• February 13, 2012
  • TERRIBLE SHOOTINGS AND DEATH EVERYWHERE: Arkansas Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney was shot yesterday by some crazo who burst into his office in Little Rock. Four hours later Gwatney died. The gunman, Timothy Dale Johnson, was killed by the police. [Los Angeles Times]

{ 51 comments }

AngryBlakGuy August 14, 2008 at 9:27 am

…$5 says he was a Adam Weiner(Ssvage) listener.

Terry August 14, 2008 at 9:27 am

I’m waiting for the report that the shooter was a big fan of O’Reilly, Hannity, etc.

AngryBlakGuy August 14, 2008 at 9:28 am

CORRECT: Michael Savage

Not fully awake yet!

Borat August 14, 2008 at 9:30 am

has anyone ever heard of this guy? its seems like a scam for sure, i just can’t figure out what the angle is

tragicallyohio August 14, 2008 at 9:32 am

No snark on this one but why are shooters or assassins always identified by ALL of their names?

MARCdMan August 14, 2008 at 9:33 am

Wonder if there’s a connection (besides batshiat crazy) with that guy that shot up that UU church a few weeks ago…

[re=59371]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Isn’t Adam Savage the dude from Mythbusters?

freakishlystrong August 14, 2008 at 9:36 am

[re=59369]Terry[/re]: Exactly, this has “right wing gun nut who hates libruls and teh gayz” all over it…

termite August 14, 2008 at 9:37 am

So, people, let’s have some arguments for and against shooting random Dem party chairs…

WadISay August 14, 2008 at 9:37 am

Some day somebody is going diagnose something called “Right Wing Derangement Syndrome” (RWDS), a state of anger, hysteria, paranoia and agression fuelled by the wingnut noise machine. It hasn’t been diagnosed yet because these guys go to their gun dealers, not their shrinks, for therapy.

AngryBlakGuy August 14, 2008 at 9:38 am

[re=59381]MARCdMan[/re]: …SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!! I was watching it last night damn it!!!

Terry August 14, 2008 at 9:48 am

[re=59380]tragicallyohio[/re]:

So that the innocent folks who have similar names won’t be harassed.

The real question to ask is why so many nutjobs seem to have Wayne as a middle name.

wheelie August 14, 2008 at 9:50 am

Why shoot the local Democrat chairman because you lose your job in Target? How does one link to the other? Is it that everything bad is the fault of the Democrats? Anyway, poor Mr Gwatney. RIP.

Darehead August 14, 2008 at 9:50 am

[re=59385]WadISay[/re]: Another term for “Right Wing Derangement Syndrome” (RWDS) is “closeted homosexuality,” but with the more clinical term which you have suggested, perhaps some funds could be appropriated for medical research into this area
(after the US becomes socialist)

ManchuCandidate August 14, 2008 at 9:54 am

[re=59385]WadISay[/re]:
Of course they don’t go to shrinks. That’s for CRAZEEES and Libruls (plus that talking to a guy with that book larning thing makes them uncomfortable because they’re so insecure about their own intelligence)!

Upthruster August 14, 2008 at 9:56 am

[re=59369]Terry[/re]: Exactly Terry! Apparently anybody who loves FOX and can’t get a job is in line for hit job.

ReelectTilden August 14, 2008 at 9:59 am

[re=59383]freakishlystrong[/re]: [re=59385]WadISay[/re]: No, you’re all way off. This is a message to the Clintons from Obama: mind your P’s and Q’s at the convention, or this could be you.

Guppy06 August 14, 2008 at 10:07 am

[re=59383]freakishlystrong[/re]: When will the right-wing evangelical community stand up and protest these acts of violence done in their name? You know, in the same way that all Muslims are supposed to jump up and down and protest suicide bombers.

Serolf Divad August 14, 2008 at 10:13 am

[re=59371]AngryBlakGuy[/re]:
I think you were thinking of Adam West.

freakishlystrong August 14, 2008 at 10:13 am

[re=59406]Guppy06[/re]: When the James Dobsen’s of this world can ask his cultists to pray for rain at the Dem Convention, and then lose their tax exempt status?

EnBuenOra August 14, 2008 at 10:18 am

The real victim is any right wing talk show host who worries that their hateful rhetoric will be blamed for some mere individual who goes out to shoot Democrats and liberals. It’s just awful how our right wing radio and TV hosts suffer for our sins. They’re pretty much all Jesus, if you think about it, and if some weirdo isn’t shooting you at the moment for being liberal.

Serolf Divad August 14, 2008 at 10:21 am

[re=59395]Terry[/re]:

The real question to ask is why so many nutjobs seem to have Wayne as a middle name

If your middle name is Wayne it’s probably because your daddy named you that way after John Wayne… which means your daddy was probably a violent, unemployed, alcoholic, chain smoking wife beater. Chances are you still have scars from some of the times your “pop” came home drunk after losing his last dollar in a poker game and took out his frustrations on you by whopping your ass to “make a man” out of you. If he’s still alive he’s probably in a semi-vegetative state planted in front of a TV somewhere watching old re-runs of “The Price is Right” as a result of your smacking him hard over the head with a fireplace shovel fifteen times when you caught him beating your mother on the morning of you twelfth birthday. Now, 30 years later you’ve inherited all of your father’s political positions and bigoted attitudes, and probably beat your own wife and kids fom time to time. For some odd reason, you’re also convinced that everything that’s gone wrong in your life is a result of liberals who have wronged you in some vague, hazy way.

Texan Bulldoggette August 14, 2008 at 10:23 am

I think John McCain has figured out how to win this election. Kill off all the Democrats–there’s one less vote for BO this fall.

Darehead August 14, 2008 at 10:24 am

[re=59406]Guppy06[/re]: They can’t bring themselves to say, “oops, mistake” for having their prayers answered when they wanted the US prez to be revered religious conservative, “W.” They are one big mega-frustrated group right now. No one to endorse and nothing left for them but fighting over which is the anti-Christ–McCain or Obama–and bashing Obama for killing babies.

freakishlystrong August 14, 2008 at 10:25 am

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]: Dad? Actually, it appears this nut’s middle name is “Dale”, which is really just the same…

Serolf Divad August 14, 2008 at 10:26 am

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]:

And yes, I did learn everything I needed to know about psychopaths from watching Running Scared.

Terry August 14, 2008 at 10:28 am

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]:

I’d like to have your cyber babies.

RobPetrified August 14, 2008 at 10:29 am

Now THATS bitter.
Sadly, we’ll probably see more of this as the God loving conservatives
who have been running things for the last ten years are replaced by effite gay, gun hating, commie abortionists all across the land.
Did the shooter think there would be 72 cases of PBR waiting for him in heaven if he killed a Democrat?
I hope he left a note somewhere.

Schadenfried August 14, 2008 at 10:32 am

[re=59398]wheelie[/re]: It’s all Repub propaganda. The party of “personal reponsibility” LOVE to blame the Democrats for everything. It’s not just the Clintons anymore. But I’ll be money someone’s going to blame the Clintons for this one.

RobPetrified August 14, 2008 at 10:34 am

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]:
Hmm. John Wayne McCain.
Kinda sings, doesn’t it?

Canuckledragger August 14, 2008 at 10:37 am

So, was Bitter Gun-Clinger TDJ a disgruntled PUMA or what?

AngryBlakGuy August 14, 2008 at 10:37 am

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]: …isn’t that the story line of “Halloween”?

WadISay August 14, 2008 at 10:43 am

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]: The greatest of all, of course, being John Wayne Gacey, who ate a number of his neighbors in Milwaukee. Mmmmm, neighbors.

NotNotLickingToads August 14, 2008 at 10:47 am

[re=59385]WadISay[/re]: The really freakish thing about this stuff is that a lot of the anger and hysteria derives from screaming about how angry and hysterical the liberals are.

queeraselvis v 2.0 August 14, 2008 at 10:50 am

[re=59406]Guppy06[/re]: Well, what’s doubleplus weird about this is that after he shot Gwatney, Johnson then went to the Arkansas State Baptist Convention offices and held them up too (though he didn’t shoot anybody). It sounds to me like he was an equal-opportunity nutjob.

rev_matt_y August 14, 2008 at 10:54 am

[re=59395]Terry[/re]: Chuck Shepard has a running tally of murderers with the middle name Wayne. And he references a theory very similar to Serolf Divad’s excellent explanation.

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

Serolf Divad August 14, 2008 at 11:00 am

[re=59473]rev_matt_y[/re]:

That’s awesome! I stand vindicated!

Serolf Divad August 14, 2008 at 11:02 am

[re=59438]Terry[/re]:

My cyber crack-babies?

Clever_Sobriquet August 14, 2008 at 11:08 am

Holy shite! I missed being a right wing nut job by a a bout of dyslexia.
My first and middle names were transposed on my birth certificate.

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 14, 2008 at 11:16 am

Maybe he felt disenfranchised, like that sad PUMA lady in MA.

S.Luggo August 14, 2008 at 11:16 am

What? Timothy Dale Johnson was merely execising his 2nd Amendment right to protect his home, which he mistook for Ark’s DNC headquaters, from space-invaders.

Someone send Scalia, Rogers, Alito, Kennedy and Thomas an invite to Bill Gwatney’s viewing. Or maybe just FedEx them one of Bill Gwatney’s funeral wreaths and a vial of his widow’s tears.

Terry August 14, 2008 at 11:35 am

[re=59486]Serolf Divad[/re]:

For you, my dear, anything.

Anita Cocktail August 14, 2008 at 12:19 pm

[re=59450]Canuckledragger[/re]: Well, the guy who died was a Hillary supporter who switched his vote to Obama after she lost, I mean “suspended” her campaign.

And we all know who killed Vince Foster. . .

gjdodger August 14, 2008 at 12:36 pm

They haven’t told us here in Little Rock yet what the nut wrote on the wall at the Conway Target to prompt his dismissal. I’m guessing, “Big $ale on Truck Nutz”.

liquiddaddy August 14, 2008 at 12:43 pm

WadISay, John Wayne Gacey was a demented clown who tortured and killed boys and raped their dead bodies, like Ronald Wayne McDonald.

The greatest “wayniac” was Elmer Wayne Henley, who was also a notorious dead boy raper in Houston. However, the best of the best have the middle name “Ray.”

user-of-owls August 14, 2008 at 12:44 pm

[re=59587]gjdodger[/re]: He would have been promoted if that was what he wrote. Actually, it was “Big $ale on Houston Nuttz”

BaxterJones August 14, 2008 at 12:59 pm

We have audio of the various press conferences and public statements here.

eyesfriedopen August 14, 2008 at 1:00 pm

[re=59367]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: [re=59369]Terry[/re]: Long time listener, first time shooter.

[re=59427]Serolf Divad[/re]: So you’re the one guy that bought my autobiography…

LittlePig August 14, 2008 at 2:29 pm

[re=59465]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: No, he went by the Arkansas State Baptist Convention HQ before he shot Gwatney. It’s just down Capitol Ave (in the 500s for Convention HQ to 1300 for Democratic HQ).

And I would know, as I work at 400 Capitol Ave (seriously – There’s only a bank between me and the Baptists).

jimh August 14, 2008 at 2:43 pm

[re=59403]ReelectTilden[/re]: The article I read today said that Gwatney had plans to attend the upcoming convention in Denver as a Hillary Clinton Superdelegate.

No snark today.

Gormogon August 14, 2008 at 3:37 pm

[[re=59403]ReelectTilden[/re]: re=59450]Canuckledragger[/re]: [re=59822]jimh[/re]: At least some of y’all are paying attentoin.

Obama body count: Key Clinton ally executed in broad daylight

http://www.total411.info/2008/08/obama-body-count-key-clinton-ally.html

jimh August 15, 2008 at 12:17 am

[re=59916]Gormogon[/re]: Conspiracy theory, huh. Obama called it, when he talked about the bitter gun clingers. My money is a bitter, recently unemployed gun clinger taking it out on the liberal democratic leadership. But way to spin it around so it’s Obama’s hit squad or some retarded shit.

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