According to the complaint, Cowan and his wife were watching “Dancing with the Stars” when Cowan jumped up and swore as Bristol Palin appeared, saying something about “the (expletive) politics.” Cowan was upset that a political figure’s daughter was on the show when he didn’t think she was a good dancer, the complaint states.
According to the complaint:
Cowan went upstairs for about 20 minutes and returned, demanding his pistols, which had been taken by his daughter about a month ago for safety reasons. He was carrying a single-shot shotgun, which he loaded and fired into the television.
Try not to let them get to you, America. Try. For the love of democracy. [Wisconsin State Journal via everyone who has ever read Wonkette]
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That shotgun blast was a vote for FREEDOM!
Cowan/Shotgun '12
Cowen's Shotgun/Tre Black Rectangle '12!
He pulled an Elvis! Bravo, Mr. Cowan!
My wife told me this morning that Brandy had been voted out, and Bristol was still in, despite getting the lowest scores from the judges. Was it the write-in votes that tipped the balance? I don't understand Alaskan dancing electoral politics at all.
The tea baggers voted the black leader out! Its their dream come true!
Clearly, you are one of us, Steven N. Cowan. Please step forward. What's your Wonkette user name?
Couldn't be. The Wonkeratti only watch DWTS for professional snarking purposes, and therefore don't take it personally.
I wish. But even we (mostly) unarmed Wonketteers know you can't bring a big game animal that size down with just a shotgun.
Who the hell is unarmed? I go hunting for Elk and Deer every year.
We are all Steven N. Cowan
ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!
So that's why Ken hasn't been around lately.
Which one of you Wonkettes did this? Geez, it's just a teevee show, it's not like it's a nukes treaty with Russia–but don't worry, the Repubs are already screwing that up.
Not me!
Not me, either. DWTS needs moar lesbos!
It's a lot more satisfying than flaming somebody on facebook.
I did the same thing to the TV in my basement when Phil Donohue was on. He irritated me at the time; I'm not sure why, given how low we have gone since the Golden Age of Ricki Lake.
It could always be worse. Maybe. Or maybe we are all reverse dung beetles living in a Matrix world where our butts are being mined for rocket fuel for our evil alien overlords, and when we come out of our soma coma's, we'll realize we all look like Bristol, and have Piggly Wiggly jiggly thighs.
finally some good news!
Want more?
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2010/11/wasting-a...
At least one man knows what freedom means here in AMERICA. Wouldn't get all pissed if he shot a fucking toaster WOULDYA.
I thought Nellist lived out west.
Back, and to the east. Back, and to the east.
I'm waiting for him to weigh in. Probably to offer the correct caliber for offing one's television.
So is "causes severe psychological distress in others" part of the Palin genome, or what? It's gotta be a pheromone they emit or something.
We're finally on the road to recovery.
…the hand gun was to dangerous to be in thew house, but not the shotgun?!
Today, we are all self-loathing Second-Amendment-brandishing Palin haters.
This is the second amendment remedy to 'there not being a damn thing good on'.
sometimes the tree of liberty needs to be sprayed with shards of electronics by a dude who apparently can't work a remote control.
GIVE ME HOUSE OR GIVE ME DEATH
Sounds more like he couldn't find it after looking for it for almost 20 minutes.
I'm sure he's scratching his head today, thinking "how is that cow still clomping around? I shot her in the face right there on the TV! It's unpossible!"
It is so UNBELIEVABLY appropriate that Sarah Palin will burn her last bridges with the public over Dancing With the Stars vote-rigging.
I read something to that effect, this AM on the Yahoo comments on the results from last night's DWTS.
The Palins are becoming the northern version of the Kardashians.
Hmmm..I do that to my teevee every mornin' when Jethro comes on and concern trolls about Democrats, Obama, the deficit, polls, blahblahblah. When Mika nods and squeals about how much they lurve Chris Christie, I just shoot the damn thing. I go: "pew, pew pew!" with my hand. Then I change the channel.
I went to the garage and came back with a can of spray paint. Than fixed 'em.
This guy's a patsy. This has Cheney's fingerprints all over it.
Waiting to hear whether the teevee apologized to him.
Last graf of the State Journal article: "On Tuesday night's results show of "Dancing with the Stars," Bristol Palin advanced to next week's finals of the competition."
Time to reload, good citizens of Wisconsin.
try to take your mind off things, the wife says. try to watch a little tv, the wife says. try a little escapism, she says. let's watch the dancing show, she says. and then there's that heifer clod-hopping hypocrite snowbilly grifter daughter unwed mother homophobe right there on my zenith and i lost it. plus, i love brandy. both the beverage and the lady.
He should try hunting wild teevees from a helicopter.
"…saying something about “the (expletive) politics."
Here's what he said:
"I'm sick and tired of the destructive, unpatriotic, nihilistic, vindictive, negative, obstructionist politics of today's Republican party that whores itself out so thoroughly as to pimp this witless twat in tawdry dresses."
Right intentions…wrong target.
Fucking liberals and their guns. Sheesh.
Why doesn't someone start a reality show where contestants get drunk and shoot at Tee Vees that have the most annoying reality shows on? It could be called "Burn In Hell! You Talentless Asshole!" which is probably what Steven Cowen yelled when he emptied the shotgun into his Tosheba.
Years ago, a bar had a contest and the lucky winner got to throw a brick through a TV when Howard Cosell came on. Cosell was actually stupid enough to sue and the court handed his ass to him. We ought to revive that, I’d pay for a chance.
Dear Mr. Cowan,
Yes, TeeVees with idiots on them are OK to shoot, wives are not.
MG
Nothing new there. Anytime I hear ANY Palin's voice on the teevees or radio, (or hear the tappity tap of the Palin girls dancing with the stars) I pretend my hand is a gun and shoot at the source of the screeching / tapping. For real fun on a Friday night, I get all liquored up and drive around Phoenix "shooting" all the cars with dumb ass / teabagger bumper stickers. Sadly, I'm stuck in Kentuckazona for the next seven years.
Cowan, you have earned yourself 1,000 whore diamonds, 200 sets of truck nuts, a *slow clap* and a lifetime supply of Pampers.
Perhaps we are seeing the start of the Tea Party Stimulus plan,; lowering consumer apathy to increase consumer anger, leading to increased spending on guns, ammo and big-screen TVs, which can all be purchased at your local Walmart in one convenient stop on your way home from the liquor store where you stocked up on Four Loko before it gets banned.
I have to admire a man who decides it's time to take his living room back, and this is independent of my opinion of Bristol.
Sounds to me like the poor bastard shot the messenger.
Guy is now the poster boy for the Wikipedia article on "Second Amendment Remedies", no?
I thought we had it tough growing up with a father that yelled at the teevee. "Shut up fat ass.", was his favorite endearment of the teevee elves.
He's described as a 'rural Black Earth man'. For a second I thought I was reading the Onion.
Clearly this was a mercy killing.
I agree with Steve Martin who said, decades ago: "I believe that the Battle of the Network Stars should be fought with real guns."
Bristol's beginning to look like Divine, from those John Waters' films: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a...
We could see an uptick in TV AND gun sales.
Does she have two chins and three arms? What the fuck is going on there?
It was a fun story right up until "He re-loaded the shotgun and pointed it toward his wife."
Now I'm sad again.
Sharron Angle supports this man's right to take Second Amendment Remedies.
That's more of a test pattern of violence.
It's Feng Shui, not Feng Shooty
An understandable mistake, Mr. Cowan.
Odd, I saw his picture in the paper and he looked normal enough.
Completely pointless, but true, facts:
1. My (long-deceased) mom taught school in Black Earth back before WW2.
2. "rural Black Earth man" is a redundant phrase of redundancy.
It occurs to me that he wanted his pistols because he believed that Bristol TV, unlike Godzilla, couldn't be killed with only one blast of double ought buck. And he was right.
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