Wonkette
- TERRIBLE SHOOTINGS AND DEATH EVERYWHERE: Arkansas Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney was shot yesterday by some crazo who burst into his office in Little Rock. Four hours later Gwatney died. The gunman, Timothy Dale Johnson, was killed by the police. [Los Angeles Times]
…$5 says he was a Adam Weiner(Ssvage) listener.
I’m waiting for the report that the shooter was a big fan of O’Reilly, Hannity, etc.
CORRECT: Michael Savage
Not fully awake yet!
has anyone ever heard of this guy? its seems like a scam for sure, i just can’t figure out what the angle is
No snark on this one but why are shooters or assassins always identified by ALL of their names?
Wonder if there’s a connection (besides batshiat crazy) with that guy that shot up that UU church a few weeks ago…
AngryBlakGuy: Isn’t Adam Savage the dude from Mythbusters?
Terry: Exactly, this has “right wing gun nut who hates libruls and teh gayz” all over it…
So, people, let’s have some arguments for and against shooting random Dem party chairs…
Some day somebody is going diagnose something called “Right Wing Derangement Syndrome” (RWDS), a state of anger, hysteria, paranoia and agression fuelled by the wingnut noise machine. It hasn’t been diagnosed yet because these guys go to their gun dealers, not their shrinks, for therapy.
MARCdMan: …SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!! I was watching it last night damn it!!!
tragicallyohio:
So that the innocent folks who have similar names won’t be harassed.
The real question to ask is why so many nutjobs seem to have Wayne as a middle name.
Why shoot the local Democrat chairman because you lose your job in Target? How does one link to the other? Is it that everything bad is the fault of the Democrats? Anyway, poor Mr Gwatney. RIP.
WadISay: Another term for “Right Wing Derangement Syndrome” (RWDS) is “closeted homosexuality,” but with the more clinical term which you have suggested, perhaps some funds could be appropriated for medical research into this area
(after the US becomes socialist)
WadISay:
Of course they don’t go to shrinks. That’s for CRAZEEES and Libruls (plus that talking to a guy with that book larning thing makes them uncomfortable because they’re so insecure about their own intelligence)!
Terry: Exactly Terry! Apparently anybody who loves FOX and can’t get a job is in line for hit job.
freakishlystrong: WadISay: No, you’re all way off. This is a message to the Clintons from Obama: mind your P’s and Q’s at the convention, or this could be you.
freakishlystrong: When will the right-wing evangelical community stand up and protest these acts of violence done in their name? You know, in the same way that all Muslims are supposed to jump up and down and protest suicide bombers.
AngryBlakGuy:
I think you were thinking of Adam West.
Guppy06: When the James Dobsen’s of this world can ask his cultists to pray for rain at the Dem Convention, and then lose their tax exempt status?
The real victim is any right wing talk show host who worries that their hateful rhetoric will be blamed for some mere individual who goes out to shoot Democrats and liberals. It’s just awful how our right wing radio and TV hosts suffer for our sins. They’re pretty much all Jesus, if you think about it, and if some weirdo isn’t shooting you at the moment for being liberal.
Terry:
The real question to ask is why so many nutjobs seem to have Wayne as a middle name
If your middle name is Wayne it’s probably because your daddy named you that way after John Wayne… which means your daddy was probably a violent, unemployed, alcoholic, chain smoking wife beater. Chances are you still have scars from some of the times your “pop” came home drunk after losing his last dollar in a poker game and took out his frustrations on you by whopping your ass to “make a man” out of you. If he’s still alive he’s probably in a semi-vegetative state planted in front of a TV somewhere watching old re-runs of “The Price is Right” as a result of your smacking him hard over the head with a fireplace shovel fifteen times when you caught him beating your mother on the morning of you twelfth birthday. Now, 30 years later you’ve inherited all of your father’s political positions and bigoted attitudes, and probably beat your own wife and kids fom time to time. For some odd reason, you’re also convinced that everything that’s gone wrong in your life is a result of liberals who have wronged you in some vague, hazy way.
I think John McCain has figured out how to win this election. Kill off all the Democrats–there’s one less vote for BO this fall.
Guppy06: They can’t bring themselves to say, “oops, mistake” for having their prayers answered when they wanted the US prez to be revered religious conservative, “W.” They are one big mega-frustrated group right now. No one to endorse and nothing left for them but fighting over which is the anti-Christ–McCain or Obama–and bashing Obama for killing babies.
Serolf Divad: Dad? Actually, it appears this nut’s middle name is “Dale”, which is really just the same…
Serolf Divad:
And yes, I did learn everything I needed to know about psychopaths from watching Running Scared.
Serolf Divad:
I’d like to have your cyber babies.
Now THATS bitter.
Sadly, we’ll probably see more of this as the God loving conservatives
who have been running things for the last ten years are replaced by effite gay, gun hating, commie abortionists all across the land.
Did the shooter think there would be 72 cases of PBR waiting for him in heaven if he killed a Democrat?
I hope he left a note somewhere.
wheelie: It’s all Repub propaganda. The party of “personal reponsibility” LOVE to blame the Democrats for everything. It’s not just the Clintons anymore. But I’ll be money someone’s going to blame the Clintons for this one.
Serolf Divad:
Hmm. John Wayne McCain.
Kinda sings, doesn’t it?
So, was Bitter Gun-Clinger TDJ a disgruntled PUMA or what?
Serolf Divad: …isn’t that the story line of “Halloween”?
Serolf Divad: The greatest of all, of course, being John Wayne Gacey, who ate a number of his neighbors in Milwaukee. Mmmmm, neighbors.
WadISay: The really freakish thing about this stuff is that a lot of the anger and hysteria derives from screaming about how angry and hysterical the liberals are.
Guppy06: Well, what’s doubleplus weird about this is that after he shot Gwatney, Johnson then went to the Arkansas State Baptist Convention offices and held them up too (though he didn’t shoot anybody). It sounds to me like he was an equal-opportunity nutjob.
Terry: Chuck Shepard has a running tally of murderers with the middle name Wayne. And he references a theory very similar to Serolf Divad’s excellent explanation.
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html
rev_matt_y:
That’s awesome! I stand vindicated!
Terry:
My cyber crack-babies?
Holy shite! I missed being a right wing nut job by a a bout of dyslexia.
My first and middle names were transposed on my birth certificate.
Maybe he felt disenfranchised, like that sad PUMA lady in MA.
What? Timothy Dale Johnson was merely execising his 2nd Amendment right to protect his home, which he mistook for Ark’s DNC headquaters, from space-invaders.
Someone send Scalia, Rogers, Alito, Kennedy and Thomas an invite to Bill Gwatney’s viewing. Or maybe just FedEx them one of Bill Gwatney’s funeral wreaths and a vial of his widow’s tears.
Serolf Divad:
For you, my dear, anything.
Canuckledragger: Well, the guy who died was a Hillary supporter who switched his vote to Obama after she lost, I mean “suspended” her campaign.
And we all know who killed Vince Foster. . .
They haven’t told us here in Little Rock yet what the nut wrote on the wall at the Conway Target to prompt his dismissal. I’m guessing, “Big $ale on Truck Nutz”.
WadISay, John Wayne Gacey was a demented clown who tortured and killed boys and raped their dead bodies, like Ronald Wayne McDonald.
The greatest “wayniac” was Elmer Wayne Henley, who was also a notorious dead boy raper in Houston. However, the best of the best have the middle name “Ray.”
gjdodger: He would have been promoted if that was what he wrote. Actually, it was “Big $ale on Houston Nuttz”
We have audio of the various press conferences and public statements here.
AngryBlakGuy: Terry: Long time listener, first time shooter.
Serolf Divad: So you’re the one guy that bought my autobiography…
queeraselvis v 2.0: No, he went by the Arkansas State Baptist Convention HQ before he shot Gwatney. It’s just down Capitol Ave (in the 500s for Convention HQ to 1300 for Democratic HQ).
And I would know, as I work at 400 Capitol Ave (seriously - There’s only a bank between me and the Baptists).
ReelectTilden: The article I read today said that Gwatney had plans to attend the upcoming convention in Denver as a Hillary Clinton Superdelegate.
No snark today.
[ReelectTilden: re=59450]Canuckledragger[/re]: jimh: At least some of y’all are paying attentoin.
Obama body count: Key Clinton ally executed in broad daylight
http://www.total411.info/2008/08/obama-body-count-key-clinton-ally.html
Gormogon: Conspiracy theory, huh. Obama called it, when he talked about the bitter gun clingers. My money is a bitter, recently unemployed gun clinger taking it out on the liberal democratic leadership. But way to spin it around so it’s Obama’s hit squad or some retarded shit.