to inflame it puts good Muslim Americans in danger, and we don't want to do that.' That's the counter to it. You say what?
MILLER: I say that I feel it's condescending to always concede that there are many more good Islamic Americans than there are bad. Yeah, of course it is. I can't stop my life down every two seconds to concede that.
All I know is this: Send us a signal from in there. We need an Islamic Serpico. Somebody's got to come out and rat the bad guys because we can't sit in. We don't fit in well there. We look like Ralph Reed jamming with the Wu-Tang Clan.
We need somebody in there to tell us who they are. And until they do that, do I think they're all bad people? No. But do I think they're being a little sheepish to the point where they're getting good people blown up by not relaying information? Yeah. I'm not inflaming anybody. It couldn't be more....
O'REILLY: OK, but in this case... You know,I agree that Muslim Americans if they see this kind of behavior should report it, but they knew Hasan. They had him on the tap. They knew he was trying to get in touch with the bigtime al Qaeda in Yemen. They knew all of it and they ignored it, Dennis. So, it wasn't like the information wasn't there. The information was there.
MILLER: Billy, you know why. You want to go in and say the Islamic guy is a little off his feet. Of course not.
O'REILLY: I would.
MILLER: They'll hit you with a PC hammer.
O'REILLY: I would.
MILLER: I would, too.
O'REILLY: Look, if there's an Islamic guy at FOX and he's running around going, 'You know, we ought to behead the infidels,' he's going to have a problem here. He might not have a problem at NBC News, but he's going to have a problem here.
MILLER: If you ask the guy in the next cubby to borrow his stapler and he says, 'Here, Great Satan,' you've got to flag that to HR. Now, I know it's not the most egregious workplace crime. I know saying to some woman 'Your hair looks nice today,' or somebody having a Washington Redskin helmet phone on their desk is a lot worse. But somebody's got to send up signal flares when the guy next to him starts chanting 'La,la,la,la,la.' It's time to go into, you know, Human Resources at that point.
"We need an Islamic Serpico."
That's a great line.
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