No time to waste!
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To: tips@wonkette.com
Date: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:25 AM
Subject: Our friend, Rep. Steve KingDearest Wonkette,
I wanted to alert you to a great injustice done to me – a citizen – while observing proceedings in the gallery of the People’s House this evening.
Rep. [Steve] King had the floor and was reciting all manner of inane talking points (a la “every piece of intelligence I saw showed that we were right to pursue the Iraq War” and “you can’t say that you support the troops but don’t support the mission”, etc.) I, seated in the gallery across from the Well, expressed my displeasure by silently giving a thumbs-down sign. And then another, and another, and another. Neither the sergeant-at-arms nor the Speaker nor the parliamentarian made any comment on these actions. But when I made the thumbs-down sign again and caught Rep. King’s eye, he asked the Speaker that I be removed for “making an inappropriate gesture.” Whether this action was indeed obscene or properly deemed “a disturbance” (an expulsion-worthy offense under the gallery’s terms of entry) is questionable, but the Speaker agreed to Rep. King’s request and had me removed. I went peacefully and quietly out of the chamber, escorted by the sergeant-at-arms, but plan to appeal the Speaker’s decision to the relevant authority.
HIPPIES.
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You should have just yelled “YOU LIE”. Precedent is on your side.
You wasted an “inappropriate gesture”. I mean, if they’re gonna throw you out, at least go out with your pants around your ankles.
I think you left out the part where you mooned Rep. King.
If you draw inverted because you don’t know what Roman gestures mean, you’re a heckler.
Should have thrown in a “Don’t tase me, bro!” for good measure.
Technically, a “thumbs down” sign is made with a thumb. Just sayin’…
I wish that a thumbs down from the gallery had a tangible effect on the person in the arena, like say with Commodus and the gladiator who displeased him. /LION’D
I’d like to see them pull that crap with a killer whale.
Next time, trying flinging poo. For freedom.
I am sure picking your nose would be acceptable. You might try that next time.
[re=523714]mardam422[/re]:
word.
Oh anonymous tipster…trying to be a calm, responsible, informed citizen of a nation-state. You’re living in the past, man! You’re just a pawn for moving their money around, submit to it already.
Dearest Wonkette????
Sounds like something one of those private part touchers would say.
[re=523732]norbizness[/re]: (It’s upward actually[pun], a “dagger up your strap”.)
All the evidence, huh? That’s weird, cuz all the evidence I saw was that it was some kinda ginned up bullshit that would put our soldiers in a shitstorm for the next several years. The evidence also pointed to billions of taxpayer dollars being shoved into a gigantic black hole. All of my observations from that time are well documented within the comments archives at Fark.
He’s probably more used to that digit being inserted into his rectum….
“I went peacefully and quietly out of the chamber…but plan to appeal the Speaker’s decision to the relevant authority.”
Lotsa luck with that, Citizen! Let us know how this works out for you. Or go pee into a gale, which may actually accomplish something.
Are you a woman, perhaps? Your sexy, distracting thumb should be back under that burka where it belongs.
Steve King, writing under the pseudonym of Father Alister Anderson:
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…a great injustice done to me – a citizen….
In other words you got the attention you were seeking and a replay on Wonkette to boot. The injustice was what, exactly?
FREE ROGER EBERT!
when did “FUCK YOU, YOU LYING FUCKTARD!!!” go out of style?
[re=523761]Inadequate Blackmail[/re]: If the writer is indeed a woman, and her thumb was deemed “a disturbance”, I think I know who she might be.
Just a thumbs down? C’mon, if the tipster was going to get him- or herself kicked out they could have gone with a little bit more. The old finger is a bit overplayed, but considering Rep. King’s lack of sanity a childish he’s-cuckoo finger twirling would have worked. Or do something that is slightly obscene and just give the good old jerk-off motion.
Meh, at least they didn’t press criminal charges against you for that disruptive behavior (anything they don’t like can be termed disruptive), and at least they weren’t videotaping the audience and not the politicians, for evidence in said criminal charges, unlike one of the towns here.
You got off lucky, Steven King or whoever you are.
In republican sign language, the thumbs down sign means “I can haz buttsecks wit u 2 nite?”
so I guess King isn’t one of those types of republicans or something
If Steve King got you thrown out of the House and you left with both your shoes, then you failed. I don’t care if he was out of range — it’s the principle of the thing.
Nice try but my hero is still the guy who yelled, “Go fuck yourself, Mr Cheney”.
I know you were in the House not the Senate, but the thumbs down gesture in ancient Rome signified displeasure at someone, and they should then be fed to the lions. Since Ted Kennedy, the Lion of the Senate is dead, who should Steven King be fed to?
Deep in the warren-like basement of our nation’s Capital Building, down a hallway with damp floors and flickering florescent lights, past the boiler room but not quite to the janitor’s spare closet is the Office of the Relevant Authority. Many people have tried to find this office…tried…and failed. I wish this brave patriot the best of luck in his noble but undoubtedly deadly journey.
“All of the evidence I saw,” with the exception of course, of the reports from the official U.N. weapons inspectors.
Dear Ejected:
Next time, sneak into King’s office, hide his Desert Eagle, and lock a starving raccoon in the bathroom.
Revenge is not just for Orcas anymore.
As an Iowan, allow me the time to apologize to the United States for Steve King. We tried to keep him locked in the attic, but we turned our back for a minute and he escaped.
[re=523795]Jim89048[/re]: Meh. Just lock him in the casket and see what happens.
This is the current political situation in a nutshell; the GOP guy doesn’t hesitate to abuse his power to eradicate an opposing voice, the bureaucrat willingly complies in order to save his own skin, and the Dems did nothing to stop it, Chicken Littles that they have become. This is exactly why we have no health care, No Teacher Left Unhassled instead of public education, and lower taxes for billionaires than for security guards. My Dems have become paralyzed by Political Correctness Polio.
However the author failed to explain the necessity of the two plums and a banana.
How about some teabagging in the gallery? Real teabagging. Followed up by a, “Whaaa?? We thought you folks liked teabaggers.”
[re=523795]Jim89048[/re]: Is there an Orca in the House?
[re=523916]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Or just hold up a sign that proclaims “I shaved my balls for this?” Hilarity ensues!
I hate to say this, but Rep. King, jerk or not, is actually correct. When you enter the gallery of either chamber, you’re explicitly told not to make any gestures or clap or cheer or anything. I’m all for protesting, but if you want to protest, probably best to do it in a way that will be heard and not dismissed as, truthfully, kind of juvenile. Work on the campaign on his opponent!
A “Fruitbowl” is a maneuver in which a man tucks his penis back between his legs and clamps his thighs together. He then turns his backside to his target politician and bends over in the traditional “mooning” stance. The head of the penis thus represents the “fruit” in the “bowl”.
For future reference…
Rep King thought it was a penis instead of a thumb and wanted to check it out.
From my never to be published opus “Everything You Know is Wrong” the thumbs up>>> saved, thumbs down>>> killed, is of course like everything you know, untrue. Thumbs up or fist up with thumb hidden was the sign to deliver the vanquished to death…usually accompinied by cries of “Iugula!”
Wasn’t it Todd Barry who said, “I support the war but I’m opposed to the troops” ?
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