Who's the armchair quarterback, Chuckie?

One might also ask of loudmouth and Fox News Sean Hannity stand-in, Charles Adler, who he's calling an "armchair quarterback" when referring to Canadian military service. (Emphasis mine)

I talked to Jimmy's mother this week. James Hayward Arnal loved this country more than any of you quiche-eating, latte-loving, armchair quarterbacks.

Not only is that very old and stolen from the Bush noise machine, it raises a question.... Chuck.

Who the fuck are you? You've never crossed the threshold of a recruiting office door. You're nothing but a carbon copy of Limbaugh, Beck, and the half-dozen others that are driving the least insane of American conservatives away from the Republican Party.

Among other questions.

Candy-assed, loudmouthed, non-combatant, pencil-necked, coward.

Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock.
Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)".

"We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the health care rally, told CNN. "We're up against a tyrannical government that will rob the next generation as long as they can get away with it."

Just a couple of guys conducting a radio interview while cradling an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle at a health care rally where the President of the United States was speaking.
This is not really about healthcare then, is it?
From the "interview" :

"Is it your advocacy that by having guns here we're probably all safer?" Hancock asked.
Chris "absolutely" agreed. He then went on to explain how he was always armed, even when riding his motorcycle, though not always when he showered: "Sometimes when I take a shower I set it down on the sink."

Only sometimes. Presumably other times not. Banking with an assault rifle must be interesting.

Initial news reports included the information that the Arizona police who monitored the man at the downtown protest "wanted to make sure no one decided to harm him."
Now we hear from Hancock's interview on CNN:

"It was Thursday that I called and talked to Al Ramirez, the representative from the Phoenix police department, and we were discussing -- we've been around this rhetoric that was building up around William Kostric, who did this in New Hampshire."

These stunts at health care rallies, whether with or without the guns, were never about health care.

The culture of conspiracy has probably hung one of their own

Ha! This is almost too funny.

It's not as though the "Birthers" conspiracy hasn't already been torn to ribbons as less than the most ridiculous bullshit ever to arise from a U.S. election, but it's quite likely that US Army Reserve Major, Stefan Fredrick Cook, a combat engineering officer from Florida, will face disciplinary action, possibly up to a general court-martial, for his antics.

Although the US Army is onto Cook's little game and have removed him from the picture in such a way that Cook doesn't get to squirt his conspiracy theory all over a Georgia courtroom, I expect Major Cook will indeed find himself in court in the not too distant future - as the defendant.

And before somebody comes haulin' in saying they can't do that to a reservist not on active duty... oh. yes. they. fucking. can.

Straws connected to nothing but more straws...

Only around the fires of American Republican encampments and at weekly meetings of the Michigan militia would this conversation by Michael Goldfarb be considered to have more merit than where a bear took a dump.

It seems there is some legitimate confusion on just what languages Obama speaks, and as far as Arabic, the only real hint has came from Nick Kristof, who heard Obama recite the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic and with a "first-rate accent" back in 2007.

Legitimate?!

Obama, as a kid in Jakarta, attended school with muslims. The Adhan to which Goldfarb refers but does not know the name, happens several times a day in places like Jakarta... in Arabic, even though the native language of the place is Bahasa.

I don't believe in any god but I can recite both The Adhan and The Lord's Prayer equally well in the language ambient in the classrooms during the periods they were rammed into my head as daily memory work.

Interesting that Goldfarb spends time gazing at his genitals worrying about the language skills of the current president when the immediate past president, somebody he held up in messianic glory, usually left basic English in a smoking heap of bad grammar.

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