When Wingnuts Attack -- Each Other: Ziegler harasses ACU chief Keene, gets tossed out of right-wing confab
By David Neiwert Wednesday Oct 21, 2009 12:00pm
We've wondered how long it would be before John Ziegler -- Sarah Palin's favorite braying jackass and America's least favorite bachelor -- would turn his loudmouth schtick on members of his own side who fail to live up to his worshipful worshipfulness of Sarah Palin.
Sure, he's good for a Glenn Beck episode or two, but sooner or later he was going to be dealing with conservatives who have a somewhat less-than-adulatory view of Palin.
So he attended this past weekend's Western Conservative Political Action Conference in Los Angeles with the express purpose of trying to interview David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union, which oversees the National CPAC gathering every year. Ziegler was actually a sponsor at this year's Western CPAC, where he set up a booth to hawk his "how the media screwed Sarah" video that no one either believes or wants to waste the time watching.
When he sat down with Keene, though, he went into his usual attack-mode schtick (the only person I've ever seen him interview who he didn't treat like this was Palin), and finally pushed Keene over the edge when he basically asked him why he was corrupt. Keene got up and tried to walk away, but Ziegler pursued him through the hallways, still haranguing. At one point, Keene tells him he'd like to hit him, but won't.
Finally, Keene told Ziegler exactly what everyone who's ever watched him is forced to conclude:
Keene: You're a scumbag.
Ziegler: I'm a scumbag?
[Chases Keene through another doorway]
Ziegler: Why won't you answer the question?
Keene: Because you're an a--hole. Got that? An a--hole.
Ziegler: I'm an a--hole?
Keene: Yes, you are. Now, go.
Ah, comedy gold. Especially when he tries to explain himself:
"I often get accused of being one of those who only craves personal attention and has less than pure motives."
"This entire episode has greatly furthered my already strongly held belief that the vast majority of the conservative 'movement' is 'led' by fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies and sell outs who are far more interested in protecting their own little thiefdoms than promoting the cause."
Hahahahaha.
[Via Digby.]
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pure comedy gold!! hahahahahaha
I truly enjoy it when they turn on each other.
we can encourage this and have them keep it going 24/7?
So he WAS talking about Sarah Palin too!
..palin video? Gotta' be good for at least a laugh or two.
Majority? Hell he's describing the entire movement, himself included.
Giving braying jackasses a bad name for more than a decade.
She's still never going to have sex with you.
They are pious wingnuts, of course she'll have sex with him.
...I was talking about Sarah, not Bristol.
Whats the difference?
There cannot be any "fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies and sell outs" that reach the hieghts John Ziegler has attained. Yes, it brings a tear to the eye, to see these "fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies and sell outs" at one another's throats.
Deary dear... whatever shall the poor splintered party of "No, hate and fear" do... :)
I probably shouldn't, but consider the quality of a-holes ACU attracts on it's own, and he hadda suffer being this close to this clowny-ass Ziegler without being able to throw down.
Me too. I would feel bad for almost anyone who had this asswipe in their face like that. What a flaming jerk.
I am not a person who hits, but about half way through that clip I felt like slapping the shit out of Ziegler. Keene should have decked him. So does Ziegler's little soldier snap to attention every time he says the words, Sarah Palin? What is with this guy? Is he the same one who thought Sarah winked at him when he saw her on tv?
God, what an irritating SOB! He's like a 13 year old boy with a spider chasing after little girls saying I know you are but what am I.
It is always fun to watch them eat their own.
"...fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies ..."
He could have made it true aliteration if he had dropped "phonies" and added fu*k wads.
Fox News...
STARVE THE FOX!
http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
I love it when these fascist morons eat ther own.
Just give them each a gun and sort it out.
Ziegler is about 30 seconds away from asking Keane why he doesn't have a swastika on his lapel.
The uber-right created these fascist freaks, and now their monster has come to eat them. I say let them feast.
Do you think they want fries with that?
No, but they obviously always ask for a super-size.
Bwwhahahahaha! Conservatives throwing their own shit at each other!
Love it.
Does this guy Ziegler want to go rogue with Ms Palin?
Jeebus, my mind stumbles on the thought of a 'rogue conservative'. Do these F***wads even know what 'conservative' is supposed to mean?
I think they imagine 'rogue' to mean "I wish I was a cowboy/cowgirl in an episode of Ponderosa"
According to my dictionary, rogue means a scoundrel. And also according to my dictionary, a scoundrel means a mean,immoral or wicked person. So a woman who may one day want to run for President of the United States comes out with a book about herself and calls that book, "Going Rogue". Way to go there Sarah! You're a hell of a PR person for yourself.
Uh, what's a dikshunary?
"Going Scoundrel"
Stop being an ignorant dick Ziegler, you know Republicans are toothless rats...just look in the mirror.
This took place in Newport Beach, not Los Angeles.
everything south of us is an LA suburb :D
to anyone outside of CA, anything south of Fresno or north of San Diego is LA. And San Diego is a suspected suburb.
Yes! soon it all will be LA!
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
I almost feel sorry for Keane, he's trying to make rational points about his actions. waitaminute... nevermind, that wasn't compassion i was feeling, it was a burp.
While Keene did seem to be dodging the FedEx issue, Ziegler's attitude was so smug and condescending, I can still understand why Keene decided he'd had enough.
since they ain't going away anytime soon.
Woody Hayes
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness! Lol hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Yes. yes, it is.
The Conservative Movement is run and funded from the top down, and they're not going to subsidize a guy who harasses them.
I was amazed at Ziegler's behavior here, btw. He acted like a giddy, misbehaving child. Bizarre man.
Cancervatives like cancer don't discriminate what it attacks.
Beware when you create the monster...it will come back and kill you.
This is only the very beginning of what the Republican Party has brought on themselves.
Do zombies eat their own? I'm just wondering because Republicans are just like zombies. [except they may be born that way].
And now the morons turn on their enablers, all I can say to that is sweeeeeeeeeeet! :D
Ha Ha Ha Glenn Beck is talking about logic tonight.
To watch that guy so often . . and live even!
the vast majority of the conservative 'movement' is 'led' by fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies and sell outs who are far more interested in protecting their own little thiefdoms
A stopped clock is exactly right twice a day [for a very short period of time].
ANOTHER EPISODE OF
R E P U B L I C A N S E A T I N G T H E I R O W N !!!!!!!
Chow down...dummies!!!!!
ROFLMAO!
I'd like a chance to shove that phallic shaped mic into Zigs ugly mug and harrass the crap out of him like he did Keane...
no fan of Keane... but hey, turn around is fair play is it not...
BTW Ziggy kicked someone out of one of his book signings/video viewings for ALOT less than that....
can we say HIPPOCRITE?????
omg I just watched the first three minutes and zeigler is so incredibly unprofessional and he hasn't really started "misbehaving" yet! He's accusing Keane, shoving the mike up his nose, and whiiiining! wow!
He makes Keane seem statesmanlike.
goes on later on the eddie burke radio show to say that SP needs our protection!!!!??? YES, he said that...
WTF? a self proclaimed and PROUD OF IT barracuda/PITBULL mix needs PROTECTION... only from HIM I suppose...zigs true feelings are showing.... he's got it baaaaad for her... bet he was wishing that mic was sumthin else and he could be puttin somewhere ELSE as far as SP is concerned... and bet he's REALLY bummed that Todd quit his job and is presumably home all the time now... must put a real wrinkle in ziggys zipper...
what a whack job... no pun/every pun intended...
He launched himself over the deep end this time... I wouldn't pull him outta the water if i was standin there... sink or swim buddy... anyone have a concrete block handy????
The conservative movement is dominated by "fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies and sell outs who are far more interested in protecting their own little thiefdoms than promoting the cause." Which begs the question: who in the conservative movement doesn't fall into one of those categories? I believe you'll find them listed on the new RNC web page under the heading "future leaders".
"fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, and phonies...oh my."
See what a better headline and commentary tag line you could have had.
"fakes, flakes, freaks, frauds, phonies and sell outs"
Would you please join me in finding a way to replace "sell outs' with something similar which fits the pattern of phonetic alliteration for Mr. Zigs?
Honestly, the intellectual laziness he displayed at the end of that sentence is a disgrace to the guardians of the Randian literary tradition. Please come up with something. Winning entries will be passed along to Mr. Zigs by yours truly. I'll thend it to his thiefdom thoon I a thure you.
Someone's got to do it. John Ziegler may be an asshole but, aren't these the questions that THE REAL MEDIA is supposed to be asking?
And my hope is that Mr. Ziegler learned one of the most valuable of life's little lessons that many of us here know all too well...
That regardless of party affiliation they are all CROOKS AND LIARS!
Just like a blind squirell finding a nut Keene hit on the truth about that douche Ziegler.
I'd defend someone like Keene...
...but Keene understands that compromise is essential to gaining and keeping power in a democracy. When you don't compromise, you lose power--eg, GWB leaving office in disgrace and the Republicans losing control of Congress.
It's easy for pricks like Ziegler to be as pure as a virgin's asshole when he supports a person who is out of power. If, G-d FORBID, Palin ever becomes president, she will either:
1. Compromise to get things done;
or
2. end her first term in disgrace.
Either way, Ziegler will claim--like all conservatives do when their candidates royally fuck things up--that their candidate is "not a 'true' conservative."
What a joke.
Wingnuts attacking wingnuts. Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial watch, the conservative group that filed a dozen lawsuits against the Clinton administration and started the Whitewater debacle has just published a book entitled Whores in which he recounts how fox news turned on him during the bush 43 years and he describes roger ailes and murdoch as demagogs.
Being a wingnut these days must be like being a snake in a box packed with snakes. Testy little fuggers, ain't they?
he is the most self destructive man in america
he wont stop until he has burned every bridge he has ever trod on
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