Ironically, Obama told a story in The Audacity of Hope about his handlers freaking out on the campaign trail once when he asked for dijon mustard at a TGIF. They told the waitress he was just kidding and tried to shove a bottle of French’s at him. The waitress said it was no problem to get dijon, and Obama said he still wanted it. I guess you can’t ever ask for fancy mustard if you’re a Democratic politician.
Hannity, by the way, is a guy who refuses to fly anywhere for a public appearance unless he’s provided a private jet.
I don’t feel like starting a new thread, but apparently CBS golf analyst David Feherty decided to slur our military by claiming: “if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.” See here for Media Matters link.
Seriously, WTF? Why would anyone in the public eye think it is acceptable to accuse our military of being traitors?
I don’t believe that was the intent. I believe the actual intent was something like, “Patriotic Americans want to kill Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for the manner in whch they’ve protrayed the war and the military to the American people.” Plus, “After bin Laden, they are America’s two biggest enemies.”
I think it’s time we start calling things for what they are. Anyone who killed the heads of our two legislative bodies would be a traitor, not a patriot, and we need to point out what is the logical conclusion of the statement. He is claiming that our military would behave in a traitorous fashion.
I don’t know if we’ll ever have an answer to that ‘nature or nurture’ debate, but as a liberal, I think it important to support Republicans’ rights to marry and raise families.
I agree in absolute terms with what you say. But I don’t think HE means that. I think Feherty thinks that Pelosi and Reid are the traitors, and real patriots want to kill them.
Which I believe is a traitorous sentiment, but not far off what what some wingnut suggested about Obama back during the campaign. Wasn’t there somebody in Congress who said something of the lines of, “He better not come down here…”? I can’t recall who or the details, but it was close to an implied death threat.
I think what you’ve got hold of there is what is commonly referred to as “a joke”. Admittedly, one in bad taste, but I don’t think he was claiming that Sgt. Rock would *literally *pop a cap in Nancy Pelosi.
Like how the conservatives were so quick to give a generous reading to Kerry’s joke about Bush getting stuck in Iraq? I don’t see any reason to give a generous reading to these statements.
Oh, its nothing more than a really, really bad and stupid joke. But I have to wonder if he really and truly believes that the average Iraqi-deployed grunt shares his contempt. That has to be the number one cherished myth of the rightarded.
Holy crap these people are insulting. They must have total contempt for the voters’ intelligence to say such trollingly stupid and nakedly hateful things.
I would like to see a decent opposition party. Maybe we can find one among the Greens or the Libertarians.
If you were on an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Osama bin Laden, and a soldier with two bullets in his weapon, I’m guessing that makes you strangled.
