Oh, my god, Don Young ... He's done it again.

[Blue_In_AK]

Hot on the heels of "Did Don Young really kill a guy," we now have this. Unfuckingbelievable.


http://www.adn.com/article/20141021/young-rattles-wasilla-high-students-hurtful-remark-about-suicide

WASILLA -- At a Wasilla High School assembly Tuesday morning, U.S. Rep. Don Young didn’t temper his notoriously abrasive personality for his young audience.

Numerous witnesses say Young, 81, acted in a disrespectful and sometimes offensive manner to some students, used profanity and started talking about bull sex when confronted with a question about same-sex marriage.

“We really spend a lot of time at our school talking about how we treat each other,” Wasilla Principal Amy Spargo said Tuesday afternoon. “We just don’t talk to people that way.”

More concerning, school officials say, Young made what they called hurtful and insensitive statements about suicide just days after a Wasilla student took his own life.

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It's looking better and better for young Forrest Dunbar, who nobody thought stood a chance in this race.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Keep digging, Don...go on, you can do it!

[jaysunb]

2. LOL ! n/t

[roguevalley]

15. Run, Forest, run. Don Young is a pig faced old ass hat

[vlyons]

3. Don't strain yourself being classy, Don

What a vulgar man. wash his mouth out with a bar soap.

[AverageJoe90]

4. Run, Forrest, Run! =D nt

Show Donald Duck Young just who's boss!

[Bandit]

6. I hear that ad several times a day and it always makes me chuckle.

Young is so arrogant and cocky he has not placed a single ad that I have seen or heard.

[hatrack]

5. Then there was Don Young on Mapplethorpe, also in front of a high school audience . . .

Thanks to the tip from @Apinak, here’s one more for the list:

In 1995, Young disparaged a 1990 exhibit in Cincinnati that included homoerotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. In front of a group of 15- to 18-year-old high school students, Young said, “butt fucking… You think that’s art?”

Then, too, Young refused to apologize, saying, “I don’t apologize. You’re all adults, and if you have to ask the questions, I’m going to answer.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/29/1796041/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-congressman-don-young/

[Raine1967]

7. I'm jaw dropped.

He got in one more question, this one about same-sex marriage.

“I asked why is it so bad in your eyes?” Grier said.

As Spargo described it, Young answered, “You can’t have marriage with two men. What do you get with two bulls?”

Witnesses say Young then said something about a lot of "bullshazzle" or some word resembling the more familiar obscenity.

“At that point I was heading for the microphone," the principal said. "It was time to be done.” The hour was up, she said, and the tone of the discussion was getting argumentative.

Spargo talked briefly with Young on his way out. He asked her about the student who shouted at him. The principal said he was a friend of the boy who died. “ ‘I’ll take care of it,’ ” she told Young.

He said this to a junior at the school.

I am hopping for the best for you all in Alaska this election day!

[Octafish]

8. They reveal exactly who they are when they open their mouths.

Wish our media provided FREE air time for each candidate to do so.

[raven mad]

9. Yep, the Donkey strikes again.............

Not for the first time; he did this with West Valley (Fairbanks) kids back in oh,,,,,,,,,,, like 1988 or so. Hasn't changed a bit.

And the idiots will re-elect him.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. He's had quite a run of negative notoriety in the past few months.

Maybe at last people will send him packing.

[raven mad]

11. We can but pray that "name recognition" doesn't happen this election cycle.

I want to puke every time his name comes up on anything.

[cali]

12. He also wanted the student who responded to his horrible comments, disciplined

he's a sick, hateful, disgusting old piece of dog shit. and he could do Alaska a favor by... never mind.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. I'll finish the thought...

Nobody lives forever.

[brooklynite]

14. UPDATE - Rep. Young starts backpedaling

“Congressman Young was very serious and forthright when discussing the issue of suicide, in part because of the high number of tragedies that affect Alaskan youth. He discussed what he believes are leading causes of youth suicide in our state and shared some suggestions for helping family members and friends who are dealing with suicidal thoughts,” spokesman Matt Shuckerow wrote in an email. “In no way did Congressman Young mean to upset anyone with his well-intentioned message. In light of the tragic events affecting the Wasilla High School community, he should have taken a much more sensitive approach.”

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Shoulda, coulda, woulda...

We might be able to give him a pass if he hadn't been doing and saying stupid things for at least 30 years. And he's accelerating.

[KamaAina]

16. He has indeed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025699070

Note that this incident took place in Wasilla. We already know there's something in the water up there.