For some reason right wing sex scandals always have that extra je ne sais quoi that makes them so much more memorable. I have no idea why. They just do.
***Update***
Yes, it is clearly inaccurate to describe this case as a “sex scandal” when the guy is a rapist and a predator. Apologies.
Kryptik
I think that’s just you, Tim.
After all, if they were THAT memorable, they’d actually have consequences. And we all know that only left-wing scandals ever have real consequences.
PeakVT
right wing sex scandals always have that extra je ne sais quoi
I’d say it’s the wetsuits.
Brian J
It’s because it’s never just sex. There’s always some combination of firearms, young children, and dildos up the ass/spanking/diapers involved. Always.
geg6
But John Edwards had a baby!
jrg
To call this a “sex scandal” really glosses over the fact that a serious crime was committed. I’ve come to expect sex scandals from celebs of all types (including pols left and right). The crime this guy committed is not even in the same ballpark.
Violet
Tim F. – I asked the question below in the “call your rep” thread, but it’s buried at the end of the thread. If I called yesterday, should I call again today? Or is it a waste of time?
CanadaGoose
Sanford was involved in a sex scandal. Ensign too. Vitter even.
But this is not a “sex scandal” — it’s the rape of a seven-year-old child.
It’s not amusing.
Leelee for Obama
If this accusation is true, Dyer is complete scum-bag, and I hope he ends up in the most miserable prison in the system. I have a 7 year-old Granddaughter, and I just about tossed my breakfast when I read this. Patriot, my ass.
Joshua Norton
As if just looking at the picture of the dude wouldn’t set off alarum bells about possible anti-social tendencies.
Oh, that’s just Uncle Charlie showing the kids that cute trick he does with the skull mask and the shaved head.
Yeah, boy howdy!.
Randy P
@Violet:
I just got an e-mail from my rep, Joe Sestak, about… his primary campaign for Arlen Specter’s seat. No mention of health reform. I don’t think there’s any Q & A at campaign rallies. I don’t know if his eye is on health care at all right now.
Any suggestions from the Juicers what the best way to light a fire under him is?
Joshua Norton
The first sign you’re dealing with an unhinged whack job is their constant references to patriotism or Jesus. Run for the hills.
Randy P
@CanadaGoose: I keep reading the words “first degree rape” and “two counts of forced sodomy”. It sounds pretty horrendous alright.
Matt
Meanwhile, it’s day two of the Scott Brown presidency and my 401(k) just keeps tanking. Impeach him!
R-Jud
@CanadaGoose:
This. This story involves allegations of a criminal act with a young and innocent victim. It’s vastly different from a sanctimonious ‘winger getting caught in consensual extramarital hijinks with another adult.
ETA: it’s a bit like the Scott Ritter thing from last week. Playing the field =/= preying on children and teens.
Paul L.
Time to send the Progressive’s leading legal minds on child molestation to help with his case Martha Coakley and Scott Harshbarger.
Odd no mention here of arrest of Balloon Juice hero and sage Scott Ritter.
ajr22
OT but what is the supreme court thinking with this decision. Next thing you know the government is gonna auction itself off to brawndo
the thirst mutilator.
Randy P
Meanwhile, speaking of bombs, there was a major terrorist incident this morning at the Philly airport during my morning commute.
The incident?
I must have seen 20 different emergency vehicles from multiple jurisdictions with lights flashing going up 95 (from the airport toward downtown Philly) at a time which was apparently after the “terrorist” was actually in custody according to the radio. I have no idea what they were doing or why the flashing lights.
FormerSwingVoter
I’m not sure it’s fair to call this guy “right-wing”, as if he were just like Rush or even your average tea-partier. It’s like saying that Jim Jones was “religious”.
Lee
The grenade launcher in your picture (Mark-19) is not what was found. What was found is what is normally mounted under a M-16.
As a Marine with a deep love for the Mark-19 I find your picture offensive :)
Tim F.
@Violet: Yes, call again and then email me what sort of commitment he or she is willing to make.
Paul L.
I only wish I could get laid as much as Dyer.
Violet
@Tim F.:
Thanks for replying. I will call again and let you know.
Proper Gander
As a Marine PFC my XO ordered me to fire off three consecutive boxes of Mk-19 ammo at the Camp Fuji range as “punishment.” This was fifteen years ago, and I can’t remember what I did to deserve it, but dammed if I wouldn’t do it again in a second.
dr. bloor
The over/under bet on this guy’s survivorship in the general population is about eight minutes. Even the Aryans won’t want anything to do with this scum.
Violet
@Tim F.:
Tim F. – one more thing – might be a good idea to repeat the steps from yesterday’s post in another post today clarifying that people should call again (and why).
Also, if you want us to ask them about what sort of commitment they are going to make, so we can get it in the spreadsheet, that isn’t in the original six point list for calling.
Mr Furious
Father of a seven-year-old daughter here. There’s no politics in this discussion. This guy is a straight-up monster—the fact that he’s a right-wing freak shouldn’t even be on the radar.
I hope this asshole spends the better part of the rest of his misbegotten life in prison getting what he gave that girl. And feel lucky. Because if it were up to me, he’d be dead.
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio
Obviously, our governments are weak and soft on turrism, when a domestic turrist like this one can be out there, you know, drumming up turrism right in our midsts.
I call for the immediate firing of Janet Napolitano, and also, too, the resignation of Hillary Clinton.
Bootlegger
Wow, following the C&L link I just learned that there is an “American Resistance Movement” and a “The American Resistance Movement”. Wonder who has trademark and will they settle it in illegal courts or with knives?
dr. bloor
@Paul L.:
Looks like a scumbag, all right. So I guess this means Cheney and Co were right about Saddam.
rootless_e
OH GOD NO! Not an orthodox jew with those super danger boxes on an airplane. Didn’t you see that Spielberg movie with the Ark on it? Imagine what that would do to an airplane.
Bad Horse's Filly
THIS is what makes it truly sick:
And maybe I’m just brainwashed by the liberal elite, but I cannot imagine anyone on the left saying something so abhorrent.
Okay, I’m going to have to tune out again today before the hopelessness sets in again.
R-Jud
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
You want to split a bottle of wine and watch a musical or something?
Max Cascone
Is the title of this post a Lake Trout reference? Here’s the song: http://j.mp/7POU4r
Bad Horse's Filly
@Paul L.: This guy is scum. Also. But that doesn’t make you any less of a troll. :)
Bad Horse's Filly
@R-Jud: Cool. I’ve got a dozen or so Chocolate-Raspberry Cupcakes dipped in chocolate ganache to add to the party.
Nothing is so bad that chocolate cannot dull the pain.
Brick Oven Bill
We should clarify that this is an ‘alleged’ child rapist and predator TimF.
In any case, here is a Democrat who bit off a man’s nipple.
We cannot know for sure that the accused Democrat is guilty, but the nipple is reportedly missing.
Bootlegger
We have a hero? Why doesn’t anyone keep me posted on these things?
Bootlegger
@Brick Oven Bill: What on earth makes you think he’s a Democrat? Are all dark-skinned cops Democrats? Or just dark-skinned nipple biters?
Susie Madrak
While this is indeed a heinous crime, I can’t help but think how tragic it is. Dyer was an Iraq war vet, and a lot of these guys are coming back with serious untreated trauma, both psychological and physical.
This is why you don’t want to start wars for no good reason. The human price is always too high.
Brick Oven Bill
Not to justify allegedly bad behavior with hunger, but…
Behold a Democrat who bit off a man’s finger.
Democrats seem to be very hungry people.
Mr Furious
Fuck you , BoB.
Choose: Your nipple or your daughter?
Get the fuck out of here.
debbie
@Mr Furious:
And considering that the man’s defenders are claiming the girl was “programmed,” what it really comes down to is pure evil.
chuck
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
I can sort of imagine a rival group going that low though. His outfit sounds like nothing if not a gang.
Thing is, anybody who does this to a kid has usually escalated from a long history of similar offenses.
GregB
Time to racially profile serial killers, pedophiles and spree shooters.
-G
Susie, the war sickness always comes back home.
Persia
@R-Jud: Jesus, a family member too. No wonder the asshole kept worrying about getting arrested.
Brick Oven Bill
We must consider that the crimes are alleged. The government is prosecuting a government critic. We must also consider that the finger and the nipple are reportedly missing.
And yes, if the man is guilty of assaulting a 7 year old girl, he should be shot.
Whatever happened to this Democrat, a professor at Columbia University? He clocked a girl.
“It was a real sucker punch,” Dalton said. “Camille’s a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn’t deserve anything like this.”
My teabagging friend who is teaching me boxing stressed to me that a man should never punch a lady.
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio
@Brick Oven Bill:
Liar. We all know that you have no friends.
Tsulagi
@CanadaGoose: I’d go with that, Goose. If he’s guilty of the child rape and sodomy, he’s a waste of air.
Brick Oven Bill
I have friends. People like me. Al Frankin touched me.
carlos the dwarf
@Max Cascone:
I was wondering if it was a Fountains of Wayne reference.
someguy
@ Susie Madrack
For a minute there, I almost thought there was something horrible in the universe that was not Bush’s fault. Thanks for restoring my faith in humanity.
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio
@Brick Oven Bill:
Bill, Bill. I hate to break this to you, but part of growing up is learning that just because a person touches you does not mean that he, or she, likes you.
In school we learn that correlation is not causation, and sex is not love. We also learn that love does not get you sex. Once you have learned that, then you are ready to get married.
AxelFoley
LOL, that pic is fuckin’ hilarious.
Consider it stolen.
bjacques
Jesus. I got nothing. This is too disgusting even to throw up to my winger friends who couldn’t resist mentioning Ritter last week.
trollhattan
My daughter is seven. If this particular bit of scum did that of which he is accused I’d happily test the grenade launcher’s working condition on him, regardless of my position on captial punishment.
That he and the baggers are mutually drawn to one another should come as no surprise. I’ve observed two of their rallies in person and “fringe” doesn’t begin to describe….
Boney Baloney
Seconded, that picture made me giggle. There’s something about an automatic belt-fed grenade launcher that just screams “L0L UR PWNED.”
I think it’s the idea of infantry being able to carpet bomb enemy positions. Flamethrowers are mediapathic as hell these days, but with a Mk 19 you can just stay waaay back and let ‘er rip. Overkill saves lives, you know.
(If I had the standing guy’s sense of involate self-assurance, I would rule the world, BTW. Either he’s not very smart or the other two are overreacting.)