And so it begins: the obligatory Rex Rammell-induced Idaho bashing from the media wrote Kevin Richert on Friday.
“Whoa, Nellie. Who saw it coming? Perhaps the first (but sadly, unlikely the last) snarky little blog lumping Idahoans in the kooky camp with Rex “Obama tags” Rammell. (Hat tip: Thanh Tan, Idaho Public TV.)”
Richert continues:
“Seattlepi.com blogger Scott Sunde had great fun regaling his readers and riling his commenters with the story of the “Obama tag” controversy — starting with Rammell’s pandering appearance before a GOP gathering in Twin Falls.”
Of the 34 comments to date, “Batted Down” submitted by BRR, is among the best:
When Phil Batt says you’re outta there, hang it up, Rex Rambo, you who say you don’t apologize for anything you say..
Your joke is just a joke to the rational but then again you don’t see the irrationals who gave us our glorious historical violence:
1865 Lincoln killed
1880 Garfield killed
1900 McKinley killed
1910 Teddy Roosevelt shot (saved by speech in his breast pocket)
1933 FDR Shot at in an assassination attempt. Mayor of Chicago was killed
1950 Truman Shot at in assassination attempt
1963 JFK killed
1975 Ford escapes two assassination attempts by pistol, one shot fired
1981 Reagan almost killed, three others wounded
And Others
Huey Long, ML King, Robert Kennedy, G.Wallace, Vernon Jordan
And Just Recently
Dr Tiller by a anti abortion gunner while greeting people at his church
The Holocaust Museum Guard gunned down by a deranged racist while opening the door for him
The gunman who attacked the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville was, in fact, angry with the percieved “liberal” views of the people he gunned down. In a letter, one year later the killer wrote “The future looks bleak,” the ex-soldier lamented. “I’m absolutely fed up! So I thought I’d do something good for this country — kill Democrats ‘til …
And then there is your further racist memento on a radio station today when you said 99% of your callers and emails had “called me everything but white.”
The problem Rex Rambo is you appear to be one of the irrationals
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