So some Tea Party dude was having a little Tea Party rally and he sort of got carried away.
“She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster.” “We have to kill the Claire Bear,” he added.
And now everybody is all freaking out and stepping up patrols around the Missouri Senator’s house, and adding protection when she’s in public, like a buncha pansies. But did Scott Boston mean his comment, “We have to kill the Claire Bear,” as a threat?
Boston later said he did not intend the comment to be a threat.
So nothing to see here, obviously, pussies! How ’bout McCaskill’s opponent, what did she have to say on the matter? Is that not the language she would have used? Sure! Sort of. Probably. But she understands why he would want to “kill” Claire McCaskill nonetheless, because she has a little thing called “empathy.”
Former Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman, a Republican contender who is hoping to unseat McCaskill, was in attendance at the rally.
“When a conservative citizen makes a statement the liberal press attacks it and spins it in the worst way,” she wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. “Yet when President Obama states ‘If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun’ or his Senator, Claire McCaskill suggest ‘We should take up pitch forks if Congress doesn’t raise taxes’, the liberal media applauds it. This is a typical double standard and why we conservatives are at war with the liberal establishment.”
“I may disagree with the words Mr. Boston chose in his statement, but I understand his frustration and I emphatically support his right to express his views,” Steelman said.
And there you have it, you fucking pussies. Sarah Steelman says your right to make death threats shall not be abridged. [ThinkProgress/HuffPo]
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But did Scott Boston mean his comment, “We have to kill the Claire Bear,” as a threat?
Sounds like another epic Boston fail.
OK, this sort of disturbs me:
In the series "Heroes", Horn-Rimmed Glasses guy always refers to the Cheerleader (his putative daughter) as Claire Bear. The Cheerleader saves the world by not shooting Ted and flying off with Peter Petrelli.
So does this mean Claire McKaskill has to wear a short skirt and carry pom-poms?
That more-than-sort of disturbs me.
Which part? What I posted or that I was sober and actually watched the show?
The former.
It took him 8 years to create that unfunny stupid analogy. It's like skrillex version of "amanda"
Fuck you and the My Little Pony you rode in on.
We should "steal" Sarah, in that case.
(notintendedaseitherathreatorafactualcomment, niceMrNSAagent)
Sarah Steelman could use a good forging?
Welllllllllllllld, you know….
He meant "kill her with kindness," of course…
I say we return the favor to those wingnuts…
Wait. Let me get my Lousiville Slugger "Kindness"….
We should make them pay the "iron price'. (I'm sorry, I couldn't help "The Game of Thrones" phrase….)
Boston added "We need to Voltron her Megazord!"
I don't even know what that means, nor do I want to.
Although it *does* sound kinda cool.
I have no snark, only completely nostalgic delight for Rainbow Brite and the Care Bears.
Sounds like Don Quixote disease.
Needs more Dulcinea.
Why don't you have a seat over here?
It's not like some Democratic congressperson was shot by a crazy recently, oh wait, yeah. Maybe they meant put survey marks on Claire Bear. Freedumz.
Or shoot her with votes.
My thoughts exactly. I guess I shouldn't expect otherwise when the state where it happened decided to elect an official gun within a year of the shooting.
She's right.
I mean, how dare the press quote what conservatives actually say, rather than what they decide after the fact they meant to say?
The fact they're not psychics just proves their liberal bias! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!
What kind of grown man is so familiar with Rainbow Brite Care Bear? Mr. Boston, do you have a secret life you want to tell us about?
Brony
Geez, Wonkette, did you take the shortbus to work this morning? [spit] When us real Americans say "kill the Clare Bear," we mean that the senator should give up her weird "furry" alternative lifestyle. And when we say "lynch the fuckin' nigger" we mean that it's party time in America! [spit]
Boston continued: "Obama wants to pretend we're the Get Along Gang, but he drags us down by our Shirt Tails!"
FOX News will link Mr. Boston to the OWS movement in 3, 2, 1…..
Hmmmm. Kinda sounds like a threat.
"Let's murder her in her sleep. By voting. What I mean to say is we should break into her house at night and strangle her to death–with votes. Why is everybody looking at me like that?"
–Boston Scott
"Oh, no! I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud!"
Maybe Mr. Boston means it like, "la petite mort." Kinky.
As Balzac said, last night I lost another novel.
"Claire Bear" is actually a well-known figure on the St. Louis leather scene. Mr. Boston is currently involved in another bitch spat with him.
Isn't the "Claire Bear" Marcus Bachmann?
What kind of asshole wants to kill Rainbow Brite?
Those of us who had younger siblings really into that show in its heyday. Care Bears too.
A boy.
But should boys be voting? I thought that was an adult thing.
But I think we can all agree that Barney must die.
I never watched that show, but wasn't that one of the ones targeted by the Moral Majority as brainwashing kids into New Age Satanism? Because of rainbows.
#notintendedtobeafactualstatement
Ted Nugent is most likely masturbating to the statement. Then he's going outside and shoot some threatening paper targets of Care Bears.
It turns out a rare white buffalo was killed in Texas. Mr. Nugent has yet to deny he is responsible.
Unpossible! They don't shoot whites in Texas!
I've read several accounts on the Internets (so I know it must be true) that Nugent said during a VH1 "Behind the Music" interview that he favored underage girls when he was on the road.
Courtney Love has said (again, according to the same reliable source) that she went down on Nugent not only before she'd reached the age of consent, but before she was a teenager.
He is one sick puppy.
I find anything Courtney Love says highly suspicious.
Actually, I think one thing about Courtney Love is that she's pretty open about everything.
"Courtney Love has said (again, according to the same reliable source) that she went down on Nugent not only before she'd reached the age of consent, but before she was a teenager.
He is one sick puppy."
She's no Hallmark Card, either.
tessiee:
Tough to argue with that. However, incidents such as this one probably had at least something to do with how she turned out.
Agreed.
And to clarify, I think it is *always* the adult's obligation to behave ethically and responsibly, even if the underage person strips naked, sits in your lap, and says "come get me".
That having been said, Courtney Love is full of shit, self-dramatizing and — quite possibly — genuinely, hospitalizably, nuts (see also any interaction between her and her daughter); and the fact that her 15 minutes (which were only ever borrowed from Kurt anyway) are up obviously gives her a bad tummy-ache.
I don't see the fuss. He's just talking second amendment remedies, amirite?
Perhaps Mr Boston was just full of himself?
In his spare time, Mr Boston enjoys setting fire to kittens and masturbating to pics of concentration camps.
Is that on his eHarmony profile?
God? I know we haven't spoken in a while, and I'm not much for praying. Especially since I never got that bike I wanted. Enough of that, though….when I was a child I spake as a child, etc, etc.
What I wanted to talk about is this. It a two-parter. First, please let these yahoos get more shrill, more nuts, and talk more about violence. Second, and this is a condition of the first, please let the rest of the people who are moderately reasonable look at these headcases and decide there's no way they're going to vote for any politician who has the support of racist, wealthy worshiping fuctards.
Amen.
"This prayer line has been disconnected. Gods only continue to exist if you believe in them. What do you think happened to Asgard and Olympus? You fucking mortals are on your own."
God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.
It's not the "no" that gets me. I had parents at one time. No, its' the gleeful way the
"no" is uttered.
"We want to kill her… with kindness… and also, guns."
Oh, come on – he didn't mean "kill" in a BAD way!
Mitt Romney claims to have invented Care Bears!
When a conservative citizen makes a statement (death threat) the liberal press attacks it and spins it in the worst way.
AND EVERYtime the lie-brul stupidhead media tries to twist words like Kill into something evil – OH YES! SARAH STEELMAN WILL BE THERE! TO RAPE YOU SYMBOLICALLY WITH HER EMPHATIC EMPATHY! Stop being so sensitive.
Empathy rape. Boring.
Maybe not if it's emphatic enough – like with exclamation points. In your ear.
I have no idea whether Scott Boston is an actual violent person — I have, however, found that people who resort to threats and violent analogies usually have compensation issues and are, generally, fuckin' sissies. And really, Scott Boston you fuckin' sissy — threats against a woman? Do you think that makes you look tough? Jesus fuckin' Christ — I'd like to see you in a locked cage with a couple of New Black Panthers and see how tough you talk then.
"I have, however, found that people who resort to threats and violent analogies usually have compensation issues and are, generally, fuckin' sissies."
What the fuck have you got against Wonkette commenters?!
First, they came for Rainbow Brite. And I did nothing.
Then, they came for the Care Bears. And I did nothing.
But when they came for the Cabbage Patch Kids? I said, "Hey, no problem. Those things freak me the fuck out."
Is it just me, or does Russell Crowe look like a Cabbage Patch doll?
Then they came for My Little Pony, and I was pretty cool wtih that, too, because honestly the fandom is a little weird and somewhat creepy.
Gayest death threat ever!!
President Obama did not say ‘If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun and shoot John McCain with it,’ now, did he?
Stop confusing the issue! There's total equivalence! Liberals are the real
racistswoman hatersviolent ones!!!1!1!Thanks for putting things in perspective!
Missouri is the new Arizona.
We're getting from Kansas via osmosis.
Not true. see: Dred Scott
Revealing window into the mind of the adult Rightard: part cartoon, part "Natural Born Killers", all fucked-in-the-head.
Weird that the media has a double standard and doesn't treat direct death threats against individuals and use of common idioms like "bring a knife to a gun fight" the same way.
It's probably one of those figure of speech things.
"this is the third hose fight I've had to break up today. And the second using actual hoses!" — Turanga Leela
I was never actually a tremendous fan of Claire McCaskill, but with a cute nickname like Claire Bear, I'm starting to come around.
Scott Boston seems to be confusing Rubber Chicken's Care Bears with the Care Bears.
Care Bears….prepare to stare!
"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
OK. But what if they bring a white unicorn?
I believe I saw McCaskill on the Cable News last week pissing and moaning about how liberal Democrats need to come to their senses and prop up the spineless moderates who are supposedly our last line of defense in red districts and states. She was making a big virtue out of appeasing Republicans through compromise. Guess what, Claire: their base still wants to kill you!
Why, what an interesting lesson on the practical results of "making nice".
[snark free comment]
At least Obama seems to know that it's a tactic that you use to: a) get at least some of your agenda accomplished; b) illustrate for voters how Republicans are unwilling to reciprocate, so that: c) you can say this explicitly as you're running for re-election. McCaskill, on the other hand, seems to think that you just have to keep compromising harder and harder.
Hell, HER base has wanted to kill her a time or two, given some of her votes.
Metaphorically speaking, of course …
"Guess what, Claire: their base still wants to kill you!"
That's true so the only option open to a Moderate like her is to compromise by offering to amputate a limb of their choosing.
Look, to be clear, My little fukkin pony is gonna pull up on your ass and piss all over your threats. You bitch ass doll sucking titty baby looser.
Dear Sarah Steelman,
I'm pretty sure Obama was quoting The Untouchables*, you fuckwit.
XOXO, a snarling partisan hack
*…naturally, the only clip I can find has some sneering comment about Obama. FML.
You're conflating two Sean Connery quotes from that movie:
1) "… they put one of ours in the hospital, we put two of theirs in the morgue."
2) "Isn't that just like a wop? Bringing a knife to a gun fight?"
"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"
"We have to kill the Claire Bear."
I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box, but one of those statements sounds a direct threat on someone's life.
He probably just meant "kill" because if it's in quotes it's totally meta and doesn't mean what it means. Or he meant "kill" like in video games where you can just push reset so you can "kill" and "kill" and "kill" and…well you "get" "the" "picture."
*sigh*
You know what, you guys?
I say fuck it, let's just spike their wite casuls with krokodil and freakin get it over with.
Boston was always a shitty band anyway.
"we conservatives are at war with the liberal establishment"
I agree there is a double standard, but certainly not what Ms Steelman suggests. The right uses combat and violent rhetoric more often and more casually than anyone I've heard on the left.
Look at how Steelman summarizes her apology for the TP'ers "kill" comment: "we're at war". I'm a steadfast Demoncrat and I don't think I'm at war with conservatives.
BUT … this kind of talk is not surprising. We've been at actual war for ten years. Nations at war reconcile their need to fight by seeing the enemy as unworthy of life. So we've let our morality erode under the weight of torture, collateral damage, trophy photos, rampages. The casual violence of war is leaking into our political discourse. We used to be better than this.
Nicely said –
Damn, I guess I can't retire to Missouri, either. The map is getting smaller, and Florida, Arizona and South Carolina have not checked in yet. Yikes.
Costa Rica was going to be my choice but not any more. I mean, The Nuge is loose down there threatening to felate every Tom, Dick or Harry and raping our womenfolk to prove he's a nice guy. That's not how I want to spend my golden years.
Oh, my God! Is it possible that Albert Desalvo was innocent and that the REAL Boston Strangler is still at large?
I'm pretty sure you posted that as a joke, but there's some evidence that Albert DeSalvo may not have been the Boston Strangler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_DeSalvo
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers…
But, what is one supposed to do, when they see an evil monster?
Hiding under the bed and covering my face with my hands has always worked for me.
Sen. McCaskill was great on Colbert last night.
I hear that Ms. Steelman is a close personal friend of Steely Dan.
I saw what you did there.
And Missouri is Kansas's less crazy twin sister!
It is funny how Republicans manage to cry about being the victims even while making death threats.
"The right of the populace to make death threats shall not be abridged."
The 1.5th Amendment.
"Scott Boston" and "Sarah Steelman"? You have got to be kidding me with these perfect porn names. What do Dallas Houston, Austin Arlington, Texarkana Lubbock, and Beaumont Galveston have to say about this?
Sarah Steelman, a good old porn name, if you ever heard one.
I know I am exaggerating but it just seems to me that the GOPbaggers can not hold a conversation without wanting to kill or maim someone. I am begging, can't we please split this country and isolate the wingnuts in the southern states?
It's been such a long time…
To be fair, Hole's first album was good.
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