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It Can’t Be Just Me

By John Cole March 4th, 2011

But does it bother anyone else that a former Deputy Defense Secretary is now some crazy dude with a bullhorn and a trenchcoat shouting in the park?

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Posted in Assholes, Bachmann Turner Diaries Overdrive, Decline and Fall
This entry was posted on Friday, March 4th, 2011 at 8:28 pm and is filed under Assholes, Bachmann Turner Diaries Overdrive, Decline and Fall. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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28 Responses to “It Can’t Be Just Me”



  1. 1 Radon Chong Says:

    I don’t know who this Anjem Choudary character is, but that’s some fine trolling he is doing.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:33 pm



  2. 2 gnomedad Says:

    I wonder if I could make a few buck selling anti-Sharia Law insurance?


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:34 pm



  3. 3 General Stuck Says:

    Fucking Gaffney, certifiable.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:34 pm



  4. 4 JPL Says:

    Well..duh..he has always been a crazy dude so that part is not surprising.
    The only positive thing that happened during the Bush years was your conversion. (now get rid of the trolls..lol)


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:35 pm



  5. 5 Mnemosyne Says:

    Bother? Yes. Surprise? Not really.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:38 pm



  6. 6 Violet Says:

    Wow, I missed quite the day, didn’t I? Some epic-looking threads.

    In other news, Republicans are crazy. I don’t know why I even call this news. It’s not new and it’s not news. It’s same old, same old.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:38 pm



  7. 7 Elia Says:

    Both sides do it!


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:40 pm



  8. 8 sidhra Says:

    Rumsfeld should try that.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:47 pm



  9. 9 MikeJ Says:

    @gnomedad: If you call it insurance you’ll probably run into a regulatory rat’s nest, but there really ought to be some way of separating the sheep from their fleece along those lines.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:49 pm



  10. 10 Cat Lady Says:

    I read that article twice, and that right there is the ground zero of the dense matter that is teatard Murka. That event may have triggered the Wingularity.


    March 4th, 2011 at 8:51 pm



  11. 11 Anne Says:

    It’s not just you, John.

    I also find it terribly quaint that these folks carrying signs objecting to the subjugation of women in the name of Allah are just chomping at the bit to crack down on women’s rights in the name of the baby Jesus. Freedom!!


    March 4th, 2011 at 9:05 pm



  12. 12 ppcli Says:

    Yes, it is a bit troubling, but not anywhere near as unsettling as reading the latest Andrew McCarthy (not the actor) rant and realizing that he was once an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I prefer my loons to be openly raving with bullhorns, so as more easily to identify and avoid them.


    March 4th, 2011 at 9:10 pm



  13. 13 dmbeaster Says:

    Funny how some crazy dude with a bullhorn also describes Bush’s alleged 9/11 moment at Ground Zero.


    March 4th, 2011 at 9:30 pm



  14. 14 Jim, Foolish Literalist Says:

    That’s Frank “Cakewalk” Gaffney, ain’t it? It only bothers me that he has, I’d be willing to bet, appeared and was treated with respect on a non-Fox political show in the last six months. I know he was long after his ‘cakewalk’ remark should have been offensive to the entire country.

    But John “Sarah Palin” McCain will almost certainly be slobbered over by Candy or Dave this Sunday while calling for the no-fly-zone that Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs would say would be a military disaster, and which just about everybody concedes would be a huge boost to anti-reformers in the Arab world. There’s nothing right-wingers can do to lose face, other than cruise a men’s room.


    March 4th, 2011 at 9:39 pm



  15. 15 TooManyJens Says:

    @gnomedad: I like the way you think.


    March 4th, 2011 at 9:44 pm



  16. 16 Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen Says:

    I take it as proof that WingNut Welfare isn’t limitless. I take it as a sign that if we’re good and say our prayers we’ll see former Bushites fighting to the death over a gig with Faux Snooze.

    So, no. It doesn’t bother me. Not at all.


    March 4th, 2011 at 10:40 pm



  17. 17 Roger Moore Says:

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    There’s nothing right-wingers can do to lose face, other than cruise a men’s room.

    I think agreeing with the Kenyan in Chief will get them cast out as Rinos. And disagreeing with Limbaugh will require a session of hard core groveling before they’re allowed back into the fold.


    March 4th, 2011 at 11:05 pm



  18. 18 Joseph Nobles Says:

    Well, you’ve got Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan, now a prominent 9/11 Truther. I think there’s another one of those rattling around that movement, but I can’t come up with his name right now. Plus, to be all “both sides do it,” 9/11 Truth’s also got Mike Gravel.


    March 4th, 2011 at 11:17 pm



  19. 19 Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen Says:

    @Joseph Nobles: There is, he was a Bushie, and I can’t recall his name. The only reason I know about him is because I saw him on TV calmly explaining the controlled explosion that brought down WTC 7.


    March 4th, 2011 at 11:25 pm



  20. 20 mclaren Says:

    All people in positions of power in the United States military-industrial complex are crazy dudes with bullhorns and trenchcoats who are either now shouting gibberish in the park, or will be at some point in the near future.

    The United States military-industrial complex is run by crazy people, using weapons designed by crazy people, employing strategies confected by crazy people, and manned by military officers who are certifiably insane.

    The U.S. army has degenerated to completely that it couldn’t even win a battle against the Tijuana police force at this point. American geopolitical grand strategy is so demented that it now involves losing multiple wars simultaneously on the other side of the earth to barefooted teenagers who are armed with bolt-action rifles.

    As a description of U.S. military policy, “crazy” represents a vast understatement, at this point.


    March 4th, 2011 at 11:52 pm



  21. 21 bcinaz Says:

    I finally got around to googling “What is Sharia Law” and found this at wikipediea:

    Haraam behavior is explicitly forbidden. It is both sinful and criminal. It includes all actions expressly forbidden in both the Old Testament and the Qur’an. Violating any of the Ten Commandments is considered haraam. Certain Muslim dietary and clothing restrictions also fall into this category.

    For some reason this just really cracks me up.


    March 4th, 2011 at 11:53 pm



  22. 22 efgoldman Says:

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    There’s nothing right-wingers can do to lose face, other than cruise a men’s room.

    And really, not even that, ‘cause its always a librul plot to set them up.

    @Cat Lady:

    That event may have triggered the Wingularity.

    Wishing, and hoping, and… but prolly not.


    March 5th, 2011 at 1:26 am



  23. 23 MattF Says:

    One explanation is that Gaffney has always been the ‘no enemies to my right’ guy, which you will find in any right-wing organization. Nowadays, that position is several miles past the ‘Look at me, I’m wearing underpants on my head’ line.


    March 5th, 2011 at 2:22 am



  24. 24 Pat Says:

    Not really, but the torture of Bradley Manning, with the blessings of the current president, bother me a whole lot.


    March 5th, 2011 at 3:58 am



  25. 25 Bobby Thomson Says:

    Shit, I was a lot more concerned when he was a Deputy Defense Secretary. At least he’s qualified for his current gig.


    March 5th, 2011 at 6:45 am



  26. 26 Barry Says:

    John, a lot of these guys have always been crazy con-men; they usually just have those sweet gigs where they can wear suits, and be interviewed in ‘serious’ shows.’

    Gaffney was part of the 1970’s con about the USSR being far more powerful than it was (he was in the group which thought that the CIA’s estimates were too low, when they were actually too high).


    March 5th, 2011 at 7:49 am



  27. 27 AhabTRuler Says:

    @MikeJ: Call it a derivative and you can ditch the regulation. Innovation, ho!


    March 5th, 2011 at 8:20 am



  28. 28 Pug Says:

    The Bush administration was rife with nuts. The blonde lawyer from Regent U who had the high ranking position in the Justice Department with authority over all personnel decisions was another.

    Wonder where Monica Goodling is these days?


    March 5th, 2011 at 10:54 pm