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| SD Senator Johnson Says Republicans=Taliban | |
| 2004-05-25 | |
| An aide to Senator Tim Johnson says her boss will not retract a weekend remark that compared a segment of the Republican Party to the Taliban. Senator Tim Johnson’s comments were made at a Sioux Falls get-out-the-vote rally form Democratic House candidate Stephanie Herseth. I don’t remember any segment of my party cutting off hands, banning music, kite-flying, or playing chess. Republican House candidate Larry Diedrich asked for an apology. He says his supporters are young people, retired people, farmers, business people, working people, not terrorists. I wish Mr. Diedrich didn’t dignify the remark with a response.
Well, the dead Indians on the Reservation vote did put him back in the Senate. Herseth, meanwhile, says she doesn’t think Johnson used the best choice of words. Being stupid, Johnson is known for consistently making a poor choice of words. | |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #8 It is the DEMONcRAT TALIBAN who deprived me of my TOBACCO, in-school and on-the-job FLIRTATION, alcohol facilitated sex, Classic literature containing the N-WORD, etc.... |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-05-25 4:55:30 PM |
| #7 Johnson may just have sealed Daschle's fate. What's not to like? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-05-25 2:36:50 PM |
| #6 Johnson's already tried to make a non-apology. Reps need to run this asshole on his own petard, and show ads with Herseth and Dasshole clapping alongside |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-25 1:58:16 PM |
| #5 Diedrich shouldn't have asked for an apology, instead he should have.. Or, take note of it for use at some point in the future where it can be waved right in the guy's face, preferably in a public forum. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-25 1:47:03 PM |
| #4 ruprecht - Good comment - Wish I'd thought of something like that when posting the article. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-25 1:46:20 PM |
| #3 Diedrich shouldn't have asked for an apology, instead he should have said "I don’t remember any segment of my party cutting off hands, banning music, kite-flying, or playing chess" which is a brilliant retort by the way, and then concluded with "It seems Senator Tim Johnson has a pretty weak grasp of foreign affairs. I think the people of SD deserve a Senator who at least keeps up on the headlines during a time of war." |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-05-25 1:35:26 PM |
| #2 Some Republicans? Which Some? Unless he specifies an indivual or a specific group with a specific point of view, it is an ad homonym, and he could mean 1% or 99%. He didn't say. Did he mean every Republican in the Senate except Lincoln Chaffee? [most Liberal Rep] or did he only mean his opponent 2-yrs ago, and Daschle's opponent, ex-Cong Thune? Did he mean Larry Diedrich, the current house candidate? I am sick of lefty ad homonyms |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-25 1:22:22 PM |
| #1 Idiotic remark by Johnson, but shouldn't the headline say "Some Republicans = Taliban"? RB should not stoop to the level of the NY Times headline shop ... |
| Posted by: VAMark 2004-05-25 1:11:36 PM |