By the voice and cadence and crazy words coming out of his mouth about things that have nothing to do with being governor of Florida, you would think Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott is a dim paranoid schizophrenic like our pal Ernest J. Pagels, Jr. Is he? Who knows? But with this video, Scott has officially won the campaign ad-making portion of the 2010 Miss Bigot USA Contest. Congratulations! You have some stiff competition (Newt will stop at nothing!), but maybe you will take home the tiara. [YouTube]
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Rick Scott Wins Contest To Be First Candidate To Cut Mosque Ad, Does Hilarious Pagels Impression
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Opportunistic much Rick?
He’s just pissed that he lost his hair so early in life.
Ground Zero would make a great place for an all-white, evangelical BIBLE BELIEVIN’ Church! (But no progressives or loud women.)
He’s won my vote! I’m sure he’ll also do something about the strip clubs and go-go bars in downtown Manhattan too!
With the mellow guitar background, I was sure he was going to break into song at the end. Hopefully an amanedes.
I don’t know If Ground Zero is a good place for a mosque, but I am positive that Florida is a great place for morons to take a stab at getting elected to something.
We’ve turned into a right lot of pussies, haven’t we? Good grief.
“Just yards from Ground Zero.”
Hundreds and hundreds of Jesusy, no Muslins allowed yards. And a couple of buildings.
I don’t know if Ground Zero is a great place for a Mosque, but I’m positive that Florida is a great place for morons to rise to the top of the political dung heap.
And congrats to Harry Reid on selling out Obama on the Mosque issue! I mean, the republicans, if George Bush says we ought to torture children (and, I think he did) no one in their party make’s a peep. But our guy takes a principled, righteous stand, and it everyone for the exits.
Where’s all the hallucinogenic founding fathers and oaths to the Constitution crap now?
[re=639776]eyegoneblack[/re]: Less than 30 parsacs.
The truth; Ground Zero is in New York and Rick Overbite Chromedome isn’t.
Is it just me, or does he chrome dome look like a minaret???
They never miss a chance to froth the bubbas up do they. If they manage to get this blocked, and take it to the supremes, who will no doubt go along party lines and shred the constitution and okay the zoning of religious establishments, will it ever dawn on the fucking idiots that their places of religion might be next? I’m betting not.
But Communist China can do whatever the fuckall it wants, thankyouverymuch
Hmm, looks curiously like the old dude in the ‘makemeold’ ad on the upper right?
Just a cleaner shirt this time?
Why does he keep saying ‘brown zero’? Is it a speech impediment or some code for ‘teh gayz’?
What does he think about Target getting the okay to open a store in Harlem?
Just like the old saw, Rick Scott is the turd-in-the-hand while Michele Bachmann and Sharron Angle are the two batshit biddies with a bush. Or something like that.
“The leader of the mosque refused to admit that Muslim extremists use terror tactics…”
So is Mr. Scott’s assertion here that religious leaders who make blatantly erroneous statements about empirical facts should not be allowed to worship as they choose? Because I’d love to see that put into action.
Unfortunately that’s not his point, and Mr. Scott — as a real estate speculator who got filthy rich off the foreclosures of thousands of American dreams — really doesn’t have shit to say about the sanctity of a fucking square inch of real estate that anyone should listen to.
Wow, a year ago, we were worried about Obama and his death camps killing grandma because she wanted a flu shot. Now he is building a Mosque. I guess by next year the main complaint of Republicans will be that he won’t pick up after his dog…, just like Hitler and Stalin wouldn’t do either.
These are the same morons who scream, “Read the Constitution” and yet are the first ones ready to stomp on it. And it’s not “yards” from Ground Zero, it’s two blocks away, where a super-patriotic Burlington Coat factory stands. Opportunistic jerk like this one probably hates “elitist” New York anyway.
What the hell is “tere?” And since when is Ground Zero in Florida? And why doesn’t the Miami-Dade area have any of those traffic-light changey-thingies for their ambulances?
[re=639793]Not_So_Much[/re]: Give ‘Brown Zero’ back to the brown bears!
We should build an Applebee’s at Ground Zero.
Hey, Rick. Don’t you just hate them Mexicans too? You know they’re all drug mules, right?
So ground zero is in Florida now?
Let’s build a mosque next door to Rick’s house instead, because Flodrida is a real long way from Ground Zero.
That talking genitalia sure don’t like the A-Rabz do he?
[re=639817]BarackMyWorld[/re]: Today, everywhere is ground zero.
Like Rick Scott would know anything but defrauding the Feds as CEO of HCA to the point where HCA had to pay out some 2.3 billion in penalties and lawsuit awards.
BTW, why does a candidate in FLA give two shits about what is going on in NY? STATES RIGHTS!!!!
At this very moment, known homosexuals are riding UN-provided bicycles–right in the middle of downtown Denver, USA! Why won’t Rick Scott (if that’s even his REAL name) take a stand on this issue? What is he hiding, and why is he sidestepping Florida’s most urgent moral crisis?!?
You know what else is just yards from Ground Zero? Mandel Goldberg Fabrics — a known muslin gathering place. Curse you First Amendment and your freedom of weave!
BREAKING NEWS!!
My mate in California just emailed me and said a high court has blocked the gay marriages that were supposed to start tomorrow…
Here’s a link:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=11411599
I wonder what Obama’s position is on the building of new Mexican Restaurants within five miles of our holy boarder? Bet he thinks that is allowed by his living, breathing Constitution.
[re=639832]Bearbloke[/re]: here’s another link
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/court-halts-california-gay-marriages-pending-appeal/story-e6frg12u-1225906194217
But isn’t “New York” full of those JEWS who MURDERED Jesus? Such that a mosque would be GOD’S PUNISHMENT on those ACCURSED CHRIST KILLERS?
[Boy, amazing how handy a classic Catholic education can be, you know?]
Is anyone else tired of this fucking mosque? Will I be targeted for calling a mosque fucking? If the builders of the proposed luxury community center (think of it, people: muslins doing laps in an Olympic sized pool just yards from ground zero) wanted to really change the debate, they could take all that money and put it into aid for Pakistan. Those are muslins who are doing far too much swimming.
[re=639777]kenlayisalive_dot_org[/re]: Heya! I just want to thank you all for not lumping all of us muslims in with the terrorists. I can’t believe Reid sold out to hatemongers to get elected. I am so disappointed in him. Basically what Reid said is that all muslims in America are guilty for 911. This hurts.
Just so everyone knows – there are plenty of muslims who are very liberal minded, who support gay rights and gay marriage, who don’t hate Israel or Jews, who love America and were horrified by what OBL and his ILK did.
All of this hatemongering about the Islamic cultural center is so depressing. It helps to read comments like the ones here.
Thanks
[re=639840]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Speaking as a dirty furriner, I don’t understand why the whole area wasn’t federalised and memorialised a few years back, like the Pearl Harbour memorial. That way, your govt would have much more control over what was built there and the issue of this upcoming mosque would be moot… I blame Bush!
This is a good thing. He wins GOP nomination over much more solid guy with actual experience.
If the Democrats can’t beat a former CEO of a company that committed Medicare fraud – in Florida – what is the point of continuting to support them?
[re=639844]Bearbloke[/re]: The space in question is two city blocks away from Ground Zero. Even if the Feds had taken over the foot print of the buildings destroyed on 9/11, this wouldn’t be part of it. This whole issue is just pure fear mongering and rabble rousing. It’s disgusting. Christ, the ONE thing I kind of admired about Bush was his care to make very strong statements about not blaming an entire religion for the act of a few radicalized assholes.
THIS ISSUE HAS ME DEFENDING GEORGE BUSH PLEASE KILL ME THE FUCK NOW!
Huh?? I thought this country solved all issues of religious tolerance when we elected that papist Jack Kennedy. What gives?
This mosque would be like allowing white crackers to demonstrate against the guvment practically alongside the OKC Memorial where 168 Oklahomans died at the hands of Timothy McVeigh who targeted them precisely because they were government employees.
Wait a sec: let me check me check the archives.
Oh, damn. Boy, is my face red. The teabaggers actually did just that, a few blocks up from where the Murrah Buidling was blasted.
Well, there ya’ go.
[re=639789]Fox n Fiends[/re]: “Communist China”
You mean Red China? Mao sure the last laugh on us, didn’t he?
[re=639832]Bearbloke[/re]: It makes me fearful they will ignore the fact the appellants have to show how they would be harmed if the ban isn’t upheld, since the Guv and AG aren’t going to appeal the judge’s decision.
As you were: back to the goofy topic at hand.
[re=639851]Witch Hazel[/re]: [re=639859]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Whilst I was in the States on my Overseas, I visited OKC (with its pisswater beer!) and the Memorial… the Memorial seems quite large, perhaps encompassing many city blocks… I don’t see why the ’9/11 National Memorial’ couldn’t be as large or larger, commensurate with the enormity of the Attack and its aftermath…
[re=639863]Bearbloke[/re]: Because real estate in OKC goes for pennies and in NYC for millions. Also because the mosque or cultural center or swimming pool is being built on the site of a former Burlington Coat store- not at the site of the Towers.
[re=639832]Bearbloke[/re]: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
That is all.
p.s. Fuck.
Dude needs some respiratory therapy, sounds like he can barely speak.
(BTW: Thanks, Harry.)
[re=639778]Radiotherapy[/re]: Hey that freedom of religion stuff is only for God Fearing, Jesus Loving, Gun Toting right wing Christian retards.
[re=639838]Neilist[/re]: beloved Sister Caligula and her
riding cropruler.I always thought Mr Clean was an asshole.
Blocks from the holy Trade Tower sacred ground is the Stage Door Deli. There you can buy corned beef, chicken oreganato, lettuce and tomato salad in vinagrette dressing, and Greek style roasted potatoes in a buttery sauce. How can Obama encourage these kitchen militants to desecrate holy ground, by continuing to sell this mish-mash of Un-Amerikan foods? Where is the Kraft macaroni and cheese that our martyrs died for?
Baldy says it’s about truth, then lies for 30 seconds. Where do they get the balls? Wait, I’m wrong, it’s not having balls, it’s not having a conscience.
[re=639863]Bearbloke[/re]: The Murrah Building in OKC was federal land already. The Twin Towers site was and is private land. Or perhaps it was owned by the NYC Port Authority and the Towers were privately owned. Seems to me there has been a whole debate about who gets to develop the site because of that issue, but I’m too lazy to check teh Google.
In any case, I can only imagine the reaction if the federal government tried to seize the private land of Ground Zero plus the surrounding land for a two-block radius to build a memorial. It couldn’t be done. The government would have to pay through the nose for the land, as I’m pretty sure it had to do with the land where United 93 crashed in PA, where a memorial is now going up.
[re=639841]SufiSaurus[/re]: Aw, you’ll make Wonkette blush.
[re=639844]Bearbloke[/re]: Pearl was already a military installation, so no federalizing was needed.
[re=639841]SufiSaurus[/re]: You made me cry, I am so ashamed of these people right now and I am not even American, but I am a New Yorker and we here in Sodom are pretty much fine with the Cutural Centre being built on the site of the Hallowed Burlington Coat Factory.
Can we all agree that this mosquegate is all class-A bullshit?
Vote for me, Rick Scott: Muslin Hater.
And, you know, I’m actually prepared to listen to objections from either (1) people who lost family or friends on 9/11, or (2) New Yorkers whose jobs or housing require them to frequent the area. (Listen to, not grant an automatic veto).
But few, if any, among the yammering class fall in either of those categories. In fact, most commentary from (1) or (2) is drowned out by the unfocused and dishonest hate spewed by assholes like Scott and Gingrich.
I have to stop myself now, but I will clarify my use of the term “dishonest hate”. I very much doubt that Newtie Patootie, or Rick Scott, or Sowah Palin, et al, really hate Muslims. I doubt that they know many Muslims. But they’re willing to act hateful, and foment hate among people who don’t know any Muslims, for the possibility of political advantage. They cheapen the human brand.
Can I just say this… to hell with Harry Reid…tis a bitter tea we brew, once we start to misconstrue…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
[re=639863]Bearbloke[/re]:There better not be any churches there, damn-it! McViegh was a Christian, and we can’t risk offending the families of the dead….
[re=639777]kenlayisalive_dot_org[/re]:
Putting it so close to Ground Zero is such a touchy and sensitive issue…and we all know how sensitive and in touch with their feelings the GOP is.
[re=639777]kenlayisalive_dot_org[/re]: It’s disgusting, what Harry Reid did, but then it’s Harry Reid.
a little off topic, but I just saw this headline,
“‘Miracle’ in Colombia jet crash: 1 dies, 130 live”
I guess what I’m wondering is how many people could have died for it still to be considered a, ‘Miracle’
Like what’s the cut off?
Would it still be a Miracle if only one person survived? That would be a miracle right?
what if the 130 people that, “lived” are all armless, legless and skinless? Would this be a little less miraculous? Are there degrees of Miracles? Like big M, little m Miracles?
[re=639910]Limeylizzie[/re]: Eight of my fellow HS alumni died at the WTC, and I say, “F**k this clown from Florida and the horse that should have ridden in on him.” F**k all of these demagogic ethnophobes. May they rot and burn to cinders in the intolerant Hell in which they belong.
I feel better momentarily, LL, but I fear for the future of the few freedoms – okay, too bloody much alliteration, I admit it – left to us. Palin, Gingrich, this hat full of fraudulent business management, all of them, they…urrrhhhh.
I haz an angry again, dammit.
O/T: Wonkette! Pay attention! I got this new bloody laptop. It runs Windows 7, w/ four GBs of Ram, at 2.2 MHZ, and this page still loads like dial-up. W. T. F?
i keep thinking ‘pagels’ is elaine and then i’m all ‘gnostic gospels’ and shit and then it gets really weird.
Everybody who objects to the mosque (i.e. not a mosque) being built on (i.e. blocks from, at NYC’s real estate prices) that spot I still refuse to call ground zero, and who also is attending or supporting Glenn Beck’s appropriation of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the spot it was given on the anniversary of the day it was given, please pull your lower lip up over your head and swallow your face. You have no business drinking, and someone will be along shortly with a staple gun. Thank you for your cooperation.
[re=639787]Rotundo[/re]: omigod! That’s the secret terrorist liberal agenda! Take this to the Supreme Court and lose, thereby allowing the zoning of religious institutions. *Then* get muslims elected and use that ruling to get rid of all non-Muslim institutions, thereby turning America into a Muslim nation! It’s genius!
So, what’s happening at this sacred ground, anyway? What has Larry Silverstein done with his $5 billion insurance payout?
For my full take on the GZM kerfuffle, see http://www.gurukalehuru.wordpress.com
Yes, I’m a blogwhore. Sue me.
[re=639932]SayItWithWookies[/re]: but a lot of opportunistic politicians and other assorted fuckwad hatemongering grifters NEED to monetize the GROUND ZERO MOSQUE ISSUE for personal gain. if you take that away from them, you hate usa of capitalism.
1st Amendment doesn’t apply to Muslins. 4th Amendment doesn’t apply if you call it “Miranda.” 5th Amendment? Not for Muslins in Guantanamo. 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to anchorterrorbabies. Makes sense to me. Does it to you?
[re=639935]obfuscator[/re]: Oh no, they have the right — I’d just ask them not to, out of respect. I’m sure they’d understand.
[re=639841]SufiSaurus[/re]: I wrote some comment at (tedious, extensive) length and then hit some key and it disappeared — anyway, it’s embarrassing that tolerance seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Especially since the anti-(not a)-mosque folks also allegedly defend the Constitution more than the rest of us slackers. Anyway, their problems with the egalitarian Constitution are always explained away by the idea that the founding fathers secretly meant for the teabaggers’ opinions to count for more than everyone else’s. It’s a dialectic. The good news is, the pendulum can’t defy gravity forever. I think.
[re=639921]WriteyWriterton[/re]:
put the gun down, and go to http://google.com/chrome
my dinosaur laptops all load like fire with chrome IE sucks balls.
If that does not work for you, then pick up the gun and shoot your new laptop
[re=639789]Fox n Fiends[/re]: Yes it does! It’s perfectly acceptable to be a Muslim in China. They are all over, like Jews in America. There are even Muslim martial arts.
[re=639861]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Mao has become a god in many peoples’ eyes — protector of taxi drivers and other small businessmen. I suspect this is a punishment!
How would Mr Scott react if David Paterson weighed in on, say, whether cars should be allowed to drive on Daytona Beach? After all a little got run down and killed there earlier this year so, you know, sacred ground and all that.
Goddamn it–say it like you fucking mean it, namby pamby mealy-mouthed buttboy!
[re=639921]WriteyWriterton[/re]: check your ping–sounds like yer across the pond. Wonkett servers
are too poor todon’t like limey furriners.[re=639841]SufiSaurus[/re]: Officially, over 200 Muslims died in the 9/11 attacks in NYC, as President Obama noted. There were more in the unofficial dead. After the attacks, there were a few papers who talked about the uncounted dead. The street vendors, the unregistered workers, who wouldn’t have shown up as scheduled or have filed their identities would have been overwhelmingly Pakistani or from Central America (and thus Catholic), so the actual numbers of dead are unknown, and the numbers of Muslim dead are unknown.
To credit “Islam” with the attacks is to elevate al Qaeda, to make Osama bin Laden the spokesman that he wishes he were, to agree with al Qaeda that true Islam is Wahabi, Islamacist, and in a peculiar form of jihad. In other words, Newt and his friends are supporters of Osama. Rick Scott has just come out in favor of al Qaeda. By saying “Islam attacked America” when a small group of a small group of an unpopular view did, it’s tantamount to saying “Buddhism is Pol Pot” or “Shinto is the Rape of Nanking” or “Christianity dropped atomic bombs.”
Besides, I can’t believe Rick Scott would say that, just yards from Ground Zero! (He obviously doesn’t know what it is, and everything is yards away.)
[re=639777]kenlayisalive_dot_org[/re]: Dare I say “Senator Sharron Angle” actually sounds a little better this morning? I wonder if Reid would agree that Mormons should be banned from Utah. After all, the entire state is just yards from the Mountain Meadows massacre.
Damn, this is all just maximal bullshit about the “mosque” since 9/11 was an inside job and Muslim terrorists had about as much to do with 9/11 as Bush had to do with cutting the Federal deficit.
too bad more americans can’t get their panties in a bunch over actual important matters. for instance, their (our) nation is bankrupt, and a mosque being built just yards away from the sacred ground of wall street, where so many dreams have died, has no bearing on that. except that it will provide a few jobs for construction workers, which you would think would be a good thing.
why to the republicans hate construction workers?
When did we become such a proud nation of bigots?…oh we always were.
How dare the Pope lead his prayers, just yards away from Mecca!
How dare the Mormons have their Chrystal Lite Cathedral just yards away from the Vatican!
It’s not about rights, after all. It’s about sensitivity. Why aren’t these people sensitive?
Lord Voldemort, is that you?
Hey is Rick Scott running for Mayor of New York? Governor of Florida? Oh, but why would he cut an ad about something he would have no control over? Cause, he an ass looking to get bigots riled up and draw attention away from the fact that he tried screwing the government and a lot of sick people out of millions. ? Oh, I guess that’s one theory.
Scum made the fortune he’s spending on becoming a corrupt politician by being a corrupt for profit hospital chain CEO, http://rickscottfraudfiles.com/
“Muslim fanatics burned thousands of innocent Americans JUST YARDS from ground zero.”
And by just yards, I mean at least two NYC blocks, each about the length of 10 football fields. Tom Fuckin’ Brady couldn’t toss a pigskin from the Ground Of Holy Magnificence Of Weeping Blame All Muslims Zero and come close to hitting this Islamic Community Center. Maybe Superman could but he was probably one of the Gays cause’ he was middle aged and not married so that doe not count. And the tights, don’t forget the tights. Fuckin’ ballerina.
Betcha’ the Man of Steel didn’t pull the lever for Prop 8. Fag.
[re=639944]mayor_quimby[/re]: Thanks for the suggestion, but I am running it on Chrome @ home. And with 2.2 GH, not M, as I pathetically mis-typed earlier. Arrhgghh!
[re=639766]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Thanks for mentioning this! I was going to go down there today to take some pictures about what is actually on that block!
[re=639803]BlueStateLiberal[/re]: No, it’s not the elites. Like Rudy he can’t stand the cosmopolitans though. So the good side of this “debate” is the way it’s brought Jews and Muslims together.
You all do realize that Rick Scott, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich are all actually sleeper agents working for Al Queda in a plot to stir up anti-Moslem sentiment,turn the world against the US, and promote chaos internally. Hey it’s working!
The fight against terrorism IS A DOVER???? Why has no one told me this before!!? I don’t know what it means, but I want answers!!
Wonder where Rick Scott stands on “States Rights” in reference to Obamacare?
I’m a Floridian, thus I have to apologize for this bald, corporate criminal who is very likely to be our next governor.
Please forgive us, for we know what not we do.
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