Pat Boone wants to rid the White House of its occupying vermin
Well, we've known for some time that Pat Boone has gone wingnutty, but his latest column for the wingnutty WorldNetDaily is one of the most vile pieces of eliminationist rhetoric to come down the pike in awhile:
In time, it seems to happen to all older houses, no matter how well tended they may be.
All manner of parasites, vermin, roaches, rats, worms and termites find their way into the building. Long before they're detected, they infiltrate the walls, the floors, the roofs – and then chew their way into the structure, the supporting beams and the very foundation of the house itself. Silently, surreptitiously, whole communities of invaders make places for themselves, hidden but thriving, totally unknown by the homeowner.
Then, in time, tell-tale signs are seen. Little droppings, discolored trails, proliferating piles of residue appear in corners, on tabletops, little hanging sacs from ceilings – alarming evidence that the grand old dwelling has been invaded. Decidedly unwelcome creatures have made this place their home, and by their very existence will eventually destroy the house and bring it to ruin.
What can be done, when you learn that your house has already been invaded?
Well, the tried and true remedy is tenting.
Experts come in, actually envelope the whole dwelling in a giant tent – and send a very powerful fumigant, lethal to the varmints and unwelcome creatures, into every nook and cranny of the house. Done thoroughly, every last destructive insect or rodent is sent to varmint hell – and in a day or two, the grand house is habitable again.
I believe – figuratively, but in a very real way – we need to tent the White House!
For reasons only he can explain, the current occupant has purposely brought a whole flock of social and political voracious varmints with him into our House. He doesn't own it; he hasn't even rented it; we the people have simply given him the keys and invited him to live there for four years, making it convenient to serve us better, to carry out our expressed wishes for our country.
To the dismay of millions of us, this occupant seems to think we need an emperor. Even though all polls show that the majority of Americans don't want a whole new government-run health-care system, detest the trillions of dollars in un-payable debt he has foisted on us, question the whole "global warming" scare and disagree with him on many other issues, he boldly announces: "We're going to fundamentally transform America!" And he makes it clear that he is going to cram things down our throats whether we want them or not.
Boone then launches into a tirade based almost entirely on the Glenn Beck program (with a dash of Sean Hannity thrown in for good measure): A laundry list of the supposed Marxist radicals who have "infested" the White House, from Van Jones to Kevin Jennings. If you watch Fox, all this is familiar territory.
But what's disturbing about all this is that Boone seems to want the White House "fumigated" right now -- though he's vague on the details of just how we do that. What matters is the vile "varmints" Obama has let into his administration:
No, he wants people who think like this, in order to "radically transform America," as he has pledged.
And they will do just that, drastically … unless we act, decisively and powerfully. Our White House is being eaten away from within. We urgently need to throw a "tent" of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside. And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.
We must clean house – starting with our own White House.
Tyrants and usurpers? A duly elected president? And when, exactly, does Boone foresee applying the "massive voter gas"? Because, you know, 2012 is quite a ways off still.
This kind of talk is an open invitation to violence; it creates permission for someone to act on this kind of exhortation, especially because it not only dehumanizes, it reduces people to the level of vermin, objects not only fit but desired for elimination.
If Pat Boone is any kind of gauge of the state of mainstream conservatism, I think it's safe to say these people have gone over a cliff and into a deep, yawning abyss.
Remember my discussion of this kind of rhetoric in The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right:
What motivates this kind of talk and behavior is called eliminationism: a politics and a culture that shuns dialogue and the democratic exchange of ideas in favor of the pursuit of outright elimination of the opposing side, either through suppression, exile, and ejection, or extermination.
Rhetorically, eliminationism takes on certain distinctive shapes. It always depicts its opposition as beyond the pale, the embodiment of evil itself, unfit for participation in their vision of society, and thus worthy of elimination. It often further depicts its designated Enemy as vermin (especially rats and cockroaches) or diseases, and disease-like cancers on the body politic. A close corollary—but not as nakedly eliminationist—are claims that opponents are traitors or criminals and that they pose a threat to our national security.
Eliminationism is often voiced as crude "jokes," a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.
grave. Or bunker whatever it was.
There is a very strong similarity between Boone's comments and the statements made in The Eternal Jew, a very famous anti-semitic Nazi propaganda film.
See especially the connection to rats. Both Boone and Der Ewige Jude call their targets invading vermin and rats. It's certainly possible that Boone isn't aware of this, but it's shameful if he doesn't.
Frankly, I don't think Eliminationism is a strong enough word for aping Nazis.
ADDENDUM: Voter gas? Nevermind, there's no way he could be accidentally invoking the gassing of the Jews.
situation into his speech.
He must have a lot of vermin in his house. He needs to tent his house, just get the proper permits first.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
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"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Pat Boone made his living off of stealing Black artists' music and performance ideas. That should tell you something.
Actually so did elvis
And michael jackson
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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they were entertaining and had talent.
which I posted far below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azNzgox2y_I
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
promptly got caught and called out. I don't think they did it again. Not like they didn't have their own talent, right?
However, in both the cases of Elvis and Michael Jackson, they both thrived beyond their influences. In fact, in Michael Jackson's case he freely admitted he'd studied the stage craft of James Brown. Just as James Brown had molded the flamboyance of Little Richard into his stage precense.
Pat Boone, on the other hand, knew that his music was being used as a sanitized version of the so-called "race music" of the day, but he couldn't sustain his popularity after black artists began crossing over into Top 40 playlists.
It's one thing to freely acknowledge you've borrowed your style from others, but it's the height of deceit to make your entire living by singing music that was already popular, and acting as if you are the first who's sung it.
Pat Boone should be ignored now, and he REALLY should have been ignored then.
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There's a big difference between remaking other peoples' songs years after they come out, and coming out with a cheap imitation the day after the original comes out. Back in the day, both would be on the charts at the same time, black artists first of course. We had to be careful not to play the lame Pat Boone version. Talk about blatant! Pat Boone was a joke among progressive people. Little Richard finally had to start speeding up his songs so Pat Boone couldn't copy them with his white bread renditions.
Pat Boone's entire career has been spent as a corporate shill.
Even though all polls show that the majority of Americans don't want a whole new government-run health-care system
Big talk from a guy who is old enough for socialized medicine.
Let's see how far to the right they go before they fall off of the edge of this flat world.
him out for an interview.
They didn't someone miced his colostomy bag, hence the tent metaphors.
and turned them into MILKTOAST!
Pat Boone is the FACE of the 'no talent', 'no brain' bigot, ala Chuck Norris......stupid is as stupid does
Chuck Norris is at least good at something. He just can't act.
What is Norris good at again?
Yeah. I'd like to know what he's good at too, other than being a FREAK.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
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Freak is true... but you forgot "Loud Mouthed, Uninformed, Ignorant, Kinda Stupid schnook with Delusions of Relevancy." He's good at being that too.
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Wed, 11/04/2009 - 09:13 — Cramthra
What is Norris good at again?
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Getting beaten up by Bruce Lee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqxnhmeMdJ4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Great clip, kept thinking if Bozo would shave his shoulders he might increase his speed although his slow brain would handicap that possibility.
You know how the idea of control and peace of mind is a big part of martial arts...seems little gorilla Norris didn't learn that part, him wanting to overthrow the gubment and all with his armed and ready militias.
And he was really bad at it, too.
He was a crappy matinee idol.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
"We must clean house – starting with our own White House."
I think he means the house where he stores his white shoes?
Maybe Pat has a little mental health issue?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
and take Larry Craig out for a night on the town.
I guess his doctors haven't found the right dose for his meds yet.
... that the white shoes were just a substitute for white robes and a hood.
It would have to come down from the pike
'Cause pat don't do dikes
But what guy do?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You are over-due on your meeting with your local death-panel. Please schedule an appointment.
Dem Response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvieb2OedWE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
A lifetime of stealing good songs and turning them into garbage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOe5HDXnxVk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Having seen Little Richard performing "Tutti Frutti" live, I can truly say Pat Boone's version is capable of producing projectile vomit.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
from a christian.
These bible thrumping hypocrites are dispicable.
Look for him on beck - they both call for violence on the prez in the most obvious, veiled ways.
Secret Service, are you listening?
Only Christian to those that believe as he does, all others are blasphemers where it is alright to treat them as garbage.
That would be really funny.
I'd love to see Beck empty his pipe into Boone's mouth.
are absolutely the worst kind of people! They use organized religion as an excuse to HATE. I hope they learn some remorse during their eternity burning in the pits of HELL!
There is nothing out of the ordinary with Christians like Boone preaching hatred- Christianity is by nature a cult of death and hatred- Their cult centers around human sacrifice (Christ nailed to the cross) , it preaches self loathing, and advocates the hatred of others....
Christian cult members are told to worship Jesus as a god, or else they'll burn in Hell for eternity. Period.
um, why would I want to follow such a deluded hate filled ideology?
Is it a surprise that rightwinger Boone uses the same imagery that the Nazi's used to demonize Jews while at the very same time decrying supposed creeping fascism of the Left?
Sick. Sick. Sick.
http://www.tinytim.org/memorabilia/images/sic...
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boone is the same guy in the fifties that would re record hits by black music gods, [little richard] that would be played by radio stations that would not play the 'race' records that are considered masterpieces today. anyone hear his version of richards' tutti frutti?
20 years later his daughter re recorded a record that should have been a hit for a black singer also.... he is a racist and has always been in the forefront of anti civil rights. all in the name of the jesus.
I'm no english major or linguist but I'm pretty sure the phrase "figuratively, but in a very real way" is contradictory, which leads to the obvious question: What the hell are you advocating, Pat?
As an English major, a proofreader, and a music fan, I say it's a good thing Pat Boone never bothered trying to write his own songs.
This thinly veiled call for the overthrow (or worse) of the President is far more serious than the tweets of regularly misinformed twits.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
If and when(god forbid) somebody takes a shot at the President, what should/would happen to Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al? What will happen and what should happen are two different things but I would be interested to see what others think. My two cents are they should be publicly reviled and sued to poverty, what would happen, lets just say that I wont be standing anywhere near any of them; a sad commentry on the state of discourse in this country, but true non the less.
remain free citizens, expect NOTHING.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"If and when(god forbid) somebody takes a shot at the President, what should/would happen to Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al?"
Nothing will happen to them because the murkin public will believe whatever lie is shoved down their throats by the very media that these accessories work for. The lone gunman will be just that. One loco guy who just thought it up all by his lonesome, out of the clear blue sky. Even though their books sit on his nightstand.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
got to keep on rising
Bomb Branson.
B-52's!!
crowded theater?
Turn the Bluegay or loonie Pat?
Either way the B-52's ROCK
Pat, nevermind your racist 1950's political views, please sing your version of Tutti Fruitti.
Fucking hilarious!
He thinks Bush & Cheney are still in the White House.
he thinks Eisenhower is still in the White House.
. . . considering that Mr. Tutti Frutti Boone started out as a white-bread parasite in the house of rock 'n roll.
When you say "started out" do you mean "has spent nearly six decades?"
He wishes he did.
you beat me to the draw.
Pat is really senile. Or maybe he was always this way. Bottom line, though -- he is extremely mentally ill. And not just in the usual wingnut way.
Look at his detailed description of his house needing to have the Orkin Man come out. On and on he goes, describing the bugs. And then describes BUGS as evil, needing to go to "varmint hell."
I am not a believer, but those of you who are, and are not wingnuts -- isn't a varmint God's creature, too? Why would a varmint go to hell? Pat has really gone around the bend.
"souls", cannot go to Heaven or Hell. Not sure if this is true of other Christian religious groups or not.
I guarantee my dog has far more soul than Boone has, and can sing better too.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
...go to hell you irrelevant cretin.
Need to be reminded of his famous
Dick in a box pic
NSFW
A perfect representative for the religious hypocrite party
sexual deviance? Because clearly, there is one.
Never seen that before, nor care to again.
I'm guessing that doesn't do much for you either...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Size queens and little dicks.
;)
He sounds like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
Isn't Pat Boone the guy who took a toke off a joint once and then spent the next decade telling anyone who would listen the tale of his long, hard road back from being a rock-bottom junkie?
I honestly don't know much about the dude but he's always struck me as being the quintessential loser.
As a lover of the Constitution and a supporter of the ideals of representative democracy, and someone who accepts the outcomes of elections, I am ashamed that Pat Boone wears the mantle of someone who knows what is best for America. President Obama is governing because the people of America put him there. He is not "cramming" anything down anyone's throat that the democratically elected Congress and our Constitution permit him to do.
Pat Boone undermines our system of government when he talks like this. Rather than demonize the people who won an open and free election, why doesn't Pat Boone and those who agree with him come up with a set of beliefs and ideas that win elections?
The person who defines Reality wins.
Wow. Trying very hard to avoid Godwin's Law here, but damn. If this isn't something right out of Der Sturmer, I don't know what is. The lengths these crazy people are going to scares the hell out of me.
you don't need to be afraid of these morons that's most of the problem right there. Even Gandhi said it's better to fight then to be a coward.
there's a difference between being scared and doing nothing :)
should act. Look This is another White Trailer Trash CHRISTIAN Hate Monger, what do you expect. Ever notice how this TURD turns up when he thinks he can grab a Headline and much like the Irrelevant Hate Base Religion he belongs to he contribute nothing but does espouse the christian values of Ingnorance to rival in, Indifference to fain understanding and Intolerance to prove he is a true white is right hate mongering Christian.
How's that not blatant incitement to violence? I think the folks in charge of protecting the White House and its occupants should be asked that question.
From the Secret Service website;
http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml#faq4
How can I report a threat towards a protectee?
"Contact your nearest U.S. Secret Service field office which is listed in the "Emergency Numbers" section in the front of most phone books.
The Secret Service is interested in legitimate information relating to threats, plans or attempts by individuals, groups or organizations to harm Secret Service protectees. However, the agency does not desire or solicit information pertaining to individuals or groups expressing legitimate criticism of, or political opposition to, the policies and decisions of the government or government officials."
I hardly think suggesting that the occupants of the White House be gassed constitutes "legitimate criticism", let alone mere "political opposition". Seems like he's advocating murder to me, no matter how it's couched.
There's a list of Field Office phone numbers here, should anyone else care to report it- http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml
..and the owner was not spewing "legitimate criticism". While I won't dwell on what was said, I won't be eating Pizza there any longer!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
He's just got typical southern white man's envy.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Holy shit! I think I actually saw Pat Boone "perform" at Magic Mountain when I was a kid. He is quite awful at what he does.
If you watch the new 'V' remake, it's pretty hard not to see the aliens as the Obama administration- a lot of not very subtle 'symbolic' scenes make sure you get it. This hateful rhetoric in the echo chamber is bound to have some effect as one point, disastrous effect. Conservatives have gone way over to the senseless-crazy side now, and liberals are too polite to tell them to 'shut it, psycho'.
Can we get a vote on what part of the Arizona desert Boone and Podhoretz get to go to do their duel?? We'll get beck and hannratty to supply the blunder-busts - Cluster-fox to cater the event with Kool-Aide and OLD Spam sandwiches - and limberger to do the play-by-play....
These nut-rolls are truly garbage blocking the streets....amazing...
Pat Boone has sucked at everything he's ever done and from this report, he hasn't changed one bit. Now he's just older and suckier.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Wonder if anyone bothered to tell him he was covering a gay artist's song here.
He'll probably claim he invented Hip Hop.
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Well we knew the wingnuts were full of some kind of hot air...
The American majority gave a firm victory to Barack Obama. This monkey needs to shut the fuck up.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
Unfortunately you can't send a note to this vile human being via his website...but you can read all sorts of garbage. It's too bad that the composer of all the music he made his fortune off of can't sue.
..what makes you think he's human? carbon-based life for sure but human? Nah. I've seen humans and it ain't this pos.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
I thought Pat Boone died years ago!!!
The day is young.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
who immediately makes me sick to my stomach when he appears. He represents everything bad about the white race. When I was a kid, my black friends would use him as proof that white people were dementedly trying to steal their culture purely for financial gain (he certainly didn't sound like he was enjoying himself singing those "crossover" songs - more like someone in the producing arm of the project thought it would be a $$$$ maker and told him, "Try it, we'll be rich!"). He sounds worse than Tom DeLay looks dancing.
Then later he came out in a video all in leather and made an ass of himself all over again. I fully expect him to come out with a rap song soon, to capture the hearts of the youth and tell them the good news (that Jebeezus loves Republicans).
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They just forgot to bury him with his white bucks and leather vest!!!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Does being brain dead count?
Ya have to have a brain to be brain dead.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
needs another brain transplant, that black hole between his ears swallowed another one......
Pat Boone wants teabaggers to come to DC and fart on the Whitehouse? Sounds as sensible as any other conservative idea for victory.
go back and listen to what he tried to do to African American music in the 60s. He did not honor the music, he just went about trying to make it his own. Tutti Fruity, indeed!
Check out patboone.com to view his white racist xtian world. He's way out there with Chuck Norris, but in a disgusting nerdy sort of way.
Eliminate THESE clowns. They've been bugging me since I was a kid.
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You are close to the mark. But what he did to Tutti Frutti happened in the Fifties. And you haven't even plumbed the depth of Speedy Gonzalez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PiQCKrvCI
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Truth is, the contract-finagling, intelprop-stealing, welfare cheating, wiretapping WHITE family called Wright had two candidates in the Presidential race--McCain and Obama. Obama's dad's family is no problem to our electorate. When we are given little or no choice, and force-fed two scions of a WHITE organized crime family with branches from Ohio south to FL and west to Denver, and they begin to loot the Federal budget from big subsidies to tiny airports, onto stock supports for Wall Street recommended by their pack of securities attorneys (check NY Yellow Pages for that pack of parasite attorneys), then they are, indeed, Rats or Rat Finks.
And no, I'm not a Christian or a Pat Boone fan, just someone with Wright relatives who knows, too well, why they're trying to cover their white asses with a black pol's hide.
Why is not ok to call these people what they are? Nazis.
Nazis implies that this imbecile actually has complete and coherent thoughts.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I wouldn't call these morons eliminationists. The nazi's were eliminationists, these people are just bigoted idiots.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
..been notified of his dementia? I mean, either its some mental deficiency or its HATE pure and simple. I tend to think its some of that ole time race bigotry but seriously, can't someone shut this idiot up?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
This is as bad as what Limbaugh spewed on Sunday with Mike Wallace's son.
Wow , being an ass and making ridiculous statements is all the rage these days isn't it ? Cutie Pie just wanted some attention .
Pat Boone was an usurper and a fraud as a singer....just ask the black singers he ripped off. And not a very good singer at that.
He had on his iconic white shoes and a cross AND flag on his lapels. His daughter Debby was with him, and he seemed nice enough, but I still hate him. He's an unapologetic thief and a FAR right-wing megaphone, and in the music world, he is an icon for the banality of whiteness.
He does NOT believe in the basic tenets of Jesus' teachings - far from it, he's probably helping write the new bible which takes out all that faggety "love" and "brotherhood" and "turning the other cheek" bullshit.
One more chickenhawk for Christ.
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..oh wait, its not very ixtian is it? hmm, so that makes him a hypocrite. Oh, and then there's the whole kill the "vermin" in the White House thing..that doesn't seem very patriotic coming from a patriot now does it. Wow, HYPOCRITE..thy name is boone!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
http://www.patboone.com/jukebox.php
and press 2. If you have not heard this pretender try to sing, here is the fatal proof that PAT BOONE IS A FRAUD.
God, the bile that comes up when this amateur opens his maw.
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That gives amateurs a bad name.
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Who give a flyin fuck what that asshole thinks?
"If Pat Boone is any kind of gauge of the state of mainstream conservatism, I think it's safe to say these people have gone over a cliff and into a deep, yawning abyss."
As the recent poster of Sam and Dave and Otis Redding on Late Nite Music Club, Mr. Neiwert has demonstrated more than passing familiarity with a body of black music from an earlier era. Therefore he has to be familiar with Mr. Boone's cover of Little Richard's Tutti Frutti. As such, he should be aware that if Pat Boone is a gauge, these people have not come out of their cocoon, much less climbed to any heights from which they could fall.
Pat's cohort is depicted listening to the original in this work by the original master:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFq5O2kabQo
Here is the pupal version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvieb2OedWE
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Well he did save Rock Hudson.
Not
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
... there were many on the left, me included, who had similar thoughts about the Bush administration. We can't just dismiss "them" as wrong and "us" as correct, although it's difficult to not see the illogic of their fears and discontent. Perhaps, the right also feels the same way about us.
I don't know what the right way of thinking about all this is, but it seems that both sides (the left and the right) of political philosophies is guilty to some degree of the very thing we accuse the other side of.
Having said that, I can hardly contain myself to scream and rant against the likes of people who say such things as Pat Boone has, but take pause when I understand that what he says he believes as assurdedly and as much as what we have said and believed concerning the Bush/Republican/conservative side of things.
Somewhere in the middle lies the truth for all of us.
Anyone have any thoughts as to what that truth may be for all concerned?
How about the rule of law? I hated Bush because he broke the law. Many of us progressives criticize Obama because he allows continued violations of international and domestic laws. The conservatives NEVER, EVER held Bush accountable for anything.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
We're not holding Obama as accountable as we should be, either. The air is so thick with what looks to me like manufactured Obama-hate, we don't have time to turn our attention on Obama himself and hold him accountable. What I wonder is how they get Pat Boone and the other sources to provide this stuff, right on cue. This stuff is maximum horrible. Where do they get this surreal, amazing stuff, and so much of it?
Maybe it's like with the Nazis in WW 2. We didn't learn it as little kids in school, but when we grew up, we found out lots of Americans "may have been" in sympathy with Nazis. Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg. Astounding. So the country is actually full of this evil, and all you have to do to bring it out is walk around in the kennel nudging the dogs awake. They bound to their feet and get to barking, right on cue.
Voila, we turn from glaring at President Obama, fists raised to hold him accountable, to salivating in his defense. It sure works on me. Every time I hear another story like this, it flips my on-switch from the administration to the clowns.
And never will no matter if he personally killed a member of their own family. They would find some way to blame it on Obama!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
Oh no, we do hold Bush accountable. The fact is that we are not interested in Case Law, but rather the actual, original documents, you know, The Constitution. If you do the research you will actually find both Bush Jr. and Sr. to have held many progressive policies. How about Bush Sr. and the UN? Hmmmm. Do you guys ever research or think independly. No, of course not. You are happy with the government controlling your itty bitty brains. As for me, I prefer to keep the government out of my pocket, my backyard, and my brain. They tend to fuck things up if you haven't noticed.
In 2006, after the Dixie Chicks criticized President Bush, Pat Boone, himself an entertainer, said: "If I were the president of Iran, if I were Osama bin Laden or any of the terrorist organizers and I could have my wish list totally... I couldn't ask for anything better than for America's entertainers to bash their president, denigrate him, make him seem like an idiot and a self-serving fool, and then have the media go along with it and promote it like crazy and try to undermine the whole war effort."
He also said: ""I think it's outrageous for any of these performers to be bashing our president the way they are." Read it yourself: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...
ANOTHER CHRISTIAN BIGOT!
I imagine that this year will be remembered as the year I alienate half of my family at the Thanksgiving and Christmas table. You see about two thirds of my family is conservative and about a third of them are as fanatical as tea baggers - if not actually in the movement. This year when the inevitable ranting about politics rears its ugly head I refuse to allow the unhinged elements to run their mouths unopposed MERELY to keep the peace. I have been the only one "keeping the peace" by keeping silent for years now, and it's time for them to shut the hell up. Let someone else be the peace maker for a change.
...in the mold of Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston. Just ridiculous.
The right have this mantra about how Obama is a despot, dictator, The Messiah, etc. From whence cometh this notion? If anything, I would like to see him be a bit more despotic - call the Blue Dogs to heel, for example. Obama seems way too tame to me, so I just don't understand where Boone and the other right-wing folks get this idea.
It simply doesn't add up.
As others have posted, Pat Boone is one of those who wears his Christianity on his sleeve. If we define Christianity as adhering to the teachings of Christ ("I was hungry and you gave me to eat", etc.), regardless of religious belief, and not by loudly and constantly proclaiming such belief, I propose there are a lot more atheistic "Christians" than fundamentalist ones.
Considering most Americans don't know the difference between fascism, communism and socialism, I'm sure they don't scrutinize what it means to be a Christian either. If you went to church once you're a Christian. THen you can do as you please, just show up at church the odd Sunday.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I know one fellow that said he was a christian years ago. But he drank heavily, did all sorts of drugs, smoked pot, you name it he did it. One day he started preaching to me and I told him to just shut up. I didn't want to hear all this bullshit comming from a hypocrite. He told me god allowed him to do drugs so he could teach others not to! You see what kind of special ignorance you are dealing with? It is one of the reasons I have been saying for quite a while now.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
It is killing America. It is much worse then terrorism.
...to see his horrible "race music" become thankfully irrelevant but also to witness those disgusting colored people get credit for creating his people's Rock n Roll...And now one of those n****rs is the President!
Poor Boone. I believe he was saving that bigoted tirade for his induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Bhahahahahahahah!!!
Self hating, Boone has been fighting for years coming out of the closet.
Great thinking, Patso. If you can't vote 'em out, fart 'em out.
Lost it years ago when he jioned up with the religious republican nut bags. It has gotten worse over the years. For the love of god I cannot understand what lead these people to think they could just ignore the facts and just believe whatever bullshit they want and that makes it true. Just another prime example of what I have been saying.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness! It is killing America.
Is a great example of the "banality of evil".
How so much pulsating hate could reside inside one seemingly squeaky clean character like Boone is a question that really,really needs answering.I honestly don't think Pat knows how obscene his thinking is,and he is actually typical of millions of elderly people who for starters,can't get over the fact that "the Coloreds" are in the White House.That's just the starting point.
The worst of it is,this kind of thinking is being passed on to much younger people.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Squeak clean when squeaky translates as oblivious scum.
I thought the fumigation happened last January. Or is Boone hinting that Obama belongs in a gas chamber and should be executed?
What else would you expect from a hard-core por...uh, bible thumper who made his career doing inferior versions of songs made famous by black singers?
Pat Bonehead is more like it.
Well Pat Hasbeen, we hold elections every 4 years to deal with that little problem of yours. You'll get 1 vote and you can cast it any way you wish. But why can't conservative lowlifes like yourself understand that you simply can't throw someone out of office because you voted for the other guy and you lost. Y'see, we live in a democracy not a banana republic you douch.
I thought he sang like "Potsie" from "Happy Days".
Hey Pat "Who the Hell is this Has Been" Boon?
Looks like another Racist has come out of the closet.
"parasites, vermin, roaches, rats, worms and termites" are all terms the Nazis used to describe the Jews-
Pat Boone, this has-been whose only claim to fame was making Little Richard's songs sound as straight laced white as possible, might as well have been preaching this crap in Germany in 1938.....
These Right winger Christians talk a game of revolution, but they are so mind numbingly stupid, they couldn't organize such an event....
I think he was?
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
This old rightwing flaming turd is proof that the good die young. This bastard will probably live till he's 120 - just like the Bushies.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Like all washed up artists, it's time for you to retire to the beach and write some "Love Letters in the Sand".
...Pat Robertson (1930– ) American televangelist-entrepreneuer. Owns or has owned the Christian Broadcasting Network (which airs his 700 Club program); radio stations; a stake in an oil refinery; a gold mine in Liberia (in partnership with bloody dictator Charles Tayor, whom Robertson regularly defended in his broadcasts); a diamond mine in the Congo, which used helicopters belonging to Robertson's tax-exempt humanitarian relief organization to transport mining equipment; and of course just to add a bit of genuine snake-oil flavor—Pat Roberton's Age-Defying Protein Shake (advertised on his tax-exempt ministry's Web site).
On Christian love: "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
Fierce defender of mosque-state and synagogue-state separation: "The minute you turn [the Constitution] into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society."
"The great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something.... The people who have come into [our] institutions [today] are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians.... The termites are in charge now ... and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation." Zyklon B? It was first developed as a pesticide.
"The feminist agenda is ... about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
Study the symptoms not the virus...
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