Anti-Palin rage as Wisconsin man stands off police.

[one-eyed fat man]

Steven N. Cowan, 66,a rural Black Earth man kept police at bay outside his home for 15 hours Monday and Tuesday before he surrendered to police.

According to the complaint, Cowan and his wife were watching “Dancing with the Stars” when Cowan jumped up and swore as Bristol Palin appeared, saying something about “the (expletive) politics.”

Cowan went upstairs for about 20 minutes and returned, demanding his pistols, which had been taken by his daughter about a month ago for safety reasons. He was carrying a single-shot shotgun, which he loaded and fired into the television. He continued to yell, demanding his pistols when re-loaded the shotgun and pointed it toward his wife. She left the house and drove to Black Earth, where she called 911. She told police she was afraid for her safety.

Cowan kept sheriff’s deputies at bay outside his home until 11 a.m. Tuesday, when he surrendered without incident, sheriff’s spokeswoman Elise Schaffer said.

Palin’s dancing on TV set off man in standoff

Dane county and Madison area are to Wisconsin as Berkely is to California.

[Kennah]

1. Didn't know one could drive to the Black Earth

I thought one would have to take the Space Shuttle.

[Callisto32]

2. I guess conservatives had better be careful.

All those gun owning liberals will soon come for them!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. "Liberals are nuts, too?"

Is that the contention?

[Demstud]

7. Yes. Mental disability is non-partisan.

Hopefully he can get the help that he needs. Also, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he wasn't anti-Obama. The Tea Baggers may have started prepping him to run for political office in 2012, if that were the case.

[jazzhound]

9. Yes.

And what the dialogue on this forum also proves is that liberals are capable of possessing all of the negative traits that they assail conservatives/Republicans for.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. Tell me more.

/

[maxsolomon]

4. there's an off button, mrs. cowan

your husband, correct as he may be about bristol's presence on DWTS, is mentally ill.

[fascisthunter]

5. lol.... hilarious

[Journeyman]

6. Man has some serious problems . . .

fortunately, he was taken into custody without harm to anyone.

I hope he gets the help he seemingly desperately needs.

[Kennah]

8. So, for the next season of DWTS ...

... will Mr. Cowan get to vote?

[RSillsbee]

10. Ban Bristol Palin

It's the only way we'll be safe

[proteus_lives]

12. +1

[Euromutt]

13. Oh, CAN we?

Please please please (at least until she acknowledges that she's the perfect example of abstinence-only sex "education" not working).

[RSillsbee]

Be nice she's a 19 YO kid who never really asked for all this NT

[Euromutt]

15. You're more charitable than I am

Maybe I'm a horrible person, but when you get yourself knocked up at 17 because your abstinence-only sex "education" didn't prevent you from fucking but did prevent you from knowing how to effectively use birth control to avoid getting pregnant, you do not become a spokesperson for abstinence-only sex "ed" without being a massive hypocrite. Not to mention charging 14 grand to be a guest speaker at a fundraiser (http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/219086.asp) for a "Christian home for unwed mothers" that has helped exactly 17 unwed mothers. And, of course, talking about how it's not that hard to be an unwed teen mother when her income and housing situation are entirely thanks to her family connections.

[RSillsbee]

16. I've worked w/ teens

she's a typical airheaded 19 YO

[RSillsbee]

14. Be nice she's a 19 YO kid who never really asked for all this NT

[PavePusher]

11. I can't say I haven't felt a imilar urge...

under similar circumstances.

But I can't afford a new TV, and my neighbors house is only 15 feet on the other side of the wall. Slugs and large buckshot would definitely create cause some friction in our relationship...

But every time I see Palin or Olberman on the boob-tube.... sigh.

[votingupstart]

18. and i thought someone throwing the remote was bad form... who knew n/t

[Hoopla Phil]

19. I remember a popular novelty item from the items called the "TV brick"

It was a sponge made up to look like a brick. The idea was to be able to throw a brick at your TV and not really damage it.

[ManiacJoe]

20. Similar "chunks of granite" from Universal Studios.