Author: John Bowden – / Source: TheHill
Radio host and former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) on Saturday spoke about his experience being among the conservatives apparently tricked by comedian and “Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen for his new “Who is America?” series.
Walsh said this week that he was invited to receive an award for his pro-Israel views in Washington, D.
C., and accepted, traveling to the nation’s capital, where he sat down with a documentary crew who asked him to endorse various Israeli innovations on camera for a segment airing this year.Among those proposals, Walsh says, was a fake Israeli defense program that supposedly trained children as young as preschoolers to wield handguns and disarm terrorists.
Walsh told CNN’s Michael Smerconish on Saturday that he read off a teleprompter about a 4-year-old Israeli child who, “when a terrorist entered his classroom, somehow he grabbed the terrorist’s gun and held the terrorist at bay.”
“And that was an example of how Israel trains and arms preschool kids on how to use firearms, and boy shouldn’t we do that in America?” Walsh added.
Reading the words, Walsh says he realized what he was saying was “kind of crazy,” but he added that he brushed it off due to Israel being “strong on defense.”
“Well, this is kind of crazy, but it is Israel and Israel…
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