JABbering Stooge

You stay KKKlassy, Rep. Gregg Harper (R — MS).

You stay KKKlassy, Robert Lowry.

Tragedy strikes twice:

A Pennsylvania woman who drew national attention for carrying a loaded handgun to her daughter’s soccer game has been shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide, the Lebanon Daily News reports.

Meleanie Hain, 31, of Lebanon, Pa., and her husband, Scott Hain, 33, were found dead after a two-hour standoff with police Wednesday night, the AP reports.

Hain was dubbed the “pistol-packin’ mom” after wearing her holstered 9mm Glock pistol to her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer match in 2008.

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The Lebanon Daily News says Lebanon police Chief Daniel Wright is providing little information aside from acknowledging that both were found dead and that he did not think anyone else was involved. The district attorney likewise refuses comment. The paper quotes several neighbors as saying they heard or saw the couple’s children’s [sic] running from the house screaming, “Daddy shot Mommy!” shortly before the 911 was called.

The paper also quotes one neighbor, Debbie Mise, as saying she feared something bad would eventually happen at the Hain home. “She just wasn’t right,” Mise said of Meleanie Hain, the paper reports. “You don’t bring a gun to a kids’ soccer game, and you don’t wear a gun when you go shopping at Kohl’s.”

<wingnut>If only Melanie Hain had been required by law to purchase an RPG-7, this would never have happened!</wingnut>

Sidebar: Someone at USA Today needs to sit Doug Stanglin down and explain to him that you don’t need to end every single sentence with “[name of source] reports.”

Sure, I’ll admit that I’m afraid one of these racist Birther morons will attempt to play John Wilkes Booth to Obama’s Lincoln.

As usual, Cenk Uygur is on point:

Now, imagine if there was left-winger with a gun waiting for Bush holding a sign that the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood tyrants? How long would that guy have lasted? You think they’d let him just sit there and wait for Bush? And say, “Hey, it’s perfectly legal!”

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Now imagine he was Muslim and waiting for Bush with a gun. What do you think would have happened then?

And in other news, every single solitary Teabagger is a Pure Person™ full of Sweetness And Light™ who would Never Harm A Fly™ — it’s those evil Union “Purpleshirts” that you have to watch. Michelle Malkin said so.

* Cf.

Just another “ordinary citizen”, merely expressing his opinion.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

This is your baby, Michelle Malkin. OWN IT.

BY THE WAY: Sen. John Cornyn says that we’re not allowed to complain about the death threats his party’s supporters send to politicians or public interest organizations. ‘Cause that’s un-American, don’cha know.

You know this can’t be good:

Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service
US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.

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Instead of bringing in more agents — instantly identifiable because of their bulky suits, worn over bullet-proof jackets, and earpieces — the Secret Service directed agents to work longer hours to cover the extra load and to miss firearms training, physical fitness sessions and tests.

“We have half the number of agents we need, but requests for more agents have fallen on deaf ears at headquarters,” a Secret Service agent told Kessler. “Headquarters’ mentality has always been, ‘You can complete the mission with what you have. You’re a U.S.S.S. agent’.”

Way to go, wingnuts. If When Obama is assassinated, not only will you deserve the blame for his assassination, you will also be to blame for the performance degradation in the Secret Service that leads to his assassination. Wear it with pride, you fascist fuckwits.

Note to Ms. Ingraham: If you want people to believe that the coerced-birth movement is not at all interested in doctor snuffing, YOU DON’T PULL SHIT LIKE THIS:

Dave Neiwert’s assessment of the above segment is right on:

And the same sort of anecdotal demonization that characterized O’Reilly’s attacks on Tiller were similarly at play in this segment on Planned Parenthood. It essentially involved an ambush team using a youngish-seeming woman posing as a 14-year-old entering a variety of Planned Parenthood clinics and recording the responses — most of which, as described by the fake teen here, actually fit the standard response of most properly run clinics in trying to make sure that younger patients feel at ease.

The overriding message, once again, is that these abortion providers are a pack of morally depraved sickos who deserve to be in the crosshairs. Lovely.

And to make matters worse, this not-so-subtle promotion of anti-abortion terrorism is founded on a pack of lies. Is this what 30-plus years of anti-abortion activism has devolved to?

Editorial “cartoonist” Terry Wise on Bailin’ Palin:

Nope. Nothing eliminationist about THAT.

And in other news, liberal bloggers are unhinged dingbats and worse than pond scum because they occasionally drop the f-bomb and report news that reflect poorly on Republicans.

Still helping the terrorists.