Why would Peter King let known Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison testify during his hearings about how all Muslims are terrorists? What a dumb move. All Ellison had to do was tell a simple truth about Muslim Americans, and the whole spectacle was ruined.
Also:
Hamdami’s mother, Talat Hamdani, is at the hearings today. She works with September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which opposes the hearings.
Hamdani’s mother told Politico last week that she along with two other family members of 9/11 victims had been promised a meeting with King — where she planned to urge him to cancel the hearings — but that he failed to show up at the meeting.
What a scumbag.
By the way, why is there a photo of the World Trade Center burning hanging in that room? Is that Peter King’s personal decorating style? Disgusting. It’ll be unfortunate the next time he engages in an autoerotic asphyxiation fantasy about getting captured by terrorists and accidentally dies. [Think Progress]
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doesn't he know John Boehner is the only person allowed to shed tears on the House floor?!!
sheesh- go back to muslinrabia, dude!!!
Boehner's tears are each and every one magical droplets of infinitely deep sincerity. Ellison's just fakin'.
Sadly, Pete King as a Republican can't handle the truth.
The People are thirsty for the Truth.
REPUBLICANS: The truth is the whole JOBS JOBS JOBS schtick was just a big ducking mirage.
LET THEM DRINK SAND!!!
WTC pix FTW!
To the downfisting troll: you understood irony! Good for you! How about a nice lollypop?
The troll seems to be an octopod, fueled by Red Bull today.
I'm surprised the photo doesn't have a picture of Bush personally flying Air Force One over the WTC doing a barrel roll and clipping off jihadist heads with the wing tips. I'm pretty sure that is how Steve King and most Conservatives remember it happening.
That's funny, I remember Cheney with a remote control, directing the planes into the towers.
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Remember when questioning how Minnesotans could elect Bachmann, Minnesotans also elected Keith Ellison.
Maybe it is the Minnesota freeze/thaw cycle that creates such odd political juxtapositions.
That's because Ellison's district includes Minneapolis and its immediate suburbs. Bachmann's is north and west of Ellison's district, presumably populated by drooling ignoramuses who all think St. Cloud is edgy and sinful.
To be fair, she squeaked by in both elections, I believe.
St. Cloud is edgy and sinful and muslin. Although Racists for Jeebus are working to drive them out.
It's the inbreeding in her district. Srsly.
"Stearns County Syndrome: A study was done in Stearns County Minnesota in the late seventies concerning families who had no newspapers, magazines, or books in their homes. They were mostly Germans but that was probably just a coincidence. They did not do as well in school, they had lower I.Q.’s, and they were unconcerned about current events."
Bless you Talat.
Did King ask the Glennda Beck trick question?
"What I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004
Hmmm, Let's harass a bunch of kids for a decade and then wonder why they might get pissed at you and want to destroy you. 'Cuz that's what we have done to young Muslim boys since 2001.
How about we hold hearings on ways we can fix relationships in the Muslim community and remind those young boys why they are happy to be in America?
Because that makes sense and is rational. Two things Peter King, et al. are not.
Because Peter King's opening statement in a discussion is a car bomb.
Duh, it violates the cardinal principle of politics, neatly summarized 500 years ago by HL Mencken:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
the beauty of the war on terror is the way it is self-perpetuating and self-defeating at the same time
About the photo, I think the expression is disaster porn.
Apparently, "porn" in Thai means "blessing", which is just what 9-11 was to the Right.
It is the same sort of 2000 year old tribalist mindset where it seems like a good idea to have little sculptures of a guy nailed to a cross around your house.
They're trying to turn 9/11 into a fucking religion.
"The crucifixion was an inside job!"
JOOZE DID THE CRUCIFI…oh, never mind.
I'm much more afraid of some half-wit TeaTard or Xtian fundy shooting me that of some Aemrican Muslim. All of the Muslims that I know are too busy working to be worrying about killing me.
Working on jihad, you mean!
Meeting their sales quota jihad! And putting together that quarterly jihad report.
Well of COURSE they're working. Dey took our JERBS!
What I want to know is when are we going to start rounding up teh asians again, and putting them in FEMA camps, for pearl harbor?
Soon….after we slog through the Mooslem fearmongering….but this time it will be the Chinese instead of the Japanese.
Thankfully this country will never run out of people and things that make us wet our collective beds!
And if they don't actually exist, we'll make some up–see "Satanic Ritual Abuse," for instance.
Seriously? You think these dumb fucks can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.? You're giving them WAY too much credit.
Dirty Knees! Look at these!
Funny/horrible story: after Pearl Harbor they wanted to round up all the Japanese and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, too. But they couldn't because they ran all the banks, shipping companies, airlines, water works, etc.
Yep. Young Daniel got Inouye of that racist steamroller.
And serving in the Territorial Guard watching for the invasion everyone was sure would happen.
Those round up the yellows plans brought to you by Douglas MacArthur and other racists, but "national security" made it all okay. We have the whitewashing from the Suprem Court to prove it. Which John Yoo then relied on to justify torturing all the browns.
Too soon….
See, McCarthy knew how to do this shit. You only call witnesses that you know won't stand up to you. You have failed, Mr. King. Now kindly fuck off.
(Wow, I got downfisted fucking 16 seconds after I posted. That's dedication.)
You've got a +52. Stop complaining. And that goes for all of you!
I don't really care about the points, I was just amused by how fast the response was. He must have been pounding on F5 like a methed up woodpecker. But point tooken, I'll try to avoid feeding the trolls en le futur.
I can't tell when I've been downfisted. (?) Should I care?
If so how do I do it?
Because I got a follower who I've never heard speak here and it is kinda creepy.
I just happened to open up my Intense Debate page right after I posted, and it showed a post with a timestamp of "16 seconds ago" that had zero points. Other than having a zero, the only way you can tell is to obsessively refresh your page and see if any numbers went down. And no, you shouldn't care.
The times, they aren't a changin'.
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également. fuck les trolls.
Liberté, egalité, [Redacté]!
If ethnicity is not so important, why does Ellison continually remind us that this fellow was a muslin? And a Jedi muslin, at that? (They're the most dangerous kind).
/snark
I would happily trade a room full of Peter Kings for a single Muhammad Hamdani. I know what a real patriot looks like.
Rep. Peter King demands that any references to Muslim heroism or Irish drunkenness be struck from the record.
or his own connection to the Irish Republican Army….
talk about palling around with terrorists…
The Irish aren't brown people so they don't count as proper terrorists. Jeez.
What about the Black Irish, begorrah!
"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud."
You mean like O'Bama, right?
Who has a problem with Irish Drunkeness? What do they have against the Paddywagon?
Lord Mountbatten is not amused with Peter King.
Killed by an IRA bomb 27 August 1979
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1...
Representative Ellison, there's no crying in terrorism!!
This is a disgusting spectacle. Rep. King's security team is doing a poor job if they aren't able remove Ellison (a Muslin!) before he gets to make his weepy speech.
Okay troll – go back to your fantasies of teabagging King and leave the humans alone.
Upfists for everyone!
Make that double upfists! and oh by the way filthy downfist troll, downfist me and I will make sure you get cancer in your pixie sized penis.
Maine? Isn't that the place with the lobster rolls?
I think the real issue before us here today is Mobster Trolls
And the Alamo! And Little Big Horn! And the Gulf of Tonkin! And all the other minor attacks from weaker entities that we've used to justify wars against them.
But for Jebus' sake, don't ever mention the Ludlow Massacre or Port Chicago. Good thing they changed the names.
Haymarket.
I forgot about the Alamo. Is it too late for a recount?
In related news, there may be another Alamo at the Alamo. Not yet, though…
http://www.ksat.com/news/27141520/detail.html
We're Real 'Mericans–if it ain't on the test, we don't remember it. And as soon as the test is over, we forget that, too.
God, the jobs this is creating. Fantastic!!
This and the hearings on bullies.
Not to mention the deficit reduction!
To borrow from a poster in a thread the other day
1. Hold just-barely-not-overtly-bigoted hearings chaired by an unashamed terrorist-supporter. Bonus points for the 9/11 picture for lovely "guilt by association" overtones.
2. Create jerbs
3. Reduce deficit
4. …
5. Prophet!
I'm sticking around for the next set of hearings, the ones on the radical Christian right.
Wait, what?
Ha ha. Hope you have a comfy seat and a big bag of jerky.
Also, make sure you have your copy of Infinite Jest.
Infinite Jest…now that can hold a door against a really strong breeze…
Yeah, like the group of rednecks up here in Michigan who were going to kill cops and then use IED on the funeral route, and then in the panic take over the rest of the state.
Honestly, what a disgusting farce this shit is.
Once the economy improves all this Islamophobia will go away.
This is how it generally works, because Humans are totally weird.
Problem is, the repugs don't want the economy to improve.
And are taking steps to make sure it doesn't.
The hearing itself was surprisingly even handed, tempered, and (except for the occasional references to the "sobering reminder" of the WTC) sane. I suspect Pete King is is going to have to go rape an altar boy to put himself in a better mood after this.
Or set off a car bomb.
He can do both to really ring in St Patty's day.
Or off a member of the Royal Family
I'm not sure snuffing the Viceroy of Partition was necessarily a bad thing.
True, I was going for the cheap snark and not thinking of the further implications. I apologize to you and my fellow snarkettes.
i thought Sports Illustrated's Peter King would always be my least favorite Peter King.
Touche, voters of NY.
That terrorist is so dreamy.
When we tolerate religions we don't understand and stop being xenophobic the terrorists win.
"a photo of the World Trade Center burning hanging in that room"
Looks like, along with irony, subtlety was also taken out the back and shot through the head.
I think that is actually the official portrait of Rudy Giuliani.
I laughed. Fist for you.
(Although, in this interests of full disclosure, I fisted everyone once I saw the trolls were back.) Regardless, fist for you.
Glad to see we are all sticking together.
Letting a stupid act of murder define your belief system makes no sense. It's like Christians hanging crosses everyplace. As Bill Hicks used to say, that's the last thing Jesus wants to see when he comes back.
Maybe IntenseDebate could have a SelectAll keyboard choice, upfisting only, of course.
That would make my job easier
REAL MEN pee their pants at the thought of the minuscule threat posed by Muslim terrorists.
Old and Busted: Joe McCarthy.
The New Hotness: Peter King.
Since this is about terrorism, will King force the would-be Martin Luther King Day bomber to testify?
That wannabee bomber is not in custody, at least in part because he was not created by an FBI sting operation.
They arrested a suspect yesterday; shockingly a white supremacist follower the author of "The Turner Diaries".
Probably read the Left Behind series too. When will we finally ban these inflammatory religious books!
Oh, I see–yeah, that's been all over the news, hasn't it?
(crickets)
No. He is white. That is all.
Only 3 layers today. Heatwave !
Does that mean that flood season starts soon?
I read that as "Remember the Mange."
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Cue Limbaugh's sarcastic reaction to Ellison's testimony, in 3, 2, 1…
Amen. I've wondered the same.
snort
Quantard mechanics…
c'est la même chose
It's her little friend, Gerry Mander.
It's alright, Keith. Let it come.
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Has the Muslim terrorist fetus testified yet?
Please. They have no hearts.
That's what I'm having for lunch!
Too soon?
Gov. Christie, what are you doing on Wonkette?
Man, the Republicans are making enemies faster than they can disenfranchise them.
Humans started out living in tribes. Gradually civilization took shape, and we learned to have mutually beneficial relations with those who were not members of our own tribes, even though it was disturbing to deal with someone who did not have a defined status in your own kinship system.
Some of us, however, seem to have regressed, or failed evolve beyond the hunting-and-gathering stage.
Who believes in evolution anymore? That shit has been well and thoroughly debunked.
If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still finches?
Now there's some fine debunktive reasoning that should go miles in Teatard Nation. Congratulations sir!
Or the eating-and-pooping stage.
Hopefully they'll also bring in some high quality Terrorism Experts to explain that "a Muslim that wears a headband, regardless of color or insignia, basically what that is telling you is ‘I am willing to be a martyr.'".
Clearly, the NBA must be a hotbed of Muslim terrorist recruits, then.
Peter King, unlike Keith Ellison, has actually, demonstrably, publicly stated his support for terrorism in which civilians could be killed (and in fact were killed, in actions by the IRA).
And since not one of his Republican colleagues has stepped up to intervene in this theatrical, McCarthy-esque atrocity, then I'm sure none of them will mind if I'm lead to the assumption that they too support terrorism.
You must be mistaken. That only occurs with Christians.
The same reason they all beat up on the "faggy" boy in high school.
"That kid knows who he is and isn't afraid to show it – let's get him!"
Only eagles are allowed to cry over 9/11.
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
"Nope."
Maybe a "sense," but no real understanding of the concept.
It's true: we hate and support violence!
That's hard to do.
Most that would come over from there would say "I don't get it."
OMG! We're hysterical! Buttbart sez so!
But why would the readers of Big Government come here, as there are no 12-year old boys looking for hook ups at this site.
Well, Riley's a bit older than 12…
Yeah, I am a middle age white lady and some creepy buttbart dude is following me. (I am hoping he will go limp with disappointment when he sees that and stop following me.)
I'm still pissed with the Messopotamians and the Battle of Garglebile.
That's what maked Rep King so interesting-he never forgets (to gargle bile).
Have tests done on those tears. They are Muslin tears and are probably full of biological toxic agents and are therefore WMDs.
Now 33 minutes ago.. No downthumbing army has yet to arrive. I'm hysterical about James of Keef, I want to have his worm baby.
Its the "Sir Robin" effect. "When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled, he ran away, he bravely ran away." You remember, from Holy Grail, Sir Robin, who personally wet himself at the battle of Hastings, who nearly fought the Vicious Chicken of Bristol. . . .
Just to be clear, hysteria is NOT being fearful of an entire religion and/or ethnicity, NOT shouting hateful things at children as they walk into their place of worship, and NOT demanding everyone who worships a different God be segregated because they are all out to kill us.
Enough with the hysteria, people!
All those things are just good common sense.
Powerful.
Fuck you, Peter King.
When is the Westboro Baptist church scheduled to testify?
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"(including their typical hatred and support of violence)"
Huh? I guess, maybe, in a "Plato's Cave" sort of way.
This guy reps my district. He was at a good friend's funeral. He's a good man. I couldn't be prouder.
Meanwhile the Boner blubbers on about the suffering of the rich.
Likewise for Peter King/Anthony Weiner.
What have we come to? There were no asian members of congress testifing about the Chinese Exclusion Act, or black members of congress about slavery, or women testifing about voting rights, or commies about McCarthism. Why do we have to listen to a Muslin congressman testify about Islamaphobia? It ruins the whole show. There otta be a law. We want OUR country BACK!
Don't bother me with mere facts, my mind is made up. When I want you opinion, I'll tell you what it is. I'm loaded and this gun is not afraid to use me!
When you "unpack the invisible knapsack" and it's filled with C-4 explosive, have the terrorists won?
"What a scumbag."
Well, yes!
December 2010 — “Republicans denied adequate health care to the heroes who developed illnesses from rushing into burning buildings on 9/11. Yet they will stop at nothing to give tax breaks to millionaires and CEOs, even though they will explode our deficit and fail to create jobs. That tells you everything you need to know about their priorities,” Reid said in a statement. <snip>
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) released a letter signed by every Senate Republican pledging to block all legislative action until Congress acts on the expiring Bush tax cuts and passes a measure to fund the federal government into 2011. <snip>
Republicans oppose the paid-for healthcare benefits bill because it closes a tax loophole on foreign companies."
A little reminder for all those visitors coming this way to see hysteria, that doesn't exist here.
"The Power of Christ Compels You!" has to be shouted 17 times by two priests before anything happens, even in the expanded edition ("The version you've never seen") of "The Exorcist." Not much compelling going on there, boys, er, boy-fuckers.
Dingell is as old as hell and can barely walk but he is an old time Democrat who has understands how politics work. There are a lot of Muslim Arabs in his district which includes Dearborn. Probably more Palestinians than anything else but quite a cross section from the Maghreb to Iraq. He does a lot of outreach, shows up at community events, big on voter registration and GOTV and generally acts the way a reasonably corrupt, reasonably decent Congress critter should act.
He gets plenty of votes and money from his Arab Muslim constituents and shows respect in return. Possibly not the best way to do things but in a different universe from many members of the House.
Yes, Dingel does represent his district fairly well, from standing up for folks of Muslim faith to even his defense of the auto industry. I disagree with him on a good bit of the auto stuff, but he's from frickin Deeeeeetroit and that is what they DO.
ok between this and the bbc story of the bodies of the scottish soldier and his sniffer spaniel being flown home i am total mess.
I humbly submit a motion to the Wonketeriat that from henceforth "Idiot Peter King" is the only way that Grand Wizard douche should ever be referred to on this site.
Okay Ellison, but did the boy have a birf certificate? Long-form? From an Amerikkan doctor??!! Remember it's not a serious Congressional speech without visual aids.
They're just jealous because we are funny and have a good time while all they do is talk about how half of America's population deserves to be drawn and quartered for daring to have a different opinion about how things should work.
But but but Keith wasn't able to prove to Glenn Beck that he's not in cahoots with America's enemies!!!!
Muslin terrists all up in our gubmint!
Only if Darth Koch says it's okay.
Takes one (King) to know one (terrorist)
Is Rep. Ellison the Miami Heat's new point guard?
It would slide right in that gaping abyss.
S, when does Rudy G. Dubya in a wind-breaker and the old fuck who could hardly hold up a Fireman's Helmet show up to save the day?
When is he going to do a hearing on the resurgance of White Supremacy in this country? I hear some of them want to destroy America also, too.
I tried to come up with something witty, but this witch hunt combined with the fact that I live in Wisconsin just has me drinking more and finding out ways to be an expat.
Maybe someone "oughta bust a cap in that Mick's ass."
This is MY representative. I'm so proud of him!
So, where are the jobs? Where the fuck are the jobs, you motherfucking stooges?
Thanks
Dude, p points are the most important thing in America. When the economy goes you'll still have your p. Worthless p but at least you'll still have it.
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