• February 15, 2012

Do yourself a “favor” and scan through this interview with freshman Rep. Gregg Harper, Republican of Mississippi, on the POLITICO CLICK WEBSITE. Question: “What in the world does the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus do?” Answer: “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.” Haw haw fags.

Who is your favorite Mississippi literary great: Eudora Welty or William Faulkner?

Neither. I’ll take my law school classmate John Grisham any day.

What’s your guilty pleasure?

Eating dark chocolate Hershey’s Kisses every day.

This person will be in Congress for 30 years and not once pass a meaningful piece of legislation.

(We just didn’t like how he ignored Welty and Faulkner, that’s all.)

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{ 68 comments }

V572625694 October 20, 2009 at 3:48 pm

He’s so right: Grisham blows Faulkner away, even though the latter got the Nobel. And they’re both from Mississippi! Grisham’s Nobel is probably lost in the mail somewhere.

JMP October 20, 2009 at 3:50 pm

Hard to believe someone this hilarious was mentored by Trent Lott!

“If Thad McCotter (R-Mich.), Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) were all sitting at separate tables, where would you sit?

Probably with Thad because if I didn’t, it would hurt his feelings. You know what a sensitive person he is. ”

HAW HAW he’s so sens-si-tive!

guerilla-nation October 20, 2009 at 3:50 pm

It appears Strom Thurmond wasn’t the only deep-South Republican with a taste for dark chocolate. The only question is whether Gregg Harper likes his with nuts. Given that his name has that super gay double G thing at the end, I’m gonna guess he does …

norbizness October 20, 2009 at 3:51 pm

I think that Grisham’s bestseller The Runaway Cockstain was dedicated to his law school classmate, Gregggg Walker.

chascates October 20, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Maybe this whole ‘secession’ idea wasn’t so bad. How about a national referendum? The whole ‘Old Confederacy’ will have to go.

FMA October 20, 2009 at 3:53 pm

[re=439874]V572625694[/re]: Hell, they give those Nobel dealies to anybody…

Grisham is the best stylist in American literature since Dan Brown. Please.

Extemporanus October 20, 2009 at 3:53 pm

“Eating dark chocolate Hershey’s Kisses.”

The way he rather frankly admitted to having a prediliction for performing analingus on underage African-American boys was refreshing, to say the least.

Noodle Salad October 20, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Why would he introduce any bills? Are you saying there’s something that needs a-fixing in Mississippi?

charlesdegoal October 20, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Good thing this complete moron won’t pass any meaningful legislation.

bureaucrap October 20, 2009 at 3:59 pm

His congressional seat is a waste of space that might otherwise be used for a congressional latrine or something else more useful.

queeraselvis v 2.0 October 20, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Well, at least the Harpers aren’t a downstate version of the Huckabees. Although son Livingston looks a tad light in the loafers, and daughter Maggie is one twitpic away from becoming the next Meghan McCain.

Crank Tango October 20, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Wow I feel so burned by the gentleman from Deliverance, MS, who likes to “take” John Grisham every day. Hunting democrats! Har har har. It sure is sporting cuz only 20% of people are republicans now. Also we shoot back, dickface.

Extemporanus October 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm

[re=439879]norbizness[/re]: Gregg Harper is set to play the Gary Busey part in the RNC’s remake of Ice-T’s seminal film, Surving the Game, tentatively titled Not Surviving the Game.

So if you see Michael Steele rockin’ the ‘locks, don’t be alarmed. It’s just him getting into character.

hiphophitler October 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm

I give him four years before he’s photographed blowing underaged male Congressional pages behind a park bench on the Capitol Mall.

GreatOldOnesParty October 20, 2009 at 4:02 pm

someone gave this person a job that doesn’t involve used grease, plastic bags and urinal mints?

Tommmcatt October 20, 2009 at 4:02 pm

The funniest thing about this post is that Newell thinks he can trick us into clicking a link that will lead to random wingnut bullshit. ANo offense meant, but we’ve learned, Jim, learned the hard way. 300 times bitten, twice shy.

SayItWithWookies October 20, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Guess his caucus will have to be shooting themselves now:

In April, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus and other sportsmen’s and environmental groups “called for Congress to pass global warming legislation that includes increased funding for natural resource protection.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/20/gregg-harper-hunt/

Tommmcatt October 20, 2009 at 4:03 pm

…and almost instantly after that last post, I clicked the link.

I will never learn.

Decker October 20, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Q: Have you broken your streak of not introducing any bills yet?

A: Bill who?

I could deal with his overcompensating machismo and junior high level wit if he would also agree to never vote on any bills. Matt Taibbi had it right. Our legislative branch is in the hands of a bunch of “second-rate country lawyers.”

shadowMark October 20, 2009 at 4:04 pm

[re=439874]V572625694[/re]: At a website called “Mississippi Writers Page” they put John Grisham first on the list that includes Faulkner and Welty and Williams, and the same list also contains Jimmy Buffett.

blinky_twinkie October 20, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Can we tree-hugging liberals please put him on an iceberg with a polar bear? With a camera attached to his head? That would be so awesome HAW HAW HAW.

Extemporanus October 20, 2009 at 4:05 pm

[re=439903]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Mike Huckabee is one of the [really fucked-up]* faces of the GOP.

*Seriously. It will make you cross-eyed.

assistant/atlas October 20, 2009 at 4:06 pm

To give that answer, he better be fucking John Grisham.

America is dead. I blame the South.

queeraselvis v 2.0 October 20, 2009 at 4:12 pm

[re=439915]shadowMark[/re]: Now now, if you clicky the clicky on Buffett’s name, you’ll see that he was born in Pascagoula and “attended” Southern Miss, so by traditional Southern definition, he’s a “native” Mississippian. Still and all, that doesn’t excuse him or Grisham from being considered writers, let alone notable writers.

sppeterson October 20, 2009 at 4:12 pm

To be fair, hunting liberal, tree-hugging democrats is a lot more challenging that hunting obese, diabetic, Soldier-of-fortune-reading, draft-dodging Republicans.

V572625694 October 20, 2009 at 4:13 pm

[re=439915]shadowMark[/re]: “Wastin away again in Margaritaville, lookin for my lost shaker of salt”–you mean that as good as The Bear?

Lionel Hutz Esq. October 20, 2009 at 4:14 pm

At last, we found a Death Panel, and it is called the Congressional Sportsman Caucus. I can’t wait to see the line of Republicans demanding that he apologize just like they demanded Congressman Grayson to apologize.

imissopus October 20, 2009 at 4:14 pm

Finally, someone who is not afraid to say what we all think: Welty and Faulkner were hacks and John Grisham is Mississippi’s finest literary symbol. “A Rose For Emily” my ass!

slappypaddy October 20, 2009 at 4:16 pm

he hunts democrats where they don’t exist. safer that way.

V572625694 October 20, 2009 at 4:16 pm

[re=439929]V572625694[/re]: isn’t as good, I meant to say.

Come here a minute October 20, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Between the curling flower spaces, I can see this guy hitting pages.

ChernobylSoup v2 October 20, 2009 at 4:18 pm

[re=439911]SayItWithWookies[/re]: It’s the tree hugging liberals who’ve ensured that this fuckwit has pristine land left to hunt on and enough live game to shoot at. I hope this prick falls out of his tree stand and shoots his balls off. Just a few weeks ago the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had to halt all turkey hunting (after I had already purchased my tags) because habitat depletion has driven their numbers down so much.

Schmegeg October 20, 2009 at 4:18 pm

Memo to Rep Gregg Harper: Fuck You

AxmxZ October 20, 2009 at 4:20 pm

In the unedited version of the article, Gregggggggg admitted an unrelenting daily lust for “n***er-tits”.

GreatOldOnesParty October 20, 2009 at 4:21 pm

obligatory.

http://blingee.com/blingee/view/100930450-In-Soviet-Mississippi-tree-hugs-YOU-

this guy looks like he’s never fired a gun in his life.
Fucking pussy.
Oh, wait, he’s a Republican.
Fucking little boy asshole!

Lascauxcaveman October 20, 2009 at 4:22 pm

[re=439883]chascates[/re]: I get awfully tire of the cheap secessionist jokes here. The solution is simple, and much less drastic than outright secession:

Give congresspersons from south of the Mason-Dixon line 3/5 of a vote on matters that directly affect them, and let the northern congressionals decide everything else w/o the the southern’s input at all. Better decisions get made, the Union is preserved and we can all be happy together.

doloras October 20, 2009 at 4:25 pm

I’M OLD GREGG!

couchbound October 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm

[re=439919]Extemporanus[/re]: I didn’t realize that a Pink Floyd album could be a face of the GOP.

GreatOldOnesParty October 20, 2009 at 4:28 pm

[re=439903]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: omg.
[re=439939]ChernobylSoup v2[/re]: i lurv irony!

Crow T. Robot October 20, 2009 at 4:32 pm

If you’re lookin’ for good eating in your long pig, a agree, the heavier, media-type liberals are full of marbled meat & soft, soft muscle. Stay away from our skinny hippie chicks though–we’d prefer to have sex with them.

populucious October 20, 2009 at 4:33 pm

I dunno…Dark Chocolate is a pretty dangerous flavor there…he might get hisself confused for a metrosexual.

dijetlo October 20, 2009 at 4:35 pm

volunteered as a Republican Observer in the Bush-Gore recount in West Palm Beach, Florida
authored a Minority Report in support of Voter Identification.
hunts tree hugging liberals

He’s a wingnuts wingut, I’m sure he’ll do Mississippi proud, sitting in that chair like a stinkin’ turd drawing a paycheck for breathin’.

vladster October 20, 2009 at 4:37 pm

V572625694: No bears in misissississississippi, un-uh. no way no how.
Gregggggggggg shoots them.

vitamins taken helmet on October 20, 2009 at 4:47 pm

[re=439973]populucious[/re]: …and Hershey’s no less. The amn definitely goe for the top shelf.

ServiceJervixJuice October 20, 2009 at 4:53 pm

That extra g on the end of Gregg. Hmm….I ‘d wager he’s spent time on a desert island with a pansy of some sort.

Kathryn. October 20, 2009 at 4:55 pm

“Have you broken your streak of not introducing any bills yet?

Bill who?”

He continued: Because no legislative battle is ever won, he said. They are not even fought. The debate only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

BeWoot October 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm

“Palin to do Oprah”
I says so, right there on Politico Click.

Jim89048 October 20, 2009 at 5:29 pm

I can’t imagine he is aware of the fact that his beloved Hershey’s Kisses are made in Mexico these days.

sati demise October 20, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Neilist? Is that you?

c’mon, Neiist has to be this Harper dude.

thefrontpage October 20, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Gregg Harperr is a College Of the Ozarks graduate.

thefrontpage October 20, 2009 at 5:56 pm

Harper, the Republican, likes dark chocolate!

Zadig October 20, 2009 at 6:18 pm

[re=439877]guerilla-nation[/re]: Thank you for reminding me that this dude is probably batting for the other team. I was baffled at how a man who purportedly has a taste for the dark chocolate wouldn’t prefer Eudora Welty.

Roslin October 20, 2009 at 6:20 pm

A Congressional Sportsman’s Caucus? Finally – maybe they can, I don’t know, FINALLY FUCKING SHOOT BIN LADEN LIKE YOU PROMISED US EIGHT YEARS AGO, YOU INCOMPETENT BACKWOODS MOTHERFUCKERS!

Sorry – dumbass Southerners make me reach for the Caps Lock.

surfacenoise76 October 20, 2009 at 6:38 pm

He’s not aware John Grisham is a big ole Democrat?

DustBowlBlues October 20, 2009 at 8:32 pm

[re=440121]surfacenoise76[/re]: Yeah. I wonder if Grisham is going to be proud of his “friend’s” endorsement. I asked myself why southerners are so stupid. Since I live in Okrahoma, I looked around and pondered it a moment and then realized: It’s because they’re all so stupid. This isn’t even a chicken and egg thing.

Oldskool October 20, 2009 at 8:35 pm

Mr Harper would shit his pants if he saw this libruls’ arsenal. Nyuk nyuk.

forgracie October 20, 2009 at 8:43 pm

My mother is a fish.

zhubajie October 20, 2009 at 8:55 pm

[re=439929]V572625694[/re]: I’m sure Wm. Faulkner would have appreciated a good Margarita.

Ohio Wonkette Fan October 20, 2009 at 9:37 pm

I say let’s snare that mother fucker in a leg hold trap and go check on him in a few days; along with his family, neighbors and friends. Yeah, I can be as sadistic as the right wingers; when they want to “bring it on”.

ThisIsNotAnAvatar October 20, 2009 at 9:46 pm

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.”

“It was not alone all those thirty years which she [Mrs. Hines] did not know, but all those successions of thirty years before that which had put that stain either on his white blood or his black blood, whichever you will, and which killed him”

-W. Faulkner

“One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,”

- Grisham

balsa_wood October 21, 2009 at 12:32 am

“No one “gets it” more than Haley.”

Jesus, this thing is just riddled with sexual innuendo.

Jukesgrrl October 21, 2009 at 1:03 am

“He is also passionate about ministering to those less fortunate and has worked to help families in need in his local community. As chair of the Crossgates Baptist Church Hurricane Katrina relief effort, Gregg helped to distribute money and supplies to those devastated by the storm.”

Yep, I’ll bet he rushed right down to the Gulf Coast and started helping the devastated people who had lost their vacation homes put life back to normal. Nothing helps to ease the pain of bad weather by having a U.S. Congressman liaise with your insurance company. The pleasure boat, the deck, and the Weber grill get replaced by bigger and better models at no cost and in record time. Chocolates for everyone!

gurukalehuru October 21, 2009 at 1:11 am

Faulkner sucks.

Parsnip October 21, 2009 at 1:29 am

John Grisham is from Arkansas.

zhubajie October 21, 2009 at 2:46 am

[re=440177]forgracie[/re]: Ah yes! The shortest line in Faulkner! Are you hinting that Mr. Harper is a retard?

zhubajie October 21, 2009 at 3:07 am

[re=439947]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Too bad we didn’t sell all the confederate prisoners to the Empire of Brazil when we had the chance.

LowerdPeninsula October 21, 2009 at 3:52 am

Wait, isn’t Grisham a flaming liberal on quite a few issues?

And, color me guilty, but I read the hell out of some Grisham when I was a middle and high schooler. He’s good for what he does, and shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence as Dan Brown.

Zadig October 21, 2009 at 12:42 pm

[re=440265]LowerdPeninsula[/re]: Oh, all of that is certainly true. Grisham is completely decent, there’s no real comparison to Dan Brown. But there’s also no comparison between Eudora Welty or William Faulkner (as much as Faulkner’s style drives me batshit) and John Grisham.

John Grisham is probably one of the best writers that pop literature, as it were, has to offer. This does not set him anywhere close to the same league as actual literary greats from Mississippi.

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