We get mad at The Media now and again, but then we remember that they have a kind of a shitty job! Not as bad as, say, coal miners or eight-year-old Bangladeshi garment workers, but still! A lot of their time is spent lurking around waiting to shout dumb questions at people that they know with 100 percent certainty will never answer them. Sometimes you’re lurking outside Louis Farrakhan’s hockey party, and sometimes you’re outside the closed doors of the Senate Republicans’ weekly luncheon, listening to everyone hoot and holler as Sharron Angle calls for Harry Reid’s assassination.
Angle arrived in D.C. yesterday, the city she hates more than anything in the world, and refused to talk to anyone, anywhere, in public. Check out this recording of her non-answers to reporters’ questions, and pity them as they stumble through their rote queries and receive only stony silence in return! She fled the gaggle of ink-stained wretches to the safe press-free zone of the GOP lunch, but the industrious scribes just stone-cold sat in the hall outside the closed doors, hoping maybe something newsworthy might happen. And it did! “[Angle] remained inside for an hour and a half. (Three short rounds of applause could be heard.)” The Post got this important scoop, because, in the great tradition of Woodward and Bernstein, their reporters didn’t get bored and wander off!
Why might Sharron Angle hate talking to the press? It could be that they will ask her questions on delicate subjects, like her threat from January to shoot Harry Reid with her hidden gun.
You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.
I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.
Ha ha, the Republicans are cheering for her now, but once she’s elected she’ll just assassinate her way to seniority, until she is the Senate Majority Leader of a caucus full of corpses. [WaPo/WaPo/WaPo]
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She was just saying that people needed their Second Amendment guns to take Harry Reid out – with votes! That’s all, it’s perfectly innocent.
The corpse caucus? Is that a faction of the Zombie party?
Do these people actually understand what they are saying? I have a suspicion that they are just stupid and think it’s impressive to deliver speeches like they see in the movies or on action shows on TV, without actually thinking through the implications of their words.
OK, so in her mind, the second amendment gives you the right to shoot people who you disagree with? I hope Glenn beck has an Iron Man suit.
You know the media– always looking for a new Angle.
ba dum dum
(sorry)
Strange, it’s only when the Demrats are in power that “armed insurrection” becomes popular again.
Yeah, it’s only a coincidence.
In re: Coal Minors: I thought we got rid of US American child labor back in the 70s?
Don’t just talk the talk. If this is really going to work, then average citizens need to own machine guns and shoulder-mounted rockets, and the GOP needs to pursue this vital Second Amendment right.
Bah, a GOP senate candidate promoting assasination and armed insurrection, whats newsworthy about that? Its not like we have a white president, then it would be shocking, but this is their agenda, now, its their only substantive policy proposal, shoot the nigger.
Coal minors? Is that Angle’s energy plan, make poor kids get our coal?
“Ms Angle, would say now is the time to crack open the skulls of liberals and feast on the goo inside?”
“Yes – with votes!”
As we all know, the 2nd Amendement clearly states that,
“A conservative theocracy, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
[re=599789]Nappied Hypotenuse[/re]: There you go again with your government regulation and interference with the free market, taking away jobs from hard-working children.
[re=599785]Terry[/re]: A lot of the older, wingnuttier Republicans don’t seem to understand the concept of recording, and apparently think whatever they say in front of a sympathetic audience will never be heard by anyone else. One would think George Allen’s “macaca” moment would have taught them all a lesson, but no.
I am old enough to remember when there were intelligent Republicans. Damn, but this current crop is stupid and the teabaggers are making them even dumber. If Harry Reid loses his seat to this nimrod, he deserves to be gone. What a moron.
[re=599793]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re] and [re=599789]Nappied Hypotenuse[/re]: GAAHHHH I FIXED.
Ya’ll tree-hugging Libruls just don’t know whuts good fer the Country. Palin/Angle for 2012! God, Guns & Guts! That’s what made this Country whut it iz today, whatever that iz.
Taxation without representation is tyranny!
But taxation WITH representation is enough for some loons to threaten to revolt while calling themselves ‘patriots’.
[re=599785]Terry[/re]: the implications of their words
Like what it would really be like to live in the mountains conducting an armed insurgency?
[re=599803]Scarab[/re]: Silly, “representation” means “my guys wins.”
Somebody should ask her about the pronunciation of Ne-VAH-da (screw you, Layne; I don’t care how they say it there. I don’t pronounce the capital of France Pah-REE, either).
[re=599791]artpepper[/re]: Ah want my reel second-mendment rites why wont teh guvment let me by a nukular bomb.
[re=599805]artpepper[/re]: Oh, they already KNOW what it would be like.
Caucus Full of Corpses is the Spin Doctors’s little-known follow-up.
You have to stand in awe of the sheer idiocy of a 21st century major political party that nominates someone this moonbat-ery for the U.S. Senate. I am really impressed. (Not in a good way.)
[re=599799]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]: This is our way of initiating/welcoming you at the Wonkettes. Don’t take it ril personal.
I like how, for the Wingnut Right, a “tyrannical government” occurs when a majority of the voters elect leaders who aren’t Wingnuts.
And now John Cornyn is saying that Angle won’t be talking to the press for a few more weeks. Apparently the GOP is going to give her that Sarah Palin crash course that makes someone such a brilliant public speaker and so knowledgeable of the facts that they’ll be unstoppable.
It reminds me of Samuel Goldwyn’s (of MGM) quote about a script: “I loved it — it just needs a complete rewrite.” Or in Angle’s case, a complete re-education, probably starting with third grade geography.
She reminds me of Mary Tyler Moore, if Mary Richards was a mindless bigot and could not turn on the world with her smile.
My pain gland is throbbin’, Robin.
Can you imagine for one second a Democrat running for office that didn’t have to speak to any media deemed unfriendly? And in the Democrats case, that would be, well, all of them.
No, no– you damn Lieberals deliberately misunderstand. She wants to take Harry Reid OUT– like on a DATE. That’s what the gun is for.
Wait this is the one married to Ozzie?
[re=599810]Lazy Media[/re]: And you shouldn’t. If you don’t live in Nevada, you pronounce it Ne-VAH-da. Don’t pronounce it correctly unless you live there. That makes it easy for the locals. Thanks.
I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out. If she had said that about Obama, the Secret Service would be all over her like flies on shit. But I guess no one minds if she threatens Harry.
[re=599791]artpepper[/re]: No, citizens have the right – nay, duty – to own nuclear weapons, bunker busters, F22s etc. I’m sick of these 2nd Amendment and NRA pussies settling for half-measures. Then let’s see Nobama try to ram health care down our throats.
thomas jefferson actually pretty much said it makes sense for each generation to write its own constitution.
i’m not entirely certain that she would agree to that…
Inquiring minds want to know about this woman’s significant other. Is he/she Bat-Shit Crazy too or just along for the ride?
[re=599810]Lazy Media[/re]: [re=599837]comicbookguy[/re]: But what if I go to Nevada? If I do what you guys say, the locals will beat me up and bury me in the Pahrump desert. It’s the same with “Colo-RAH-do,” except they don’t have a Pahrump desert.
The teabaggers’ threats to overthrow the government, fomented by Fox and talk radio hosts, are increasingly audacious. I can’t think of another example of a revolution being orchestrated by media outlets from within the nation whose government is being threatened. Beware the coming tide of fascism.
This two-fer of the Sharron Angle and Virginia story is just depressing. I still think these violent idiots are a teeny percentage of the population but the fact that people who want to be elected feel they must cater to them gets to me. It also appears that summer is, as Obama puts it, silly season. These id-driven types get out in the lawn chairs, strike up the barbecue on the firing range and pretend their penii got longer and their wives are hot. The white supremacists (including those who think they should off ‘traitors to their race’) aren’t even bothering to dog whistle now. It’s train whistling.
Oh, snark: she’s a rather odd looking, cow, no?
[re=599856]Aurelio[/re]: Nah, you’re more likely to end up in the desert if you are caught impersonating a local by using the local pronunciation. We like our tourists on the strip where they can be easily identified, tagged, and sorted by gullibility and liquidity.
[re=599856]Aurelio[/re]: We haven’t done that since around 2007, and even then the alleged “missing person” was taken across the line into California. You know, to piss off the environmentalists.
Terrific. Let’s have it on the record that not ONE Republican emerging from that meeting has called out Angle on her dangerous rhetoric. Apologies for the lack of snark. They’re all complicit.
[re=599837]comicbookguy[/re]: Well, it’s not as if there’s much danger of me going there. Gambling is for retards, and what else they got? Nuclear waste? Not as big a tourist draw as you might think.
[re=599877]Lazy Media[/re]: You forget that Nevada has the most prostitutes per person than any other state in the good ole USA. Hey you still may not want to go, but its a big draw for the Red-Staters.
[re=599797]JMP[/re]: The shock of losing everything the last two cycles has caused Republicans to only hang around with each other now, and they no longer realize that there’s something wrong with wanting to shoot people with whom you disagree. Why, all of their friends want to shoot people with whom they disagree, too!
[re=599805]artpepper[/re]:
“Like what it would really be like to live in the mountains conducting an armed insurgency?”
I’m sure they’ve seen the movie Red Dawn.
I wonder how these gun crazed wingnuts would react to group of black men hangin’ out at the local pigglywiggly packin’ AK-47′s? Just exercising their second amendment rights.
“We should shoot Harry Reid, gut him, and play in his entrails. That’s not advocating violence of course but an enlightened call to participate in your democracy by engaging in informed voting.”
I hate it when the right does this but… Imagine candidate Obama at the convention with an unmarried pregnant daughter, imagine citizens at a
GW Bush town hall with guns,imagine Obama disappearing into the west to clear brush and leaving Bidden to mind the store for huge periods of
time, imagine dems calling for the kind of treasonous bullshit these mental deficients have been spouting,etc. etc. etc. Is it me or has the world
gone mad?
[re=599887]crapshooter102[/re]: There is that.
[re=599918]Terry[/re]: WOLVERINES!!!!
[re=599963]pdiddycornchips[/re]: They’d be fine with that as long as the said black men each had only 3/5ths of an AK-47.
[re=599859]WideStance[/re]: “The teabaggers’ threats to overthrow the government, fomented by Fox and talk radio hosts, are increasingly audacious. I can’t think of another example of a revolution being orchestrated by media outlets from within the nation whose government is being threatened. Beware the coming tide of fascism.”
A good recent example was Radio Rwanda, which spent considerable time fomenting and actively supported the genocide that occurred. One of the best things about the internet, though, is that it becomes harder to hide racism and bigotry, thus keeping it relatively marginalized. Much more likely in the US will be another Oklahoma City or political assassination, by a small group of wingnuts or an individual whacko, encouraged by the rightwing echo chamber or Fox News. And when it happens they’ll be the first to deny any relationship to it.
But will she look up his skirt first? These are the questions that the Lame Stream Media refuses to ask.
[re=599812]Lazy Media[/re]: Yes, it will be just like that.
It’s really hard not to conclude that the Republicans, which includes the baggers, don’t let anyone tell you differently, are only getting away with this shit because of institutional racism and white privilege. Turn any of the incidents around, and BAM, the outcry from all elected officials and the media and everybody not doing it would be righteous and deafening.
When any given individual says, “I’m not racist,” he or she may not be. Of course some on the right, as on the left, are racist. But it’s the institutional racism, the white privilege, that’s allowing this to happen. God, I wish that was snark.
Maybe we should try to focus more on that, and less on individual racism. I don’t know, I just don’t know.
[re=600017]Katydid[/re]:
Yeah but that same institutional racial thread that runs through our collective history is the only reason Barry’s President. Not taking anything away from the guy but let’s face it, that same “white priviledge” is also responsible for white guilt. Barry’s election allowed many white voters the opportunity to purge that guilt. It made them feel better about themselves. Hope and Change dominated the narrative because deep down, it was never about the Obama, it was about what he represented in the souls of the priviledged white classes that decide elections.
[re=599983]progressiveone[/re]: Or say, a lone nut encouraged by the right-wing media assassinating a heroic doctor who provides abortions, or flying a plane into an IRS building..
God, I hope she wins her race. Every single one of her utterances will immediately be reported from every news outlet in the country, and between Bachmann, Palin and herself, will make the insanity nearly quadraphonic. Because being surrounded by the sound of screeching venal cunts is just such a joy.
[re=599983]progressiveone[/re]: That’s the scenario that I see playing out. I honestly believe that we will witness an act of Tea Bagger domestic terrorism right after the election in November, when things don’t go as the Tea Baggers envision. I sincerely hope that the perpetrators reveal that they were “inspired” by Boss Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Bible Spice to commit their crime.
“She said she won, she needed money, and wanted to be a part of the team and was glad to be here today,” said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-GA, who said Ensign also showed a recent Rasmussen poll showing Angle up 11 points against Reid. “She did a good job. She’s an articulate lady…This was an introduction. It wasn’t the kind of speech you would give to the unwashed back home, she was talking to her colleagues,” Isakson recounted.
[re=600025]pdiddycornchips[/re]: In other words, what you’re saying is not to take anything away from Obama, but he was unelectable, except for white guilt from the privileged classes, who decide elections.
No. You’re wrong. With the economy in the tank, two wars, Bush’s approval ratings, McCain’s voting record and Sarah Palin as the topper, a Democrat was very likely to be elected. In addition, in recent American history, going back Truman/Eisenhower, the country has swung back and forth between a Republican and a Democratic president just about every two terms or more. The only time since Truman was elected that we had three terms for one party was 1980-1992.
Why did Obama make it out of the Democratic primary ahead of Clinton? The answer to that is complicated, but she got more white male votes in many precincts, so there goes your white guilt theory. Who are the privileged white classes vs. the rest? All whites are privileged over people of color for certain things in this country; I was just pointing out one example.
Besides all of that, white guilt is not comparable to white privilege and institutional racism. You’re comparing apples to helicopters. You have failed to show that you understand any of those terms.
[re=599877]Lazy Media[/re]: What else they got? Well, the one worthwhile moment from when I fell for my fellow workers’ advice and took the family to Las Vegas was happening to be walking through some hotel lobby when the Tropicana Bikini Contestants trooped through right next to us. My wife knew to just stop and let me glaze over while they passed.
Oh, and Nevada also has the last of the blind Desert Pupfish in Devil’s Hole.
[re=600025]pdiddycornchips[/re]: Bull fucking shit. White guilt my ass.
[re=599968]engulfedinflames[/re]: World’s gone mad. Fascism is not coming, its here.
Can’t wait till she rolls into DC in her Pussy Wagon.
Death List 1
1. Harry Reid
2. Nancy Pelosi
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Rahm Emanuel
5. BARRY
[re=600025]pdiddycornchips[/re]: “Say what?” said the guilt-ridden white man. No, not black vs. white. Intelligent & thoughtful vs. moronic and condescending. Do you remember any McCain/Snowcunt’s antics? Right…all of them…
[re=600025]pdiddycornchips[/re]: Not buying it. White guilt might make someone use “African American” in a formal presentation or might make someone praise a black public figure. In the privacy of the voting booth, it’s a different matter. I suppose white guilt could account for a few of the votes but not enough to push Obama over the top to win by a decisive margin.
If not for the white guilt, I would totally have voted for that senile guy who wants to bomb all the other countries, and that nice lady who reads all the newspapers.
[re=600025]pdiddycornchips[/re]: I may be wrong, but people who feel privledged don’t usually feel guilty about it. That’s kind of how they maintain their privledge.
If what I’m thinking isn’t true, then there wouldn’t be so many open threats of violence. It’s another way of maintaining their privledge. And that would make what this person said kind of true.[re=600017]Katydid[/re]:
[re=600132]PsycGirl[/re]: I think the original purpose of obfuscatory polysyllabic PC terms is not to be polite, but rather to avoid unwanted attention from the violent racists. Imagine a couple of southern klansmen having lunch at their local coffee shop in the 1960s, overhearing you and a friend talk about your black lover, vs overhearing you talk about your African-American domestic partner. The former will get their attention right quick. The latter, with any luck, they’ll just hear “blah blah blah American blah blah partner” and go about their business.
But to the original point, the people who should feel the “white guilt” probably voted Republican.
Moar Rs in Sharrrrrrrron’s name, plz.
Is it me, or should this woman be in jail???? Is this or is this not an assassination threat??
[re=599800]ttommyunger[/re]: Ah but yer leavin’ out Sarahs bee-trayl. She’s not “Drill Baby Drill” Sarah na’ more. Now she pretends she ne’er was, that’s not very gutsy it’s just “stupid and full of lies don’t cha know”! (too qu-ote). Now Shar-ron Ang-al, that’s one you cain sank yer false teef inta! She’s gonna be preznit one day, just like Scott Br-own. She’ll bei haise VeePee you commie, sosh-alist and fas-shist libruls! LOLZ!
[re=599791]artpepper[/re]: “If this is really going to work, then average citizens need to own machine guns and shoulder-mounted rockets, and the GOP needs to pursue this vital Second Amendment right.”
Actually, you’re “setting your sights too low” (if you will pardon the expression). Nowadays, a “well regulated militia” needs nuclear weapons to ensure the “security of a free State.”
At least tactical nukes, anyway.
I’ll take a couple of M-28/M-29 Davy Crockett recoiless rifles armed with M388 warheads, please.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
But only for target shooting/varmit hunting.
she looks like shit….no way ‘she’ wins!
[re=600328]Neilist[/re]: And voting, of course.
[re=599785]Terry[/re]: No, they just repeat cliches and factoids for emotional impact. Usually their cliches are so stale that they have little impact any more, so they must sound outrageous to get any response at all. Angle might have someone else kill a rival, but she hasn’t the whatever to do it herself.
Most gun-idolators talk a lot about another revolution, but in fact they only shoot boyfriends, husbands, or co-workers. Even when they go postal, they don’t actually kill the bosses who have tormented and fired them, only their fellow-weaklings. Most gun idolators are cowards.
[re=599795]spoonfighter[/re]: Colonial militias were not voluntary organizations fill with random obssessives. Every male had to belong, had to drill regularly, had to fight. They were disciplined, internally and externally. Not many of our modern day gun-idolators are mentally disciplined and not many would submit to real military discipline.
Zhu Bajie, old sailor
[re=599791]artpepper[/re]: John Hostettler, congress-creep for Bloomington, IN, was elected on a platform claiming the 2d amendment allowed private individuals to own nuclear weapons. For real. Since then, he’s been arrested at least once for carrying a concealed weapon in an airport.
Zhu Bajie, alive in the bitter sea
[re=599800]ttommyunger[/re]: Teatards are lazy cowards, probably mostly Vietnam era draft-dodgers, like Bush, Cheney, Buchanan, ad nauseam. Lots of “liberals” are VN era veterans, and know which end of the gun the bullet comes from. We just don’t need to brag all the time.
[re=599798]Bordo[/re]: Same here. I used to BE an intelligent Republican — smart enough to realize when I was not welcome.
[re=599877]Lazy Media[/re]: Live weapons practice at Fallon by the Navy. Indian harlots.
[re=599887]crapshooter102[/re]: Legal? Or legal and illegal together? It’s hard to imagine stats are all that reliable. Lots of part-timers won’t admit to themselves that are prostitutes and they sure won’t admit it to the census-taker or the pollster.
[re=599918]Terry[/re]: When they actually try it, they get cold and hungry pretty quick, and end up turning themselves in.
[re=599968]engulfedinflames[/re]: The US has gone mad, anyway. It’s been building up for a long time. Think how bat-shit the Reps were in the Clinton administration! Now they are worse, perhaps because of economic hard times or the losing wars, perhaps because of racism. I think “Left Behind” idiocy has a lot to do with it, too.
[re=599983]progressiveone[/re]: Internet makes people more extreme, I suspect, because they can segregate themselves mentally, talk only with like-minded sorts. Not just right-wingers, either.
I suspect some kind of civil strife. Sometimes I suspect another Rwanda or Bosnia, sometimes I suspect something like the “years of lead” in Italy, where righties and lefties both set-off bombs and assassinated people, in hopes of starting something bigger.
I happened to be in Rome in 1980, as part of a student group, when the Milan train bombing took place. 300 were killed, I think. One of our group blurted out to a hotel clerk: “who did it? Communists?” “NO. The Fascists.”
Zhu Bajie
“white guilt” is like the horizontal vagina: you hear about it, but it doesn’t really exist.
Cut off her Medi-Care – Dan Quayle teeth brightning before she blinds all the Christers in Vegas.
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