If you can't read this - YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!

[Omaha Steve]

I don't think this is a repeat. I got this in an email from a Republican I know. It seems they are using humor to justify Iraq, torture, etc...


>Subject: If you can't read this - YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
>>
>> R. Lee Ermey, for the few of you that missed it, was the host of The
>> History Channel's Mail Call and played the D.I. in the movie Full Metal
>> Jacket. Ermey is a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant and a very plain
>> speaker as you will soon read. So, for your entertainment, here is
>> Retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey at his first press
>> conference as White House spokesman..The main topic of discussion is the
>> Marine in Iraq who shot the Iraq insurgent to death.. We pick up as the
>> reporter asks about how this potential war crime will affect our image
>> in the world:
>> Ermey: "What kind of a pansy-assed question is that?"
>> Reporter: "Well I think...."
>> Ermey: "THINK, nancy boy? Get this through that septic tank on top of
>> your shoulders moron, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK, DO YOU
>> UNDERSTAND ME??? - THAT MARINE SHOT AN ENEMY COMBATANT SHITHEAD, SO GET
>> YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND DEAL WITH IT BEFORE I MAKE YOU MY OWN
>> PERSONAL PIN CUSHION!"...
>> "Next question. You in the blue suit."
>> Reporter 2: "Don't you think that the world's opinion of our operations
>> is important?"...
>> Ermey: "Oh sure! You don't know the times I have cried myself to sleep
>> worrying about what some g'ddamned French pansy thinks! Oh the days I
>> have had to weep because some sh*t eating terrorist fucker might be mad
>> at us because we went into whatever god-forsaken hole in the shit that
>> he lives in and killed him - WHAT THE HELL KIND OF DUMBASS QUESTION IS
>> THAT YOU PETER PUFFING JACKASS?? - WE ARE THE MOTHER FUCKING USA, AND
>> WHEN YOU ATTACK US WE ARE GOING TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND BLOW YOUR
>> STINKING CAMEL-LICKING CARCASS INTO PIECES SO SMALL WE WILL BE ABLE TO
>> BURY YOUR SORRY ASS IN A THIMBLE! - I know what you are thinking. You
>> are probably afraid, thinking that I have such an 'extreme' attitude and
>> that I need to be more 'sensitive' to other people's feelings - WELL LET
>> ME TELL YOU SOMETHING YOU POLE SMOKING PANSY! - I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS
>> WHAT YOU OR ANYBODY ELSE THINKS! THIS IS A DAMNED WAR, AND IF YOU CAN'T
>> HANDLE THAT YOU SHOULD GO HOME AND SUCK ON MAMMA'S TIT!! - DO YOU HEAR
>> ME YOU RUNT?? - NOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY PRESS ROOM BEFORE I GO CRAZY
>> AND BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU! - Next question, you with the ugly
>> assed tie. Look at that thing. It is hideous.".. Reporter 3: "Aren't you
>> going against the freedom of the press by...".. Ermey: "FREEDOM?? - WHAT
>> IN BLUE HELL DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FREEDOM? - I HAVE SWEATED MY ASS OFF IN
>> JUNGLES BEING SHOT AT FOR THIS NATION!! - WHAT IN THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE
>> YOU LITTLE SHIT SUCKING WEASEL? - WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PUT YOUR
>> ASS ON THE LINE FOR ANYTHING? - AND YET YOU HAVE THE UNMITIGATED
>> TEMERITY TO SHOW UP HERE AND MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK THE ACTIONS OF A
>> MARINE WHO WAS DEFENDING HIMSELF AND HIS UNIT FROM ATTACK BY SOME
>> MURDEROUS AL-QUEDA SYMPATHIZER!! - YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I AM CONCERNED
>> ABOUT NUMBNUTS? - I AM CONCERNED ABOUT A BUNCH OF GRABASSTIC,
>> DISORGANIZED MORONS WITH CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES DOING THEIR BEST TO
>> PORTRAY OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN AS WAR CRIMINALS! - I AM CONCERNED ABOUT
>> CHICKEN SHIT PANSIES THAT WANT US TO NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS AND THEN
>> WHINE ABOUT THEIR PISS ANT "FREEDOMS!".. Reporter 3: "I..."
>> Ermey: "Did you have a big bowl of stupid for breakfast this morning
>> numbnuts? - I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD OUT OF THAT COMMIE CRYHOLE
>> IN THAT SH*TPILE YOU CALL A HEAD! AND THAT GOES TRIPLE FOR THE REST OF
>> YOU PANSY-ASSED MORONS! - NOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY PRESS ROOM BEFORE I
>> SHOVE MY BOOT SO FAR UP YOUR ASS THAT YOU CHOKE TO DEATH ON MY
>> SHOELACES!"
>> Semper Fi
>> ======================================
>>
>>
>>
>>

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Sounds like BS to me

But I'll let someone else run it down.

David Allen
www.thoughtcrimes.org

[purduejake]

2. Ugh, and it makes me even sicker to see it was apparently...

signed "Semper Fi." I think they are generally much better than that- it's just their leaders who piss me off.

[TrustingDog]

11. Semper Feh!

[Democracy Died 2004]

33. Yeah. Simple Fiddle. n/t

[MindPilot]

3. It is clearly an attempt at humor. The emphasis is on "attempt".

Good god repigs are stupid.

[librechik]

4. crap that needs to be done away with, not perpetuated

I probably could read Mein Kampf, too, but that doesn't mean I should.

Why are you posting this? Dick contest? We already know how blind and violent the enemy is, can't we focus on fixing things instead of drooling over bloodngore?

Look, militarism is bad period (with the exception of a solid border defense, which we don't have. Explain to me why (aside from morbid curiosity) we should give Ermey more than an amused shrug? You guys act like there is nobody in the world but young wite males. Get a clue, we outnumber you, and Ermey is not a role model or object lesson. Just a bizarre anomaly.

[JHB]

5. Ewww, another (re)public(an) wet dream

Read up at Orcinus for trends in "eliminationist" rhetoric (and practice) by the Rwingers.


http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/12/spiral-of-eliminationism.html

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_12_07_dneiwert_archive.html#107103430260946546

http://www.cursor.org/stories/fascismxiv.php

[Nalgenelover Snort]

6. Ermy, dear, you have a bit of foam dribbling down your chin.

Man... whoever wrote this is in serious need of therapy. They're going to have an aneurysm if they don't chill.

[MindPilot]

7. OK, I checked out the website

http://www.rleeermey.com/introindex.php

Didn't find anything that looked like the rant at reporters.

But I did get a real creepy feeling that G/Sgt Ermey is kind of exploiting the Marines and their esprit de corps for his own personal profit.

[KharmaTrain]

27. Nice Try, This Isn't Ermy

I have little use for this gas-bag (except maybe supporting Neil Diamond in singing Holly Holy) and I've heard this wingnut go off on us "libruls", but I couldn't find any source through Google or Lexxus that either credits Ermy with a rant of that type or is a "spokesman for the White House".

I used to watch a lot of the history channel until this ass-hat came along. Ironically History Channel International is a decent alternative.

Of course Ermy's exploited his Marine gig...but then they've exploited him as well. His "show" is a propaganda showcase for all things military-industrial...killing with lots of "good old boy" flavor.

This reminds me of emails I'd get from wingnuts claiming "Hillary said this"...hurts one's credibility when it fails to pass the truth test on the right or left.

[bobbyboucher]

8. Your slip is showing, FYI.

Thanks for posting that horseshit.

Only CFDCs, PCMWSFs, TZCSs, and SSISMDs enjoy such second grade ass-leakage.

[Name removed]

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[mandyky]

10. I wish the WH WOULD get a press sec like this

it would show reasonable people just what kind of mentality is being used in Iraq. This is right up there with dumbya's bring it on - hi-fucking-larious!!

[Vektor]

12. Leave it to them to try to make torture funny. n/t

[NoPasaran]

13. Mail Call- I HATE that show

If I wanted to be screamed at by some foulmouthed idiot I would have joined the fucking Marines.

[txaslftist]

14. Intellectual candy-asses

Typical of a fifth grade bully. Cannot justify the war in any sense, cannot justify the actions being undertaken in the name of this war, cannot justify the damage they've done to our image abroad...

The whole argument reflects the republican line: "We don't have to justify what we do because our critics are 'girly men' not worthy of debate." Arnold could have written this.

Don't think, just grab your nutsack and balls-away!

[William Bloode]

15. I seriously doubt he said any of it.

Ermey at least was man enough to play the part of a gay man in a movie(Saving Silverman). That does not sound like your typical freeper to me, shows a bit of understanding.

[karlrschneider]

16. I thought about that too...no way did he say that stuff.

...

[bobbyboucher]

18. Of course he didn't. It's all part of the propaganda onslought

meant to make idiotamericans feel tuff and mighty and mui, mui, macho about all this civilian slautering going on.

[Omaha Steve]

17. I don't think he said it either

I do think it is those that want to justify the war the wrote it.

[BeFree]

19. Justify the war?

Why do those chicken-hawks feel they must justify the war? What fear must reside in their little right-wing that makes them spew this type of sewage?

They would eliminate the very freedoms so many have died for, all the while calling for more to die. Hell, if they are so concerned about it, why aren't they dead yet? Why haven't the chicken-hawks signed up and gone to Iraq and died for our freedoms? If I thought that occupying Iraq was important to keeping my freedom, that's what I would have done.

No, they are still here kicking and screaming, aren't they? They don't care about freedom, they just want someone to die; someone else to lose their freedom. I guess they figure there is a freedom pie somewhere and the fewer mouths it has to feed, the more for them?

Bunch of damned black-hearted chicken-done-right-winged-hawks. They wouldn't know the truth if it hit 'em like buckshot in the tail feathers.

We need an emoticon for spittin' mad!

[JHB]

24. No, he didn't say it...

...The author wants a "Johnny Bravo", someone who'll follow the script and "fits the suit" (which in this case is Ermey's well-known drill-sergeant delivery).

In other words, fantasy casting for a W-edition "West Wing".

[WLKjr]

20. Excuse me, but I believe

R. Lee Ermey would definately be more profane than this emailer pathetically tried to pound out on is 'puter. What a maggot living in a steaming pile of horseshit!

idiots, they are everywhere!

[ElectroPrincess]

21. I watch full metal jacket ... I think this Emery *character* should

NEVER forget what happened to his character in that flick.

Remember? Private Pyle wasted him in the latrine?

Goes to prove that being a 100% full time a**hole is bad for one's health.

He brings disrespect upon the strict BUT genuinely concerned for their troops Drill Sergeants.

Like Col. Kilgore's character in Apocalypse now, in the real world of combat, these clowns would have been fragged in the first week of action.

Marine (and Army) Drill Sergeants are TOUGH: They break you down and shout in your face BUT ALSO later on during boot camp build the entire Platoon to work together as a team.

My husband who retired from the USMC four years ago finds the never ending venom within R. Lee Emery's "Sergeant Persona" inaccurate, demented, disgusting and disrespectful to the True Marine Corps.

But someday I'll tell you what I really think.

Semper Fi

On Edit: I think Marines call their bathrooms "heads" instead of "latrines" (unlike us former Army pukes)

Oh whatever. :-)

[wildwww2]

25. That is correct. It`s a head call. Not a latrine call. I just like to use

the word latrine when I refer to the five GOP judges who put the usurping chimp in office. The "Latrine Court". I think it suits those asswipes just fine.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[ElectroPrincess]

28. No worries wildwww2 for I was just correcting myself above ...

My retired Marine hubby and I (former AD Army) used to tease each other over the difference between Army and Marine terminology.

Me(Army): Dammit it's a "Latrine" NOT a "Head" ... yuck, that term sounds disgusting! LOL

Husband(USMC): Put on your "Cover" NOT "Hat" ... a "Hat" is civilian wear.

Me(Army): No, I'm going to Misawa on "TDY" (Temporary Duty) NOT "TAD" ... try to keep up, will ya? LOL

No, I was just correcting myself for I was hearing this "little voice" in my head that insisted that I get the terminology right. ;)

[ElectroPrincess]

22. Correction ... R. Lee Ermey is a former, not retired Marine Staff Sergeant

He did serve one tour in Vietnam before being MEDICALLY discharged from the Marines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Lee_Ermey

p.s. I'm very disappointed that he was given the ONLY honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant 35+ years later in 2002 upon being a celebrity. Goes to show you that EVERYTHING'S political.

Damn, that sucks pondwater. :(

[yankeedem]

23. New rule.... When I get these emails

I send enlistment forms and reply all.

You may also want to point out that Ermey played a homosexual football coach in "Saving Silverman". That was a great movie.

[txaslftist]

26. Send enlistment forms and reply all...damn, that's excellent.

[secedeeconomically]

29. This is the Rights wet dream. They get a hard on when they read shit like

[Bridget Burke]

30. If you can't read this....blame the formatting!

It's really easier to read text that uses Upper & Lower case. Not just lower, not JUST UPPER. And the occasional paragraph break would help.

Of course, the content is even worse.

How did you answer this one?

[Bouncy Ball]

31. Lovely

Ermey never said that stuff, but I'm sure everyone here knows that.

I'd have a bit to say to any repuke to sent that to me through email. Then I'd block their email address. I've done it before, I'll do it again.

Of course, the attitude displayed in this email IS what many "Americans" feel and is what our foreign policy consists of now!

Sad.

[Swamp Rat]

32. I like to take these stupid emails, alter them, and send 'em back.

One person sent me a pic making fun of Kerry and his "new, smaller Navy." I sent this back: