# Oh noes, we're surrounded! Chuck Norris is going to kick our asses! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 10, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932 "2009-03-10T07:57:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/161 "2009-03-15T13:51:21Z")
Shep Smith is always like that. I love him. I think he’s the only normal person working for Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/162 "2009-03-15T14:07:59Z")
Wow, I love him too now! [Here’s a longer version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMqvy-D5hM&NR=1) with more funny stuff. Reading another e-mail: “‘Are you on drugs again Shep?’” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/163 "2009-03-15T16:09:35Z")
I’m going to hijack my own thread here. I found a few more Shep Smith gems. [Lambasting some goofball](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKzS5Zl6mY) over how “liberal media” was in the tank for Obama. [Grilling Joe the Plumber](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eSJuWgZGYo), who, not surprisingly, ends up looking like an ignorant doofus. He defends Obama too. Watch it all the way to the end. His last line is a killer. [Here he’s blasting](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_cqUdpPNdc&feature=related) a liberal viewer’s e-mail, but what he says is actually pretty smart and full of righteous anger and not just a RW talking point rant. [Smith mocking coverage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmBMIOVMPo&feature=related) of the Paris Hilton jail sentence. [Smith being blown around](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JEKlRJqbkA&feature=related)in a hurricane and telling it like it is: “It’s just stupid to be out in this” [Mocking a UFO “researcher”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BJ4jjRZhis&feature=related): “I think it’s all a load of crap” [Smith sticks a shiv](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OmhMcKCIuA&feature=related) into Drew Peterson. And a very funny [Freudian slip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqfJp4WBBQ&NR=1). ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/164 "2009-03-15T16:57:31Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Have fun with your local militia fighting the black helicopters/UN/NWO/ZOG/Illuminati/ whatever. Seriously, why is the mood suddenly so ugly? We’ve had a Negro in chief for a couple of months and the crazies are freaking out? > > I wonder how these right wing nut jobs would act if there was a ‘leftist’ organization advocating the violent overthrow of the duly elected US Government. [Oh wait.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) That’s it! How did we all miss it? It’s Blazing Saddles, and the “good folk” are freaked about the new Sheriff in town 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/165 "2009-03-15T18:19:53Z")
> [@C3](#): > > No, no, no. It says if _you_ break the law, not if \*I \*break the law. On first reading, I thought that was a joke. But holy shit you’re _right_. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/166 "2009-03-15T18:26:07Z")
No doubt they’re (partially) talking about President Obama, who (to them) obviously broke the law by running for and winning the presidency when in fact he’s not even an American citizen. There are lots of videos on YouTube now about this “We Surround Them” crap, but I no longer have any interest in watching them. This shit is going to get someone hurt or killed. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/167 "2009-03-16T21:12:17Z")
> [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](#): > > On first reading, I thought that was a joke. But holy shit you’re _right_. It’s not a democracy, it’s a chucktocracy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/168 "2009-03-16T21:58:49Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > They’re angry at Wall Street, they’re angry at illegal immigration, they’re angry at the Democrats and Republicans, they’re angry about their jobs being shipped overseas, they’re generally angry about a politial and economic system that seems to be wildly out of control and unresponsive to them. Hey Lonesome, if you’re still reading, what’d you think of Jon Stewart’s rant against CNBC last week? You and all these other angry people must have loved the hell out of it, right? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/169 "2009-03-16T22:02:47Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I’m going to hijack my own thread here. I found a few more Shep Smith gems. > > [Lambasting some goofball](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKzS5Zl6mY) over how “liberal media” was in the tank for Obama. > > [Grilling Joe the Plumber](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eSJuWgZGYo), who, not surprisingly, ends up looking like an ignorant doofus. He defends Obama too. Watch it all the way to the end. His last line is a killer. > > [Here he’s blasting](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_cqUdpPNdc&feature=related) a liberal viewer’s e-mail, but what he says is actually pretty smart and full of righteous anger and not just a RW talking point rant. > > [Smith mocking coverage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmBMIOVMPo&feature=related) of the Paris Hilton jail sentence. > > [Smith being blown around](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JEKlRJqbkA&feature=related)in a hurricane and telling it like it is: “It’s just stupid to be out in this” > > [Mocking a UFO “researcher”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BJ4jjRZhis&feature=related): “I think it’s all a load of crap” > > [Smith sticks a shiv](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OmhMcKCIuA&feature=related) into Drew Peterson. > > And a very funny [Freudian slip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqfJp4WBBQ&NR=1). [Shepherd Smith’s finest moment.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrhvkuzPMio&feature=related) I bacame a big fan of his after I saw this live. This was just an awesome bit of reporting and a complete smackdown of Sean Hannity. Even the presense of a bawling Geraldo Rivera coudn’t diminish it’s power. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/170 "2009-03-16T22:06:24Z")
"So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!!” -Howard Beale, the Mad Prophet 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/171 "2009-03-16T22:22:06Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > But there were only 145 of them _there_. The original article says that 145 Texans drew their dying breath. It didn’t say there were only 145 there from what I read. So Grunman could be correct. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/172 "2009-03-16T23:19:15Z")
[Michael Steele checks in:](http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/131909/steele%27s_overlooked_radio_rant:_compares_obama_to_nixon,_declares_%27ultimate_political_armageddon%27/) > [@](#): > > “I love this battle because what I see right now is leading to the ultimate political Armageddon between conservatism and liberalism,” Steele declared at one point. “And the idea that free enterprise, free markets, free people are going to battle an oppressive, repressive, domineering government. I love that. That’s what we are lining up for you folks. So you better get ready, strap it on, because it’s coming. And you better pick your sides, you better choose now.” The Millenium is over and we did not witness the second coming. Much as you crave it, Armageddon is not imminent. Most of America has moved beyond these end time scenarios. I do wish the GOP could do so as well. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/173 "2009-03-17T01:22:14Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Michael Steele checks in:](http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/131909/steele%27s_overlooked_radio_rant:_compares_obama_to_nixon,_declares_%27ultimate_political_armageddon%27/)The Millenium is over and we did not witness the second coming. Much as you crave it, Armageddon is not imminent. > Most of America has moved beyond these end time scenarios. I do wish the GOP could do so as well. I didn’t quite get from his comments if Obama is like or unlike Roberto Mussolini. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/174 "2009-03-17T01:37:40Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Hey Lonesome, if you’re still reading, what’d you think of Jon Stewart’s rant against CNBC last week? You and all these other angry people must have loved the hell out of it, right? Oooh, missed it-I assume it’s on YouTube? ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/175 "2009-03-17T02:07:50Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I didn’t quite get from his comments if Obama is like or unlike Roberto Mussolini. Who’s Roberto Mussolini? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/176 "2009-03-17T02:10:30Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Who’s Roberto Mussolini? I dunno, but Michael Steele claims to. Read the link. He was speaking, apparently, about powerful historical figures like Adolf Hitler and Roberto Mussolini. :rolleyes: Oh yes, and the importance of education. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/177 "2009-03-17T02:18:04Z")
“Strap it on”? My goodness, Mr. Steele! I barely even know you! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/178 "2009-03-17T02:29:28Z")
You know, I always saw Shepard Smith as just some pretty boy … but then again, I don’t find myself watching that much Fox “News”. But watching those clips, I’m liking him more and more. Geraldo, on the other hand, needs to take an acting class or two. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/179 "2009-03-17T02:45:21Z")
Is “strap it on” a gun reference? Is this another instance of barely veiled threats of violence? Well, along with the whole Armageddon, choose your sides crap. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932/180 "2009-03-17T04:35:01Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Is “strap it on” a gun reference? Is this another instance of barely veiled threats of violence? Well, along with the whole Armageddon, choose your sides crap. It sure sounds like “strapping on the six gun” doesn’t it? I thought that went out with the last century (I mean 1880-something). Well whatever, those dummies probably wouldn’t know what to do with a Colt Single Action Army, if they are talking six guns. They would probably pull the trigger without cocking the hammer, and then go demand a refund for a broken gun 😃 I guess they also don’t know that one good way to turn a person against you is to pull that “either you are with us or you are against us” junk. Start a fight an try to force me into it, I will turn on you first. I doubt that sort of reaction is unusual at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-were-surrounded-chuck-norris-is-going-to-kick-our-asses/488932.md?page=10)