Paul Broun belatedly condemns "who will shoot Obama" question

Left wing management

February 25th, 2011
1:10 pm

My what perspective 12 hours can bring – and the hindsight telescope of modern PR.

Rule on, Cokeheads ..

Southern Comfort (aka The Man)

February 25th, 2011
1:10 pm

I saw that. It still doesn’t let him off the hook as to why it took so long.

Southern Comfort (aka The Man)

February 25th, 2011
1:11 pm

Even McCain corrected the lady who said Obama was a Muslim right there on the spot.

larry

February 25th, 2011
1:15 pm

Correct yourself , Jay. I did not, repeat , did not vote for this joke. And for the life of me , i cant understand why anyone would vote for him.

His district has a 11% unemployment rate , yet at all his meetings , all he wants to talk about is the President.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:16 pm

I don’t know exactly what to say about this, and I would give Broun the benefit of the doubt about his reaction.

“if Broun’s condemnation had come immediately”

I would be shocked, frankly, and a bit nervous the crackpot had shown up armed. When talking with a madman, one is best advised not to go smack him in the face, but rather, to call the authorities (as was done).

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:18 pm

Maybe said Madman just wants “to get a little bloody”

This whole discourse makes me ill. And OFA is feeding the frenzy (see the WI state house)

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:20 pm

“Broun chuckled at the question ”

probably out of nervousness. wouldn’t be the first time someone laughed out of fear….

Del

February 25th, 2011
1:21 pm

Jay, if you commented on all of the dumb things Democrats have said and done in public you’d have an endless supply of material. Of course that isn’t the material you wish to have discussed. Oh well, this is a left wing blog. On Broun, Tempest in a Tea Pot even in this era of political correctness.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:23 pm

You can bet the Secret Service is already all over this guy….. and that was the correct course of action.

AmVet

February 25th, 2011
1:26 pm

…to call the authorities (as was done).

Jay, or anyone else, any news on the outcome of this visit?

As for Broun, he has a habit of saying really idiotic things himself:

On November 10, 2008, one week after the 2008 presidential election, Broun drew national attention when he criticized then-President-elect Barack Obama’s call for a civilian national service corps, suggesting that Obama might use it to establish a Marxist dictatorship.

The following day, November 11, Broun seemingly backed away from his statements, saying on WGAC radio, “I regret putting it that way…”

In an interview with Sirius XM radio host Pete Dominick, Broun said “I don’t know” when asked if President Obama was a US citizen or a Christian. He also said that he did know Obama was a socialist, and said “America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we’re going to be a free nation.” During President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, Broun tweeted that “Mr. President, you don’t believe in the Constitution. You believe in socialism.”

So to Jay’s point, I contend that the louts in the 10th have exactly the clown they want and adore…

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:27 pm

To Jay Bookman: Please correct your story. Broun didn’t dignify the question and went on to take another question that is when he responded to the second question with his frustration with the president.

Broun didn’t respond to the first question saying he was shocked and had his office contact the secret service. He had other people to worry about at the town hall and didn’t want to create a scene.

AP just ran a wire story with the same false reporting. Brown’s frustration quote is responding after another question. To falsely report about a story like this without all the facts is not responsible journalism.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:27 pm

““there’s a lot of frustration with this president,” he even seemed to sympathize with the sentiment”

um, duh. there is. (a lot of frustration with Obama)

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February 25th, 2011
1:28 pm

Jay:

I would truly hope that he was so stunned by the question that he just psychologially “stuttered” and went on.

For the record:

1) There are “direct” threats ………….. “I am going to shoot so and so”

2) There are “indirect” threats ………… “If so and so doesn’t do “whatever” I am going to shoot him”

3) Then there is sometimes abhorrent but “free” speech ………. “Who is going to shoot “so and so?”

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:29 pm

Broun’s spokeswoman contacted slate with the corrected story. Why in the world Jay Bookman didn’t you get the facts straight and contact his spokeswoman before running a false story.

Joe Cool

February 25th, 2011
1:29 pm

Dont Worry, Secret Service Will Be Or Has Been In Touch w/ The Idiot Who Said This.

He Wasnt “Stunned”. He Hears That All The Time Out There In Oglethorpe County, Thats Why It Took Him This Long To Condem It.

A Shocking Question To Him Would Have Been Something Like, “Can I Poke My Finger In Your Wifes ________”! LOL! Now That Would Have “Stunned” Him. And Im Sure He Would Have Immediately Have Condemmed That And Had That Man Removed.

But, In Oglethorpe County, That’s TEA Talk.

SwamiDave

February 25th, 2011
1:29 pm

Gee. A Liberal US Representative (Capuano) giving a speech to union supporters tells them that is it “necessary to get out in the streets and get a little bloody” to a rousing cheer from the crowd. After the story was made public nationally, he made an apology.

So in Jay-land, the response of US Rep a Paul Broun to a CITIZEN at a town hall rally -is- an issue to discuss, but the threatening remarks BY a current US Representative is STILL not!

Ah – our daily dose of liberal hypocrisy manufacturing issues (by transference) where none issue and ignoring actual issues since they cast the perpetual poor light on your comrades.

-SD

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:30 pm

*facepalm*

When you feel like you can say something like this and have no consequences from it, THAT is how you know we have gone so far with the rhetoric that people actually BELIEVE that they are RIGHT to think this way.

Mick

February 25th, 2011
1:30 pm

jm

There is a lot of frustration with the house also, when are they going to tackle the jobs?

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February 25th, 2011
1:30 pm

jm:

He may get an interview by the USSS, if he volunteers to do so, but what he said is NOT a criminal offense.

However, he will be “of record” with the USSS for any future remarks, etc.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:30 pm

“To falsely report about a story like this without all the facts is not responsible journalism.”

Journalism went down the tubes 30 years ago, after gaining a slight modicum of respect post muck-raking era.

However…. if Broun gets threats, then Jay will just be contributing to the elevation of heated rhetoric and should feel at least partly responsible.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:31 pm

I also like how people focus on one person saying “get a little bloody” as though it means the EXACT SAME THING and has the EXACT SAME IMPACT as saying things like “shoot the President.”

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
1:31 pm

Eyewitnesses at the event — including Blake Aued of the Athens Banner-Herald, who initially reported the story, say that Broun chuckled at the question before responding:

But Jay, i’m sure it was NERVOUS chuckling. so we have to give this guy the benefit of the doubt and never say anything very harsh about his puttering around all this time, because I’m sure he has a real good heart, this Broun character.

because if you don’t you’re obviously an anti-southren bigot.

Did I get all that right, chums?

Peadawg

February 25th, 2011
1:31 pm

“Broun chuckled at the question ” – I wonder if he chuckled as in, “you’ve got to be kidding me!” or “seriously?” or “really?” or “come on man!”.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:32 pm

Mick 1:30 – call your representative. or, read the newspaper. they’re trying to pass a goverment spending reduction plan that will help grow the economy. but the POTUS, and currently, mainly Reid are stopping it from passing.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:32 pm

jm: However…. if Broun gets threats, then Jay will just be contributing to the elevation of heated rhetoric and should feel at least partly responsible

How do you figure that? Because he is saying what the man said was wrong and that a condemnation should have come sooner? How is that even remotely putting him in a responsibility camp for people making threats against the guy?

larry

February 25th, 2011
1:33 pm

So to Jay’s point, I contend that the louts in the 10th have exactly the clown they want and adore…

I hope that i am on the record that i didnt vote for this clown

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:33 pm

Obama calls his opponents enemies and in the 2008 campaign said he brings a gun to a fight.

Dem rep Capuano the other day called for the protestors to get bloodied.

Dem rep Paul Kanjorski called for governor rick scott to be taken against a wall and bloodied.

Obama never got up went rev wright was railing against america.

There was never a civility debate when Reagan was shot. Conservatives didn’t use it to score political points.

We will have a democratic president from now to eternity with this one sided media in this country. Some democracy when 85 percent of the reporters are rooting for one party.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:34 pm

jm: call your representative. or, read the newspaper. they’re trying to pass a goverment spending reduction plan that will help grow the economy

You mean the one that even Goldman Sachs says would reduce economic growth?

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:35 pm

Dem rep Paul Kanjorski called for governor rick scott to be put up against a wall and shot.

Jay Bookman said nothing. The media said nothing.

There is a huge double standard in this country. A movie was made about assassinating Bush.

The media is out to make sure Obama gets 6 supreme court justice picks. We will have the obama supreme court for the next 35 years.

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
1:35 pm

I’d like to argue that the people of Georgia’s 10th District deserve better, but

What they deserve to be represented by an undocumented-immigrant lesbian Muslim from the Socialist Worker’s Party for the next sixteen or so years, but life is rarely fair that way.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:35 pm

Adam 1:32 – no, my main point is if Jay got his facts wrong, he should feel partly responsible.

AmVet

February 25th, 2011
1:35 pm

Spin it how you will, that this supposed leader didn’t say to that scumbag, “What’s wrong with you?” or something along those lines is pretty inexcusable.

He simply didn’t want to upset his bloodlusting base, I suppose…

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:36 pm

There was never a civility debate when Reagan was shot. Conservatives didn’t use it to score political points.

Ok right here I’m going to point out a HUGE difference that you’re going to probably disagree with, but it’s true regardless. There were VERY FEW people who CHEERED this publicly. People in general, a grand majority, did NOT support the assassination attempt. However, you now see people TODAY calling for people to shoot the president. This guy is not the first. And THAT is the reason we need to have a civility debate NOW as opposed to then.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:36 pm

Adam 1:34 – yep, that’s the one.

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February 25th, 2011
1:36 pm

jm:

Also keep in mind that these same words (although totally inappropriate this time) have been used in editorials, books and movie scripts.

It’s all in the context and intent.

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:37 pm

Secret service already spoke to the person. They say the case was closed. And how did they speak to him so fast because Broun did the responsible thing and contacted them right away. Yet the leftist media is still bashing him.

The secret service says it was a 75 year old elderly man who knows his joke was in poor taste and the case is closed.

Del

February 25th, 2011
1:37 pm

Adam, gun shot wounds do produce a considerable amount of blood. Capuano could have been advocating bloody violence in including the use of firearms. Maybe he should have been brought in for questioning.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:38 pm

adam 1:36 – we don’t need a civility debate. we need a debate on the profligate government spending. and then we need an election. (2012)

Mick

February 25th, 2011
1:38 pm

jm

How does a reduction plan that cuts jobs grow the economy? What kind of math gets you addition by subtraction?

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:39 pm

there are days when one wishes we had a parliamentary system so we wouldn’t have to wait 2 more freakin years to toss out an awful president….. constitutional amendment?

or, impeachment….

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:39 pm

Del: Punching someone in the nose a few times can cause blood too. So can a scratch, or dragging someone’s knuckles or knees on the concrete. That is what I would call ” a little bloody.” Getting shot, unless it nicks you, I would call getting ” A LOT bloody.” There is a difference and you’re just using this one guy’s statement as though he was talking about using guns. There’s no evidence to support using guns in that instance.

On the other hand, if you say to “shoot” someone, it’s pretty clear you don’t mean with fists or at the ballot box.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:40 pm

sfd 1:35

Joe Cool

February 25th, 2011
1:40 pm

“The secret service says it was a 75 year old elderly man who knows his joke was in poor taste and the case is closed.”

I Bet He Has A FORD Pick-Up Too.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:41 pm

Mick 1:38 – the kind that says constantly increasing government spending does not cause economic growth but rather causes economic collapse.

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February 25th, 2011
1:41 pm

Jason:

Yes. And there’s more.

One could even argue which is worse …………. what the citizen said hopefully “in jest” or what the President said and “meant” given that he is “supposed” to be the leader of our country and above all of that rhetoric.

“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
“Don’t you think we’re not keeping score, brother?”
“Bring it on”
“Get ready for hand-to-hand combat with your fellow Americans”
“I want all Americans to get in each others’ faces!”
“You bring a knife to a fight pal, we’ll bring a gun”
“Republicans are our enemies”
“Hit back twice as hard.”
“We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick. “
Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
“It’s time to fight for it.”
Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
“I’m itching for a fight.”
“They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back”

President Barak Obama

Misty Fyed

February 25th, 2011
1:41 pm

Jay, we know you aren’t going to like this guy no matter what he does. It seems a bit over the top to condemn the guy for what he didn’t say. That’s a dangerous standard to set.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:41 pm

jm: If we could have THAT debate reasonably, instead of with a bunch of hateful BS, then let’s have that debate. And it’s not like we can’t have a civility debate at the same time. Just how long do you think it will take to come up with some solutions? We’re 2 years away from the next election. If we start talking now maybe we can solve some problems BEFORE that time.

That is, of course, unless solving problems is against SOME politician’s vested interest in power grabs in the next election, and the next and the next and the next….

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February 25th, 2011
1:42 pm

Joe Cool:

It was never opened.

Peadawg

February 25th, 2011
1:42 pm

the official in question can choose to challenge such statements or, by silence, ignore the nutjob and not give the nutjob the time of day

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:42 pm

To Adam the left called for bush to be killed all the time. Did you see the violence they called at his inauguration. Did you see the hitler signs against him at the RNC convention in 2004 in new york.

The left called for bush to be killed all the time. Rev Wright was leading the charge with hate speech and Obama said nothing. Rev Wright said U.S was responbile for 9/11 and Obama excused him and stayed there.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:44 pm

Adam – google “chambliss and warner”

Misty Fyed

February 25th, 2011
1:45 pm

But Jason, didn’t the liberal leadership condemn those statements? Wait..no I guess they didn’t. I’m sure the AJC condemned it though. Right?

Del

February 25th, 2011
1:45 pm

Adam, we don’t know what was going through Capuano’s head and what he really meant by getting bloody anymore than we do about this 76 year old man. Shouldn’t Capuano have been investigated as to what kind of violence he was trying to incite?

Stonethrower

February 25th, 2011
1:45 pm

I see the cons are out in force to justify the comments.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:46 pm

jason: I never said it’s just against Obama. The reason we need to have the civility debate is because uncivil and angry minds have taken hold and made things worse all around. We should have been having this debate when this all started. Advocating assassination is NOT COOL no matter which president is in office.

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:46 pm

To Adam:

Al Franken joked about al queda killing Bush at the 2004 rnc convention and the dems made Al Franken a senator for the 60th vote to take over health care. you can see the video on youtube.

The media said nothing about franken. When the left was out of power the media let the dems say anything and cheered them on.

Ed Schultz another guy the dems wanted to run in south dakota has said crazy stuff.

There is huge hypocrisy how on one hand the media can endorse franken and then talk about civility.

George W

February 25th, 2011
1:47 pm

I dont agree with the Obama administration at all. However there should never be a call to violence. Especially against the POTUS.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:48 pm

Well the Lubbock guy wasn’t going after Jimmy Carter…..

George W

February 25th, 2011
1:48 pm

JASON…..GREAT POINT!

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:49 pm

Del: It’s not equivalent to advocating for assassination of a specific person, let alone the president. Sure, investigate him. But don’t think the hammer should come down worse or the same amount on him versus someone saying to shoot the president. Even if it was Bush we were talking about, it’s way worse to say that than to say “get a little bloody.”

Misty Fyed

February 25th, 2011
1:49 pm

The problem I see with this call for civility is that it only counts when we have a democrat for president. When a republican is in office; not so much.

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
1:49 pm

To Adam the left called for bush to be killed all the time

eh, I hung out on plenty of dirty [bleep]ing hippy blogs during the darkest days of the Reign of Error. between 2003-2006, whenever anyone even mused on the desirability of seeing GWB’s involuntary departure from this mortal coil, someone would simply point out that if you get rid of the monkey, you just get the organ grinder (Cheney) running things.

bad plan, that.

Del

February 25th, 2011
1:50 pm

Off Topic, good news…Said Musa was released from an Afghan prison and is safely out of the country.

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:50 pm

Keith olbermann during the 2008 campaign when he was rooting on Obama said hillary should be taken into a room and done something and not allowed to walk out.

The media didn’t slam olbermann at the time while if limbaugh ever said something like that it would be huge news. I’m just saying there is a huge double standard.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:50 pm

Misty: Methinks you’re not getting what I’m trying to say. The call for civility should be happening anyway. An attempt to say that it’s only in the Democrat’s interests to have civility is an excuse to keep on being hateful, imo. I’d be making the same argument no matter who was in office. YOu don’t shoot the president. You just don’t.

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February 25th, 2011
1:51 pm

“Really Jason? “The left” called for Bush to be killed?”

Trust me Jay …………… it happens all the time. No one is exempt !

Misty Fyed

February 25th, 2011
1:51 pm

Jay,
I would try to google it to find the incident…but somehow I don’t want to enter those specific search terms… It may trigger an unwanted interview.

Peadawg

February 25th, 2011
1:51 pm

“I see the cons are out in force to justify the comments.” – Nobody’s justifying what the guy said. We’re just wondering where were these calls to “challenge it” (like Jay said) were when Obama was spouting off or when Bush was President. Hypocrisy at is finest is in full force today. Everyone enjoy your Friday afternoons!!

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:52 pm

jason: There may be a double standard in both camps, to different degrees on different subjects. But that does not mean everyone thinks like that.

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February 25th, 2011
1:52 pm

P.S.

Keep in mind the guy arrested yesterday (although Muslim and supposedly not a practicing Democrat) was out to kill Former President Bush.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:52 pm

Misty Fyed – well, look at this way. Yes, there’s hypocrisy. However…. I think the gun ownership rate among Conservatives is probably higher than among Liberals. If someone goes overboard, its a bit higher risk…. all that said, liberals and terrorists apparently find it easy enough to get a hold of their weapon of choice which seems to be bombs.

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February 25th, 2011
1:53 pm

Misty Fyed:

HA ! HA !

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:53 pm

Jay 1:49 – John Lewis was a great leader of the civil rights movement. He’s been a crummy Congressman.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:53 pm

jm: I admit, it’s news to me that liberals use a lot of bombs. What are you basing that on?

Misty Fyed

February 25th, 2011
1:54 pm

Adam,
We don’t disagree and I do not doubt your intentions… I just remember the democrat rhetoric under Bush and find it disingenuous for them to complain now.

Saying what that guy said was just stupid. I heard today he was interviewed by the USSS.

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February 25th, 2011
1:55 pm

Misty Fyed

February 25th, 2011
1:49 pm

Truer words were never spoken !

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
1:55 pm

Not in MY presence, they didn’t.

Jay, you used to have Atrios’ blog in your links list. Presumably you used to hang out there a bit, at least, between 2003-2006, when the anger against GWB was arguably at its zenith.

There was one regular–I won’t repeat his name, although his moniker evoked a famous folk singer’s instrument–whose over-the-top apocalyptic rantings got him banned. And Atrios hardly ever bans ANYONE.

figured you might remember, is the reason I brought it up.

Anyway folks, sure, we got angry, we experienced a lot of helplessness and despair, but really and truly, i never remember any talk of some violent overthrow of the government, mostly just musings about how awful it might get is the craziest Bush supporters didn’t take kindly to a regime change here at home. (and I must say, they weren’t all that far off in their predictions.)

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:55 pm

You had the obama administration’s ambassador to mexico tell the mexican government what was happening in arizona was apartheid. That’s real civility there. They then sued the sheriff and sued the state. They stopped a program with 65 agencies of arresting illegals on misdomenoers saying it would violate their civil rights

The media should be watching the people in power but even when you have dems in power they check the opposition.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:56 pm

Jay, you should probably just be happy the House is elected every 2 years. Otherwise, I imagine the Tea Party would be marching on Washington and we might be having our own regime change about now.

Peadawg

February 25th, 2011
1:57 pm

” i never remember” – of course not

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February 25th, 2011
1:57 pm

Jay @ 1:54

Or Obama’s friend …….. you know ……….. the one whose house Obama started his campaign in?

He knew a lot about bombs too.

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:57 pm

Jay 1:54 – I was think more along the lines of Bill Ayers….

George W

February 25th, 2011
1:57 pm

Jason….trust me dude you preach the truth….but they are not going to listen. They are not for America they are for creating a new America through CHANGE that they all believe in through Obozo.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
1:57 pm

jason: What does the arizona/illegals thing have to do with guns and violence?

jm

February 25th, 2011
1:58 pm

Jay 1:54 – but ok, crackpots of all stripes like bombs. point conceded

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:58 pm

Dem politicians blog on dailykos whose leader and blog site is completely uncivil.

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February 25th, 2011
1:59 pm

Jay:

Just my opinion but can we have a new thread ?

jason

February 25th, 2011
1:59 pm

Cindy Sheehan and the media in summer of 2005 took over bush’s ranch town and there was a lot of uncivil rhetoric.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:00 pm

jason: People call for violence and shooting and all that. This should be proof to you that even though a vocal number of people say the same thing, that doesn’t make it right. I hope you recognize that this cannot be ascribed to most reasonable people, or to MOST democrats, MOST liberals, or MOST conservatives etc.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:00 pm

LUNCH TIME

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:00 pm

Scout 1:59 – not 4pm yet…. I think we’re probably going to be tortured with this one until then.

Or we can go back to the “Beverly Hall is pretty much a fraud” thread. Education is a much more productive topic than an Oglethorpe crackpot.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:01 pm

Adam….illegals in the country have a lot to do about everything. Nearly all of the gang related arrests in Gwinnett County last year were illegals. Do you not think they illegally carry guns?

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
2:01 pm

wow, jason, you’re remembering all this, this… incivility against poor, misunderstook Chimpy McWarHard-on like it was yesterday.

heh.

And thanks for reminding me of Cindy Sheehan, the lady your side referred to as “the bitch in the ditch.” Boy, GWB did a bang-up job of diffusing that situation, didn’t he?

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February 25th, 2011
2:02 pm

AND WE THINK IT’S BAD HERE?

Headline: “Uganda’s president says he’ll ‘eat’ challenger”

KAMPALA, Uganda — “Uganda’s recently re-elected president says he will “eat” his challenger who disputed poll results and called for peaceful protests.

President Yoweri Museveni said Friday of Kizza Besigye, who took 26 percent to place second in last week’s poll: “we will catch him and eat him like a cake.”

Jimmy62

February 25th, 2011
2:02 pm

Can you prove this old man wasn’t just some liberal trying to make Broun look bad?

And when are you going to condemn the signs in Wisconsin that show crosshairs over a picture of Scott Walker?

Oh wait, you’ll never do that, because it’s just fine when it’s liberals doing it. Violence rhetoric and BusHitler signs are just fine for liberals. It’s only when the right gets in to the game that you get upset. Of course it’s much more noticeable from the right for two reasons. One, there’s a lot less of it from the right, so individual incidents have more significance. And two, the mostly left wing press refuses to report on it when lefties do it. Hell, a Dem Rep in Wisconsin said that he thinks the protesters should “get a little bloody.” But Jay will never condemn that, or if he does it’s only because someone like me pushes him to. He sure won’t bring it up on his own.

Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:03 pm

Buy a Ford Fusion. Oil is going to get pricey $$$. Big money big money….

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
2:03 pm

by the way… Cindy Sheehan “took over Bush’s ranch town?”

wow. that’s a howler, that is.

@@

February 25th, 2011
2:03 pm

Not in MY presence, they didn’t.

jay, were you at the townhall in Oglethorpe? If not, why comment.

Hindsight is 20/20. Stick a 20 up Broun’s a$$ and a 20 up yours.

Can’t have it both ways. You, yourself, denied any threats had been made against Bush until we proved otherwise.

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February 25th, 2011
2:03 pm

jm:

I hear you.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:04 pm

jm: Nuh-uh. Nissan Leaf. Or Chevy Volt. TAX DEDUCTION ftw!

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
2:05 pm

Nearly all of the gang related arrests in Gwinnett County last year were illegals.

cite, please. Define “nearly all.”

If not, kindly think twice before pulling yet another “fact” out of your butt.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:05 pm

“we will catch him and eat him like a cake.”

Well. I didn’t know one could do that with protein. Either that, or Besigye is all about flour power…

ok. that was bad.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:06 pm

dB: I know you didn’t do that for me, but thank you anyway. I was too disgusted by that to comment back on it.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:07 pm

Jay 2:03 – see my

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/02/25/broun-issues-belated-condemnation-of-shoot-obama-question/?cp=2#comment-521614

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:08 pm

Adam 2:04 – those work too. I was just going for the top notch good guy – the unsubsidized domestic contender.

jason

February 25th, 2011
2:08 pm

Loughner didn’t even follow the news. He hated the news. Dems used the same targeting maps to target congressional districts that palin used.

Loughner was for kerry in 2004, burned the flag, was for government run health care, was in lefty bands.

I’m not saying loughner was a dem or republican he was an independent. But the rush of the media to blame it on palin and the republicans.

And how the rhetoric caused the tragedy when Loughner according to the people that knew him hated the news and didn’t watch the news. How could rhetoric have caused the shooting if he hated the news.

The media also didn’t pay attention to the fact that Loughner was obsessed about giffords since 2007 and somehow Palin’s map of targeting congressional districts to take back the house was the reason according to the media. The dems have the same maps against republicans. The maps come from companies that both parties use yet the media and the dems ran with it right away.

They use political oppurtunism and smear a party with loughner then they say hey lets talk about civility.

After Reagan the gop didn’t try and score political points like the media did after loughner. They didn’t say lets talk about civility. The talking about civility would be fine but it is more you can’t even call it obamacare as debbie wasserman shultz said. Civility for dems is complete agreement with them. And when I say dems I am talking about the politicians in washington not dems like adam.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:08 pm

Stands….feel free to go to scangwinnett.com…review for yourself. Keep supporting those thugs…..Great work.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:09 pm

I’d say go Ford too, if they had something fully electric. Ford Fusion HYBRID makes good gas mileage over competitors, but not just the Ford Fusion, btw.

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February 25th, 2011
2:09 pm

Headline: “Obama White House names first male Social Secretary”

“The White House has named diplomatic staff member Jeremy Bernard as Thothal Thecretary, the first man to ever hold the job.

Bernard, currently an adviser to the U.S. ambassador to France, has also worked as the White House Liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

He is also the first openly gay man to serve as White House Social Secretary.”

WHAT ???

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:10 pm

If we all can get past anger and fear for a few minutes, jason, I think that most of us would want to tone it down a bit so we can talk about the issues in a serious and calm way, and have a real debate as opposed to a heated mud throwing contest.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:10 pm

oy

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/light-sweet-crude.html

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February 25th, 2011
2:11 pm

JAY:

You’ll try anything ……….

WRONG !

Being a president’s friend and campaign host makes it CURRENT !

Adam

February 25th, 2011
2:11 pm

jm: mmmmmm, sweet sweet crude….

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:12 pm

Adam 2:09 – yeah, either one is better than a guzzler, hybrid obviously better efficiency wise, but people have to do the payback math, but with more $ gas, the math gets easier by the day.

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
2:13 pm

Stands….feel free to go to scangwinnett.com…

excuse me, George W., you made the claim, I call bullsh-t, you back it up.

that’s how it works.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:13 pm

Adam – also, Ford is coming out with a fully electric Ford Focus! Just for you.

never tasted oil, so I can’t testify to how sweet it is

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February 25th, 2011
2:13 pm

Jay:

Sure, go back to that time period (mid-60’s forward) and compare the number of “right wing” bombings to “left wing” bombings.

I don’t know the exact figure but I would be interested ……………

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:15 pm

Stands….I did….you can read cant you?

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February 25th, 2011
2:16 pm

Jay:

Nice try ………. let’s stick to facts.

Sorry, the president is friends with a terrorist ………… and that is something I “could never have conceived” !

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:16 pm

Scout 2:09 – Obama is obviously angling to lock down the gay vote. He’s in re-election mode big time now. (Hence, punting on the deficit commission and his 2012 budget)

Obama must think the gay vote is a bigger election contingent than I thought it to be.

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February 25th, 2011
2:17 pm

P.S.

Jay:

Sure, I have made some mistakes here in misqoting a news story or posting something that turned out to be wrong.

And I have “taken the rap” and apologized.

YOU NEVER DO !

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
2:18 pm

Sorry, the president is friends with a terrorist

any politician who’s befriended anyone from Operation Rescue is “friends with a terrorist.” for the record.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:18 pm

Jay 2:17 – the enviro-terrorists do crop up a fair amount. they don’t bomb though, they just burn things down….

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February 25th, 2011
2:18 pm

3 over a period of about 20 years is a “string”?

That’s interesting.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:20 pm

Stands….you think someone trying to stop an innocent baby from being murdered is a terrorist? HOLY CRAP!

@@

February 25th, 2011
2:20 pm

At Huffington Post:

“Rep. Paul Broun Asked At Town Hall: ‘Who Is Going To Shoot Obama?’”

First comment?

This story is like ‘bundled software,’ the actual story does not match the headlines. Frankly, it belongs in the National Inquirer.

Kind of embarrassing that jay and Huffington think alike, ain’t it?

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:20 pm

Ok, I heard China evacuated thousands of its citizens a few days ago. Reportedly, we’ve got a couple hundred, of our 6,000 citizens out of Libya so far.

Fact or fiction? If fact, WTF is going on at the state dept?

stands for decibels

February 25th, 2011
2:21 pm

you think someone trying to stop an innocent baby from being murdered is a terrorist

Operation Rescue doesn’t stop babies from being murdered.

They terrorize doctors performing legal procedures. they aid and comfort those who murder them.

and for the record, you lie a lot.

Later, kids.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:22 pm

Let me see if I get this right.. Democrats believe…

Abortion = Good
ProLife = Bad
Illegal Immigrants = Good
Business Executives = Bad
Higher Taxes = Good
More money in your pocket = Bad
Working for a corporation = Bad
Accepting government hand outs = Good

And the repubs are the crazy ones????

Midori

February 25th, 2011
2:22 pm

You know what, right wingers?

All of your “comparable examples/exhibits” look lame, stupid, desperate and just plain silly. Each of you is falling all over him/herself to come up with some semblance of equality.

You can not defend the indefensible.

As a “lefty” who also hung out on blogs during the “Reign of Terror”, the common prevailing wisdom was that Bush should have been heartily condemned, arrested and tried for crimes against humanity.

No one called for his death – I suppose perhaps in some views that might have been too good for him.

Most of us don’t agree with capital punishment. We leave the blood lusting to your side.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:23 pm

Stands…you are a coward.

Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 25th, 2011
2:23 pm

There is little question that a typical leftist would have excoriated a senile man who said something stupid. Similarly, a typical conservative would condone [to disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like)] the intolerance of a senior citizen. It is a difference of manners.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:23 pm

Midori……HAHAHAHAHAH OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHA That really made me laugh out loud!

Midori

February 25th, 2011
2:26 pm

George,

all you are missing is a big ole court jester hat sitting on your head.

Oh, and some oranges to juggle.

Got to have the oranges.

Later, Peeps – it’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:27 pm

Midori…..GREAT COMMENT! Way to really back up your claims….

Really someone on the left should get a better person to speak in these blogs.

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February 25th, 2011
2:29 pm

Midori:

Look ……………… there goes a terrorist puppy !

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:30 pm

Remember when a US dollar used to be worth more than a Canadian dollar? No more. We’re printing and spending ourselves into poverty. Yipee.

http://www.google.com/finance?hl=en&biw=1848&bih=861&q=CURRENCY:USDCAD&ei=JANoTYXgDIWutwejysjmAw&sa=X&oi=currency_onebox&ct=currency_onebox_chart&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ5QYwAA

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:30 pm

0311…..I know right!

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:33 pm

Did anyone see this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/7973649/Gaddafi-Europe-will-turn-black-unless-EU-pays-Libya-4bn-a-year.html

Gaddafi threated to turn Europe black if they did not pay Libya? Forget nuclear weapons we are going to sick the black population on you! OMG hilarious!

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:36 pm

Jay….THERE IT IS….compare to BUSH…..God I love that man.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:37 pm

sidebar – I’ve almost stopped reading the NY Times. The fact that they let a guy lacking any credibility like Krugman proselytize in their paper has just ruined it…. I’ve lost all respect for the grey lady.

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February 25th, 2011
2:37 pm

Very interesting:

January 10, 2011

“Political Violence – Left or Right?”

1) “There have also been several politically oriented bombings/criminal actions including:

•Black Panthers (Leftists)
•Weather Underground (Leftists)
•Army Math Center bombings by Anti War radicals
•Bank robberies by Symbionese Liberation Army (Left wing radical group)
•Oklahoma City by Tim McVeigh (Nazi/Anti-Government)

In reviewing many acts of political violence the major motivation seems to be fame seekers and nut cases. There are many examples of presidential assassins who are progressive, marxist, etc – left leaning.

The violent groups through the 60’s and 70’s were mostly left leaning anti war groups.

It is only recently (Oklahoma City) that there have been serious anti-government led efforts, though Nazism is a left wing philosophy.

There is no real evidence that the right wing in the United States is prone to kill or blow things up for a political end.”

http://www.4yourcountry.org/2011/01/political-violence-left-or-right.html

2) Also found this to be interesting:

FBI report on hate crimes for 2009. Of the 1,575 victims of an anti-religious hate crime:

71.9 percent were victims because of an offender’s anti-Jewish bias.
8.4 percent were victims because of an anti-Islamic bias.

@@

February 25th, 2011
2:39 pm

I give thanks O Lord for Dick Cheney’s Heart, that brave organ which has done its darn-tootin’ best on four separate occasions to do what we can only dream about.

O Lord, give Dick Cheney’s Heart, Our Sacred Secret Weapon, the strength to try one more time! For greater love hath no heart than that it lay down its life to rid the planet of its Number One Human Tumor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-hendra/a-thanksgiving-prayer-for_b_34780.html

The article goes on and on.

Anyhoo, the comments were so vile, Arianna had to remove ALL of them .

And Bush?

http://monroerising.com/2009/09/10/bush-death-threats-how-quickly-the-democrats-forget/

Nice Guy

February 25th, 2011
2:39 pm

“No one called for his death ”

Riiigggghtt, Midori.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:40 pm

Jay 2:35 – I’m not assigning all the blame to Obama…. this goes waaaay back.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/110120_USDCAD.jpg&imgrefurl=http://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2011/01/21/bank-of-canada-dollar-parity/&usg=__KYuKNbHoNM0-3iPaeBPEin9snAU=&h=326&w=525&sz=32&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3STqh1gvFER6yM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=180&ei=bQVoTbu2NM64tgfP44zoAw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhistorical%2Busd%2Bcad%2Bchart%2B20%2Byears%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1848%26bih%3D861%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=460&vpy=593&dur=12030&hovh=177&hovw=285&tx=130&ty=114&oei=bQVoTbu2NM64tgfP44zoAw&page=1&ndsp=45&ved=1t:429,r:38,s:0

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:41 pm

This (issue) goes way back. the chart only goes back 15 or so years….

Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 25th, 2011
2:42 pm

The good news is that our friends on the left unanimously condemned the video taken at the Common Cause rally, reported by James Taranto:

“That campaign took an even more sinister turn at a Common Cause protest Jan. 30, as we noted Thursday. Participants in the rally were captured on video advocating the assassination of Scalia, Thomas, Thomas’s wife and Chief Justice John Roberts. Two of them explicitly called for Justice Thomas, the court’s only black member, to be lynched. One man also asserted that Fox News president Roger Ailes “should be strung up,” adding: ‘Kill the bastard.’ ”

When I say “friends on the left unanimously condemned,” I don’t mean any leftists actually said anything in condemnation. I just don’t have any friends on the left.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:43 pm

Jay…..Isnt all of Islam leftist….I mean they want America to fail just as bad as you do right?

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February 25th, 2011
2:44 pm

Well. there you go …………………

Headline: “Radicals bringing campaign for Shariah to White House”

” ‘Islam is the solution and … the perfect system that needs to be implemented’ ”

WASHINGTON – “Three British Islamic activists are planning a pro-Shariah law rally in front of the White House next week, arguing that it is the solution for all of America’s problems.

The March called Shariah-4-America will call on American Muslims to advocate Shariah law, and for Americans to run the country’s business by Shariah.

The Muslim clerics are Anjem Choudary, Abu Izzadeen and Sayful Islam, all of whom have been associated with Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad’s group al-Muhajidoun.”

Maybe the “TeaParty” isn’t so bad after all ???

Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 25th, 2011
2:44 pm

The good news is that our friends on the left unanimously condemned the video taken at the Common Cause rally, reported by James Taranto:

“That campaign took an even more sinister turn at a Common Cause protest Jan. 30, as we noted Thursday. Participants in the rally were captured on video advocating the assassination of Scalia, Thomas, Thomas’s wife and Chief Justice John Roberts. Two of them explicitly called for Justice Thomas, the court’s only black member, to be lynched. One man also asserted that Fox News president Roger Ailes “should be strung up,” adding: ‘Kill the [expletive deleted].’ ”

When I say “friends on the left unanimously condemned,” I don’t mean any leftists actually said anything in condemnation. I just don’t have any friends on the left.

TaxPayer

February 25th, 2011
2:46 pm

Okay. So how many (besides jm) are now against allowing citizens the right to carry firearms to townhall meetings after they were before it or vice versa. And why are politicians so quick to offer up freedom to bear arms in schools and churches but not in the capitol or in the courthouses. I think the Republicans are just a sorry pack of cowards that will say anything for a vote or a buck. Losers.

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
2:47 pm

“Three British Islamic activists…”

There’s your sign…

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:47 pm

Taxpayer…..I am against banning weapons from any location.

@@

February 25th, 2011
2:47 pm

A difference of manners.

There was that elderly on elderly abuse…”I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg”… by Congressman Stark (D).

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February 25th, 2011
2:47 pm

Jay:

“In other words, Scout, you’ve come up empty on bombings by fringe leftists in the past 40 years….”

NOPE !

1) “Nazism is a left wing philosophy” ………….. McVeigh !

2) I forgot to mention all of the left wing eco-terrorists who like to burn things down.

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:48 pm

Lord Help Us….What is your point?

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February 25th, 2011
2:48 pm

Lord Help Us:

” will call on American Muslims”

There’s “your” sign !

Mick

February 25th, 2011
2:49 pm

jm

Krugman, the nobel prize winning economist at princeton, why does the right hate him sooo much? Could it be he speaks…..the truth????

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:51 pm

AGAIN JAY….Islam leans left….do you want us to site how many bombings they have done in the name of Allah?

Normal

February 25th, 2011
2:52 pm

GOt into this one late and all I’m going to say is if President Obama’s gone, Joe Biden is next in line…are you sure you want to see President Obama gone?

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:52 pm

Ah the land of the absurd. So much spare time, and being summoned into the office tomorrow for more work.

…. labor market improving any day now….

jasper

February 25th, 2011
2:52 pm

So much for the question, what about the answer: No one, He’s shooting himself.

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:53 pm

Mick – his stuff is just hate filled. He’s let his politics blind his economic views…. the guy has come unhinged….

TaxPayer

February 25th, 2011
2:53 pm

It looks like the holier than thou Republicans are once again trying to fall back on their “but you did the same thing” defense. By the way, did Broun remember to sprinkle the door to that meeting room with holy water just in case Obama tried to make a surprise visit. Broun would be in deep trouble if Obama were able to get close to him without him first either driving out the demon in him or at least blocking his advance. Broun’s supporters deserve him. I still think it would be fun to watch all his heavily armed supporter’s reaction if a life-like effigy of Obama were lowered down right in the middle of them while they’re all fired up. hehehe

Mick

February 25th, 2011
2:54 pm

Islam leans left??? And people accuse me of trippin….

Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 25th, 2011
2:54 pm

Dear Mick @ 2:49, we don’t hate Enron’s chief economic adviser. We think he is hilarious – sometimes I even think he believes the stuff he writes.

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February 25th, 2011
2:54 pm

Jay @ 2:48

“In other words, Scout, you’ve come up empty on bombings by fringe leftists in the past 40 years….”

NOPE !

1) “Nazism is a left wing philosophy” ………….. McVeigh !

2) I forgot to mention all of the left wing eco-terrorists who like to burn things down.

Normal

February 25th, 2011
2:55 pm

Islam leans left, George?

Wow.

Double Wow!

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:55 pm

Jay….yes no need to say “wow”. They want America to fail just as badly as you do.

Mick

February 25th, 2011
2:56 pm

jm

Very interesting observation, I read him all the time and detect no hate, just common sense economics. Just because you disagree it is not coherent to tag him as a hater, so to speak…

TaxPayer

February 25th, 2011
2:56 pm

There was that elderly on elderly abuse…”I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg”… by Congressman Stark (D).

That’s just outrageous. Refusing to give a Republican a thorough dosing of trickle down! The horror!

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:57 pm

Oh bummer. Really. Parker is leaving Parker-Spitzer. Not a shocker, but I liked the show…..

Spitzer, bad spitzer.

Normal

February 25th, 2011
2:57 pm

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:55 pm

Interesting side step, George…

George W

February 25th, 2011
2:58 pm

Normal….your point?

Mick

February 25th, 2011
2:58 pm

ragnar – oh yes, the mighty ragnar proclaimed on high by the dusty of the blog, outside of that, your views are less than a needle in a haystack and have no credible economic relevance…

Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 25th, 2011
2:59 pm

Dear Mick @ 2:49, as to the Nobel laureate’s truthfulness, funny essay @ online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704803604576077892006683586.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter

jm

February 25th, 2011
2:59 pm

oh hell. devolution back to a bunch of people just yelling at each other….. I guess yelling sells (Jay obviously has taken note)

“With the show going in a new direction, it is a good time to move on,” Parker said. “I want to thank the viewers who have been so kind with their comments and support.”

Ken Jautz, CNN executive vice president, said a new program, called “In the Arena,” will begin Monday. Spitzer will remain on that show, which will adopt “an ensemble format with several newsmakers, guests and contributors joining Eliot Spitzer each night.”

Normal

February 25th, 2011
3:00 pm

I wish USinUK was here, but isn’t it true that politically speaking, in Europe what’s “Right” to us is “Left” to them and visa-versa?

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:01 pm

As much as I disliked the previous president, I never thought it was his desire for america to fail. I don’t think any president wants that, yet there are many tards who believe that kind of right wing lunacy…

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:02 pm

Mick 2:56 – this is the rant of an irrational, disingenuous, insincere, man

“government officials exploiting fiscal crises for fun and profit.” from Paul Krugman.

Normal

February 25th, 2011
3:02 pm

George,
My point? You make a completely irrational remark that you can’t prove as proof that you are not wrong. That’s my point. It’s interesting to me that you would do that…

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:02 pm

Azurmendi

Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 25th, 2011
3:02 pm

Dear Mick @ 2:58, for leftists credentials determines everything. If the speaker has credibility with the left, nothing he says, no matter how loony, is objectionable. In contrasts, for conservatives, the argument means everything and the identity of the speaker is meaningless. Some of us are driven by cultism, and others of us are driven by ideas. Different strokes for different folks.

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:03 pm

McVeigh was a leftist…Islam leans left…

The crazy keeps getting crazier. Sorry to be blunt, but you guys are just plain stupid…

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:03 pm

I like some of parker’s columns – she’s ok by me…

ragnar – o learned one, please learn how to post a link-

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:03 pm

Normal…irrational remark? You mean like saying Bush is a war monger that should be tried for war crimes against humanity?

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:04 pm

Lord….great post…you can not come up with any facts on your own so you just start name calling….that is mature.

TaxPayer

February 25th, 2011
3:04 pm

“Nazism is a left wing philosophy”

Here’s one answer I got from Google in response to your claim, Scout:

Don’t let any ignoramus try to tell you that the Nazis must have been left-wing because they had the word “Socialist” in their party name. It was a misnomer. They were trying to coopt the term and get working-man support, and it would only work with idiots. The Nazis were not in the least socialistic. They WERE, however, far right wing. Their anti-intellectual pandering to the alleged superior traditional values of the Volk is evidence enough.

By all means, share some more of your genius with us.

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:04 pm

Stupid may not be the right word. Actually, I believe the term is purposeful ignorance…

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:04 pm

“If this sounds to you like a perfect setup for cronyism and profiteering”

More Krugman about the WI situation, in reference to the reforms being set up for cronyism and profiteering purposes. Using your own actions as accusations against an opponent. The guy has as much credibility as an economist now as my dog has as a Mensa candidate. The guy is worth less than dog sh-t.

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:05 pm

ragnar – you mean like rush or hannity?

Normal

February 25th, 2011
3:05 pm

Is Little Barry around? This will make his day…

http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/02/25/political-pictures-barack-obama-chocolate-jesus-hath-spoken/

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:06 pm

Krugman is a disgrace to his profession….

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:06 pm

More videos of the leftists….well acting like leftists!! haha
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=673_1298659975

StJ

February 25th, 2011
3:07 pm

Bookman issues belated condemnation of “punish your enemies” rhetoric.

Oh, wait…

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:07 pm

George W. If there is a factual basis to conclude that McVeigh was a leftist or that Islam leans left, please provide.

Otherwise, I believe you have to be purposefully ignorant to believe something that stupid…

Normal

February 25th, 2011
3:07 pm

George,
See? there you go again. That’s NOT an irrational remark. That’s a bold fact…

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:08 pm

jm

Disagree…Krugman is brilliant and look forward to every mon. and friday to read his perspective…name a credible economist on the right?

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:08 pm

Another video of two fine Obama supporters….

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=def_1298661283

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:09 pm

Lord….actually I already did….go back and read again.

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:11 pm

Mick 3:08 ——–???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Dude. Milton Friedman to start…..

Krugman is a hack. But a very liberal hack, which is why he got the Nobel. Along with do-nothing Obama.

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:13 pm

Friedman – six feet under…giving me a living economist…

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:13 pm

George W. I said ‘factual basis…’

It is impossible to be that igorant unless it is on purpose.

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:15 pm

take your pick

http://economics.uchicago.edu/faculty.shtml

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:16 pm

Mick. Real economists don’t spend all their time writing pieces for the opinion section of a newspaper. They do this thing called research.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:16 pm

Lord….are you talking about your comments?

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:17 pm

O, BTW, of course, dead economists don’t count as actual real economists. And George Washington isn’t a real president either.

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:17 pm

Taxpayer:

Found the source you quoted:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070529135412AAlyNHA

Some unamed person who answered a blogger’s question !

So here’s another one I found:

“……………….. Nazi’s have been heaped on the right side of the political spectrum, as a sort of counter-weight to communism. Thing is, that really doesn’t stand up to a serious analysis. The idea that the Nazi’s were right wing seems to boil down to the idea that racism (and nationalism) is a unique and defining trait of the right. But this is transparently false; Mecha, the Hispanic-power group, is avowedly leftist, racist,and nationalist. The Black Panthers and other black supremacists were leftist. There are any number of examples of groups and people on the left who are racist. In any case, I don’t accept that premise.

Without the racist=right wing idea to pin the Nazis, it becomes clear that the fascist movement is actually a faction of the left. Mussolini, the father of fascism, was a socialist. He split from the socialist to join a more extreme left-wing group which became the Fascist party. The word Nazi actually stands for, get this, the National Socialist German Workers Party. That’s two leftist red flags in one name. Their economic policy wasn’t anything CATO would approve of. One of their policy initiatives was to create a fund that would provide cars to everyone who decided to contribute. (The name of the car? The People’s Car, or, in German, Volkswagen. It was actually the VW Beetle. All those hippies were driving Hitlermobiles. Nice.) Basically, from where I’m sitting, fascism was a socialist sub-group that figured out how to tap into nationalism and racism. In the political climate of Europe (where the conservatives are just socialists who go to church) fascism had a broad appeal. Perhaps on the European left-right continuum, the placement of the Nazi’s on the right would then be appropriate. But I’m not really seeing how they’d fit on the right in America’s political continuum. They weren’t really hard-core Christian (more of a neo-pagan Christianity-when-in-public bunch), they certainly weren’t into the free market, and racism isn’t necessarily a right wing trait. ”

BOTTOM LINE: There’s is much debate on this issue. Some say left, some right and some parts of each.

P.S.

“By all means, share some more of your genius with us.”

Do you think you can find a way to debate the issues without personally attacking the poster?

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:18 pm

Mick, I’m sure the Catholic Church will be thrilled to hear they can now ignore Galileo since dead people don’t count any more. whatever.

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:19 pm

Mick, you are a flim flam man.

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:19 pm

‘are you talking about your comments?’

Actually, GW, I am talking about what it takes to believe Islam leans left and McVeigh was a leftist…purposefully ignorant (which would include you, Scout and anyone else willing to believe something so detached from the facts).

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:20 pm

Lord…read 0311’s post about Nazism and let me know your thoughts….

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:20 pm

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.

toodles.

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:21 pm

jm

I’ll go with keynes-
“I do not know which makes a man more conservative–to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”

md

February 25th, 2011
3:22 pm

And the beacon of freedom fades a wee bit more as the “civilized” western world stands by and watches the slaughter………………….

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:22 pm

Islam does not believe in a “Free Market Society”
The Left does not want a “Free Market Society”
Islam does not cherish life.
The Left supports abortion
Islam believes american corporations are evil
The Left believes american corporations are evil

Starting to see a pattern?

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:23 pm

jm

Don’t take everything so personal, it business, not personal; we are also both part of the same hypocrisy but never just think it applies to me..

Adam

February 25th, 2011
3:25 pm

George W: It’s more like this:

Abortion = a Choice, and NOT murder
Anti-Choice = Bad
Immigrants = Good
Illegal Immigrants = Not OK, but not to be used as an excuse for racial profiling
Business Executives = Bad if greedy
Taxes = Should be a part of your complete ~~breakfast~~ budget
More money in your pocket = Good, but not an excuse to abolish taxes
Working for a corporation = OK
Entrepreneurship = Better than working for a corporation
Getting a chance to startup your business = Very Good
Being prevented from being a startup due to banks or other corporation = Bad
Accepting government hand outs = OK if you have nowhere else to turn
Working for a living = Good
Jobs = Good
Greed = Bad

I hope it makes more sense now.

Mick

February 25th, 2011
3:25 pm

**The Left does not want a “Free Market Society”**

Man, you are out in la la land with that kind of thinking….but hey it’s your universe, keep it in good order please….

Adam

February 25th, 2011
3:26 pm

Oh yeah:

Murdering Doctors who perform abortions, and trying to make it legal to do so: VERY VERY BAD

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:26 pm

Adam…ok I will take them one by one….how many counts of murder was Scott Checkoway CONVICTED of? Please tell me why.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:26 pm

Adam….do you have a job? Why do you work?

Adam

February 25th, 2011
3:27 pm

George W: I work so I can afford to pay for things like food, shelter, and the occasional good time. Also my internet and phone bills so I can stay connected with my fellow humans.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:28 pm

Being prevented from being a startup due to banks or other corporation = Bad

How does a bank stop you from starting your own business.

BTW…I work for a corporation and own two businesses.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:28 pm

Adam….do you want to seek a promotion or more pay?

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:29 pm

“My new syndicated column today does the reporting the Tea Party-bashing national media won’t do on the rabid outbreak of progressive incivility and violence at Big Labor protests across the country. On Saturday, the grievance convergence will descend on all 50 state capitols spearheaded by the smear merchants of MoveOn.org — who will stoke further hatred and class warfare against America’s taxpayers, job creators, and wealth producers.”

Michelle Malkin

Adam

February 25th, 2011
3:30 pm

Also can’t answer your other question because I don’t know who that is, nor do I know what laws that was under. I still do not believe abortion is murder, and the FEDERAL law says that abortion is a legal procedure that federal funds shall not be used for.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
3:31 pm

George W: By not allowing loans by reason of “we’re scared,” regardless of good business ideas.

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:32 pm

“I’m sorry, but taking away a union’s ability to collectively bargain hardly seems to be stripping Americans of their right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. There is no human right to collective bargaining with your employer. It could be argued that you have a natural right to bargain individually with an employer .. but no right to team up with others for that purpose unless it is done by mutual agreement. And there’s the key.

It’s an agreement … a contract … and all of the parties have to be a part of it. You don’t have a human right to force mob rule on anyone. These thoughts, however, are a bit advanced for the typical liberal mind.”

Neil Boortz

——————————————————————————–

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:32 pm

‘Lord…read 0311’s post about Nazism and let me know your thoughts….’

Complete excrement. That said, if you WANT to believe something bad enough, you will find some way to rationalize it…regardless of how irrational…

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:32 pm

Adam…..Dude you really do not know who scott peterson is? He murdered his pregnant wife Laci Peterson and was charged with two counts of murder. Why do you feel this was.

If John Doe murders a pregnant woman he is charged with two counts of murder. However the murdering of an unborn child in a clinic makes it ok?

I know what the law says but doesnt mean it is right.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:33 pm

Lord…..I thought you would say something like that. What flavor Kool-Aid are you having today……Purple or Red?

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:35 pm

‘What flavor Kool-Aid are you having today……’

What does that have to do with you believing something that is stupid…

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:36 pm

“I still do not believe abortion is murder, and the FEDERAL law says that abortion is a legal procedure …..”

And slaves used to be property “all over” the United States (north and south) and as such could be whipped to death for various crimes (including running away) with impunity.

It took us about 250 years to straighten that out. The anti-abortion fight is still young.

I predict that in the far future, people will look back on today as we look back on slavery and say, “how could good people have done that to those babies?”

SOUTHERN ATL

February 25th, 2011
3:37 pm

“Tuesday night at a town hall meeting in Oglethorpe County, Georgia an elderly man asked the abhorrent question, “Who’s going to shoot Obama?”

Most of the people that attended the event probably consider the guy a hero for asking the question…Politics is definitely headed in the “WRONG” direction.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:37 pm

Lord….”What does that have to do with you believing something that is stupid”.

Did you pass third grade? Did you even read the article?

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:38 pm

0311//////great point.

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:38 pm

“Providence School Board Votes To Send Termination Letter To EVERY Teacher”

Tough times everywhere.

Lord Help Us

February 25th, 2011
3:39 pm

‘Did you pass third grade? Did you even read the article?’

Yes (to both). What did an opinion piece about Nazis have to do with, ‘Islam leans left and McVeigh was a leftist?’

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:40 pm

“0311//////great point.”

That will fall on hard hearts and deaf ears.

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:42 pm

Peanuts and Coke. Georgia is a fantastic state…. when focused on those 2 things alone.

One Nation Under educated

February 25th, 2011
3:42 pm

Congratulations GEORGIA – $^&* yeah!

Georgia, leading the U.S, ringing in at 22.1% drop out rate.

http://www.clms.neu.edu/publication/documents/CLMS_2009_Dropout_Report.pdf

Only Haiti and Somalia to go!
And we just cut HOPE
And we just cut Pre K
And we got Bobby Franklin, Kingston, Gingrey
And this guy, the wingnuts aren’t ashamed – they just have no shame

Say, I’m a high-tech entrepeneur, looking to locate
my business/plant. I’m not even considering here.
Its like the red-state dingleberries are PROUD
of Ignorance, so much that its Willful. Its just
Ignorance for Ignorance’s sake, like its some
“folksy virtue”. No, its not. Its Ignorance. I grew
up in Georgia, and even Ga didn’t used to be
like this. We’re done. We’re moving to St Simons
and waiting for the revolution.

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:44 pm

“so I can stay connected with my fellow humans.”

Beer is better for that….

Joe the Plutocrat

February 25th, 2011
3:44 pm

who cares? I suppose Bround should have corrected the fool with a citing the whiney neo-con , “but Obama said he’d bring a gun to a knife fight…” line.

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:49 pm

Where WIsconsin governor tries to lead, few of his GOP peers are willing to follow

revision

Where Obama leads on high speed rail, only CA and IL are following….. the 2 most bankrupt states in the nation.

It says something…..

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:50 pm

One Nation Under…..you dont think the drop out rate has anything to do with the vast number of illegals in this state do you???? Nah couldnt be.

josef nix

February 25th, 2011
3:51 pm

One Nation Under educated

“We’re moving to St Simons and waiting for the revolution.”

Ain’t that still in Georgia?

As for the thread..looks to me like crazy Uncle Jack got loose and he Congressman was slow on the uptake…

jm

February 25th, 2011
3:51 pm

Every 30 years or so, America apparently flirts with liberalism. And then soundly rejects it. I hope I’ll be able to say that with certainty after 2012.

George W

February 25th, 2011
3:53 pm

One Nation Under….Also the drop out rate for hispanics is 27.5% the drop out rate for black is 21.0%. However with whites it is only 12.2%. How are you going to blame this on Bush?

0311/0317 - 1811/1801

February 25th, 2011
3:53 pm

GONE UPSTAIRS !

@@

February 25th, 2011
3:55 pm

josef:

As for the thread..looks to me like crazy Uncle Jack got loose and he Congressman was slow on the uptake…

WRONG! There something far more sinister behind this, don’tcha know. It’s dark.

(ISH)

Lil' Barry Bailout

February 25th, 2011
3:59 pm

Lamest post of the year, Jay.

Slow day at the He-Man Republican-haters clubhouse?

TaxPayer

February 25th, 2011
4:08 pm

Scout,

Why don’t you go ask some Nazi sympathizers if they’d like to be thought of as left wing (Democratic party) or right wing (Republican party). Hurry back with that answer. And your analysis where you go off with the word socialist in the name was previously addressed. Try a little reading comprehension. Finally, your rants about groups of hispanics and others makes absolutely no sense with respect to establishing the basis for the Nazi party. How is that brain of yours able to make such absurd connections. They’re nothing more than random bits that you try to bind together with superglue.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
4:09 pm

George W: You said Scott Checkoway. Not Scott Peterson.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
4:11 pm

As for collective bargaining, sure I guess it’s not a right in the US Constitution, but it has become a right of unions to have this ability. Plus, collectively bargaining is more fair than trying to bargain, individually, with your employer who is not very interested in anything other than paying you as little as possible to do as much as possible for their bottom line.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
4:13 pm

And George W, to answer one of your others, sure I’d like a raise. I could care less about titles or promotions though, unless it leads to more of the work I like to do. And yeah it would be nice to be in a more leadership position and move up the ranks that way, as long as I don’t lose touch with what the work is about and become a number cruncher instead (that’s just not my thing). But in all that, it wouldn’t be about the money, except as far as it helps me pay for my basic needs and my family’s needs (if I have one).

TaxPayer

February 25th, 2011
4:38 pm

P.S.

“By all means, share some more of your genius with us.”

Do you think you can find a way to debate the issues without personally attacking the poster?

Sure, Scout. How’s this:

“By all means, share some more ~~of your genius~~ with us.”

I do hope you find that less offensive.

md

February 25th, 2011
4:39 pm

“Plus, collectively bargaining is more fair than trying to bargain, individually, with your employer who is not very interested in anything other than paying you as little as possible to do as much as possible for their bottom line.”

Uhhh…we are the employers……and they need to organize against us??

That is just wrong on so many levels…………….

Adam

February 25th, 2011
5:19 pm

md: Do you really have a direct say in how the teachers are treated? Really? No, your representatives on the school board do though, and that’s a whole different story. When it comes to working conditions, waiting 2 years to vote people out because they didn’t live up to your expectations isn’t good enough.

md

February 25th, 2011
5:25 pm

Adam…..the original purpose of unions was to protect from unsavory employers…….since then, we have passed numerous laws to protect all workers regardless of unionization……now we have unions to protect folks from the folks (us) that make those very laws??

But I have no doubt you think they need to be protected from us, and that is why you are you.

There is a huge difference between public and private sector jobs, but some refuse to see it.

Goes back to the choice made when entering to serve the public……………those last 3 words being the key words.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
5:49 pm

The unions exist in both the private and public sectors for the same reasons: to protect the interests of the workers (who probably don’t give a crap about whether they are considered a public or private employee). That you refuse to see the benefits of a union in both areas, and automatically assume public unions should not exist for the non-existent reasons you have stated, is not my problem.

BTW, what’s the last law you made md?

md

February 25th, 2011
6:07 pm

Well Adam……..I see that you subscribe to the gov’t as a third party syndrom…..oh well.

And your assumptions on my views of unions are way off………since you evidently missed it, I have no problems with unions….as long as they stay local to the cause…….they should represent the employees within their given company and set of parameters that is best for both parties……I was a union member of a big national for over 20 years (you?)…..I know what works and what is detrimental, and 3rd party unions do more harm than good.

But I’ll bow to your infinite wisdom on unions if you have some………….

And no, public sector unions are not needed……..if one chooses to serve the public, they know what the situation is.

But you do like to make excuses………so you will more than likely choose to make them.

You Distort/We Deride

February 25th, 2011
7:57 pm

Did anyone volunteer?

Given the group involved, I’m surprised that the question wasn’t followed by a show of hands.

AU-Mike

February 25th, 2011
9:22 pm

GOP rhetoric heard 24/7/365 on talk radio and Fox brain wash these poor saps, examples:
– July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are “destroying America,” walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.
– October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.
– December 2008: A pair of “Patriot” movement radicals — the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted “to attack the political infrastructure” — threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.
– December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear “dirty bomb” in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.
– January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.
– February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.
– April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.
– April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama’s purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.
– May 2009: A “sovereign citizen” named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
– June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.
– February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one “domestic terrorism” too.)
– March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.
– March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.
– May 2010: A “sovereign citizen” from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.
– May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.
– May 2010: Two “sovereign citizens” named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.
– July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.
– September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year–old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the “Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.
…These are just some of the right wing crazies inspired by the crap they hear fro the GOP spin machine. There are many more examples.

buck@gon

February 25th, 2011
9:31 pm

WEEKLY DUMPSTER DIVE
AT THE AJC
SETTING FREE PRIVATE DOCUMENTS ABOUT OUR “FAVORITE” EDITORS.

DEPOSITION HEARING, DOWIE, CHEATAM & HOWE, ATLANTA OFFICES
TRANSCRIPT:
ATTORNEY (ATT): For the record we are gathered here today for these despositions and statements from each party for the benefit of testimony given in the matter of Bookman, Sr. and Bookman, dependent, so that these matters may be resolved.
BOOKMAN DEPENDENT (DEP): What the hell is going on here?
ATT: Please leave ad hominem remarks off of the transcript for after the hearing. Jay, would you like to begin.
BOOKMAN SENIOR (BS): Thanks, I’d like to be clear for the record. I wanted to make sure that your mother and I have been good parents to you.
DEP: Well, sure dad….
BS: Please let me finish. Good, because we wanted to feel like we were doing a good job and I’m glad you agree with us. We’ve gone to great lengths to help you realize your dreams and set you on a high place in life so that you can be happy.
DEP: I’m not sure….
BS: Again, let me be clear. We have done all of these things for you without request of thanks or reward for ourselves. It has been a great benefit for you, and because of the economy, ad sales at my job, your mother and I no longer have the resources to keep you in our house to the degree to which you have become accustomed.
DEP: Dad?!
BS: Yes, it’s time for you to go out on your own.
DEP: But Dad, I’m only 29 years old!
BS: There are lots of reasonable places to live, and there are good opportunities available for you if you want to stay in college say, another five or ten years.
DEP: You’re forcing me out!?
BS: Don’t look at it that way. What I’m doing is giving you wings to fly out on your own.
DEP: You always believed in collective bargaining. I have the right to collective bargaining.
BS: But you’re only one pers….
DEP: I don’t care . You can’t do this to me. I’m going to go on strike.
BS: Strike?
DEP: Yeah, I’m striking against you?
ATT: You mean you’re going to hit your father?
DEP: &F* No! What do you think I am!? No, I’m going to stop working.
ATT: Well, the whole reason….
DEP: I don’t care. Unless you give me what I want, I’m just going to stop everything. It isn’t about me. It’s about my right to bargain.
BS: But if you stop working, it’ll be your…
DEP: No, it won’t. My failure will be on your hands. I have the right to bargain here. I’m an interested party.
BS: Well, it’s my house and…
DEP: What does Mom think about this?
BS: She…
ATT: We’re going to focus on the matter at hand. Mr. Bookman…
DEP: He’s my DAD!
ATT: Right, your ahh… Father wants to enjoy his work and his life without his grown children living in his…
DEP: This is just unfair! Where am I going to get my benefits, my allowance, my meals? I’m going to call the government, the courts SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
ATT: People do it every day. We’re done here.

Adam

February 25th, 2011
10:58 pm

.if one chooses to serve the public, they know what the situation is.

See, there you go again, assuming that everyone’s choice and the consequences associated with it are not only all their fault, but completely foreseeable. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Aside from that, you’re not really making a case that you are better equipped to know whether unions should exist or not. You’re putting a narrow focus on a type of union you consider bad (3rd party) and then ascribing that to all public unions, as though they are the same always. Like I said, not making your case.

And yeah, the government is a 3rd party unless you’re an elected official. If you think the government always automatically does what you want it to all the time then you’re the one with the delusion, not me.

ap

February 26th, 2011
7:52 am

What is even more ridiculous about this: Rep. Broun filed the “Sanctity of Life” bill this session in Congress. Looks like he respects life when it is the unborn, but not for the President of the United States.

http://alexpickett.com/2011/02/25/bipartisan-guide-to-ridiculous-legislation-u-s-rep-broun-files-sanctity-of-life-act-then-laughs-at-assassination-question/

md

February 26th, 2011
12:04 pm

“Aside from that, you’re not really making a case that you are better equipped to know whether unions should exist or not.”

And how many years did you actually work in a union??

Researching unions and living in them are two totally different concepts………but you are going to believe whatever you want, so it makes no difference what anyone says……

As I said before, reminds me much of myself when I was a card carrying member of the Democrat Party……………thankfully, we never stop learning……….and life is a great teaching environment.

Adam

February 26th, 2011
1:52 pm

md: How many unions did you work in? Can you really say for sure they’re all the same? Or that public unions are always fundamentally different from private unions? Personal experience is fine, but it’s never the big picture.

Left wing management

February 26th, 2011
4:35 pm

Broun may be lucky this happened late in the week’s news cycle.

Say, are political reporters in Georgia trained in recognizing mental illness? If not, they ought to be.

Claude Raines

February 26th, 2011
10:39 pm

“I was stunned by the question and chose not to dignify it with a response…”

I was shocked, SHOCKED!

Lil' Barry Bailout

February 27th, 2011
4:55 pm

I had a similar experience on my wedding day when a friend of my fiancee told me I “should be marrying one of my own kind”. I was flabbergasted and haven’t said a word to this “friend” since.

Had I been quicker on me feet I would have shot back that I didn’t like guys that way.

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