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Rumsfeld Gets Icy Treatment in Taos
Albuquerque Journal ^ | Friday, March 23, 2007 | Polly Summar

Posted on 03/24/2007 10:39:57 AM PDT by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: newmexico; rummy; rumsfeld; taos
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To: kcvl

I had never heard of Jeff Conant ...it sounds like he must be pretty well known


41 posted on 03/24/2007 10:57:15 AM PDT by woofie
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To: kcvl

Looks to me like someone who has been using and dealing dope for 25 years or so.


42 posted on 03/24/2007 10:57:23 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: woofie

What a slimy, low life, twinkle-toed POS.


43 posted on 03/24/2007 10:57:36 AM PDT by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Senior editor Jeff Conant has documented and collaborated with grassroots struggles in various countries. He develops low-literacy popular education materials as coordinator of the Hesperian Foundation's Environmental Health Book project and has developed
educational games about corporate globalization and war-profiteering with the Ruckus Society and Corpwatch. More importantly, he's got a helluva green thumb and is great with animals.

http://www.lipmagazine.org/


44 posted on 03/24/2007 10:57:43 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: woofie

I thought Rumsfeld had sold his Taos ranch to Julie Robins or whatever her name is....

I did not know that is where the Rumsfelds now live.


45 posted on 03/24/2007 10:57:58 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Hunter/Poe 2008 "Once again, our government is on the wrong side of the border war")
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To: Jeff Head

I guarantee you he didn't do and say what he claims...I say he is a LIAR.



I halted and took a step towards the table where he sat, not five feet away. I stood up tall on my ski boots and looked him right in the eye.

I raised my voice so everyone within earshot could hear, and I said, "Well lookee here! If it isn't Donald Rumsfeld, our favorite local war criminal!"

He and his guests looked up. Rumsfeld himself looked exasperated. His two guests just stared at me in reproach. So rude!

I shook my head, looking him in the eye still, and I said, "Mister Rumsfeld, you have killed so many people, you have murdered and tortured so many people, that it makes me sick to think about it."


46 posted on 03/24/2007 10:58:47 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

How much do you want to bet that Jeff Conant has licked Dan Sanvage's doorknob...


47 posted on 03/24/2007 10:58:51 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: woofie

Jeff Conant is an immature puss*. These left-wing democrat ninnies need to learn some manners and civility. If Al Gore was elected President in 2000, rather than GWB, it would be open season on Americans in CONUS. The leftists and their ilk should thank God for the courage GWB and his administration have in facing down the muslim terrorist cowards.

I can say that if I had been on that deck that day, Jeff Conant may have taken a big hurting.


48 posted on 03/24/2007 10:58:52 AM PDT by astounded (Islam - a misogynistic, murderous cult, not a religion)
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To: zendari

Rummy should still be defense secretary. There was no good reason for him to go as he was doing a fine job! Liberals need to told to just go to hell! the evil basturds!!


49 posted on 03/24/2007 10:58:54 AM PDT by upsdriver ((Hunter / Thompson......Gonzo politics)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Environmental Health Book Coordinator

George Washington would be so proud.
50 posted on 03/24/2007 10:58:56 AM PDT by Vision ("Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart's desires." Psalm37:4)
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To: kcvl

How much do you want to bet that Jeff Conant has licked Dan Savage's doorknob...


51 posted on 03/24/2007 10:59:09 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Julia Roberts is up there too...I dont know how much time Rumsfeld spends there


52 posted on 03/24/2007 10:59:37 AM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

The guy took the wrong tack. Being a jerk gets you nowhere.

Maybe a simple, "I'm a reporter and wonder if I can ask you a few questions?"

Then he could have launch his diatribe - kinda like most of the MSM...at least he would have company.

I'm no Rummy fan, but this cat was a grade A jerk.


53 posted on 03/24/2007 10:59:40 AM PDT by ASOC ("Once humans are exposed to excellence, mere average desirability is disappointing")
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To: woofie

I am sure that, for every self-righteous Lib that feels the urge to hurl invective at Rumsfeld, there's another person who walks-up and silently thanks him for his service to our country. It's the Libs who think they "own" places such as Taos, when in reality, their antics simply confirm that they are simply a vocal minority.


54 posted on 03/24/2007 11:00:04 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
My e-mail to conant:
Unless you are 6'6" and 300 lbs like me, you'd better not be in Taos the same time I am or you will wish you had kept your traitorous mouth shut about Rumsfeld!
55 posted on 03/24/2007 11:00:12 AM PDT by Stayfree (*****************************************CONANT THE COMMIE COWARD!!!!!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

What adolescent drivel.

He's not fit to shine Rummy's shoes.


56 posted on 03/24/2007 11:00:51 AM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: woofie

free speech doesn't include threatening former defense secretaries. This guy should have been arrested.


57 posted on 03/24/2007 11:01:12 AM PDT by balch3
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To: Vision

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

As is the two female secret service agents!!


58 posted on 03/24/2007 11:01:56 AM PDT by upsdriver ((Hunter / Thompson......Gonzo politics)
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To: kcvl
Undoubtedly...because if he was the big brave man he says he was...he would have continued to hold his ground and exercise his "free speech rights" and invited the Agents to silence him.

No, that he beat such a hasty retreat and in the process tried to convice others to go out against the female SS agents who were on their feet and ready for them at this point, says all you need to know about him and his story.

59 posted on 03/24/2007 11:02:43 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: kcvl

This guy is cuckoo in the cabeza.

That poem sounds like something a schizophrenic or some other psychotic would write, seriously.


60 posted on 03/24/2007 11:02:46 AM PDT by KJC1 (Right when you think you're really good is when you need to pay the most attention)
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