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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2008 / Trollop Update, Part 2- By What Authority

Trollop Update, Part 2- By What Authority

by John Cole|  May 2, 20084:48 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Politics

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The Huffpo has an interview with the jackass who dropped a c-bomb at the McCain event yesterday, and their write-up featured this tidbit:

“The Secret Service agent made me promise not to show up at any McCain campaign events in the future,” said Parrish. “I told him that wouldn’t be a problem – I’d forgotten how boring Republican events are,” he added. “McCain had about 300 really old people today. When Obama campaigns here in the fall, there’ll probably be 15,000 people of all ages and backgrounds, cheering him on.”

By what authority does the Secret Service have right to make people promise, well, anything like that? Hell, a few weeks ago McMaverick didn’t even have Secret Service protection.

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  1. 1.

    Martin

    May 2, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Authority is what you seize that isn’t seized back. Were you not paying attention to the last 7 years?

  2. 2.

    The Populist

    May 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    John, this is the craziness that has transpired with the Washington politicians. Thanks to Bush, DeLay and others these cretin politicians think they can TELL others what to say and do with ZERO repercussions.

    Remember the guy who walked up to Cheney and tried to ask him a question about the war and Katrina (not the fuck you guy)? He was arrested on the spot for that. Why was he arrested? For exercising his rights under the first amendment?

    Sometimes I wonder if these cretins have forgotten who they serve?

  3. 3.

    The Populist

    May 2, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    BTW – I guess we can thank all those idiots that passed the Patriot Act. Both parties deserve the credit.

  4. 4.

    nightjar

    May 2, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    By what authority does the Secret Service have right to make people promise, well, anything like that? Hell, a few weeks ago McMaverick didn’t even have Secret Service protection.

    Just one more chapter of the Bush legacy. Meanwhile, maybe the Secret Service can promise itself not to show up with itself. Not reassuring.

  5. 5.

    Z

    May 2, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    S

    ometimes I wonder if these cretins have forgotten who they serve?

    Oh no, they haven’t forgotten at all. They never treat the lobbyists that way.

  6. 6.

    rawshark

    May 2, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Some people think that when the president speaks they are duty bound to obey.

  7. 7.

    Ted

    May 2, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    By what authority does the Secret Service have right to make people promise, well, anything like that? Hell, a few weeks ago McMaverick didn’t even have Secret Service protection.

    The Secret Service: Protecting top government VIPs from embarrassment since 2001.

    See, in addition to their promise never to repeat Dallas 62′, they are also scarred by, and will never repeat, Bush Sr. > Tokyo > Vomit on PM.

  8. 8.

    Ted

    May 2, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Remember the guy who walked up to Cheney and tried to ask him a question about the war and Katrina (not the fuck you guy)?

    The ‘go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney, go fuck yourself’ guy was great. And a youngish attractive doctor as well if I recall.

  9. 9.

    ThymeZone

    May 2, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    The real story here is McCain, his message, and his appeal.

    And by that I mean, he doesn’t have a message, or appeal.

    Dems should stop cowering the corner over what this big meanie might do to them in October.

  10. 10.

    binzinerator

    May 2, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    More brownshirt-style intimidation tactics.

    The Secret Service’s mission apparently now includes protecting the GOP candidate from facing uncomfortable and embarrassing questions of his past conduct.

    Maybe we should start thinking of the Secret Service by their initials only.

  11. 11.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    May 2, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Has anyone mentioned that this guy is a licenses Baptist minister? You couldn’t make up stuff like this.

  12. 12.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    May 2, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    LICENSED Baptist minister. Sheesh, I type all day at work, you’d think I could. . .

  13. 13.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    May 2, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Wanna bet it was along the lines of, “Look, mister, you got every right to say what you said, but we gotta live the the grumpy old bastard. So, please, fucking please promise me you won’t show up again and piss him off?”

  14. 14.

    Xenos

    May 2, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Isn’t anyone willing to be arrested in order test what the SS’s orders are? What ever happened to all the smartass 25 year-olds who feel like stirring the pot?

    I am not asking for radicals, just some people with backbone.

  15. 15.

    cbear

    May 2, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    the jackass who dropped a c-bomb

    How is this guy a jackass? For having the temerity to question a politician? For exercising his 1st amendment rights? For offending the tender sensibilities of a bunch of goopers?
    Sorry, but I think that’s bullshit. The “jackass” would have received the exact same reception had he strenously challenged McCain on his insane warmongering.

    If nothing else, the shock value of his question caused a number of news stories to be written about the incident that referenced Cliff Schecter’s book on McCunt.

    I’m proud of the guy.

  16. 16.

    Dug Jay

    May 2, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    cbear: I’m proud of the guy.

    Figures. Why are all of the idiots and morons supporting Obama? I guess it’s probably as simple as one kind of trash being attracted by another piece of trash.

  17. 17.

    slag

    May 2, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    If only the guy had called Hillary the c-word, it probably wouldn’t have been a problem. Bush-style townhall-scrubbing will be on its way soon.

  18. 18.

    John Cole

    May 2, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    I am second to no one in finding it amusing that he did what he did, but anyone who drops a c-bomb at a function like that is a jackass. It really is that simple.

    PS- I kinda like jackasses.

  19. 19.

    Dennis - SGMM

    May 2, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    What will a good Secret Service agent answer if President Hillary Clinton asks, “Do these pants make my butt look big?”

  20. 20.

    cbear

    May 2, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    What will a good Secret Service agent answer if President Hillary Clinton asks, “Do these pants make my butt look big?”

    “Not if you’re real, real far away, Ma’am.”

  21. 21.

    Xenos

    May 2, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    According to reports, McCain has announced, in unequivocal language, that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was part of our energy policy, and that indeed the war was for oil.

    I am not worrying so much about any Democrat’s electibility at this point.

  22. 22.

    cleek

    May 2, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    the jackass who dropped a c-bomb

    i think you’re having a use-mention distinction issue here. the jackass is quoting McCain. outrage over use of the word belongs with the person who used it, McCain, not the person who mentioned it, the jackass.

    well, in a perfect world, anyway.

  23. 23.

    Dennis - SGMM

    May 2, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    According to reports, McCain has announced, in unequivocal language, that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was part of our energy policy, and that indeed the war was for oil.

    Back when I was in Vietnam one of the rumors circulating around was that there was a buttload of oil and gas offshore and that the war was being fought to ensure a compliant government. At the time, I put it down as just another wild-ass rumor. I Googled “Vietnam oil reserves” today and found that they have discovered 600,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves offshore as well as 6.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
    Everything old is new again.

  24. 24.

    Pasota

    May 2, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    I am second to no one in finding it amusing that he did what he did, but anyone who drops a c-bomb at a function like that is a jackass. It really is that simple.

    Thank you. Sometimes I think most of our social/cultural conflicts would evaporate if more people were capable of holding two conflicting thoughts at the same time without soiling their drawers.

    PS- More jackasses please. Hmmm, remember that dude in the chicken suit that used to dog George H.W. Bush …

  25. 25.

    oh really

    May 2, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Hell, a few weeks ago McMaverick didn’t even have Secret Service protection.

    Naturally, I just assumed that McCain was protected by Blackwater. When he’s president, he can cut costs* by using them instead of the Secret Service.

    *That’s Wingerese for increase costs by using the private sector.

  26. 26.

    Dennis - SGMM

    May 2, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    Naturally, I just assumed that McCain was protected by Blackwater.

    No way. Had it been Blackwater the guards would now be explaining how McCain was attacked by the c-word guy as well as twenty-seven bystanders and a troop of Girl Scouts – all of whom had to be terminated to protect the worthy pol.

  27. 27.

    steve davis

    May 2, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    600,000,000 barrels of oil is nothing. We burn through 30 million barrels of oil every day. You’re talking about a month’s supply.

  28. 28.

    Dennis - SGMM

    May 2, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    600,000,000 barrels of oil is nothing. We burn through 30 million barrels of oil every day. You’re talking about a month’s supply.

    Which makes the President’s recent demand that we drill in ANWR even more ridiculous.

    According to what I read, they’re still exploring, and discovering new fields, in the South China Sea. Although what I heard back in ’71-’72 was a rumor it’s ironic that it turns out to be true.

  29. 29.

    mere mortal

    May 2, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    the jackass who dropped a c-bomb at the McCain event

    Do you mean McCain? He is a jackass, check. He has dropped a c-bomb, check. He was at the event, check.

    Oh, you must mean the guy who dropped the c-bomb *while he was at* the McCain event. You see how I could get confused.

  30. 30.

    Zuzu

    May 2, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Hey, if they really wanna see McCain snap, I suggest they just send in Maria Shriver again.

    McCain scolds the chihuahua

  31. 31.

    Mike D.

    May 3, 2008 at 1:27 am

    In the early 80’s, after Hunter Thompson finally pushed the envelope too hard and had to flee Hawaii for fear of his life, the SS told him if he turned up in D.C. again without making prior arrangements with them, they’d be forced to assume the worst… and respond accordingly. Further discussion revealed that not only were “prior arrangements” unlikely to be made, but “D.C.” wasn’t a geographical area, exactly; it was more like any place a Protection detail happened to be at any given point in time. There were no smiles and no sympathetic looks.

    The SS is part of Treasury, and between them and the IRS there’s a fair-to-middlin’, well-equipped army with literally no limit to where they can go and what they can do, and none of this DoJ-esque “forgiveness is easier to get than permission” either. Treasury is the boogeyman that survivalists and isolationists used to think FEMA was, and they have been for decades.

  32. 32.

    Johnny Pez

    May 3, 2008 at 1:35 am

    Had it been Blackwater the guards would now be explaining how McCain was attacked by the c-word guy as well as twenty-seven bystanders and a troop of Girl Scouts – all of whom had to be terminated gang-raped to protect the worthy pol.

    Fixed.

  33. 33.

    Mike

    May 3, 2008 at 2:33 am

    One of my favorite Arrested Development jokes:

    (Gob has used company money to buy a boat called the Seaward.)

    Michael: Gob, you’ve got to get rid of the Seaward.

    Lucille: I’m not going anywhere until you talk to me!

  34. 34.

    Longhairedweirdo

    May 3, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    I dunno. You know what it kind of reminds me of? One of the Godfather movies, Don Corleone asks this landlord to let a lady keep her dog, as a favor. When the guy finds out who he’s dealing with, he come in horrified, and swears, sure, she can keep the dog, and he’ll drop her rent five dollars – the Don looks a bit troubled – no, *ten* dollars!

    I love that particular scene, because the viewer knows it was a favor being asked, not a threat being made. But the Don didn’t get where he got by refusing to take advantage of people who are afraid.

    Cops, including Secret Service, should be perfectly able to ask “look, as a personal favor to us, will you please avoid X-situation in the future?” because they know they’ll get called in again, and waste everyone’s time. “If you’re at another event, and a McCain guy spots you, they’re going to call us over. And once they call us over, we can’t ignore it, or we’ll get in trouble. So, could you just not put both of us through that?”

    What I want to know is, were they asking him if he’d avoid making work for them, or were they saying “and, you know, if you don’t, we can make your life a living hell. Your taxes will suddenly be flagged, and if you want to fly anywhere, well, be there three hours early, and heaven help you if you’re a firearms dealer, or a pharmacist or any other person who has extensive dealings with the feds…”.

  35. 35.

    daniel rotter

    May 4, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    “Why are all the idiots and morons supporting Obama”?

    John Hagee, G. Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, and Dug Jay are Obama supporters? Learn something new every day.

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