What is the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus for? 'We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats'
By David Neiwert Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 2:00pm
Ah, feel the eliminationism.
Rep. Gregg Harper, a Mississippi Republican, had a jocular interview with Politico's Anne Schroeder Mullins and popped out this little knee-slapper:
Mullins: What in the world does the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus do?
Harper: We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.
Coming from a congressman from a state still renowned for its lynchings and murders not just of black people but white civil-rights workers -- in an era many of us can still remember clearly -- this kind of "humor" is anything but funny.
However, it is the kind of thing we've come to expect to today's Republicans, isn't it?
Not that makes any difference to Blue Dog Democrats like Ben Nelson. As Media Matters notes:
Ironically, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), a co-chair of the caucus, has praised the group for being bipartisan. "Unlike some of the other activities in Washington, Republicans and Democrats reach across the aisle and join hands to work together, not as Republican or Democrat, but as sportsmen and women," he wrote.
Someone should ask Ben Nelson if he enjoys hunting liberal Democrats too, since that's what his caucus is apparently viewed as a venue for.
(Addendum: Somehow I'm not surprised that Harper is a Mississippian who thinks John Grisham is a "literary great" who surpasses Faulkner and Welty. Gad.)
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Given the right's continued attempts to destroy Acorn for registering minorities to vote, the vitriolic, hateful hyperbole being flung around and and the proud but pointlessly non-contextual brandishing of weapons, I'd say that 'era' isn't nearly as forgotten as it should be.
and the Congressional Penis Extension Club!
About time hypopenoids came out of the closet and say
"Long Live the Teenie Peenies!
buy "Extenz" off FOX.
If liberals didn't hug those trees, the trees might die, then where would you be able to perform all your lynchings, you simpering knuckle-dragging troglodyte?
What did a troglodyte ever do to deserve that comparison?
in dense vegetation.
Do people like Harper have a pre existing condition of stupid? Maybe he is just so used to hanging around with people who think the way he does that he has forgotten sane people are a wee bit different.
I mean in this age when everything you say is recorded by someone, wouldn't a man with more sense understand to say something like this is seen as the worst kind of stupid?
Lately I have wondered, are the worst of us holding political office and working on cable news channels? It would seem so.
his shit is going to wind up on the internets where it can be used against him. He seems genuinely surprised everytime the blogs push back.
Harper is a useless tool. Of course he feels the need to talk about hunting and shooting. He is compensating.
I'm sure all the representatives and senators who called on Pelosi to censure Alan Grayson (for being impolite about pointing out the Republicans shortcomings) will call for an apology and censure of this idiot.
Notice how that bumper sticker lists gays and lesbians? You think the authors/displayers might be obsessed?
dead fingers from the bark.
There, having issued that threat I feel better.
Now, aboiut that young Mr. Grisham. A finer scribe of the Lawyer Romance Novel genre cannot be found.
Scott Turow?
Bodice ripping romance. Not sex on the desk sort of stuff.
Or sex under the desk sort of stuff.
Take a deep breath. Relax. Seriously. Take a shower, if necessary
John G. wrote a fine coverup novel, The Brethren, which fictionalized an actual racket run by the mayor of Biloxi and a couple of his friends. He also assisted in the further immortalization of Neptune Beach, FL's Pete's Bar, from which I was banned one hugely funny evening which started out like a Western movie and ended like Nickelback's guess-what-song.
Someone tell this moron that tree-hugging liberal Democratic environmentalists are creating more jobs than any other segment of the economy at this point, and that the poorest state in the Union might want to do something besides hunker 'round burn barrels with a bottle of Mad Dog, which was about all the industry I've seen while driving through MS numerous times.
This is a state which grows soybeans everywhere and you can't buy edamame, by any name, in any grocery store or at any fruit stand.
A "jocular" interview stops being jocular as soon as the threat of violence enters the conversation, whether or not it's said with a snicker. When you consider that these guys are leaders of and role models for some of the most bass-ackward violence-prone folks around, little jokes like these stop being funny.
if he had been in Harper's graduating class at Ole Miss Law like Grisham, I am sure Harper would have kind words for him too. Unless he burned down his barn. Or won a Nobel Prize.
I wonder if Harper knows that he is involved in releasing convicted felons from jail.
to taking a Steven Colbert "Getting to Know a District" interview seriously.
The interview wasn't done (strictly) for entertainment purposes nor conducted by a satirist. So why shouldn't we take Harper at his word?
But without the funny.
Once again the Republicans are talking about killing. No ideas? Just shoot anybody that may have an idea.
USA! USA! USA!
If they don't agree with you, just shoot them and chant, USA!
to confuse or conflate violence with masculinity & power. In their world view (white) Men should have all the power, and the freedom to display their power by assaulting others, whether they hang Census workers or shoot Liberals.
They are "The Hunter" We are the Prey.
"Might makes right"
'cause that has such a rich history of working so swell.
is that a lot of Liberals and non-Conservatives like me also have guns and still keep them loaded.
They may think that way but I'm nobody's prey.
If more center and left would start standing up and defending themselves, most specifically candy asses like Reid, this wouldn't be as much of an issue.
and the Puguglies weep bitter tears, hold their breath and turn redder and shriek like the ban sidhe.
But it's okay to broadcast the Puguglies masturbatory dreams of killing those with whom they disagree.
This asswipe is making is that Liberals may have just had enough of his crap and are perfectly capable of shooting back.
No shit. They grossly misunderestimate.......
...that way they'll have posted a target on themselves for me to aim at...Shoot back? Hell, why shouldn't I shoot first? After all, this is a certain claim of 'self-defense'.
From now on I will wear my moss-camo gown when I hug my tree. I don't want to be an easy target.
for Target Stores . . .
Obviously a liberal chain
So Mr. Harper wants to hunt liberals, but it's a waste of good ammunition?
IMHO, sir...YOU ARE A WASTE OF DNA!
for a bulls eye and yep, there it was. I'll go hold hug my tree now and wait for the end - I just have to figure out which bark I want to grab on to...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/298864264_...
Couldn't Harper target teabaggers for awhile or are they too easy to hit?
They hunt wolves from airplanes. Let the Zima flow.
Only twenty percent of Americans claim to be Republicans, but forty percent own a gun. The GOP should keep in mind that many of those liberals are perfectly capable of defending themselves.
Wanna hunt with hand grenades? Nah, you're too conservative. Wanna hunt with a bazooka? Naw, you conservatives have morals...My ass. I've closed you squeeemy mother fucks so many times you aint nothin' but a bunch of stupid Babtist of the Klu Klux Klan outfit...hey...we even stole your beer you bunch of jack offs...
What I want is a liberal television show, called the Crock News where they trash you assholes...and, they know we can knock you off with no problem....We never said we couldn't fight war...we said we didn't like it....Beware of someone who doesn't wanna fight...because they usually are CRAZY.......
If Mr. Harper's aim is as good as his jokes, then "tree hugging liberals" like me should have nothing to worry about.
and here i thought it wasn't funny because it is the same tired joke repeated for the past 20 years, about as funny as someone saying "not" after a sentence.
Your tag is freaking hilarious.
A Colbert "tip o' the hat" to ya.
Bipartisan? As in hunters and prey? At least the license to hunt us didn't mention condoning Palin's method of choice, hunting from helicopters. I always say hunting will be a sport when the deer are also armed with rifles. Bring it on-this liberal has a .357 Magnum and a Mossberg. As I explained to the guy who sold the Ruger to me, 'Don't worry, I'd never use it on an animal, it's for using on people.' He looked nervous for a moment, and then wrote 'defense' on the 'purpose' line in the form. I bought it when my wife was counseling battered women, and the abusers started asking who their counselor might be.
He said "hunting liberal Dems" not "lynching liberal Dems".
By Mississippi standards, this is real progress.
Blen Geckian on aisle 9.
Hey, Rebate, you moron - You are on the wrong website - to us, you're just another wingnut. If we want to know what your opinion is, we'll listen to Rush give it to you.
"Mullins"?
Sounds a lot like "Muslims" to me. You an A-rab, boy?
"Behind every joke, there's a half joke." This is getting really ugly and dangerous.
Republi****s need guns because they'd shit their pants if they had to face a liberal in single combat.
Wingnut pussies pulling a gun on me had best use it before I take it away from them, stick it up their ass and pull the trigger.
[We have a filter for that word for a reason. Don't defeat it-Sitemonitor]
Word.
From the Sacramento/aka Yahoo City Press:
"El Dorado County Supes Favor Liberal Concealed Weapons Permits"
Supervisors are pissed the Sheriff didn't agree with the locals demands for CCW permits and the "right to self-protection".
And what would the 'locals' think a big agricultural area like Sacramento needed protection from, in sunny California?
Don't any of these teabaggers have any idea whatsoever on the original, sexual connotation (that John Waters claims to have coined in the 1970's)?
Also, I would imagine the teabaggers holding signs saying "NO PUBIC OPTION", and probably showing it upside down - inadvertantly leaving out that "L" in "public" - if anybody has a picture of such a ridiculous teabagging sign, let me know. There are, of course, teabagging signs that say "No government-run medicare."
If any one of those right-wing mouth-breathers ever threatens me or my family, I'll be introducing them to my friend, Mr. Glock.
Specifically: http://www.glock.com/english/glock29.htm
www.liberalswithguns.com
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - Mahatma Ghandi
EOM
David Addkisson walked into a Knoxville universalist church and began shooting. His intent was to kill as many liberals and democrats as possible.
His reading material consisted of works by Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity.
It's no joke to me.
There's only one problem for these Neanderthal A holes , unlike wildlife who are defenseless we fire back !
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... Because nothing screams "Love for Country" like hunting Americans, YES?
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I guess some people like adventure tourism but Harper demonstrates why I'll never be spending tourist dollars in a place like Saudi Arabia, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- or Mississippi. Why go to some socially backward hell hole where you aren't wanted?
They hate us because of our freedoms. That's been the cry from the right for many the year now and I have heard it as often or more than average being in the military.
Every time I see somehthing like this I think to myself that practically half of my own country hates (Or at least seriously dislikes) me for some of my beliefs, freedoms, interests, etc...
Let me tell you...it hurts the head sometimes to realize some of the folks "over there" treat you with more respect and kindness than a whole section of the population at home.
I've been reading for years but this is my first post. Sorry it wasn't more thrilling......but I'll be around to keep trying.
I'd like to hunt Moderate Republicans, but they are on the endangered species list.
to my gun ownership rights. They pretend to protect them and all they ever do is threaten them with their obvious insanity.
Harper is the erection that has lasted over 4 hours. He needs to seek medickal attention to return blood to his (somewhat) bigger head.
...about being stereotyped, ask them why they keep electing people like Gregg Harper (and David Vitter, and Saxby Chambliss, and Addison Wilson) who make them look like ignoramuses.
I think I'll make one that says "Neo-Con Hunting Permit" and get a bumper sticker to put next to it that says "Remember buttheads, some of us shoot back."
Harper: We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.
Too bad you're too f**ing stupid to actually catch one.
Heh.
Come get me rednecks.
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