SO FUCKING GORGEOUS!
Racist, wingnut, xenophobe, former congressman and presidential aspirant Tom Tancredo was polluting my tee vee machine yesterday debating The Great Orange Satan himself about health care reform.
Tancredo regurgitated the completely baseless lie that all republicans love to spout that the Veterans Administration is routinely despised by all veterans and that VETERANS LIKE MARKOS AND ME {VETERANS WHO ACTUALLY USE THE VA AND LIKE IT} would prefer vouchers in lieu of the 100% government run socialized medicine of the VA that we. . . ummm. . . you know, like.
Markos, a real live veteran himself and not a chickenhawk Vietnam War supporter like Tancredo — who was one of those loathsome young republicans who during college couldn’t get him enough Vietnam War just so long as others were doing the fighting and dying, but who as soon as he was eligible for the draft ran and got a series of 1-Y deferments for “depression” and which in my book is nothing more than the medical name for cowardice — Markos told Tancredo that he didn’t have any fucking business presuming to speak for the vets, what with his well documented cowardice and all.
And that’s when the Tancredo hit the fan.
Tancredo’s behavior is so typical of every single tough guy republican on the planet — they love to act like Clint Eastwood when their asses aren’t on the line but when someone calls them on their bullshit they go all 11 year old girl, pee themselves and run off crying about how mean everyone is to them.
Or, as Wolcott describes the encounter over at VF:
“Armed with nothing more than a bug-spray can of unscented TRUTH and a deceptive joviality, the cunning mastermind behind Daily Kos leaves an empty chair where Tom Tancredo was sitting, until he fled like a ferret in the night.”
November 7th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Loved it!
I like the fact that more libs are simply calling it like it is these days, face to face with the opposition — e.g., Rep. Alan Grayson or Rachel Maddow in her interview with that lobbyist guy. The lobbyist’s face froze in a smile, but he didn’t (couldn’t) run. Tancredo could have used some training in how to take it like a man.
November 7th, 2009 at 8:37 am
BOO HOO HOO HOO!!! YOU GUYS ARE SOOO MEAN! I’M GONNA GO TELL MY MOMMY!!!
awesome video, Scott, thanks for posting
November 7th, 2009 at 8:40 am
That made my Saturday! LOVE IT!
November 7th, 2009 at 8:40 am
About time someone stuck it to Tancredo!
November 7th, 2009 at 9:14 am
You know what? I never really thought about Markos in a sexual way before; he’s not the type that typically cranks my volume. But after watching that I would get on my knees and suck his cock like it deserves to be sucked just before rolling over on my back and giving him the best fuck available on Nob Hill!
Depression, indeed…I bet Tancredo is depressed enough for another deferment this morning after that awesome smackdown!!
November 7th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I have received nothing but excellent care from the VA, of which no money has come out of my pocket for medical services, the latest being hospitalized for a kidney stone, and very little for prescriptions.
I love how Tancredo runs away. Pussy.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I do have some issues with the VA from the way my WWII vet dad was treated in the mid-1960s, but other family members has found care delivered by the VA to be outstanding. I will not have the chance to find out for myself as could not have served due to muscular dystrophy.
Poor baby. I thought journalists were supposed to try to rattle the folks they interview. Markos obviously rattled Tancredo! LOL And what he said about the fact that government can be part of the solution was wonderful! But Walcott’s comments insult ferrets! Ferrets are brave fighters.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Well, please do go on with your complaints about the VA that are routed in issues that are almost a half a fucking century old Slyder. I mean, its not as if the VA could have possibly changed in that time now, could it?