Comments on: Who Are You and What Have You Done With Pastor Swank?

By: Marq

Marq — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:06:54 +0000

Relax, everyone. Swank will remain swanktastic as long as he has his blinding hatred of teh homo-nups to guide him, so all remains keul. Besides, I’m sure he’s up for a war on Iran!

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:19:38 +0000

I like the idea of the ready-to-sprout democracy plant. Are they like sea monkeys?

Actually I think he was picturing something more like a Shia-pet.

Holy crap, I think that’s a bannable offense.

By: Major Woody

Major Woody — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:49:05 +0000

(snap, snap, snap) Groovy, Pastor Swank! Go, cat, go!

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:26:51 +0000

Multinational forces? Surely the proper nomenclature is “forces multinational”.

By: apostropher

apostropher — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:40:16 +0000

Is it just me, or has Pastor Swank begun to morph into Charles Nelson Reilly?

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:13:27 +0000

Haha! No, shargash. The Repubs didnt’ get a chance to try to steal those elections, so they CAN’T be “real” democracies! NOw, maybe if they started up a branch of College Republicans…

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:57:52 +0000

You understand that he probably is envisioning redeployment of the troops along the border to keep the whatever-it-is-we’re-calling-them-to-humorously-mock-the-wingnuts-today out, and just fucking nuking Iraq, and probably anyone else breathing over there for good measure.

The enemy of my enemy is usually some fuckwit I want nothing to do with. Just so with Swank.

By: shargash

shargash — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:59:57 +0000

“Yeah, them and the few dozen other democracies in the Organization of the Islamic Conference.”

Yeah, like Lebanon and the Palestinians. Oops. I think when Swank said, “the first of its kind“, I think he meant the first Muslim democracy to be a kiss-W’s-ass client state of America.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:46:11 +0000

Shorter Swank: I hate to be the one to coin this phrase, but it turns out you can’t spread Democracy at gunpoint. Huh.

By: maddie

maddie — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:13:52 +0000

Oh, wonâ€™t that be sweet? Then we can break out the clips of the 2004 State of the Union address:

Mmmm….yesss…more cognitive dissonance for the masses.

By: REB 84

REB 84 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:03:15 +0000

"Nobody Comes Home From War Unchanged" This quote is from Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of the Iraq Afghanistan Veterans of America IAVA.org/. It links to a short eight minute film about his organization. Regardless of your political affiliation or opinion of our involvement in Iraq you owe it to yourself and to American's military men and women to watch this video. It helps summarize "The True Cost of War." QuestionItNow - Still In Iraq

By: Buck B.

Buck B. — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:00:30 +0000

Wait, I thought Turkey was the first Muslim democracy. Yeah, them and the few dozen other democracies in the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Do the 'nuts really think there are no Muslim democracies?

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:59:53 +0000

When Buckley came out with his column in February saying the Iraq war has been a failure, it seemed pretty clear that he was handing the wingnuts their exit strategy: â€œThose A-Rabs are just too uncivilised to become a democracy.â€? Oh, won't that be sweet? Then we can break out the clips of the 2004 State of the Union address: We also hear doubts that democracy is a realistic goal for the greater Middle East, where freedom is rare. Yet it is mistaken, and condescending, to assume that whole cultures and great religions are incompatible with liberty and self-government. I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:43:33 +0000

I was watching Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century last weekend (hey, I have an 8-year-old daughter–no wisecracks!), and I had a revelation:

Pastor Swank is from the year 2049! Check out these quotes from the movie:

“ONE sin minor and my life is a living black hole!”
“My parents are in trouble major!”

It explains so much.

By: Smiling Mortician

Smiling Mortician — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:30:42 +0000

I like the idea of the ready-to-sprout democracy plant. Are they like sea monkeys?

Actually I think he was picturing something more like a Shia-pet.

By: maddie

maddie — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:26:44 +0000

This is not surprising. When Buckley came out with his column in February saying the Iraq war has been a failure, it seemed pretty clear that he was handing the wingnuts their exit strategy: “Those A-Rabs are just too uncivilised to become a democracy.”

This will become the wingnut excuse for the loss of the Iraq war, along with the “stab-in-the-back liberals” meme.

You can count on seeing more of this crap.

By: Jack of None

Jack of None — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:23:15 +0000

What about a democracy plant over a Thrill Kill Kult?

By: iamcoyote

iamcoyote — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:21:48 +0000

Wait, I thought Turkey was the first Muslim democracy. Or is he talking about the first attempt at imposing democracy by bombing the shit out of the voters first? That’s kinda unique, innit?

By: TC

TC — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:10:25 +0000

Even if that’s not the real Swank, he’s still got a way with syntax tortured.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:55:31 +0000

Or disappointing it will be for wingnuts global despising death cult immams and muslims of terror.

Damn, this dood makes my brain hurt…

mikey