Republican State Rep candidate drops bomb shell comment

[angka]

Source: KOAA-TV NBC Colorado Springs

A Colorado Springs candidate for the state house, known for his controversial comments, dropped another bomb shell.

We're talking about District 15 Republican Gordon Klingenschmitt and his most recent attack on openly gay Colorado Congressman Jared Polis.

"Democrats like Polis want to bankrupt Christians who refuse to worship and endorse his sodomy. Next he'll join ISIS in beheading Christians..." said Klingenschmitt.

It's a comment that has Democrats shocked and appalled yet county Republicans are still defending him.

Read more: http://www.koaa.com/news/republican-state-rep-candidate-drops-bomb-shell-comment/

[Bjorn Against]

1. There are lots of words I would call that disgusting comment, but bombshell is not one of them

[angka]

2. Verbatim headline per DU policy

That said...

[Bjorn Against]

3. I get that, I know you did not write the article

[yurbud]

51. it's an insult to good ordnance. That comment is somewhere south of excrement

[951-Riverside]

4. I tried my best but I cannot grasp what he was trying to say

"Democrats like Polis want to bankrupt Christians who refuse to worship and endorse his sodomy. Next he'll join ISIS in beheading Christians..."

Is it just me or is he all over the place?

[Skittles]

6. it's the teabagger thing to do

hit as many repuke talking points in once sentence....... here we have Democrats, bankrupted Christians, godlessness, sodomites, terrorism and beheadings; yes INDEED

[adieu]

7. When listening to the right wing,

you must never listen to understand their words. They don't make nor have to make sense. To them, the words aren't strung together to make sense. The words are just sounds. To them, it's like notes from a piano. Sounds. When words like sodomy, ISIS, beheading are used, they make sounds "sah-dough-me" and "eye-sis" and "bee-head-ding". Those sounds evoke some reptilian part of their brain to cause them to feel agitated or defiant or calm or sad, depending on what the sounds are. It's no different than playing some notes on a piano in a minor key to evoke sadness, playing some other notes to evoke giddiness.

Remember that picture of a tea party comment on a wood panel, "libetty vs tranny"? Why do you think they're spelled that way? Because the speller spelled it using the sounds of the letters, not using the letters' pronunciation (somebody in elementary school got the stupid idea to teach spelling and pronunciation badly). It's "libetty" because he pronounces the word as "lib-betty." It's "tranny" because he pronounces the word as tee-ranny, and "tee" is how we say the letter "T", but isn't how the letter "T" is pronounced within a word.

To the right wing, all these mumble jumble words are just sounds. It must be, because they don't know "income" from "expense", "war" from "peace". To them, they're all sounds, different frequencies on the dog whistle scale. Say the right word or words and you hit some notes that cause them to spasm. Say another set of words and you'll get complete compliance.

I swear, dogs have a better vocabulary than right wingers.

[PSPS]

9. Wow! I like that!

It really makes sense and helps clarify Norman Goldman's use of the phrase "word salad" when describing grammatically incoherent utterances of people like Palin (and, apparently, this guy too.)

[adieu]

13. It is exactly word salad

Just a stream of sounds. Either pleasing or discordant.

They get it from the years of listening to the pulpit drone on. If you listen, actually listen, to a sermon, the words make no logical and critical sense. They misuse analogies, abuse hyperbole, mistake words for like-sounding words. Why, because the preacher is not talking. He is singing. He is making sounds with his vocal cords that are pleasing to his flock. They all get hypnotized to the sounds, because they're said in a nice tempo. (Listen to the preachers and see how they follow a certain tempo.) Then, you even have the kooky ones that babble on (The Seventh Day Adventists?) where the speaker is literally making gibberish.

It's sounds. Just sounds.

[Ed Suspicious]

11. My daughter spent a few short months in an elementary school in an extremely right wing

southern state. They very much had a "spell it like it sounds" thing going on. It went beyond the classroom and the kids all the way to the office staff and the people who placed misspelled signs in the halls. I felt very uncomfortable with the idea, coming from an upper mid-west state who until recently placed a high value on quality education, that those educating my kid were so unabashedly poor at spelling. The anti-intellectual right's disdain for book learnin' is pervasive and infectious, and in red states the devaluation of education starts at an early age in my experience.

[Thav]

29. This is an amazing description

and very apt at what they are doing. They don't have a real platform to stand on, so they use word salad to rile up the hatred and resentment. They're only against things, they're never for things.

[VanGoghRocks]

35. Technical note from a pro-am musician: you can't really play notes on a piano "in a

minor key," if you're playing those notes randomly. The minor 'key' in the 12-tone scale (more appropriately a 'mood,' I would say) is formed by a minor (or 'flatted') third off the tonic (as opposed to the major key's major third).

That aside, I like your metaphor. The Republicans are the John Cage of political discourse. (No offense to fans of Cage intended . Now, if only we could get Repubs to do 4' 33" of Silence (Cage's piece where he comes out and sits at a piano bench for 4'33" and plays no sounds at all!

http://rosewhitemusic.com/piano/writings/silence-taught-john-cage/

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

40. don't know "income" from "expense", "war" from "peace".

Reminds me of 1984, "War is peace" and especially "ignorance is strength".

The chocolate ration will be increased.

[BobbyBoring]

44. I guess that esplans

hyberbaly?

[JackRiddler]

57. Much appreciated but...

I think this character is pretty clear in what he says. What you say often applies, but in this case, his meaning is this:

It's his kind of "Christians" versus everyone else. Everyone else is equally enemy. No distinction is drawn between "Muslims," ISIS, homosexuals, liberals, Democrats, feminists, atheists, non-fundamentalist Christians, secularists, any kind of foreigners who aren't in his sect, communists, etc. etc. In fact, to make distinctions is to open the door for the enemy. They are all not "Christian," therefore all equally demon. (Even if ISIS and this guy think structurally in the same vein.) Everyone who is not him and obeying him is Other and Enemy, implacably, to the Death.

[rurallib]

32. tie up all the talking points in one little package

and deliver with a bow to your followers. They don't want to waste their pretty little heads on thinking.

[gopiscrap]

5. Typical ignorant republican asswipe

they're all like that, some of them are just too dumb to keep their mouth shut.

[vlyons]

20. Don't call them asswipes!

When you call them "asswipes," you become like them: vulgar. Just see them for what they are: ignorant people with delusional minds filled with fear and hatred.

[Ferretherder]

28. Sorry, I know you weren't talking to me, but,...

...I just gotta say, in MY book, 'ignorant people with delusional minds filled with fear and hatred' = 'asswipe'.

...but I get your point.


.......obviously didn't take it to heart, but,......well...........

[vlyons]

43. glad you got my point

We don't need to emulate the vulgarity of ignorant people. I'll bet that you are a better person than that.

[Frank Cannon]

31. I don't think we should call them asswipes.

Because it does a terrible disservice to actual ass wipes, which are soothing and useful. Unlike the unmitigated pieces of shit that say stuff like that.

[VanGoghRocks]

36. LOL-First real laugh of the morning! Hat tip!

[SoapBox]

8. What a crazy fuck.

[Major Hogwash]

10. Klingenschmitt should drop out of the race tomorrow!!!

There's no room for people like him in high legislative offices.

[Cha]

12. It's not "shocking" to this Democrat because these republicons are fucking idiots.

hope he loses his a$$hole election.

[freshwest]

14. His voting block loves this and will turn out on election day. Count on it!

[blackspade]

15. Sounds like Klingenschott needs to police his mouth.

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delusional.

***Apologies, in my effort to make a clever comment I appear to have picked up the wrong name from the article.

[cosmicone]

17. It's not Polis who said it. Polis is the democratic candidate and a victim.

The culprit is asswipe named Klingenschott -- a name perhaps found on Hogan's heroes as assistant to Sgt. Schulz.

[blackspade]

24. Oops!

Thanks, I missed that completely.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. These guys freak out over Sodomy because they're assholes....

If they learned to relax it wouldn't feel like such a strain on them and they wouldn't scream about it.

[cosmicone]

19. LMAO

[daleanime]

49. DUzy

[vlyons]

18. such hatred! a view into the mind of hatred.

That comment is just the tip of the iceberg of the hatred that exists in his mind. Don't be shocked. Look straight at it. It's hatred and fear and ignorance, pure and simple. Klingenschmitt needs to reacquaint himself and meditate on Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan. But he won't.

[gtar100]

21. Republicans don't give a shit what their politicians say; they only care that they are republicans.

Stubborn, useful idiots every one of them.

[world wide wally]

22. I hate to say it, but I live here and a statement like that will go over big in this town.

Fortunately, the district Polis represents is up in Denver where some sane people live.

[jonjensen]

23. no down side to attack gays unless...

No down side to attack gays unless as the black people say the more reginald dennys you have the less rodney kings you will have! Republiscum behave themselves out of fear not decency because they are not! Make them fear gay community and they will stop!

[ReRe]

25. "Klingenschitt"

... reminds me of that Gohmert idiot down in Texas. This homophobe tops Louie, and I didn't think that was possible. There is no depth this dipshit won't go. I would not want my granddkids anywhere near that old man with his dirty mouth, whether in person or on TV. When Repubs go and vote that man in, it's not politics anymore. It's something else entirely that I don't even know the name of.
GOTV, Colorado Springs Dems! Send "Klingenschitt" back to the outhouse where he belongs!

[Turbineguy]

26. Republicans have to behave this way

it's the only way they'll get noticed or elected.

[liberal N proud]

27. I know one asshole living in this pricks district that most likely thinks this comment is acceptable

I have a brother living in Colorado Springs who is as radical as they get on the right.

[VanGoghRocks]

37. I'm sorry to hear that - feels a bit like the U.S. Civil War where families

split on the issues of slavery and Unionism.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. What a lovely human being! Bet Jesus is really proud of him.

[toddwv]

33. hyberbaly?

They don't use spellcheckers in Colorado?

[world wide wally]

41. Hay! Watch what you say about Colorado. Sometimes we just space when it comes to speling

[Paladin]

34. I'm always thankful when these idiots spew their hatred and ignorance.

Let's see if Colorado Springs will support somebody who is guaranteed to be a daily embarrassment to his constituents. If you want to see what Klingenschmitt would be like, Google the last 100 public statements of Goofy Louie Gohmert (TX-Fuckwit).

[world wide wally]

42. Not even a contest if the idiot has an R after his name.

He's guaranteed at least 60% of the vote

[Paladin]

46. So be it. (nt)

[tclambert]

38. He's trying to "out-Christian" his opponent, obviously hoping for the church vote.

I think it's safe to say he's given up on the reasonable, thoughtful voters.

[Archae]

39. This guy has a long history of being a jackass.

He used to be a Navy chaplain, but was kicked out after being court-martialed for wearing his uniform at political events.

You can read far more about his antics here:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/search/node/klingenschmitt%20type:blog

[LynneSin]

45. I don't know who is more stupid - the people who make these ridiculous comments...

or the people who believe them and actually vote for the person who says them.

[Quantess]

47. Classy!

[BigDemVoter]

48. Let's hope he keeps on talking!

That kind of language certainly isn't going to endear him to a majority of voters in CO. . .

[whereisjustice]

50. the ease at which extremists are able to win a primary should be a major warning

This isn't funny, nor is it "good for our side". These wing nuts have unfortunate influence over public perception and this non-stop media barrage one reason the Democratic Party keeps getting nudged to the right. It is stunning how nut jobs are given an opportunity to spew like this. How far do you think a liberal would get talking in extremes like that? They'd be beaten, hauled off in handcuffs, NSA would have them on a no fly list.

We are missing a voice with enough strength and courage to fight back in a well coordinated national media blitz. Instead we argue for moderation, we call them our colleagues, patriots, job creators, etc. you know, play the safe middle.

Unfortunately, there is no counter-balance from the left. Just a misguided, hopeful appeasement that is working hand in hand with Republicans to destroy the middle class.

If we ignore it, or treat it like a joke, it will NOT simply go away.

Shit like this is never a good thing.

[Jack Rabbit]

52. That's not a bombshell, that's just nonsense

A bombshell is a bit of news that is factual, for example, when LBJ announced he would not seek re-election in 1968. Mr. Klingschmitt's remarks are to political discourse what pornography is to fine art. Even in the context of what right wing morons like Klingschmitt believe to be Biblical teachings about homosexuality, it's just a lot of nonsense.

The Republicans of Colorado Springs should be made aware that such nonsense is inexcusable and indefensible. If they do defend him, they are as guilty as Klingschmitt for this this shrill level of hate.

[blkmusclmachine]

53. Religion destroys a rational, working mind.

[amuse bouche]

55. Yep..... turns it to shit for brains

[amuse bouche]

54. Dumbass religie

Just shut the fuck up about your sky daddy

Keep it at home in your bed..where you can adore it all you want....with the shades down

[locks]

56. We're so lucky to live in beautiful Colorado (including Colorado Springs)

and have good Dems like Jared Polis representing us. That is, until some rw nuts like Klingenschmitt open their mouths and the Repugs who elect them stand up and cheer; then we're just totally embarrassed. And we realize how it must feel to live in Austin or New Orleans and have Rick Perry and Jindal running around the country with their mouths open.