Trigger-happy Dems target Rummy in ad

New York Daily News ^ | 4/14/04 | CORKY SIEMASZKO

[kattracks]

A group of Florida Democrats shot themselves in the collective foot yesterday by saying they should put Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "up against a wall" and "pull the trigger."

In a paid newspaper advertisement, the St. Petersburg Democratic Club also urged voters to send campaign contributions to presidential candidate John Kerry and "get rid of the whole Bush Bunch!"

"Then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq, 'We have our good days and our bad days,'" the ad states. "We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, 'This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger."

The club's vice president, 88-year-old Edna McCall, told the Drudge Report, an Internet news site, that the club did not literally mean that Rumsfeld should be shot. "Pull the trigger means let Rumsfeld know where we stand, not to shoot him," she said.

McCall, whose organization consists of a couple of dozen senior citizens who meet monthly at the Piccadilly Cafeteria, did not return a call for comment.

Kevin Jensen, the Democratic leader in Pinellas County, which includes St. Petersburg, said the party doesn't endorse the ad and called it "stupid stuff."

"We shouldn't be doing this kind of nonsense," Jensen said. "It is not representative of the Democratic Party in Pinellas County."

Rumsfeld had no comment, his spokesman said.

The controversial ad appeared on page 39 of a weekly newspaper (circulation: 13,000) called The Gabber, based in the sleepy St. Pete suburb of Gulfport. Publisher Ken Reichart said he regretted publishing it and called the ad a mistake that "slipped through the editing process."

Originally published on April 14, 2004

[tiamat]

Sounds like a threat and a hate-crime to ME!

[livius]

Actually, I'm a little concerned by the level of violence that is either expressed or implicit in Dem materials and slogans. There's a raving liberal in my neighborhood who has a big sign on his lawn saying "Kevorkian for White House Physician." Not funny.

[tiamat]

I don't blame yo for being concerned!

Scratch a liberal, and there's a ravng fascist under there almost every time!

[Savage Beast]

"...did not literally mean..."

Perhaps it didn't occur to Edna and her...friends...that this could be open to interpretation.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1116787/posts

Florida Dems Place Newspaper Ad Calling for Rumsfeld 'Hit' (Update)
Drudge Report ^ | April 13, 2004 | Matt Drudge

Victor Davis Hanson made a rather prophetic point in his most recent column at National Review

".... I suppose we are witnessing a sort of American pop version of the French revolution — journalists and politicians on the barricades and guillotines constantly searching for an ever-expanding array of targets, their only consistency blind and mindless fury at the old regime."

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116886/posts

Fear Barking
Kerry Country Org ^ | 4/13/04 | Sherman

When confronted, the group quickly and typically back-pedaled, insisting that “pull the trigger” on Rumsfeld simply meant electing John Kerry.

 

 

[Hardastarboard]

Hey, no worries - no liberals own guns, right?

[Redemption]

Yeah... a fascist commie!

[Elkiejg]

I'm a FL resident - but I can honestly say these demented 80+ losers are a prime reason why not only should they not be allowed to drive - but they should not be allowed to vote either.

[tiamat]

Like "Jumbo Shrimp" !

Somehow they manage!

[rockprof]

I know I'm preaching to the choir but imagine the national outrage in the mainstream media if a group of Republicans placed such an add. It would lead the ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS nightly news every day for a week.

[syriacus]

Actually, I'm a little concerned by the level of violence that is either expressed or implicit in Dem materials and slogans

I agree. They were fomerly such "compassionate" people, and now they have changed.

Ann Landers used to say that personality changes like that could herald some serious mental or physical disease.

[chainsaw]

put Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "up against a wall" and "pull the trigger."

These are firing squad terms, and to me it is a death threat.

A planting of a psychological seed in the mind of a deranged subject to grasp. The FBI should jump on this one big time 88 years old or 18. Otherwise we are going to see a lot more of this sort of thing in the future.

[livius]

Whatever the disease is, I think they've got a full-blown case of it.

Personally, I think this stuff floats around in "respectable" Dem circles as well, but is only allowed to emerge into public through the utterances of MoveOn, 88-yr-old flakes, or nutty university folk (such as my neighbor with his Kevorkian sign). That way the "respectable" Dems, who share these ideas anyway but don't feel the publicity would be good, can step back in horror, announce they are shocked - but still get their violent and destructive message out.

[sport]

Not exactly.

They just don't advertise it.

Also they have their useful itiots that do their dirty work.

Remember Squeaky Fromm?

[Fresh Wind]

I thought the Dems were anti-gun, and yet here they're advocating using guns to solve a political problem. That's just what they accuse Bush of doing.

They'd probably prefer to give him a case of AIDS, but that doesn't work fast enough for their taste.

[olde north church]

It's multi-faceted.
#1. They send it up to get a reaction. If the reaction is arrest, they are
martyrs. If there is no reaction, they are emboldened.
Win/Win for them.
#2. It's done to intimidate. As in, "We are so desperate, ignore us at
your peril. We are dangerous."
#3. They got headlines, the other "cells" will do follow ups.
#4. I don't think if this heavily Hebrew section of Florida knew Kerry's
French relatives were quite supportive of the Vichy Regime {wink!}
during WWII, it might have an impact on voters.
#5. We can hope most of them will have croaked off before they can
cast their votes. Better still, one or two shuffle loose the mortal
coil at a Kerry rally while being interviewed by the local news.
#6. We can float the rumor we knew all along they voted for Gore not
Buchanan (old people are funny when they get cranky and
pissed off! That may send one or two of them to that "Big
Retirement Home in the Sky!")!

[TheBattman]

For those who have not seen the ad:

[2Jedismom]

Publisher Ken Reichart said he regretted publishing it and called the ad a mistake that "slipped through the editing process."

Yeah, right...just like Janet Jackson's boob shot was a mistake...

[Two-Bits]

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