Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (retired), the executive vice president of the conservative Family Research Council, was caught on a ‘hot mic” on Thursday joking that ‘the Jews are the problem” to an Israeli reporter and pitching his theory about President Barack Obama using ‘subliminal messages” to signal support for al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, in audio posted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Friday.

‘If you understand anything about Islam, there are subliminal messages,” Boykin can be heard saying. ‘His message, really, I believe was, “I understand you, and I support you.’”

Boykin’s remarks were captured after an online broadcast of a panel at the National Security Action Summit. The SPLC reported that the event is held as a counter to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and features speakers who, like Boykin, have not been allowed to participate there.

Though the panel’s video feed shut down, the audio continued broadcasting, enabling Boykin to be heard as he argued that, as a result of the ‘messages,” al-Qaeda and the Brotherhood saw that ‘that they have a president that identifies with them, that has been supportive of them inside the United States and is unwilling to go against them.”

According to the SPLC, […]