Here is the MSM’s go-to guy on terrorism, Rep. Peter King (R, NY), on Fox News:
The fact is while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people, on the other hand 100% of the Islamic terrorists are Muslims, and that is our main enemy today.
We are to the point that merely exposing yourself to right-wingers makes you dumber.
freelancer
Right on schedule.
Dreggas
i normally don’t ask for much but please pray for my mother, she got Sarah Palin’s book and Glenn Beck’s “Arguing with idiots” for christmas….and she wanted them.
jeff
More general Peter King:
“I adore brown people; however, of criminals who are brown, 100% of them are brown, which makes ya think.”
Quaker in a Basement
On the other hand, 100 percent of Ponzi scheme operators are rich, white men…
On the other hand, 100 percent of bank robbers are people who want money…
On the other hand 100 percent of sex crimes are committed by people who have sex…
On the other hand 100 percent of voter fraud is committed by people who vote…
On the other hand 100 percent of stupid things said are said by people who say things…
Paul L.
No Democrat would ever say anything as stupid.
Odd that was never commented on here.
Edward G. Talbot
While the majority of people with penises are good people, 100% of the people who use penises to rape are men, so we need to lock ’em up.
TEH STUPID, IT HURTS
Omnes Omnibus
@Paul L.: Was the flight blown up? No.
Mike Kay
Quotations from Peter King
GReynoldsCT00
@freelancer:
I was gonna say, he’s not always good at going Galt
jeff
@Paul–so what do you think of Peter King’s statement? Cause that’s what the rest of us are discussing. Odd, that.
moe99
The best quote I’ve read about this business: “I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks.”
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/separating_expl.html
SiubhanDuinne
Vastly improved.
Midnight Marauder
@Paul L.:
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS BULLSHIT?!
A simple request for the new year:
BerkeleyMom
I have often said that if 100% of mass murderers with guns (Columbine, VA Tech etc.) were women instead of men, we’d see the ladies unable to buy firearms despite the NRA.
scudbucket
Atleast he made the conceptual link from Islamist to Muslim. That might be viewed as an achievement.
SiubhanDuinne
Improved.
Seitz
It was never commented on, because that’s not what she said. But you’re a fucking moron, so I wouldn’t expect you to understand that.
Omnes Omnibus
100% of people born in the United States are American citizens. Think about that for a minute.
Mike Kay
Quotations from Peter King
Sure glad to know Peter hates all terrorists, like the Irish Republican Army.
BerkeleyMom
The best quote I’ve read about this business: “I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks.”
LOL. Yeah. I wonder if first class passengers will be subject to the same limitations (bathroom trips, getting into carry-on bags, limiting to 1 carry-on) that the rest of us in steerage will be subject to. All the next terrorist has to do is buy a first class ticket. The folks up there can do whatever and bring as much stuff on the plane as they like.
Tom Hilton
Not just 100% of Popes–100% of the Spanish Inquisition, 100% of anti-Albigensian crusaders, and 100% of the genocidal Conquistadores.
Religion of peace, my ass.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
I asked for this to be deleted as none of my strikeouts worked, but evidently the request never made it to the right people. Sorry about the stupid-sounding post. I can do those on my own without WordPress’s help.
John Cole
I wish someone would write a pie filter for Paul L. that replaces everything he says with “I know you are, but what am I?”
He never once addresses the topic of a post, always belches up something unrelated, and usually is wrong about that, too.
I’ve yet to see him contribute meaningfully to any thread. Just a completely worthless commenter.
cyntax
So 100% of the Innuits are Eskimoes? Who knew?
MattR
@Omnes Omnibus: But are they naturally born Americn citizens eligible to become President?
John PM
I have been sitting here trying to find something clever to say, but I can’t. What the hell do you say to something like this?
AnotherBruce
100% of terrorist who have bombed federal buildings in Oklahoma City are white.
Profiling is fun.
Tsulagi
You just can’t buy brilliance like that. No point saying “a mind is a beautiful thing to waste” with this guy as it’s clear his was wasted long ago and likely butt-ugly to begin with.
Good thing politically for the Dems the other side of the aisle is pretty much now dominated by the R-loon squad. That way when they go ass up for the R-baggers or drop a turd you can still say they’re marginally better.
Midnight Marauder
@MattR:
In what respect,
CharlieMattR?Stooleo
OT.
I just downloaded Knights of the Old Republic (Steam $4.99) so I’ll see you in a couple of weeks. And, 100% of Wookies are furry.
Dreggas
@Stooleo:
I finally stopped with dragon-age after beating it a couple times and am now back into Oblivion since i never beat it.
Malacylpse
The fact is while the overwhelming majority of Males are outstanding people, on the other hand 100% of the Male terrorists are Men, and that is our main enemy today.
MattR
@Midnight Marauder: There are those (wingnuts) who claim that a natural born citizen in the Constitutional meaning is one whose parents were American citizens. I can’t remember if the parents citizenship has to be the result of being born in the US or if they just have to be citizens at the time of the child’s birth. And there are some who believe it only applies to the father based on English common law at the time while others have adapted it to apply to both parents.
Midnight Marauder
In related news, this seems like a pretty
winningterrible strategy to me:Beltway Dems: If We Let GOP Criticism On Terror Go Unanswered We Win
@MattR:
I know what you were talking about. I just wanted to use that line. But thanks for the rundown, however. You can never have too much knowledge, as they say.
Unless you are a Republican, in which case, knowledge will kill you. Because you are deathly allergic to it.
MattR
@Malacylpse:
Hey wait. Obama is a Male. I knew it was all his fault.
John Cole
@Stooleo: Best. Game. Ever.
Anoniminous
Guess Rep. King doesn’t expect his audience to know that Muslims are people who follow Islam. He doesn’t expect them to make the connection he is – effectively – saying, “All blue pillows are pillows.”
From this we can construct a proposition: Rep. King expects his audience to be stupid and ignorant.
Seeing as how this proposition was presented on Fox News I submit his expectation was met.
fraught
b…b…but, he’s right, though, you know?
idiotic but technically correct. And there are voters out there who will vote for him because he said this.
Josh Huaco
And 100 percent of moronic assholes are morons. Asshole.
RedKitten
@BerkeleyMom: No shit. But you can replace “women” with pretty much any category of people besides “white male” and the statement would still be true. Funny how after Oklahoma City, we didn’t see people talking about how untrustworthy white men are.
pillsy
I’m concerned by the massive Stupidity Gap building up between the House and the Senate, and I’m glad to see that Rep. King is taking aggressive action to close it.
eastriver
The point King is desperately trying to drive home is that all terrorists are Islamic. But that’s not really true. Is it? And that is the point.
The right wing only wants to crack down on the terror from the brown, sandy people. Not the white, churchy people.
Makewi
Can we please have Dante’s famous sign moved to Capital Hill?
SenyorDave
Maybe the Democrats need to run an ad that says:
When the US experiences a terror act under a Democrat administration we end up with a terrorist who blows part of his nuts off, and no one killed.
When the US experiences a terror act under a Republican administration we end up with 3,000 dead, the WTC destroyed and part of the Pentagon damaged.
When the US experiences a terror act under a Democrat administration the Republicans play politics and go into extreme campaign mode.
When the US experiences a terror act under a Republican administration the Democrats stand hand-in-hand with the Republicans on the steps of the Capital and sing.
SenyorDave
BTW, I believe this is the same Peter King who was pro-IRA. But they were good, honest god-fearing Catholics who only occasionally blew up little kids.
Snarla
The overwhelming majority of Christians are outstanding people, but 100% of the Christians killing and maiming “witch” children in Nigeria are Christian.
Whereas 100% of hypocritical former terrorist-lovers in congress are congressmen.
Senyor Dave, yes, same Peter King.
danimal
@pillsy: The difference between the house and the senate is the difference between ignorance and evil.
JD Rhoades
With Orly Taitz and Michelle Bachmann and the armed teabagger faction all spoiling for an armed insurrection, how long do you think it’ll be before another Oklahoma City-style bombing?
pillsy
@danimal:
Hey, just because Jim DeMint’s soul oozes with corruption doesn’t mean he wouldn’t lose a game of tic-tac-toe to his own shoes.
Tom
How exactly are we supposed to ID a Muslim extremist? Anyone with brown skin and a beard gets singled out?
inkadu
I wonder how accurate this blog title would be to a student of Papal History. It’s making my head hurt to think about it.
asiangrrlMN
@RedKitten: Replace anything other than white male in all those bombing/mass murder spree/other aggressive acts (saw that on a sign in Tokyo’s airport), and it would hold true.
A vast majority of all the mass killings in this country has been/is done by white men, and yet, that never gets mentioned because white men are the norm and not seen as homogeneous or as a monolithic group. Anyone else is seen as other and only as a representative of some group.
The stoopid burns more every day.
Bubblegum Tate
@SenyorDave:
That ad is really good; therefore, the Democrats will never make anything like it.
inkadu
@Tom: Flying while Muslim is the new driving while black.
Dr. Psycho
Tom @50: Don’t go giving them ideas.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Here’s the one I always liked:
“Not every Democrat is a horse-thief, but every horse-thief is a Democrat.”
I’ve heard it alternately attributed to Horace Greeley and to the New York Times, circa 1869.
gil mann
Even the nice part of that quote is bullshit. The overwhelming majority of anything is, by definition, not outstanding.
Ah, hell, it’s the least-dickish sequence of words the guy’s ever uttered; I should cut him some slack.
mcd
@asiangrrlMN:
Dang it … was just going to point this out.
kb
“BTW, I believe this is the same Peter King who was pro-IRA. But they were good, honest god-fearing Catholics who only occasionally blew up little kids.”
indeed it is.
“We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry.”
He’s also the same peter king who was described by a british judge as “an obvious collaborator with the IRA”
although he did describe GWB as a tool of “anti-Catholic bigoted forces.”
So he doesn’t mind terrorists , and indeed will support them as long as they want to kill me and mine.
Strangely when the terrorists want to kill him and his , then i’m expected to support him…..
demkat620
Wow, just wow.
jenniebee
@Makewi:
Lucrezia slept here? Fitting.
Shell
And, Hey, Rep. King. Nice day if it don’t rain!
eastriver
I have the solution to stopping world terrorism.
Ahem…
First, we announce that it’s federal law that a person can board an airplane only if accompanied by a pet dog or cat.
Second, we airdrop billions of cute pet pics over the Middle East.
Third, once the pics have done their work, we airlift millions of cute and cuddly puppies and kittens into the Middle East.
Fourth, we fly free and easy, knowing that NO ONE could blow up a plane filled with cute and cuddly pets, when they themselves have pets and pics of pets.
Done. Someone contact the Nobel committee. I must rest my brain.
Peter J
Cleek’s excellent script can be easily modified to do just that. Easily since I just did it :)
New Yorker
Fixt.
jenniebee
@asiangrrlMN:
Woohoo! And straight white men are all Everymen and totally not interested in forwarding the interests of straight white men and to suggest that they might be limited to a straight white male perspective is to be PC and bigotted because it’s self-evident that Good People rise above categories. But women, gays and non-whites automatically represent the interests of their gender, sexual or racial category and their perceptions are self-evidently oriented by those categories which makes them automatically PC bigots (i.e. not Good People).
Violet
@SenyorDave:
@kb:
This, I didn’t know. That just compounds the horror when I read something like this coming from this terrible man. Where’s the media? Why aren’t they highlighting his past and showing he supported terrorism? Oh, wait. I must be thinking of an alternate universe where the media does something other than read press releases.
Fixed.
Zam
@kb: Well it’s ok because terrorists believe in the true god, not that dirty brown allah.
GregB
Has King ever argued that 100% of Catholic pedophile priests have been Christian?
-G
Martin
I wonder – how do you profile a religion? Do you need to dress Muslim, or do they hand each passenger boarding a plane a beer and a ham sandwich and check for the reaction? If it’s the latter, this is a security measure I might be in favor of.
eastriver
Everybody, I solved this at 8:28.
Move on.
Surely someone has phurry photos?
Laura W
Y’all…
Keith O. is KILLING IT tonight.
A delicious Whack Job of ’09 Retrospective.
I do not think you will be disappointed.
Edit: For eastriver, because I care desperately about your happiness:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13481225@N03/4217487548/
MattR
@Peter J: Can you modify it so that all posts from eastriver convert into a random picture from icanhazcheesburger?
Nylund
Well 100% of these comments came from people who comment on blogs, so there you go.
eastriver
@MattR:
Don’t be a hater. If you’re nice I’ll let you hold my Nobel. Maybe.
Zam
@Nylund: Lies! I am not nor have I ever been a blog commenter. It was only a momentary lapse of judgment.
MattR
@eastriver: But will you let me take a picture of my dog wearing it?
eastriver
@MattR:
I’ll be naked wearing the medal, but yes, pictures are okey-dokey.
K. Grant
@inkadu: Two questions need to be asked: One, is the use of the term catholic big ‘C’ or little ‘c’? If the latter, then I agree with the above stated thought, as catholic simply means ‘universal’, and every pope likely thought of themselves as something that definitely fits that description. If by Catholic we mean Roman Catholic, then you are still on decent ground, but I would guess that certain pontiffs might quibble about the necessity to do so as it limits your description, especially before Leo I and Gregory I. Gregory I really seems to be the best example of what we commonly think of as ‘Pope’. Certainly when the medievals thought of the papacy (including the popes themselves) they most distinctly thought of Gregory I. (Although they would use the ideas and writings of the earlier pontiffs to prove their cases on a whole host of issues.)
MattR
@eastriver: And this is why you can’t give me an edit button. As I hit submit I thought the original comment sounded a bit too dirty (and I had a thought I believed was wittier). I thought I could sneak in the change, but I guess not.
EDIT – Though I now see you edited your response to match the edited version of my comment. So basically, I am just babbling here.
MikeJ
If you’re tired of murkin politics, try the xmas messages from the leaders of the British parties.
eastriver
@MattR:
The lick comment changed on my computer. I posted a response, then changed mine when I saw you toned yours down. Coward.
Yes, babbling.
Ruckus
@Snarla:
Not to blog whore for you too much but the xmas laser cats vid on your blog is hellarious. And anyone who is a fan of Monty can’t be all bad.
John Cole
Man, that WVU/Marquette game was exciting.
CalD
That’s why I prefer to just give them the finger.
eastriver
@John Cole:
Were there mascots?
And more importantly: Are there pictures?
SiubhanDuinne
O/T but if you’re up for an awesome couple of hous, the Kennedy Center Honors program has just started on CBS. This year’s lineup: Dave Brubeck, Robert DeNiro, Bruce Springsteen, Grace Bumbry and Mel Brooks (whom Caroline Kennedy just described as “Speak loudly and carry a big shtick” LOL). Always a great show and this year promises to be just as fine. PLUS Barack and Michelle in the audience, looking mighty fine both of them.
MikeJ
@eastriver: Oddly enough, prior to 1962 Marquette were the Hilltoppers while the Western Virginians remain the Mountaineers. Both teams have a history of mascots associated with elevation.
RedKitten
@eastriver: Um, just as an FYI — Nobel medallions don’t come with a neckstrap like Olympic medals do. They come in a little blue display case instead. And you wouldn’t want to wear it around your neck anyway — they’re a lot heavier than they look.
eastriver
@MikeJ:
So… what?
Unless you’re implying that the elevation necessarily means colder temperatures, which means more likelihood of furry mascots? Cute mascots? PHOTOGENIC MASCOTS?
… yes?
eastriver
@RedKitten:
My Royal Leathersmith will fashion a strap. DUH.
(banging head on keyboard)
… you people.
MikeJ
@eastriver: Sadly no. Which is why we should have Tunch to make up for it.
MattR
@RedKitten: See, this is why I started off with a lick comment but I thought the picture comment better fit with eastriver’s line of complaints.
Chuck Butcher
@Dreggas:
Before you do any of the Gates do the Prophet side quest. This will arm and armor you and get you experience points. It also helps to finish the Fighters and Mage Guilds.
Anne Laurie
@BerkeleyMom:
NRA retort: “Well, uh…. yer momma’s so liberal, she doesn’t even have a penis!”
eastriver
@MattR:
Complaints? Who’s complaining?
CAN WE PICK UP OUR CUES, PLEASE?
BruceFromOhio
@eastriver:
OK, entranced looks like this. With a Nobel Prize.
eastriver
@BruceFromOhio:
(bowing whilst collecting bouquets of roses)
Chuck Butcher
@John Cole:
As a troll PaulL is so bad and stupid that he doesn’t even manage to piss people off…
Ash Can
OT, but I have a question about an earlier thread today, the one about Jim Treacher being hired by Tucker Carlson for the latter’s great new, shiny, groundbreaking right-wing blog: Do we have any verification, other than Treacher’s own, that Treacher actually was hired by Carlson?
Ruckus
Gotta love this place. Just when I’m about to kick out the chair under the ceiling light fixture I give one more glance over here and start laughing so hard I forgot what I was doing in the first place. Thanks y’all.
SiubhanDuinne
O/T again: Could I just say wrt the Brubeck tribute that Barack Obama is prolly the first. POTUS we’ve ever had who moves to the backbeat? Kind of. The difference between marching and dancing.
Siubhan +2 big ones
madmommy
@SiubhanDuinne:
Carl Reiner talking about his friend Mel Brooks? I’m in!
SiubhanDuinne
Sorry farked up punctuation, my thumbs don’t seem to be working very well.
But the wine is very tasty.
RedKitten
@eastriver: As my nanny would say, “Excuse me for living, I fell off the hearse!” I just thought you’d enjoy a little bit of Nobel medallion trivia.
But I forgot. The only thing you enjoy is being a crankypants who likes to piss in everybody’s cornflakes.
BruceFromOhio
@SiubhanDuinne:
Groovin to a cheap merlot after a couple of Grey Gooses, and shit, is it only Tuesday?
Na zdrowie!
+?
The Republic of Stupidity
Chuck Butcher
Well…
***tap… tap…***
Working w/ Paul and King as empirical data, let’s revisit my hypothesis about the possible existence of Absolute Stupidity:
And you all laughed…
Or as Lex Luthor once said, “It’s amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving…”
Sanka
Awesome:
Those bloodthirsty Austrian Catholics….at it again….
How’s that “Isalm has nothing to do with terrorism” meme working out for us again? But, of course, the detonator didn’t work, so the the “system works” great. I give it a B+….
Meanwhile, the authorities learned of the threat back in August. That’s August of 2009. So obviously, this is George Bush’s fault.
Eric U.
reminds me of the idiot bill collector that said I owed $10 for a bad check someone with my name wrote because “I checked, and every place you’ve ever lived there has been an Eric U. that lived there” — you can’t argue with a statement like that.
I was fortunate that the bad check writer had a different middle initial. I called up directory assistance and found him and gave his number to the bill collector. Unfortunately, we can’t get rid of King for 50 cents. That would be nice.
SiubhanDuinne
@BruceFromOhio
Cheap shiraz, but it’s the same principle.
SiubhanDuinne
@madmommy
I know, wasn’t that cool? And in 40+ years, I have never once failed to laugh uproariously at “Springtime for Hitler.”
The KC Honors, always a terrific program. I truly don’t think I’ve missed it more than once or twice in all the years they’ve been broadcasting it. Just stunning, the great wonderful talent we have. (I am wondering whether they plan to do any kind of tribute to Walter Cronkite, who hosted the event for decades.)
Ash Can
@BruceFromOhio:
It’s still within the octave, so why not? Plus, it’s only the fourth day of Christmas. And hell, the day after tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. If you can’t have a Tuesday-night cocktail this week, then when?
For me, on top of everything, my (not-so-) baby boy turns ten tomorrow. (We brought him home for the first time on New Year’s Day 2000. Ye gods and goddesses, where did these last ten years go?)
So I’m joining you in a dram or two tonight. Here’s looking up your ancestors.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Mike Kay: Exactly, why this fucking prick is not in jail, rotting, is beyond me…. oh wait “HIS” terrorists didn’t kill American people so that is just peachy. What a waste of fucking oxygen this pos is.
Litlebritdifrnt
@MattR:
Utter bullshit of course, a child born to two illegal immigrants in the US is a Natural Born Citizen, despite what De Vattel said, the US Supreme Court rules, as it always does.
The Ghost of Richard Jaeckel
It’s mainly about The Swarthy. My late father was olive-skinned and had a sizable schnoz, and could pass for Arab (or Greek, &c), but was actually Italian. The times I traveled with him, he always got singled out for extra screening, which was typically a pat-down and hand-wanding. I knew he found this humiliating, as it was seldom done in our local airport and attracted attention when it was.
He did get his licks in one time when the hand-wanding registered something metallic in his left shoulder. The TSA goon pressed on the area and said, “what do we have here?” My father’s comeback: “just a little present the Nazis gave me in 1944.” Which ended the screening.
BruceFromOhio
@Ash Can:
I steal this ruthlessly henceforth. To you and yours, good health and good fortunes. May Gaia smile upon your offspring always. Time, she races by, so never hesitate to stop and say you love them, no matter what.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Shiraz is the one the beer guys seem to favor (and I’ve yet to meet a syrah that I din’t like) Milton Park for the special occasion, that box stuff for every other occasion.
MattR
@SiubhanDuinne: I think my favorite part of the Kennedy Center honors is watching the honorees as they watch others do their material.
SteveinSC
@kb:
Fixed.
It does seem that we have adequate cause for extraordinary rendition of collaborator King to the proper secret prison and have them use enhanced interrogation methods to extract information about all his IRA terrorist affiliates. We are, after all, in a Global War on Terra and Great Britain, our much beloved ally, has suffered at the hands of mr. King’s terrorist associates.
SiubhanDuinne
@MattR: Yes indeed. No zero-sum games when it comes to great performers and great performances.
SiubhanDuinne
@BruceFromOhio: Did not know that about beer guys favoring shiraz. I don’t much like beer, and I admit I discovered shiraz about 10 years ago in the cheesiest possible way — I couldn’t resist the “Fat Bastard” label. I like to think I have moved on slightly, although for the basic stuff I rarely pay more than 10 bucks a bottle.
BruceFromOhio
@SiubhanDuinne:
Fat Bastard is awesome! My neighbor turned me on to it, and that’s a good merlot as well. If you like FB, you’ll like the Milton Park, although it might be priced just a tad more.
Shiraz has a bite and follow-through similar to a porter, a stout or a heavy ale. Of course, feed someone enough beer and they’ll drink just about anything.
SiubhanDuinne
@BruceFromOhio: Also, the Fat Bastard hippo is waay cute.
Uriel
@John Cole: Nonsense. Pure and unadulterated.
The best game ever was “Frenzy Attack,” a game written by me and a friend for the commodore 64. It featured beautiful graphics, amazing sound effects, a top notch musical score, and a moving plot that addressed the existential nature of humanities relationship with technology.*
But it’s real strength lay in its game-play, which consisted of counting the number of for-next loops the system could execute between the time the player could hit the “a” key followed by the space bar- as in golf, the lower score being the better.
Truly a classic for the ages. I physically weep every time I consider it’s untapped potential.
* Or rather, it would have, had we gotten around to coding that part. But trust me, conceptually, it was excellent.
DS
I’m still waiting for Peter King to apologize to the hundreds of British families who lost family members to the TERRORIST organization he has publicly supported for the last thirty years.
Chuchundra
I can’t believe this douchebag is my congressman.
matoko_chan
but they aren’t….the terrorists are no more muslims than Scott Roeder is a christian.