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OH SNAP HE SAID 'HOLOCAUST'
Alan Grayson For President For Life Forever
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on Wed September 30 2009
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Jim Newell
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and from florida even. My grandparents lived in ocala, along with everyone else’s grandparents from NYC.
Has anyone noticed that google won’t sort news by date all evening? I hope this isn’t going to be a habit. If it is..and I’m noticing more and more “issues” with google..then perhaps I have no need of the intertubes.
He also kicked ass on Situtation Room.
SparkleKitty: It’s a sign of the impending Robocalypse, which will honestly make Grayson’s “Healthcare-o-caust” look pretty silly by comparison.
The study he cites is from Harvard. Well, I have a study too buddy. Let’s see, it’s from..uh..umm…I can’t actually remember the name of the university, but anyway, they claim NO one is dying from lack of insurance. Oh yeah, I just made a statement that you can’t argue with.
sweeeet… the bit about continuing to care for people after they’re born is what makes it art. could’ve done without the holocaust mention, though.
Would the good Congressman Grayson please allow his cerebrospinal fluid to be sampled and cloned and injected into his fellow Democrats so that the rest of them can grow a f***ing backbone already?
I’m strictly a breeder but I love this man!
Crank Tango: But the grandolds are outnumbered by the horse fanciers and republitards. And John Travolta.
This today and Cocktoberfest starts tomorrow. I’m the luckiest person alive.
SparkleKitty: You strike me as a quitter.
At first the acrobatic family frowned on young Alan’s decision to enter politics, afraid their good name would be tarnished by association with the infamously corrupt US House of Representatives.
This must actually be Alan “Dick” Grayson, the youngest in a family of acrobats known as the “Flying Graysons”. I like his new costume.
Ehh. So far, it’s just this guy who understands that it does no good to speak Masterpiece Theater, when professional wrestling is what ‘Murica understands.
Don’t give the Democrats credit for testicular descent just yet. They’ve not yet begun to fuck this up.
Oh I so wish I were his mistress that will soon be discovered by the Republicans and leaked to the press.
I can really only ever hope to be in a sex scandal with a Democratic politician, seeing as I don’t fit the requirements for the Republicans (i.e. under the age of 18 and male).
SparkleKitty: Does somebody need her box cleaned?
@RoscoePColtraine: I believe the study you are referring to was done by The Lewin Group.
Sharkey: That works on so many levels.
He must not be a Democrat– he’s not nice and doesn’t sing kumbaya while the Republicans incite assassinations.
Aflac Shrugged: yup– the democrats will screw this up and probably sponsor a resolution condemning him in the spirit of bipartisanship.
Sharkey: Click: Newell should keep the kitchen open late more often.
This nonsense will not fly in Florida. God willing, there will be no healthcare in Florida. You either are rich enough to pay for your colon cancer surgery, or you will die The law, and the end.
No worries; tomorrow some conservative tool will “wonder” if he is a pedophile. No facts, just sayin’.
Wonderful. On Friday when I get my disability check I will give money to this man. And America, that is what I like to do with your tax dollars to make up for things such as skoalboy.
It gave me shivers of pleasure.
Wow. Is that allowed?
I guess it’s only OK if it’s a speech in support of an ineffective compromise.
i’ve had a crush on Alan ever since I saw that clip of him tearing it into Ben Bernake. He frightens me and I like it.
While I loved that he appeared on Maddow (and now I see, CNN) in both instances the hosts got hung up on the language he used and not the substance of what he was saying. It’s the media’s favorite derailing tactic. Granted, using the word holocaust was probably unwise but the fact that 45000 people are dying/year in the so-called greatest country in the world would be laughably ironic if it weren’t so tragic.
I’d have his babies… if I wasn’t a straight male and he was a Florida Republican.
Sharkey: You mean Dick Grayson, ward of millionaire Bruce Wayne?
SparkleKitty: Try the Advanced Search under the news section. That’s working for me. But you’ll have to remember what terms you used for your custom sections.
I have video disabled so I can’t bring the snark. Sorry. I can bring a Quark instead. And a handful of Bozons…
Sharkey: Jinx
The House recognizes that the gentleman from Florida is going balls out and has made the rest of you look like bitches.
Sharkey, the batman nerd in me, salutes you.
Sharkey: God know I need a box-cleaning.
Click: Does that mean I can run for Governor of Alaska? Cuz we all know that quitters can be Governors. Right?
Jumping Jim: I was thinking maybe he was related to Amanda Grayson, daughter of a wealthy Boston family who ran off with a diplomat.
Did you see where our old pal Patrick “I Had Nothing To Do With That Gay Triple Murder-Suicide In Florida … Seriously, I Didn’t” McHenry got his panties in a wad over the Grayson remarks? Said Grayson deserves reprimand even more than Joe Wilson did. http://is.gd/3PGvP
Good thing it’s not a partisan issue …
WTF! Healthy people, literate children? What hell is this country coming to? Next thing you know the ‘underclass’ will have jobs and be able to afford a home …. an abomination! We’ll have none of that in this here US of A.
Wassa matter wid dat guy?
“Let’s remember that we should care about people even after they’re born.” I will give this man a heterosexual, respect-based blowjob.
obfuscator: the word holocaust does not just refer to what the Nazis did…it can refer to any incident where many people die…so his reference is appropriate…and awesome…
SparkleKitty: however you meant that, I hope you get it!
I’m not not normally gay… but today I’m gay for Alan Grayson.
Crank Tango: I just lost all composure. You made my night!
Crank Tango: Nope, mine live in Delray. Is there something wrong with them?
I mean, besides the obvious.
wow, how did this guy get elected in florida?
I do so appreciate that the YouTuber hosting this delicious video is the NRCC. Thanks to whichever one of you white guys (I took a shot) uploaded it!
I’m southern, ok? It takes very little to tickle me. Laugh all you want.
Jesus, why isn’t this guy writing Obama’s speeches lately?
“Death panels? We don’t *need* no stinking death panels.”
My favorite part of this video was the hot tub scene with Kris Kristofferson. It’s like a rose under the April snow.
OK, listen up! I’m not a whiner (y’all know that) but, so like, whaddup with all the straight dudes in here talking about sucking dick while making sure we’re all clear on the fact that their straight? A) Straight guys get 80% more pussy posing as a GHEY - that’s one-a-dem facts! and B) Since when do you need to act macho on Wonkett?
It really doesn’t bother me if you’re “out & proud” hetero, seriously it don’t. But I’m gay as a goose and I’ll talk about pussies and tits and girls being bitches, and not remind y’all that I’m really a cock smoker.
Alright, I’m going to go re-fill my Maker’s Mark whilst you let me have it for whining. BRB. (By the end of my 1st cocktail I start typing with a southern accent.) Oh yeah, and fuck all y’all
RoscoePColtraine: I like geese, Roscoe. I really don’t care if the geese fly north or south. I just like geese. I have a southern accent, too. I just kinda like geese. They fly the way they are meant to fly.
RoscoePColtraine: I think everyone is just a little out of sorts after seeing the dog in a hat getting ahead in the parking lot. I’m sure tomorrow everyone will be back to normal. Unless the Alaskan bloggers release that Sarah Palin slash moose video in which case things could get much stranger.
Serolf Divad: are you abnormally gay then?
SparkleKitty: word! And I still mean that! Get that box cleaned the fuck out!
spryte: I dunno, Florida scares me. And old nazi grandad used to put my stepfather’s head through the wall, so there’s that.
Crank Tango: Crank Tango: Florida should scare everyone. I know it’s time for a box cleaning, and as ugly as I am, I can probably struggle to accomplish it. But thanks for the advisory.
Some more reasons to love Rep. Grayson :
(Politico pool report via Kos) “In introducing the vice president, Grayson killed the
Democratic-friendly audience by reeling off a series of jokes about former Vice President Dick Cheney having given Biden a tour of the White House dungeon and its torture rack.” Also, Biden was nervous around Cheney because the former VP “liked to shoot old men in the face” and invited Biden to “go water boarding with him.”
Bronx-born, Harvard-educated, Democrat with functioning testicles…sorry, girls, he’s spoken for. Sigh…
RoscoePColtraine: Yeah. They all sound like crypto-Republicans: “I’m 1000% straight and my dick is twenty-two feet long, with each foot assigned to a different gorgeous 16-year-old chick-whore, but damn I’d love to blow my load while Alan Grayson looks down on me, framed by my upraised legs. If only I weren’t straight!”
Obsession / denial / cliche cold-cocking the imaginative facilities, take your pick.
SparkleKitty: we’re easy like that
Grayson for President!
Also, I have to say fuckyoumaxbaucus.com
Well said, RoscoePColtraine. Tonight we are all gay for the acrobatic Alan Grayson, no matter which way our sexy parts are usually employed.
You know what? Fuck those dead people. Why do they have to be such a strain on the economy? If we were really concerned with the cost/benefit analysis of keeping people alive, we can also see the detriment to profits putting land into a proper burial for those 48,000 dead. This is why we need real change. This isn’t a health care issue, this is an issue about squeezing money out of the corpse. There are various money making schemes here, but what the private industry should be focused on is harvesting the energy from the dead. This would create a viable profit model that would go years beyond Reaganomics.
Your’s Truly,
The GOP
qaf: Aw, it’s alright. I’m not hurt. I’m not sensitive. I was just intrigued by the macho-ness, especially after the 4th or 5th comment. It’s all for laughs anyway. My rant sparked some funny responses.
Let’s all be gay for what’s-his-face. Grayson. And apologies to the dead.
RoscoePColtraine: It might not be machoness, just emphasis. But I dunno, I’m straight. straight I tell you!
The Other Sarah T: Grayson is Harvard educated? You mean Harvard Bible College of Alberta, Idaho? Palin went there when her major was still forestry.
My new pretend lover. Sexytime!
I did a little bit to help get him elected.
You know, letters, phone calls, yard signs, etc.
I wish we could CLONE this great American.
Oh, so there really is a modern democrat with a pair. I always thought they were mythical, like a unicorn or something. Good thing this fucker is in the house right now and not the senate, because Hairy-less ballbag Reid and his blue dog buddies would of had a case of the vapors I do declare.
Hmmm, over 40 thousand a year die from lack of healthcare, whats that, like more than a 9-11 a month? Sorry Mr. treatable cancer and Mrs. curable disease, your august United States congress would like to help, really, they would. Sure they moved at warp speed(and reconciliation) for tax cuts for rich, a bogus war, skirted the constitution and ignored international treaties. But this healthcare thing, and dying people and such, its hard, really super-duper hard. Our esteemed religious right-wing, baby jeebus lovin fundies in congress just dont find your dying to be that big of a moral issue. A cute unborn fetus—yes. You, living-breathing person, not so much. And our beloved, true go with the flow, blue dog demoncrats, have to ask you….about your disease or ailment. Whats in it for me? Because Max Baucus, Blanche Lincoln and the rest are laughing all the way to the re-election fund money bank.
ummm: “He must not be a Democrat– he’s not nice and doesn’t sing kumbaya while the Republicans incite assassinations.”
Or a coup: http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/newsmax-20090929-perry_coup.pdf
coochiemama: D00d that newz is so old it’s almost off the front page of Wonkette. If it were off the page, you could be forgiven.
That sound at the end was Dennis Kucinich starbursting in his pants.
RoscoePColtraine: Now now Roscoe. I don’t think all the underscoring of heterosexuality in those offers of a blow job is some manly-man chest thumping thrown in to prove hetero manly-manliness. Simple truth is, offering to do something nice for someone ranks below offering to do something nice that you ordinarily wouldn’t want to do. Just consider the following and tell me which carries more “oomph” as praise:
1. Grayson Rocks. I’d give him a hummer any day.
2. Grayson Rocks. I’d give him a hummer any day, even though ordinarily I wouldn’t even dream of putting a penis in my mouth. (except for that one time with Kevin at summer camp. But I was young and confused and wasn’t really aroused by it. Much.)
I want to make a joke, and weigh in on this heterosexual blowjob debate, but my patriotism chip has been activated and I can’t bring myself too.
Alan Grayson rules hard.
This was the the best non-apology evah until he ended it with the word “holocaust”. Whether you agree or disagree, he’s now going to have to make yet another non-apology, and the first rule of correcting a non-apology is not to leave room open to be forced to make another. If you’re going to get that close to Godwin’s Law, you may as well go all out and say “You Republicans are just like Hitler.” or “you guys are fucking Nazi, man” or some ridiculous shit like that.
trondant: Yeah, I was so shocked that this guy just seemed to pop up out of nowhere and has the entire GOP on defense now. We need to get this one into the Senate and replace Reid.
LowerdPeninsula: But like everything else he said, he has the fact that these are the types of terms the GOP has been throwing around the whole time.
qaf: I am straight but would have gladly blown Bush or Cheney during the previous regime just to get them impeached.
Epic lulz.
I’m straight but I go to gay orgies every night and blow random guys until my internal organs are all positively coated in cum. And then take double dicks up the buttpipe and sing showtunes like Liza and drive off sitting on the stickshift of my hot pink Miata.
And I would totally blow Alan Grayson.
I demand a healthcare debate between Grayson and Jean Schmidt. They can even put it on pay-per-view. Also, I loved how the guy demanding the apology didn’t even know who Grayson is.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: It’s all figurative, except for the Miata amirite?
“Let’s remember that we should care about people even after they are born.”
The chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida as being FUCKING AWESOME!
Rock on, dude.
Just wondering if I too can be gay for Grayson, even though I am a vagina’ed-American?
shortsshortsshorts: Soylent Green!
He said THIS holocaust, not THE holocaust. So, I think he’s on solid ground, linguistically, but the Jews tend to be as oversensitive and prone to false outrage as Republicans almost, so it may have been a poor choice of words.
Yes, I wrote that and PUT IT ON THE INTERNET.
Grayson/Frank 2012! Fuck Barry, spends all his time being nice to Grampa Cornpantz.
The “holocaust” line was a lil over the top, but I’d blow his furry mascot any day.
gurukalehuru: I’d go there. Apparently Grayson promotes longevity research. He should campaign on the platform of “vote for me, and you will live for all time!”
Florida just moved up a notch in my book. It is now at notch one.
RoscoePColtraine: NO one is dying from lack of insurance. Oh yeah, I just made a statement that you can’t argue with.
The NYTimes will have to publish that as fact so that they don’t get ACORN-holed again.
Maddow asked him three times to “clarify” his use of the word holocaust. He finally gave her a begrudging “maybe it wasn’t the best choice of words” type non-apology…..THEN followed it up with this bit of awesomeness: the Republicans are “footdraggers and KNUCKLEDRAGGERS”.
He called the republicans “knuckledraggers”.
I love him.
Here
I just read his bio.
He’s great.
I will leave you with this nugget….the names of his five, adorable children:
Skye, Star, Sage, Storm and Stone. Storm and Stone, twins, were born in 2005.
http://grayson.house.gov/about/
notwavingbutdrowning: vagina’ed-American I believe the term you’re looking for is “vaginated American” or “labial-American”.
And I believe you’ll have to get in line behind the cringing, slurping heteros.
Helio: You are getting hung up on language as well. He didn’t say THE Holocaust. He said A holocaust. It is.
RoscoePColtraine:
Oh yeah, and fuck all y’all
Reminds me of
this anal bum cover.
I actually had no idea the number was so high.
Here’s an idea. No snark on this. We should build a “Health Insurance Wall” In D.C. Closely resembling the VietNam memorial. Their names, ages, illnesses and if they were screwed in some particularly malevolent way by the evil insurance companies.
gurukalehuru: You are a truther and a Jew hater. Fuck you and I put that on the internet.
gurukalehuru: Alan Grayson told me to tell you he is Jewish and he doesn’t need your support
Plastic Jesus approves of this man chastising the money-changers at the temple. Ka-ching!
AbstinenceOnly Ed : you talk prettier than a 20 dollar whore!
oops the real quote is:
you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore!
Holocaust is a word that has meaning outside of WW2. To act like someone can’t use this word in another context without people getting all shouty and outraged because of NAZI/JEWS/HITLER!!! is ridiculous and needs to stop.
That made my hangover much more bearable.
America. Fuck Yeah.
He looks like Huey P Long.
A Democrat with balls? Who let him in?
I see he’s only been in office for 9 months. That’s not long enough. Give him another nine months and he’ll be as impotent and cowed as a Nevada Boxing Commissioner.
ITMT, move over Obamessiah. I’ve got a new God now.
Wow. There’s an actual testicle-bearing man in the House of Representatives. Hats off.
hockeymom: Yeah, shame on Rachel for mimic-ing the MSM. That was disappointing. Substance over form, honey.
RoscoePColtraine: “Awwww, Mongo straight.”
hockeymom: the names of his five, adorable children: Skye, Star, Sage, Storm and Stone
Please don’t ruin the moment.
RoscoePColtraine: Well as I always tell my college age son, it’s not who you know, and it’s who you blow, what really matters is how well you blow those you know.
The beatnik Marxist radical hippies at NPR have an on-line poll:
“Should Dem. [Grayson] Apologize For Saying GOP Wants You ‘To Die Quickly’?”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/should_dem_apologize_for_sayin.html
Alan Grayson For President!
Alan Grayson is my new hero–and that’s not snark.
Congrats and kudos to Alan Grayson!
We hope he’s in office for the next 30 years!
RoscoePColtraine: skoalrebel, is that you?
hockeymom: See, here’s what I don’t get. If the media is so left-leaning (and I believe it is), why does it, too, fall for the same non-issues that the right-wing media relentlessly attacks; i.e., “die quickly,” “holocaust,” etc..
You’d think that the Maddows and Olbermanns of the world would be like, “Right on, motherfucker. I totally agree with you about …” instead of parroting the right and asking about choice of words.
I’d like to have seen Maddow tell Grayson, “I would fuck your brains out, even though I’m as gay as they come.”
mookworthjwilson: I’ve been wondering about this as well. I’m no dictionary nerd, but the word means what it means. There was a fairly popular phrase in my youth known as a “Nuclear Holocaust” which we were all supposed to be worried about. That didn’t seem to be offensive to the Jews. Well, any more than mass death and destruction is offensive to most folks.
groove: “See, here’s what I don’t get. If the media is so left-leaning (and I believe it is), why does it, too, fall for the same non-issues that the right-wing media relentlessly attacks; i.e., “die quickly,” “holocaust,” etc..”
I think the contradiction in your post kind of answers your own question.
Here’s what your average teabagger hears when he listens to this -
“Harvard Study” = Liberal lies
“the dead Americans” = “black people, so who cares?”
“those who can’t afford insurance” = “illegal immigrants and deadbeats, so who cares?”
SparkleKitty: Why do I get the feeling you’re always either trying to start a fight - or run from one? I don’t trust you. Don’t talk to me.
finallyhappy: Even Bernard-Henri Levy says (in a much more sophisticated way) that the [Jewish PR flacks] have hasbra’d the word “holocaust” to such an extent that nobody anymore can tell a Sudanese/Bosnian/health-care/whatever holocaust with real dead people from a fucking Sunday afternoon BBQ.
As we have just seen, it is almost always referred to as “The Holocaust,” as if 3 million or whatever Armenians weren’t dead also, not to mention the cryps, Gypsies and fags, and you, too, if certain people had their wishes.
The word has a meaning, and if there’s only one single thing you can take away from the knuckledraggers on the right, it’s this: control the language and you control the debate.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holocaust:
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin holocaustum, from Greek holokauston, from neuter of holokaustos burnt whole, from hol- + kaustos burnt, from kaiein to burn — more at caustic
Date: 13th century
1 : a sacrifice consumed by fire
2 : a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire
3 a often capitalized : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II —usually used with the b : a mass slaughter of people; especially : GENOCIDE
The man used the word in context, and he probably meant what he said. I thought you people were smarter than that.
Click: I’m channeling Roscoe P. Coltrain’s hangover.
Pardon me for screwing up the HTML.
Beanball: “I thought you people were smarter than that.”
I’ll take that as a compliment?
Personally, I’m dumbed than a box of rox, but, as Newel says above, we’re all racists today.
Grayson was one of the candidates to whom I donated in the last election. Best money I ever spent on a politician.
I tried posting a comment on the YouTube page and it’s “pending approval” — if the approval has to be by the NRCC then it will probably never see the light of day. After the first comment critical of the Republicans they may have started screening them, which would explain why there’s only that one comment and it’s from 19 hours ago.
YouTube should show how many comments are pending approval and how many have been rejected.
*STANDING O* clapclapclapclapclap!!!!
He may be right, but he should still apologize for that hairpiece.
If you liked that, you’ll love this bit of history.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/09/25/have-the-federal-reserve-or-prime-brokers-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/
hockeymom: I really hope Stone’s middle name is Cold.
This guy went to Harvard Law School, got a Master’s degree from the JFK School of Government, and clerked under Supreme Court Justices. Yet he communicates in very simple language and is absolutely fearless. Yesterday on the Situation Room he deftly stayed on subject and destroyed the Republican talking head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3gND4M9HA
The last guy we had like this on the national scene was Paul Wellstone (who, by the way, Grayson once worked for). Grayson may be the perfect guy to run interference for Obama.
Also he should stay away from small aircraft.
Downtheroadapiece: It would set him up real well to follow in his father’s footsteps.
glamourdammerung: I would have had trouble not biting theirs off, were I in that position. But I salute your patriotism, and would contribute $50 to mouthwash, antibiotics or other medical expenses.
RoscoePColtraine: It’s actually more of a fuchsia.
RoscoePColtraine: You has the stoopid. Go away.
Beanball: I thought we were all Georgians now. Oh wait. That was last year. But at what point did we stop being Georgians?
I’d like to bastardize a semi-popular internet meme to describe Grayson’s awesomeness:
i think Alan Grayson is a pretty cool guy. eh kills republicans’ egos and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Go, Grayson, GO. You milquetoast dems could learn a lot from people like Grayson and Barney Frank, they not only know how to play the game, but how to shove the tiny playing pieces up republican’s whiny asses, backwards. Let them teach you how to Grow A Pair.
Downtheroadapiece: or phillips
Yeah, that was kind of hot. Kind of really hot, actually.
He called it A holocaust; not THE holocaust. Everyone join my facebook group Alan Grayson for president in 2016