Nah nah nah nah. Hey Hey Hey. Goodbye.
From VetVoice:
CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty has gone off the deep end, or at least he thinks American Soldiers have. Check out this quote from Feherty in the April issue of D Magazine:
[I]f you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.
Wow. There are so many levels on which this is one of the most inflammatory statements about American Veterans and Service Members that has ever been printed. Evidently, Feherty believes that we are mindless machines of death, who would without hesitation accept a loaded weapon from a stranger in civilian society, and then use that weapon to assassinate political leaders of the country we have sworn to defend. Second, Feherty disrespects the leaders of our most important branch of government by insinuating that, as the old right-wing smear goes, they “pal around with terrorists”, or at least ride the elevator together to work in the morning. Third, Feherty, who to my knowledge has never served his country or ours in uniform, makes the assumption that he knows Soldiers and Veterans, and that “any U.S. soldier” has such hatred for (again) the political leaders of the country we have sworn to defend, that we could not be professional enough to help ourselves from committing murder on the spot.
He will be fired shortly. And screw the apology that no doubt will be forthcoming. I understand reacting in anger and wishing that all Republicans would die. I have done it. Anger can do strange things to you, and even though it is no excuse, at least it is understandable. By all accounts, Mr. Feherty was calmly answering a question in an interview, as if in a golf whisper. Hell, he may have even been joking. But whose jokes are as detailed in their murderous design. Yeah, Mr. Feherty has issues, and I suppose none of us want to see what crosses his mind when angry.
What is it about Nancy Pelosi that angers these thugs so? Trust me, as a Democrat, she is harmless and powerless. Indeed, if it is her liberalism that angers them, I can assure them it could have been much much worse. Imagine me as Speaker. Well no, since Steve Newton and Dana Garrett consider me a blight on true progressivism…. consider Dana Garrett as Speaker. Then these right wingers would have something to cry about.
I am convinced the right wing pathology concerning Nancy Pelosi, and concerning Hillary Clinton for that matter, has everything to do with hatred of women. My mother, a die hard Hillary Clinton supporter during the primaries, says she learned one thing about America during 2008: we are more sexist as a country than we are racist.
I find it amusing that they paint Pelosi as a huge liberal and one of the most liberal in Congress.
yet…here she is…sitting around ok’ing torture of fellow humans.
yepppp. liberal all the way
Like I said, it has nothing to do with her being a liberal. I think it has everything to do with her being a woman in power.
I’m with the misogynist theory, espeically among the R’s but I wouldn’t give the D’s a pass on this either.
As to the torture not only did she okay it she lied about even knowing about it. She should be censored for that lying shit. She’s been in the game long enough to know better.
“Like I said, it has nothing to do with her being a liberal. I think it has everything to do with her being a woman in power.”
Right, because we just could not stand another second of Condi Rice, Angela Merkel or Maggie Thatcher.
Get over yourself, there are plenty of great reasons for American men and women to hate pelosi that have nothing to do with her wearing a skirt.
Well, I am not so sure yet if she knew about it. I have been reading Digby and Josh Marshall’s breakdown of the timeline and documents, and mind you, they are no defenders of Pelosi or Reid, but they do support Pelosi’s statement that she did not know.
Ah. Tom S.
“Plenty of great reasons” for wanting to put two bullets in her skull.
Like I said, it is a pathology.
on another note, if she knew about torture, and later lied… Bad as Bush, vote her out of office… end her career (but not life, as Tom S would approve on)
http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2009/05/david-feherty-is-insane-and-delawaredem.html
Interesting how Steve has applied “Newton’s Law” to this case.
Perhaps now he might understand why some liberals have a bit more sensitivity than he does to right-wing groups united around a guns and hating liberals forming “regiments” in Delaware.
I am not sure what “Newton’s Law” is exactly. I do think this issue is different from the argument between Steve and DL on the “extreme fringe” issue.
I think I have finally come to understand Steve on this regiment issue, I think. His beef with us is not what we say about them, but what we want to DO about them. I suppose he fears that somehow we, or Democrats in general, would deny these regiments their rights of free association and dissent. And we would IF they were organizing to commit violence. But not if they just want to have a hate filled tea bag party. They can do that all they want and they only hurt themselves by doing it.
DD
You are so close I will give you the cigar, and the difference between what you say and what I think should not be ironed out here right now because I don’t think it should be allowed to distract from this particular issue: Mr. Feherty DID explicitly condone political violence. He didn’t use “Charged” rhetoric or metaphors or say anything that required “reading between the lines.” He said that American soldiers would take the opportunity to kill Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, and he approved of the idea.
I have never and will never support that.
(And I would have written about it sooner, but was out watching Star Trek and DD’s post was the first I heard about it.)
From a 1996 Sports Illustrated story: “In 1988 CBS fired Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder when he said on TV that blacks were physically better suited for sports than whites. In 1990 CBS suspended Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes for three months for making remarks that some gays and blacks found offensive. CBS was pressured into pulling Gary McCord from this year’s Masters because the Augusta czars didn’t like McCord’s idea of humor.”
Of course, CBS also defended Ben Wright when he talked about how lesbianism hurts the LPGA tour and about how women have trouble golfing because they have boobs.
How they can keep Feherty after these comments, I don’t know. I would say these sentiments go beyond the Greek’s.
Mr. Feherty DID explicitly condone political violence. He didn’t use “Charged” rhetoric or metaphors or say anything that required “reading between the lines.” He said that American soldiers would take the opportunity to kill Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, and he approved of the idea.
We agree. But realize, this now becomes the “Feherty Precedent” in our discussions.
LOL.
How was Star Trek?
Star Trek: brilliant.
Feherty Precedent: I have no trouble with that.
Can’t wait to see it tomorrow.
There is some kind of pathology with women going on. Women are ok as long as they toe the conservative line, like Rice and Thatcher. They are, in fact, useful to give a new face to the same old tired ideas.
They reserve their hatred for women who disagree with them. There was definitely something special about Pelosi in that horrible column. Why would she get two bullets while the men get strangled?
Really, I can’t think of anyone that the column doesn’t insult. It insults soldiers, describing them as murders. It insults conservatives, equating them with violent hatred. It insults Democrats with the whole “palling around with terrorists.” I’m surprised Fenerty didn’t work a gay slur in there somewhere.
Question: did this column have an editor? Did the magazine decide to run it anyway despite the violent content?
What I dislike about Nancy Pelosi is how bitter, partisan, angry, and disagreeable of a personality she has. The Democratic party needs more Bayhs, Caseys, Nunns, Kaines, and Blue Dogs and fewer Pelosis, Frankens, Boxers, Kennedys, and leftist ideologue zealots.