Hey you guys, are you going to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial on “8.28.10”? We should all carpool with Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin in their cars/snow machines and sing “Cat Scratch Fever” on the way, it will be so cool. But if their rides are full, then maybe our National Rifle Association friends can take us to the rally, which is being promoted with Abe Lincoln posters. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was shot once?
So was Martin Luther King, Jr. — and as Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president Paul Helmke points out, August 28 is the anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech, also at the Lincoln Memorial. Wonder how Lincoln and MLK would feel about the NRA. Or about the NRA’s new magazine cover (as seen here thanks to Media Matters for America and their scanning technologies), which looks junky.
Supposedly the rally, which is being organized by Beck and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, won’t be political at all because it’s all about honoring the troops and Freedoms. But all of the speakers are known for their political views and for being psycho, basically, so if everyone stays on message then it will be a miracle. And Abe Lincoln and MLK will rise from the dead to become spokesmen for the NRA, and there will be peace in America. [Huffington Post]
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Gun nuts and Glenn Bekc. Yeah, nothing bad will come from this. Yup, nothing at all.
they’re going to cut tom hanks’ mic. i just know it.
I heard that Lincoln was a gun nut. In fact, I heard he even collected bullets. cough, cough… What, too soon?
Gonna sell all my gold so I can buy a cheap bus ticket, cause that shit ain’t worth much after all.
“1st Freedom”? Uh, someone should tell the NRA exactly which Amendment it is that deals with the guns for well-regulated militias.
The Becktards need to be mocked like a Westboro Baptist Church protest at Comic-Con.
Has this event been officially sanctioned by the United States Association of Xenophobic Profiteers? I know Chairman Cheney has been indisposed (for about 40 years, mentally), but nevertheless…
Special Ops Warrior
SOW
Does it to you?
Only the specialest of warriors can come. And no dames neither!
Everyone knows that Lincoln wouldn’t have been shot if Mary Todd had been packing heat.
And, really, MLK’s problem was that he didn’t have enough guns. Because a group of black men walking around with guns is a sight that any conservative would be happy to see.
What a bunch of morons. These people need to just go away.
[re=626308]Sparky McGruff[/re]: It was a small collection. He stopped after just one.
Roadtrip with Palin and Nugent? I’m in. I call shotgun!!
I don’t think this sp ops warrior will be makin’ the trip. Unless, sputter, mutter, where is that M79 and those bee hives?
[re=626308]Sparky McGruff[/re]: He liked those old antiquey ones best, huh?
Lauri, can you come pick me up in Minneapolis? I’ll totally give you gas money. If you (understandably) don’t want me to ride in your car, I can just jump on my hoverboard and hold onto your bumper Marty McFly style, but in that case I will only give you half the gas money I was gonna give you in the first place.
This deal makes sense for America.
The NRA is a bottomless gusher of money and this is the shit design they use on their magazine? Now I hate them double.
Afterwards, they were going to honor some more of Conservative’s favorite heroes by dropping by the JFK Memorial Flame, passing the Robert Kennedy Memorial on the way.
Did Glenn Beck specifically request that a picture of him looking like a doddering idiot sucking on a lemon drop be used in this ad? Or is he just all going to hell now that he’s tragically afflicted with macular dystrophy and might have — gasp! — slightly blurry vision?
But all of the speakers are known for their political views and for being psycho, basically, so if everyone stays on message then it will be a miracle.
As I’m sure this will be a peaceful gathering of Xtian “Patriots”, I give that whole miracle thing about 10 seconds. And that will be the introduction.
Shouldn’t their magazine be “America’s Second Freedom”?
I am a gun owner and this is why I will never support the NRA.
Wait. NRA members can read?
[re=626349]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Good point considering the NRA and other gun nuts appear to believe that the Constitution only has one Amendment.
That magazine cover needz moar blingeez.
[re=626340]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Poor James Garfield and William McKinley never get any recognition.
[re=626306]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I can’t stand the NRA, but I’d say the odds of this becoming violent are WAY lower than the odds of, say, a free concert starring an act popular with the kidz. The kind of goobers who’d attend something like this are gonna be on their best behavior, demonstrating how safe universal concealed carry would be.
[re=626308]Sparky McGruff[/re]: You laugh, but Lincoln WAS interested in guns; he kept trying to get the Army to adopt fancy new ones.
[re=626316]JMP[/re]: [re=626349]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Given the circulation demographic and general political bent, I’m surprised it isn’t called “America’s First and ONLY Christian Freedom, You Pinko Commie Muslin Faggot!”
Hmm. Now that I think about it, perhaps they are referring to the 1st amendment, in that they have the freedom to publish whatever insane rhetoric they please, no matter how irresponsible or potentially dangerous, that will help them carry guns at all times, in every place, in every orifice.
You can never go “too far” when considering the NRA’s machinations.
[re=626319]Troubledog[/re]:
More like Special Olympics Warriors – with a special appearance by the RedState Trike Force.
[re=626338]Nappied Hypotenuse[/re]:
I would have figured that a gun organization’s magazines would be all lumpy, what with all of the bullets in them.
LAURI APPLE HATES FREEDUMBZ! Lauri, why do you hate Amerikkka?
you know, i think it’d be great if people held a counter protest. just sit quietly (since all the glenn beck kids will be riled up, they can’t help but yell and scream at people doing nothing). or maybe bring vuvuzelas (we all know how big of a fan GB is of the world cup)
I have a dream: That one day, department stores will hold white sales to honor my birthday, and that hucksters will gather here, many years from now, with guns in their hands, and blood in their hearts, to pervert my dream and dishonor my memory. Well, it’s more like a nightmare, but you get the point.
[re=626358]Hooray For Anything[/re]: And even that begins with an ellipsis. Really, on the wall of the NRA headquarters is an inscription that reads “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Good thing the founding fathers meant for us to ignore the first part of that.
I wonder if they would welcome a contingent of New Black Panthers w/armaments to their shitty little get-together for arrested development losers?
[re=626364]JMP[/re]: What presidents WEREN’T shot at in the past century? Bush, Bush I (although there was a bomb plot by Iraqis, supposedly, to kill him in Kuwait), Carter, Nixon(!), LBJ, Ike, Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson, Taft. That’s 11.
Shot at: Roosevelt (hit while out of office, but running), Roosevelt (missed, while mayor of Miami was killed next to him), Truman (assassins’ gun battle with cops outside his window), JFK (obvs), Ford (missed twice!), Reagan (hit), Clinton (White House attacked by gun AND airplane). Seven.
So, looks like Hopey has a better than 50-50 chance not to get shot at. And only a 1 in 18 chance to get killed. Cool!
[re=626308]Sparky McGruff[/re]: Presidential support for the 2nd Amendment tends to decline sharply with the 1st bullet. Taking a lead lunger turned ole Ronnie “two guns” into a commie liberal bastard!
Lincolon’s repeater ruled!
Old Abe was such a gun nut he got his man Sherman to organize an armed march all the way to Atlanta. Brought down the house!
I’ve seen what’s around the corner. I’ve seen what’s over the horizon and I promise you, you niggas have nothing to celebrate! And no, I wont get there with ya. I’m goin’ to Canada.
[re=626316]JMP[/re]: [re=626349]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: No, it really does fall under the heading of the First Amendment, and specifically freedom of religion: These people worship their guns.
[re=626374]madwalrusinabox[/re]: And, and, and, they could wear sunglasses and have white canes!
Oh, snap. No, they didn’t. A boneless rib sandwich. What will they think of next? I know I shouldn’t eat these. But they’re for a limited time only.
[re=626365]Lazy Media[/re]: There’s violent rhetoric too. The odds of this pathetic show having violent rhetoric is 100%. (I don’t know how to say that correctly.)
True connoisseurs of the ouvre of Ted Nugent do NOT sing “Cat Scratch Fever.” We sing “Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang.” And you know that Palin knows all the words.
Glen looks totally ripped in that picture. Like 2 tokes over the line ripped. Who knew he was a stoner?
[re=626381]Lazy Media[/re]: Is anyone as old as I? Does anyone remember when Richard Pryor, pre-freebasing-accident Richard Pryor, did his imitation of the first black president? He didn’t say anything, just stood at a podium constantly ducking and weaving. So the snipers could not aim, of course.
After the unfortunate incident with the “brandy snifter,” we kids, oh we were so yuck yuck funny, back in the 70s, we had this great joke that involved striking a match, and then using the match as a crude little puppet figure of a m man with his head on fire, screaming and running around, while you ask “whats this?” The answer, “Richard Pryor.”
NRA to Jim Brady: Quit being such a pussy. You don’t hear MLK complaining.
Gary Sinise will be there! Lt. Dan! You got new (right wing) legs!
[re=626306]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
The Park Police don’t get paid enough to deal with this bunch.
[re=626395]Katydid[/re]: And you must remember the Risky Business rule, which says “If you can’t say it, you can’t do it.” Conversely, the more openly and freely you say it, the more likely you will do it. This is regarding the violent rhetoric.
[re=626398]Mad Farmer Manifest[/re]: actually, if this was 15 years ago, you’d be totally right about that.
Banning the use of handguns in our homes would be *terrible* for special ops warriors. How will they ever be able to lash out and shoot family members when their inevitable (inexorable?!) PTSD kicks in?
[re=626401]Prommie[/re]: “Is anyone as old as I?”
Um, John McCain?
I can’t wait for the rousing rendition of “We Shall Overcome.” And maybe Sarah Palin will honor MLK by saying how if King were alive, he’d protest them muslims building a mosque near Ground Zero.
“I’m American! I’m American! Fuck the French!” and that was cool. Then they said, “I’m American! I’m American! Fuck the Arabs!” and that was cool. Then they said, “I’m American! I’m American! Fuck illegal immigrants!” Then I started listening ’cause I know niggas and jews is next.
[re=626386]GoinGreen[/re]: Whatta pinko! How could any true American be opposed to shotguns, which are used only for hunting.
[re=626401]Prommie[/re]: Racist. “No black American president has ever been shot at. It’s the white man who has to fear the assassin.” (excerpted from Jim Webb’s next op-ed).
What does “Freedom” sound like when there’s a tilde over the “o”? Angrier?
[re=626414]JMP[/re]: [re=626406]Prommie[/re]: And me. I remember “Journey to the Center of the Mind,” which truly was Ted’s greatest hit.
The Rev. King couldn’t be here today to tell us how much he supports white southern conservatives with guns. Let’s look in our Texas history books to see how the NRA worked with MLK to fight against socialism and affirmative action.
[re=626434]Lazy Media[/re]: Statistically speaking, presidential assassinations have been exclusively white-on-white violence, probably due to our genetic predisposition towards being and shooting presidents.
As a tribute to Beck’s inspirational leader, they were planning to do this rally in Nuremberg. However swastikas and handguns are illegal in Germany.
Lincoln said “It’s because they hate our femdoms. He’s often misquoted.
Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy and MLK and Bobby Kennedy and Malcolm X and Gerald Ford and Reagan all would be alive today had they been packin’ heat to defend themselves. That’s why we all need to have guns on our hips at all times. To defend ourselves against assassins.
[re=626437]V572625694[/re]: Amboy Dukes, playing at the Cellar in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
I think a true originalist would interpret the 2nd amendment as allowing the people to keep and bear the arms of 1789. That would be fine with me, if everybody who wanted to was equipped with a muzzle-loading, black powder flintlock. Why not? That had to be what the Founders had in mind. Oh, and knives too, of course. And clubs, also.
[re=626446]weejee[/re]: Ha ha! HTHS class of ’66.
[re=626437]V572625694[/re]: [re=626446]weejee[/re]: BTW, the Tedster says for realz and for certain he did not know that song was about drugz. Gimme a break.
[re=626317]Come here a minute[/re]: Ahem. Way kool, but I have a bone to pick with the furry or whatever holding the Odin sign in http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/07/img1019.jpg.
There is no “Mighty Thor #5.” Thor’s sequential numbers start at #126, when it was renamed from Journey Into Mystery. Not directed at you per se, but if one is going to beat on “Team Dee Dee-Dee,” one should strive for a modicum of accuracy. Anyway…
[ducks into phone booth, emerges]
Ahem. Bawling fuckhead Beck, his coke stash is running low, so his mouth and hands will get busy at this TEABAGGER convention, as he waits for toddlers to bend over, and indulge his fantasies.
The nazi and Hitler extravaganza is going to be incredible. I heard Ted Nugent is going to have some kick ass Jew ovens spittin out rockin flames. Yeah!
[re=626443]FormerDCite[/re]: You said it better.
Maybe we’ll get lucky when the Nuge tries to shoot the apple from atop Beck’s head while demonstrating a Nazi family favorite, the story of William Tell.
Those fuckers take a lot of the fun out of shooting. And it is fun, until someone starts flapping their lips about politics and then I have to stop and remind them how certain they were about stomping into Iraq. And that now they no longer deserve to even think about politics much less share their opinions.
[re=626357]ThePuckStopsHere[/re]: Its a coloring book.
I’m good for one way tickets if any of the wingtards who live near me want to go (and not return).
[re=626369]Oblios Cap[/re]: Trig is deeply offended by that remark.
I thought crybabies were ascared of loud bangs.
Man, romance novel cover art has really gone downhill since Fabio hung up the ol’ suede breeches.
Dear Wingnuts,
You know how you can immediately tell someone hasn’t thought through their side of an argument? When they don’t volunteer the downsides.
Libtard view of 2nd amendment: Pervasive gun ownership may allow people to protect themselves from crime, but this is not worth the risk of increased casual violence and domestic abuse.
Wingnut view of 2nd amendment: Pervasive gun ownership will allow people to protect themselves from crime. It will ensure states rights because the United States military is afraid of fat guys with squirrel rifles. Additionally, it will cause space aliens to not invade. It will cure the deficit and straighten my teeth. Also: unicorns.
[re=626401]Prommie[/re]: You left out the one about Jacko and Pryor being chairpersons of the “Ignited Negro College Fund.”
And the rest of you Liberal Commie Pinko SCUM: If you think that magazine is the worst thing about the NRA, you have another thing coming.
The “Association” has a mailing list that will fill your mailbox with more demands for money; scare letters; and non-denominational bullshit that there won’t be any room for the rest of your junk mail.
And, Dear SCUM, you’re missing the point: Palin and Beck woulds make wonderful TARGETS.
[Hey, one more thing: Fredrick Douglas thought Lincoln was an overrated hack politician. And you know how those violent those Africans can be when armed . . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9uUIPrJoA&feature=related ]
Abraham Lincoln did, to be fair, support Grant and his “first General who can do the math” tactic of the charnel house. His reasons were somewhat better than Wayne LaPierre’s, though.
The bad thing about the NRA isn’t that it exists. The bad thing is that they haven’t had a single argument that hasn’t been disproven empirically or historically, and yet they keep on going, and we have to keep hearing them, because their supporters are arguing from desire and fear, not reason.
[re=626469]Oldskool[/re]: the ones I run into just do not stop flapping their lips, even if I say “stop damnit, thats it, I’m done, jus’ stfu”.
[re=626462]Golfing OJ[/re]: But there was a Thor #5, in the late 90s, when it (along with the other Avengers-related books, and Fantastic Four) was rebooted following Onslaught and Heroes Reborn/Return. They’ve since returned to the original numbering, but it’s out there.
[re=626509]Geogre[/re]: “The bad thing is that they haven’t had a single argument that hasn’t been disproven empirically or historically . . . .”
Excellent point. I mean, let’s simply ignore the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Heller, City of Chicago, etc.
Just because YOU disagree with those decisions, they’re CLEARLY wrong – i.e., “disproven empirically or historically . . . “!
Any other Supreme Court decisions you want to ignore? (I’ll spot you Dred Scott: That’s never been officially overruled by case precedent.
[Gesh. The Anti-Gun Nuts are as screwy as the Nut Guns. But at least the latter are armed.]
But I am sure we can all agree on one thing: All minority groups — Negros, Mexskins, Jude — should be disarmed immediately. Surely, these “nominal Americans” will be safe in their reliance on the white majority.
As the empirical and historical evidence proves.
[Make that: "Liberal Commie Pinko Ignorant SCUM . . . ."]
You know if MLK had been packing that day, the dream might still live on. Some for old Abe.
Sharron Angle needs to be there.
The NRA has a point. History might have been different if Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, Jessie Jackson, James Bevel, etc. have been in a position to return fire. It is a well known fact that an uppity negro in the South packing heat had nothing to fear.
Perhaps the carrier thing is that Glen Beck appears to be aping Velvet Goldmine for his rally, except without the cool costumes, drugs and music, but with even more overt homosexuality. Sadly for Beck, while he longs to be a martyr, it is the very people he is speaking to that tend to shoot at those that disagree with them. Maybe Beck can get Bill O’Reilly to start to refer to him as a baby killer?
Last time I was at the Lincoln Memorial it was midnight. I’d gone to see the Maya Lin Vietnam memorial late at night, then walked across to the Lincoln Memorial just in time to see some scrawny kid climb up into Lincoln’s lap with a six-pack of beer, sit there, and start drinking. It was a good 2 or 3 minutes before security even noticed him and yelled out “Hey you kid! Get down from there!” I remember thinking at the time (somewhat uncharacteristically): “This is a great country.”
[re=626401]Prommie[/re]: I’m sorry to say I remember that joke. And, apropos of nothing, I also remember Richard Pryor’s short lived variety show (4 episodes, I think), which featured an unforgettable performance by The Pips without Gladys Knight, singing only their back-up part to “Midnight Train to Georgia” – entertainment worth at least 32 million Glenn Becks.
Just a second…there…fabulous – it’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdN27HzoyO4
Anyway, there’s my Joe Brainard “I Remember” entry of the day.
I’m in. Load my 8 gauge shotgun!!
Me an’ Sarah will be smokin’ crack on the half-gov’s private zepplin and hab a 3-way with Charron Ingle over a pot farm near Pahrump and all three take a dump on a Reno bear from 800 feet.
Surely there are some dead Kennedys who could get behind the NRA’s effort to put guns in the hands of the mentally ill.
[re=626452]V572625694[/re]: Forest View in AH, also 66
Gov. Sarah Palin will be there. That is all ye need to know.
[re=626523]sati demise[/re]: They make it awfully hard to be nice about it.
Ah, Amboy Dukes, before it became obvious that the Nuge was whatever it is that he is.
HEY BLECK, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR EYESIGHT WHEN YOU GET NEAR DINGBAT BARBIE AND THEN YOU LEAVE THE ROOM TO YOU KNOW … BECAUSE THERES NO WAY YOU[RE GETTING IN HER PANTS AND WHATNOT SINCE SHE ALREADY HAS ONE ASSHOLE IN THERE ALSO.
Oh yea! Big party at the Lincoln Memorial with the NRA, Glenn B & Bible Spice.
Which do you think looks better with my full on cammo suit, the red, white & blue snub nose .38 or the Clint Eastwood .44? Maybe I should bring one of my sniper rifles in stead?!? Well, I have till the end of August to figure it out…
[re=626619]Can O Whoopass[/re]: Careful, that might be MY pot farm, and I’m armed to the teeth!
I have it on good authority that the pistol that was used to shoot Abraham Lincoln was unregistered.
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