Shooting Fish In A Barrel, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #272 | @MDWorld

April 23, 2012 Mike Gold 0 Comments

It’s been a wonderful week for free speech.

At a town hall meeting in Palm City Florida, Republican Congressman Allen West said “I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party who are members of the Communist Party.” West later said he was referring to the 80 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “There is a very thin line between communism, progressivism, Marxism (and) socialism,” West declared.

In a speech before the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, Ted Nugent said “if Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” He compared the Obama administration to a bunch of “coyotes in your living room” who deserve to be shot. “We are Braveheart,” Nugent fantasized. “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”

Speaking of Braveheart, at a panel discussion Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News fame noted Mel Gibson’s Gringo co-screenwriter/director Adrian Grunberg was wearing a Star of David. Grunberg said he was Jewish, prompting Gibson’s other co-screenwriter/producer Stacy Perskie to proclaim he was Jewish as well. And Mexican. Mel’s response was “Funny, you don’t look Jewish.”

Actor / comedian Denis Leary tweeted “With Dick Clark dead, Casey Kasem now reveling in his status as last and reigning king of leather faced syrup voiced lizard people.”

After hearing that the Secret Service agents who were assigned to her during the 2008 Presidential campaign were “checking her out,” Sarah Palin conflated this with the current prostitution scandal and blamed the whole thing on Barack Obama, who, as the record shows, wasn’t inaugurated until January 2009 after soundly whipping her ass at the polls.

All five comments were roundly and loudly condemned by desperate people who have nothing better to do. These condemnations were no better than the verbiage they were attacking.

Representative West’s comments are as ridiculous as they are stupid, and by uttering them he did the voters of Florida’s new 18^th congressional district a great service. They now know that this man is a hysterical idiot who is either bereft of originality or deeply nostalgic for the popular ramblings of the besotted senator Joe McCarthy.

Ted Nugent has no other forums than the NRA and the Tea Party. The red meat he threw to his audience was freshly slaughtered with his bow-and-arrow; he was following the great rock and roll tradition of giving the people what they want. The fact that the delegates to the National Rifle Association greeted these comments with cheers and accolades says more about the NRA than it does about a washed-up has-been rock star who is grasping for the warmth of a dimming spotlight. Yet his comments earned him a visit from the Secret Service.

To be fair, I guess it is possible that the Secret Service agents were simply asking for advice about scoring groupies after discovering hookers actually cost more than $30.00 a pop.

There are people who think that after his drunken anti-Jewish ramblings, actor/director Mel Gibson should have his mouth sewn up and be exiled to the Phantom Zone. Okay, so he’s a religious fanatic. Big deal; this is America, the nation is full of them. So he doesn’t like Jews. Big deal; this is America, the nation is full of haters. So he made a couple more movies, this time with a couple of Jews. If you don’t like him, don’t see his work, but Jesus Christ, the guy was only trying to make a joke. A desperate joke, but hell, Jay Leno is still on the air and most people don’t condemn that.

Denis Leary? Well, Denis Leary was speaking truth to power.

As for Sarah Palin… please. It’s Sarah Palin. It’s not like the Wizard of Oz gave her a brain. She’s just Ted Nugent without the guitar. Get over it.

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Patriot and First Amendment Freedom Fighter Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, replayed three times during the week (check the website above for times) and available On Demand at the same place.