Ron Reagan looked like he wanted to rip out Frank Gaffney's throat on Hardball tonight...

[Barrymores Ghost]

Gaffney's parting shot to Ron, Jr., after the latter ate Gaffney's lunch on the topic of Dick Cheney's impotence in Afghanistan and Iraq, was: "Your father would be ashamed of you..."

Ron's response: "You better watch your mouth."

Tweety quickly cut to the hard break.

If I were Gaffney, I'd grow eyes in the back of my head.

[ind_thinker2]

1. yup last few sec, he would have strangled him :)

[Barrymores Ghost]

4. I hope everyone sees the replay of this....

...Gaffney didn't do the Big Dick any favors, and Matthews wasn't taking any bullshit.

[Ian David]

2. My response would have been, "I sure hope so. My father fucking sucked."

But then again, he knew the guy personally.

[Barrymores Ghost]

3. LOL n/t

[Barrymores Ghost]

5. Somebody PLEASE get the video of this!!! (n/t)

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. I really try to make it a point

to listen to at least the opening rant on Ron's show. He is so articulate, informative and FUNNY. He has a wondderful, sarcastic approach to really sticking it to people. Missed this interview with Gaffney - sounds like a humdinger.

[Barrymores Ghost]

24. And I am psyched that Ron decided to settle down in my town.

It's just another reason for me to love Seattle.

[RepublicanElephant]

7. video here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdiGdFyy1OY

gaffney's a freakin' idiot.

[firedupdem]

8. He most certainly is....

Jr. told him "I'll see you later, Frank" and he shut his damn mouth.

[grasswire]

11. bastard

"........After the presidential victory of Ronald Reagan, Gaffney joined the Pentagon, where he served as an aide to then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Because of his pugnacity, especially toward State Department officials, Gaffney earned the moniker "Perle's Bulldog." After Perle resigned in 1987, Gaffney was nudged out of the Pentagon by Perle's replacement Frank Carlucci. Gaffney subsequently created the Center for Security Policy, which counts among its advisers an impressive list of retired military brass and elite public policy figures.

Like other promoters of the "peace through strength" credo espoused by CSP, Gaffney criticized Reagan for slipping toward the liberal frameworks of détente and arms control during his second term. Frustrated former Pentagon officials, including Perle, gathered for a brainstorming session after Gaffney's ouster. "What we need is the Domino's Pizza of the policy business," said Perle. "If you don't get your policy analysis in 30 minutes, you get your money back." Soon thereafter, with a start-up grant from the Olin Foundation, Gaffney founded the CSP (for more information, see William D. Hartung, About Face: The Role of the Arms Lobby In the Bush Administration's Radical Reversal of Two Decades of U.S. Nuclear Policy; and Ken Silverstein, Private Warriors, p. 244.)"

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Gaffney_Frank

[SeattleGirl]

13. Jeebus Christ on a Fucking Crutch!!!

I hate those goddamned righties that can't shut their mouths for two goddamned seconds to let someone else talk!!!!!

It's no wonder I can't stand watching Tweety. He lets them get away with it time and time again.

But good on Ron! Reagan may not have been the great President that many righties say he was, but he's Ron's father, and that kind of shit Gaffney pulled is not cool.

[emulatorloo]

14. The great thing about Ron is when they try that "I'LL TALK OVER YOU LOUDLY" crap, he gives it right

back to them.

HIs first impulse is to discuss things in a civil manner. But when they pull this crap, he pushes back.

[Barrymores Ghost]

17. Thanks for that...

...Gaffney is either delusional or utterly amoral. In either case, he is no less of a reptile.

[demigoddess]

9. that Gaffney fellow asked for no personal attacks and then he says that!!

typical d***n republican idiot. he was way out of line. I was quite proud of how Ron Reagan handled himself.

[YvonneCa]

20. He's a PNAC guy. He introduced Cheney...

...on Wednesday for that awful speech where Cheney attacked Obama's policies.

[Mojambo]

10. If they had been in the same building that would have ended with Gaffney losing some teeth. n/t

[Barrymores Ghost]

25. I'd have happily gathered them up and handed them to Ron...

...so that he, in turn, could shove them up Gaffney's wrinkled ass.

[sohndrsmith]

12. Doesn't matter what Ron's political views are - Gaffney managed to dis both

the son and the father with that very ugly comment. I hope someone features this tomorrow, because (while I don't condone violence, I think Gaffney deserved to be decked after that ugliness), but I'd prefer he just be called out and marginalized in a non-violent way.

I've never seen Ron Reagan so angry.

That was so wrong on so many levels...

[Enthusiast]

15. Gaffney is as bad as Limbaugh,

maybe worse. His entire reason for being is propaganda.

[Barrymores Ghost]

22. Gaffney stooped that low because he was getting his ASS KICKED...

...by a former ballet dancing liberal.

He said what he said because he had nothing else worth saying.

[City Lights]

16. Poo-flinging asshole.

I *despise* republicans. I cannot stomach watching political shows anymore. The republickers have no manners and filibuster just about every second of airtime, leaving the opposing spokesperson to shout over the asshole.

I'm glad Chris commented on gaffney's assholery, but I'd be happier of legitimate news channels refused to give airtime to these punk assholes.

:nuke:

[rvablue]

18. How much do you hope Nancy dials up that idiot today and tells him off! n/t

[TwilightGardener]

19. That's a really low thing for Gaffney to say. No matter how famously dysfunctional

the Reagan family was, no matter the family members' divergent political views, you don't take a cheap shot like that at someone's relationship with his Dad.

[Barrymores Ghost]

21. Well, we ARE talking about Dick Cheney's inner circle, after all....

...they are, demonstrably, quite willing to say and capable of doing ANYTHING it takes to destroy their political opposition and push their sick, twisted world view.

[Cha]

23. "You better watch your mouth"!

I haven't heard that in long time..and yet it's pretty much the perfect response.:bounce:

[msu2ba]

26. Gaffney's got guts........

.....when he's not dealing with someone face to face. Kind of like his philosophy of war: "I'll stand way over here and bark while you guys kill each other."

He's a psychotic asshole whose airtime should have been up years ago.

[tmyers09]

27. Uncalled for.

Ron Reagan is a true badass. Gaffney's got no business saying shit like that. Good on both Ron and Chris for not putting up with it.

[vaberella]

28. Holy Shit!!! See why I LOVE Tweety. It's like political Jerry Springer!!

He's the best. He adds the drama or brings it on...either way I love it.

[BeyondGeography]

29. The most hurtful thing he could have said...unforgivable

Did it with a sneer, too. What a damaged human being Frank Gaffney is.

[Forkboy]

30. It should be the other way around anyways.

I would have been ashamed to have him as a father.

[SIMPLYB1980]

31. As much as I disagreed with Reagans policies,

that's some cold hearted shit.

[CTyankee]

32. I hope Nancy didn't hear that remark.

I didn't care for her or her husband when they were in the WH but she's an old lady now and that remark would be terribly hurtful to her.

Ron looked like he had been slapped. Ihope he has a chance to challenge Gaffny at some point...