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  • TODAY’S WACKY POLITICAL NEWS STORY: 89-year-old white supremacist shoots one security guard at Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. In other words, “person shoots person.” Everyone is telling us to post this for some reason. It happens all the time, every day! Enjoy your “political reaction,” vulgarians. [Washington Post]


2:27 PM on Wed June 10 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Dreadful Gate says at 2:30 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Do they let Robert Byrd out on his own?

  2. Bronkers says at 2:30 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Location, location, location.

  3. Dave J. says at 2:32 pm, June 10th, 2009

    The guy sounds like a complete Freeper. Via Talking Points Memo:

    “This is from his bio, apparently written by himself or someone sympathetic to him: “In 1981 Von Brunn attempted to place the treasonous Federal Reserve Board of Governors under legal, non-violent, citizens arrest. He was tried in a Washington, D.C. Superior Court; convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge. A Jew/Negro/White Court of Appeals denied his appeal. He served 6.5 years in federal prison. (Read about von Brunn’s “Federal Reserve Caper” HERE.) He is now an artist and author and lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.”"

  4. gurukalehuru says at 2:33 pm, June 10th, 2009

    I hope the guard’s all right. No snark. Yet.

  5. orange says at 2:33 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Of course: storm the holocaust museum and it never happened!!!1!

  6. BillyClubb says at 2:33 pm, June 10th, 2009

    A shooting in D.C.? This is news?

  7. orange says at 2:34 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Dave J.: “an artist”

    i would love to see his work.

  8. Blender says at 2:34 pm, June 10th, 2009

    So if everyone tells Jim to do something, he’ll do it? The mind boggles at the possibilities.

    Anyhooze, the WaPo got it wrong. Surely as Christ on Toast, there were abortionists hiding in that there museum, which draws them like moths to the flame cos of all the dead baby pictures.

  9. Hey, the Year of Violent Single Issue Right Wing Extremists that Janet Napolitano warned us about has fully arrived.

    We’re all Zapgruder now.

  10. stink, but says at 2:36 pm, June 10th, 2009

    thanks be to Yahweh you posted on this, now I know it *really* happened

  11. Gopherit says at 2:38 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Yup. Good thing this wasn’t incited by recent Republican behavior.
    orange: Granted: http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/Others/120881.jpg

  12. Mad Farmer Manifest says at 2:39 pm, June 10th, 2009

    orange: It all Hitler portraits and pictures of Bergen-Belsen with daisies growing out of human skulls. Real fapping stuff for Stormfronters.

  13. rambone says at 2:40 pm, June 10th, 2009

    ph7: Let’s see how Redstate wants to spin this one. So far, one dead abortion doctor and one holocaust museum shot up. I assume that Cindy Sheehan is to blame.

  14. Gopherit says at 2:41 pm, June 10th, 2009

    He’s quite popular on stormfront: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=122772

  15. Fox n Fiends says at 2:45 pm, June 10th, 2009

    guns don’t kill people, teabaggers kill people

  16. WIDTAP says at 2:46 pm, June 10th, 2009

    There’s a Jeremiah Wright “The Jews won’t let me see the President” joke in there somewhere, but I just can’t seem to find it.

  17. orange: Here’s an example

  18. El Pinche says at 2:53 pm, June 10th, 2009

    rambone: So was Janet Napolitano right all along? There’s a pattern here, and we should not be surprised. The rightwing extremists are just getting warmed up.

  19. Joshua Norton says at 2:56 pm, June 10th, 2009

    White, bigot, pissed-off, old, christian and a gun owner: gee, anyone see a dangerous pattern forming here?

    Guess it’s time to recirculate that report on right-wing extremist groups one more time.

  20. finallyhappy says at 2:59 pm, June 10th, 2009

    In my very kind spin on things- let’s hope the old guy got shot bad enough to die and that the guard is ok..

  21. I am glad that we are loosening the rules for carrying weapons all around our country. Why, if only all the visitors to this memorial were armed, this tragedy could have been averted. Kinda like a rerun of all the right wing crazies stopping their antipsychotics during the Clinton era, eh? Wonder what Fox will make of it all…

  22. bfstevie says at 3:11 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Do we know how the suspect feels about Puerto Ricans, Muslins and Oxycontin?

  23. Mr Blifil says at 3:13 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Did pass out a few teabags on his way to getting shot in the head?

  24. S.Luggo says at 3:14 pm, June 10th, 2009
  25. Rukasu says at 3:15 pm, June 10th, 2009

    bofm: Don;t you know anybody in DC can pack heat now!?

  26. hobospacejunkie says at 3:21 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Next time a shooter commits a political act of violence lets shower him (ain’t it always a him?) with 24/7 media coverage so as to smoke out and activate the next fucking crazy dumbfuckass who’s brain has already been polluted by operation rescue or neut “the racialist” gingrich.

    And then let’s sit back and watch as the talking heads absolve themselves of blame.

  27. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 3:22 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Dave J.: I hope Michelle Malkin is making sure Obama’s personal KGB leaves those right-wing extremists alone. Just becuase they shot up two folks in two weeks is no reason to get alarmed.

  28. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:57 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Gopherit: Interesting. The guy cribbed from the same Picasso I stole from to do this.

    Does this mean I’m the next deranged right-wing random shooter? Tune in tomorrow’s liveblog…

  29. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:57 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Hundreds of teenage girls get abducted or killed every year, but do they get covered unless they are blonde with blue eyes? You have to have priorities.

  30. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:59 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Has anyone gathered up the what was twatted during the attack? You know that is coming. Dear God, imagine Columbine in todays age.

  31. CthuNHu says at 4:09 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Gopherit: He’s all the rage at freerepublic, too.

    The comments in reply to his lunacy are, naturally, overwhelmingly approving.

  32. Traveler says at 4:24 pm, June 10th, 2009

    ph7: Beat me to it! Lets see we’ve “heard” from the anti-abortionists, the white supremecists, so who’s next in the loony tunes trifecta? Neo-Nazis?

  33. schvitzatura says at 4:27 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: Didn’t Herr von Brunn know the Reichskulturkammer would have considered his ironic kit-bash/mashup of NSDAP-approved heroic realism and cubism “degenerate art”?

    The NEA’s Aesthetics-Political Reeducation Directorate is tasked to arrange transport for Herr von Brunn to Palau, without delay.

  34. BadKitty says at 6:50 pm, June 10th, 2009

    Traveler: von Brunn is a two-fer. A white supremicist and a neo-Nazi. I call BINGO!!

  35. Unlearned Hand says at 5:11 am, June 11th, 2009

    Here’s a choice comment from Freeponia:

    “On the opening day of the Holocaust Museum, a friend of mine set up a small table near the entrance, with the bodies of babies retrieved from dumpsters in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. When people saw what they were, they let loose a torrent of curses—at her. Then they went inside to participate in lamenting the Holocaust.

    I have never had the slightest interest in visiting the hypocritical, morally hollow “Holocaust Museum.”

    You display the corpses of aborted fetuses on a table, and wonder why people are SCREAMING AT YOU? I’m surprised they didn’t allege the Jews tried to eat them.

  36. V572625694 says at 7:54 am, June 11th, 2009

    Thank Jeebus, Antonin Scalia and the Second Amendment that this ancient scumbag was able to buy a gun without being inconvenienced by any socialist “permit” process. America, fuck yeah!

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