# Good riddance to bad rubbish: Chuck Colson is dead **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550 "2012-04-22T02:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/81 "2012-04-24T01:29:13Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > But whatever, we’re all secret Christians and Republicans trying to slander and defame you to divert attention from all the biological warfare we’re up to. OOH! If we’re all secretly supervillains and members of the Legion of Doom, like **Der Trihs** seems to think, I call [Grodd](http://www.seanbaby.com/superfriends/grodd.htm). That way I can keep the whole monkey theme going. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/82 "2012-04-24T01:45:54Z")
I have a theory that **Der Trihs** is actually a secret right wing troll from Free Republic or somewhere like that, trying to make liberals look bad. Because he comes off as a parody of how they paint the left. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/83 "2012-04-24T08:21:14Z")
Honestly? His posts were hyperbolic, but don’t come anywhere close to trolling. I doubt the capacity of a free republic member for parody. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/84 "2012-04-24T08:45:19Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Honestly? His posts were hyperbolic, but don’t come anywhere close to trolling. I doubt the capacity of a free republic member for parody. Of course he’s not trolling. Nobody said he was. You’re new (relatively) so you don’t know this, but he has been doing this shit for over ten years. He’s not a troll. He’s genuinely nuts. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/85 "2012-04-24T09:08:00Z")
As an addendum, **Der Trihs** ’s membership only says “2005” but he was here when I joined in 2001 so he’s been here a very, _very_ long time. I’m assuming that is due to Creative Loafing general screwing up the SDMB pay structure back in the mid 2000’s regarding charter members/ members / guests and he never bothered to care. I don’t blame him for that, I didn’t care, myself. So: Not a troll. Just a resident insane person. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/86 "2012-04-24T09:35:16Z")
Post, Post script: Wait, I’m no longer sure **Der Tirhs** predates me. Maybe he didn’t join til 2005. He’s just such a predictable nutcase that it seems longer. Maybe he has only been around for seven years. But regardless of that, this is what you need to know: The groups he doesn’t like are comic book evil. It’s his MO. And he’s been doing it for way too long for him to be a troll. He’s just nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/87 "2012-04-24T12:47:27Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > \*Branded! \* > Marked with a coward’s shaaaaaame… > What do you do when you’re branded? > Well, you fight for your naaaaame! > > …what’s that? Oh, _Colson_? Nevermind. Glad to see it wasn’t just me who read it that way at first. I try to avoid opining on afterlife activities for the recently deceased but I too am always suspicious of people who suddenly “find Jesus” after being caught doing something heinous and then hold out that conversion like a shield to prevent any further fallout from their previous actions. So I’m not a Colson fan by any means and I think on balance he has made the country a much worse place. The sincerity of his conversion and repentance is something that he can take up with a Higher Power. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/88 "2012-04-24T12:59:23Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > The groups he doesn’t like are comic book evil. It’s his MO. And he’s been doing it for way too long for him to be a troll. He’s just nuts. How about “You’re comic-book naive for thinking that people like Colson are complex, nuanced thinkers”? When he worked for Nixon, he acknowledged that his job was to perform any task that would make Nixon look good, Democrats look bad, and so on. He was a comic book villain who would cheerfully break any law, lie about anything, misuse any funds whatsoever, as long as he thought he wouldn’t caught. How does this differ from a comic book villain? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/89 "2012-04-24T13:20:48Z")
Well, Colson got caught. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/90 "2012-04-24T13:36:46Z")
And he wears his tights _under_ his suit. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/91 "2012-04-24T13:55:10Z")
And he never really got the evil laugh right. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/92 "2012-04-24T13:58:37Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > How about “You’re comic-book naive for thinking that people like Colson are complex, nuanced thinkers”? When he worked for Nixon, he acknowledged that his job was to perform any task that would make Nixon look good, Democrats look bad, and so on. He was a comic book villain who would cheerfully break any law, lie about anything, misuse any funds whatsoever, as long as he thought he wouldn’t caught. How does this differ from a comic book villain? He wasn’t in it for the money? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/93 "2012-04-24T14:50:02Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > You’re a crazy person. I’m trying to work out the meter on this. Is it trochaic, [_you’re_ a _cra_zy _per_son] or is there a primary stress on the first syllable of crazy [_you’re_ a CRA-zy person]? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/94 "2012-04-24T17:18:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > He wasn’t in it for the money? Then again, neither are most of the comic book villains, really – if they just wanted money, it would be [much easier to get](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CutLexLuthorACheck). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/95 "2012-04-24T17:22:37Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > And no, nut bag statements from the likes of Jerry Falwell don’t count Does it count if we have pictures of him putting sugar on his porridge while making the statement? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/96 "2012-04-24T20:00:00Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > How about “You’re comic-book naive for thinking that people like Colson are complex, nuanced thinkers”? When he worked for Nixon, he acknowledged that his job was to perform any task that would make Nixon look good, Democrats look bad, and so on. He was a comic book villain who would cheerfully break any law, lie about anything, misuse any funds whatsoever, as long as he thought he wouldn’t caught. How does this differ from a comic book villain? Wait, what? I’m not defending Colson! God damn you’re dumb. I just don’t think Republicans are waging biological warfare on Africa. Do you? **Der Trihs** does and that belief is insane. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/97 "2012-04-25T13:09:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > More wonderful than you know. I’m glad you recognize that I don’t participate in the hate-fests…and that finger pointing at “Obama-haters” like me is just a tactic and has no real merit. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/98 "2012-04-25T14:05:46Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > I’m glad you recognize that I don’t participate in the hate-fests…and that finger pointing at “Obama-haters” like me is just a tactic and has no real merit. How does that follow from anything anyone here has said? ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/99 "2012-04-25T16:55:55Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > How does that follow from anything anyone here has said? Post #75 may help… maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550/100 "2012-04-25T18:07:05Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > I just don’t think Republicans are waging biological warfare on Africa. Do you? **Der Trihs** does and that belief is insane. Cite? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550.md?page=6)