Rumsfeld Gets Icy Treatment in Taos

Albuquerque Journal ^ | Friday, March 23, 2007 | Polly Summar

[woofie]

TAOS— This small mountain town is known for leaving its celebrities alone. That's why Julia Roberts can shop for yarn at La Lana Wools and Anthony Hopkins (aka Hannibal Lecter) can thumb through the pages at Brodsky Bookshop undisturbed.

But Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense? That's a different story.

While living in Taos, Rumsfeld has suffered a number of public indignities, from being burned in effigy to being refused a hot chocolate by a bartender.

But last week's description of a verbal fracas aimed at Rumsfeld by writer Jeff Conant, posted on an Internet political newsletter at www.counterpunch.org, may have been the most unpleasant.

Happening across Rumsfeld, who was sitting on an outdoor deck at the Taos Ski Valley, Conant wrote that he raised his voice, saying, "Well lookee here! If it isn't Donald Rumsfeld, our favorite local war criminal!"

Conant added a few more comments before Rumsfeld's guests, who appeared to be two female Secret Service agents, stood and started toward him. Moving into the restaurant, Conant announced that Rumsfeld was outside, if anyone wanted "to tell him what you think of his war."

On Thursday, workers at the ski area were blasé about Rumsfeld and his appearances there.

"He was here at the hotel for lunch, maybe a month ago, wearing a baseball cap," said Greg Jaramillo, who was working the grill on the outdoor deck at the St. Bernard lodge. "People aren't real psyched he lives here, but I don't know that anybody really notices him much."

His co-worker, John Woolery, added, "I think there's people in Iraq who'd like to talk to him. But that's why he likes this place— nobody cares."

[Gay State Conservative]

"I think there's people in Iraq who'd like to talk to him...

You mean the hundreds and hundreds of thousands who,on the day the last nationwide election was held,proudly and defiantly raised their ink stained thumbs as if to say to the world "this day never could have happened with Sadaam (or his pals) in office" ?

[tet68]

Significant?
Hardly.

God bless Rummy.
The years to come will prove the effectiveness of his leadership.

[paul51]

Jeff Conant punk ass can be reached at: jeff@hesperian.org

[Caipirabob]

I took a deep breath, and, being on my best behavior, I said, "I can respect that." No point arguing politics with people when you've just told off the politicians themselves.

Smart move for a coward. A 75 year old man isn't as likely to knock out all of your teeth as a random stranger you choose to assault. The teeth should have been gone anyways. It's only a matter of time.

[Mr. Jeeves]

But it sure as hell feels good when you do it.

Especially when telling the story and exaggerating your bravery in the face of "evil" gets you laid by little Leftist Media Groupies for weeks on end - which I expect was Conant's real motivation in confronting Rumsfeld. ;)

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

Those be the ones!!!

[Aikonaa]

I wish we could throw the SOB out of the US. There are tons of leftists who spout anti-American nonsense but would never in a million years give up their US passport.

[kcvl]

Don't be surprised if this guy is lying about what he said to Rumsfeld.


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[james500]

"Hey, try refusing to serve Jesse Jackson and let me know how it turns out."

I'm more amused by the thought of what would happen if he tried to burn Jesse Jackson in effigy. Traditional style, with the noose around the neck. Freedom of speech, right?

[McGavin999]

Don't worry about it, history will take care of these morons. By the time the books are written about this war, these people will be bragging that they lived near Rumsfeld.

[Doctor Raoul]

You can just tell that Jeff would enjoy
women's underwear over his head.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

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[teletech]

"..........the Horny Hick from Hope....."

LOL!!!

[Moonman62]

Even when this guy writes he has a lisp.

[3AngelaD]

Yes, it is a tragedy that Comandante Marcos was not allowed to keep him. He could insult Mexicans all day and no one would be the wiser.

[ellery]

Yeah, these are the same people who would prostrate themselves if the 'toon came to town, despite his adventures bombing the balkans.

This makes me sick -- Rummy is a hero.

[HarryCaul]

Yeah, that exposes the writer as *exactly* what you'd expect. Such courage! Truth to power, man, truth to power!

That very phrase, "truth to power", reveals so much about the psychology of the left.

[Vision]

I'm done with this type of idiotic foolishness.

Mr. Rumsfeld is welcome in my home anytime for any length of time.

[Doctor Raoul]

From a neighboring table a pair of buff, wind-tanned blonde women in puffy green ski jackets stood up and moved toward me. It was clear that they were his Secret Service escort, well-armed no doubt. I looked at the two and, in a fit of patriotic bravado, I said "I'm just expressing an opinion here. As far as I know, that's still legal. It's a free country, right?" I enclosed the word "free" in the cute little hand-gesture for quotation marks.

Pussy...

[kcvl]

I'll take Rumsfeld over the froot loop anyday.


March 13, 2007
How to Talk to a War Criminal
Greeting Rumsfeld in Taos

By JEFF CONANT


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