I’ve lived in Bibleburg off and on since 1967, so I’m rarely surprised when one of our wingnut asshats takes his clown act to the national stage. Everyone’s familiar with our most recent Three Stooges revival — Ted Haggard, Jimmy Dobson and Doug Bruce — but I can remember when there was a John Birch Society bookstore downtown, right about where Tony’s is now. And when the Ku Klux Klan attempted a comeback here in the Seventies, I interviewed the local hood-and-sheet club as well as national Kluxer David Duke for the Bibleburg Gaslight.
So color me unsurprised that state Sen. David Schultheis (R-Hyperbole) has used his Twitter account to fart higher than his ass. According to Talking Points Memo, citing Colorado Pols, Schultheis tweeted thusly:
“Don’t for a second, think Obama wants what is best for U.S. He is flying the U.S. Plane right into the ground at full speed. Let’s Roll.”
As TPM notes, “Let’s roll” were the final words of Todd Beamer, a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, one of four aircraft hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. It crashed before reaching its intended target after a passenger rebellion.
What I don’t understand is, why do we have to import nitwits like this? Schultheis is a transplant from California who didn’t start fucking up in my back yard until 1992. Don’t we have enough of our own homegrown fools to fill key positions in the state Legislature? Where are the Minutemen when we need them?
What Bibleburg needs is immigration reform, the sooner the better. Let’s save these high-paying jobs for our own dummies.
• Late update: The Denver Post has noted Schultheis’ chirpy churlishness, but as of wine-thirty, the Gaslight has not. Another non-surprise.
• Even later update: Racist fool and Birther Lou Dobbs is out at CNN. This does not mean that CNN has suddenly stopped sucking. It only means that henceforth, it will suck a little less.
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There are a lot of screwballs out there, more than enough to go around. Our local a-hat, Congressman Steve King was featured on the front page of our local fishwrapper for skipping his kid’s wedding so he could stay in DC and vote against healthcare reform. I’m sure the millions of folks without health insurance will find that a heartwarming story. Sadly, most of these right-wingers and their wacky “entertainers” on TV and talk radio are content to act like a spoiled 3-year old who can’t get her way — so tantrums are the answer. Too bad they just won’t hold their breath until they pass out and let the adults pass some meaningful legislation. Caribou Barbie will stop here on her “Going Rouge” book tour and I’m sure the local right-wing community will behave like their savior has arrived! God help us when a ditz like this purports to show leadership…and millions of bozos buy her book.
Lou Dobbs out at CNN and in at FUCHS news? any bets?
That’s more like it – I was beginning to think you had mellowed way too much lately. You simply don’t say ass fuck shit etc near enough anymore, where is the anger? A mellow mad dog is a scary mad dog.
With all the attention focused on Major Nidal Hasan, perhaps Sen. Schultheis was feeling left behind during the latest national looney bin competition.
Are we getting to the point where having a Twitter account is like having a firearm? Maybe some lessons and some licensing might be in order before one is allowed to tweet.
Could Twitter add a Jiminy Cricket app? “Click here and let Twitter provide you a conscience, just in case.”
The pen has always been mightier than the sword. Without Mein Kampf, etc., Hitler would have been painting houses rather than ravaging Europe. I worry less about the firearms than the incitement to use them.
Khal,
Too true. I’m blown away at some posted comments on news sites–hyper-violent, threatening. In Freudian terms, the internet is one giant Id. I guess the best aspect of all these means of expression is that no one source can get control and filter a message very well.
“farts higher than his ass” I am as “they” say ROFLMAO… where do you get those priceless sayings? Keep it up Patrick, you ROCK!