Tuesday’s Asshat of the Day
Gee, so many to chose from today. We have Ken Buck, the teabag candidate for Senate in CO who Unstable Isotope wrote about in the Open Thread today (he has some women issues, especially with women who have been raped).
We have Celia Cohen, who Liberal Geek excoriated for her hit piece on Chip Flowers.
But I have to give the award to Rich Iott, the teabagger running for Congress in Ohio who likes to play dress-up as a Nazi.
Iott now claims that he is the victim of unfair reporting. He dismisses Eric Cantor’s criticism (finally, someone in the GOP leadership found their beytzim).
“What Cantor did is exactly the illustration of why people are disgusted with politicians,” Iott said. “He made comments and took a position that was good for him at the time, regardless of whether it was good for anyone else or good for the voters.”
My partner worked with re-enactors in Illinois at the Naper Settlement. Granted, this was a Civil War reenactment, but c’mon, doesn’t this guy understand that there’s a huge difference between acting as Johnny Reb and Johan von Nazi? And he dressed up as part of the SS? Which part of “this is really in poor taste” doesn’t Iott understand? I wonder if this group Iott plays dress-up with re-enacts guarding death camps.
And this is supposed to make it OK to act like an SS officer:
Iott also contended that “this particular unit was one that was never charged with war crimes,” though Cooper pointed out that one member was recently charged with the murder of 58 Jews. Iott replied: “The war on the eastern front was extremely brutal on both sides. Nobody was lily-white, that’s for sure. Horrible things that happened on both sides.”
So it was about saving the homeland from Communism. I can think of better ways to do this. Why don’t they re-enact the fall of the Berlin Wall, or re-enact the Berlin Airlift? How about re-enacting Amb. Adlai Stevenson’s famous speech at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Guess listening to Wagner doesn’t go well with these scenarios.
Herr Oberfurher Rich Iott (von kartoffel kopf), du bist unsere Arschloch Hut bis heute.
Tags: Republican Crazy, Teabaggers
Have you read this about Rich Iott’s Jewish friend, the porn producer?
It’s the old “I have nothing against _______,” I know one personally as a friend.
–In the interview, the president predicts he’ll be able to work with Republicans after the election:
–He reflects on what he called the “tactical lessons” of his first two years: He let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects”
What a bonehead!