Not only is Dave Reichert an ineffective congressman, but he has a twisted sense of humor, as the Tacoma News Tribune’s Niki Sullivan reports:
Right now, U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert is up. He repeated a joke I first heard him tell at the Pierce County Republicans’ Lincoln Day breakfast earlier this year. It involves an airplane that’s going to crash, one fewer parachute than passengers and, ultimately, Hillary Clinton dying.
It sounds, as David Goldstein observes, like an unoriginal, crass schoolyard joke I used to hear all the time from classmates when I was younger and attending elementary school. [..] The punch line relies on the assumption that the adult in question is stupid.
Now, Reichert or anybody else can argue that Hillary Clinton is ambitious, or stubborn, or shameless, but she is certainly not dumb.
To her credit, she’s exceptionally sharp and calculating in addition to being determined… and that has carried her a very long way.
Joking about the death of one of the two Democrats seeking the presidency, if not inappropriate, is certainly not classy, and is further evidence that Dave Reichert himself does not have good judgment.
Perhaps this is because he isn’t truly invested in his job.
He doesn’t work hard on Capitol Hill, his campaign is ambling or meandering along at a lazy pace, and he’s frequently careless with his choice of words. Last cycle his campaign finished with a condescending, sexist TV ad.
Reichert is running against Blue America candidate Darcy Burner. Please considering helping Darcy’s campaign so we can show Reichert out the door.
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What goes around comes around, Hillary.
First?!
I’m kind of tired of hearing why I shouldn’t vote for the other guy. I’d like to know why I should vote for the guy you want me to vote for.
That’s a generic statement thrown out to everyone.
we can show him the door, but it
will just confuse him. is it a doornob or his rectum?
Don’t you love living in a polarized nation that feeds upon itself and others?
Thrilling
They’ll be far less condescending after 8 years of an Obama presidency, and 8 years of a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.
Republicans:funny as Hannibal Lecter:vegan
Trying to argue that this guy is kind of an a**hole to try to change the mind of people that continuously vote for a**holes is pointless. Turn it around on them. I’m not sure what the joke stated exactly, but if she jumped in the joke without a parachute, argue she thought about the odds, like an intelligent person, and decided she had a greater chance of survival outside of the plane. If asked why she didn’t take a parachute, argue she was showing good leadership qualities in that, the other people on the plane were more important to her than herself. She is, after all, not running to be queen of America, but President.
Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Naturally) Jokes About The Death Of Hillary Clinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8
I got this particular unfunny piece of propaganda as a one of those forwards I ask folks not to send over a year ago. (A local builder, the guy who keeps saying “business will go to shit when the Democrats get in” as if it hasn’t already, sends a steady stream of stuff like this) That version include Mrs. Clinton, the Pope and a boy scout.
Isn’t it a federal crime to invoke harm to ANY public official???
It runs dangerously close to terrorist threats
Judging by the picture, this clown should know dumb.
ciu @ 10:
You didn’t read the fine print. It’s ok IF a Republican does it.
I’m so tired of government by asshole. You’d think even a bunch of half-witted clowns like the Republicans could find better people to represent them.
His joke wasn’t as good as all the ones about Cheney after he dodged that car bomb.
Beware cross-over Republicans leaving their sinking ship behind and trying to take over the Democratic Party.
Deputy Dave is one of the worst and most ineffectual representatives in the Congress. This episode only reinforces that assumption. Darcy will run a great campaign; open, honest and intelligent. No hidden agendas, no mysterious moneymen stashed behind the couch just little ol’ us. All 10,000 of us.
What’s the big deal about this, again? Seriously? If someone told this exact joke and instead put Dubya’s name in there would there be a big outcry from us on the Left over this?
Come on now. It’s a stupid joke. He’s not wishing her to die, he’s not calling for her to be killed. It’s a stupid joke, that’s it.
Some people need to lighten up and stop letting their hatred of anything that dares oppose their way of thinking get in the way of what was simply a bad joke.
I’m sure I’ll get criticized for saying that, but it’s how I feel. Way too many sensitive people these days.
This guy is an idiot. The joke is unfunny. And this is a non-issue. I’ve heard the same joke about Bush. As unfunny as the joke was, if someone had pulled aside the person who made the joke about Bush and told them they shouldn’t joke about wishing the death of our president, I’d have told them to lighten up. And that’s what you guys need to do if you don’t want to end up being partisan hacks. This is a non-issue. The fewer Republicans we have the better, but they need to go based on the real offensive stuff they do, not based on manufactured controversy.
Also, the joke relies on the person being stupid and arrogant. Clinton definitely fits the latter.
Exactly Bill.
And my point is we get so up in arms when the Dems get hit on B.S. stuff. When people like Malkin go off the handle over Rachel Ray’s scarf, we mock them at getting upset at stupid little things and taking it out of context, or manufacturing outrage where there should be none. However, we turn around and do the same damn thing with things like THIS.
Gary @ 17:
This fatality-joke was far removed from a call to action, or from describing a possible path to victory.
Gary @ 19:
Gary is full of shit. A miserable Hillary hater should debate her
on the issues of the day, then we will see who’d dead.
Gary @ 17:
[Deleted, not funny Site Monitor] Just a joke. LOL
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We just watched the death of the Clintons’ grip on the Democratic Party…..and not a moment too soon in my opinion.
Now it’s going to be the summer of slash and burn for the Clinton campaign and her supporters if you put much stock in Ickes and the “Denver! Denver! Denver!” Clinton supporters.
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From CNN:
Dems decide to seat FL and Michigan, give each delegate half a vote. (can’t copy link from my Yahoo mailbox–sorry…)
And it only took him 25 years to solve the Green River Serial killer case. Even though the guy who did it was nick-named ‘Green River Gary’ by his pals at the Kenworth truck painting facility.
Thanks for the opportunity for action at the end of your post Nicole. It’s nice to actually be able to do something as we learn the news. Peace.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
What! Listen up pal. This guy is on Senator Obama’s short list for a cabinet pick. Where the hell do you think he got the Hillary ‘joke’ in the first place.
Oh, Happy Day! We have met the Fascist Bully Boys and they is us!
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If any C&L readers live in Seattle, please, PLEASE, P L E A S E support Dacy Burner.
She is running against Reichert and almost unseat Dave the last cycle.
If you can, here is her ACT BLUE campaign page. Donations accepted. Lets see Reichert - out!
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Edwin Hussein @ 5:
I sure hope so!!
CafeenMan @ 2:
After reading online for years, I have to say, I agree with your statement. Always, always, always, everyone is saying to vote AGAINST so and so, with no real reasons why to vote for someone. Just because each is from opposing parties, means nothing.
This GOP mindset we see today used to be quite popular in America. You know, back in the day when Jackie Gleason used to threaten domestic violence on his housebound wife… ahhh yes, the good ol days. What ever happened to town square hangings and wife-beating? Notice that these off-color jokes that are being picked up by the press these days are by & large coming from the right wing where people cling to the times when going without question into WAR was like receiving a medal of honor from Jesus himself. But alas, the times are a changing. The kids have grown up and are now the major voting force today. We have seen the foolishness and inhumanity that is a military solution. We have seen the military used LIKE TOOLS to expand the capitalist markets abroad. We have been on the evil end of the spectrum now for 7 long years and have watched as our leadership has inflicted pain and suffering upon people conveniently out of sight by a vast ocean from the people here. We are sick of it. We are sick of the GOP. Sick of the lies. Sick of the military card that should have NEVER come into play outside of capturing Bin Laden. I persoanlly will NEVER again vote a single GOP member into ANY office. I ask now. Even the judges in our town, I strongly consider what party they are affiliated with before I cast my vote. No more hicks in office. No more off color jokes. Death is not something you joke about, especially to the international press. It is a sign of a rank amateur.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Did they not already do that? (DLC)
DHavok @ 12:
Oh right…. I forgot. Whoever is in office has absolute power and is not longer under Rule of Law…
I had the pleasure and honor to listen to Darcy Burner speak at our County Convention. She is a fine person and a wonderful candidate and will be an even greater Representative.
I am represented by a wonderful, Kucinich-esque Congressman, Jim McDermott, and I implore you to please help Darcy Burner. She is one of the good ones.
An older iteration of this joke had Nixon, the Pope, and a hippie but only two parachutes. As president, Nixon jumped first, but after he left there were still two parachutes, as the hippie explains “He just jumped out with my backpack.”
Someone have an answer for me? Wasn’t Darcy Burner in some sort of “non profit” scandal not that long ago? If there is any evidence, would she be any better a congresscritter than this tool?
Well Reichert barely beat Darcy Burner in 2006, 51.31% to 48.69% by just a little over 3,000 votes. Those figures don’t bode well for Reichert this year, considering that the “Republican brand” isn’t worth shit right now.
I’m not saying I hope it happens, but if a meteor shower were to Fall on Bu$h, Cheney, McCain, Hagee, Limbaugh and Reichert this week, it’d be a great day for the entire galaxy.
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Embittered-Max-Hussein-1 @ 30:
Jim McDermott reps Seattle. That’s the 7th district. Darcy Burner is running in the 8th district, Bellevue, Kirkland, Medina, Mercer Island, Hunts Point, Yarrow Point-home to billionaires.
ConcernedCanuck @ 38:
Try google. Or ask a member of the Greedy Old Plutocrats. I’m sure they could rustle up some bullshit…
miss_kitty @ 42:
Don’t take it the wrong way miss_kitty. I did not intend to insult. I was merely asking as Cafeenman was, what is so special about her that people should vote for her. All I’ve heard is a couple controversies with her in them. One was something about running a nonprofit org, paying herself over 100 grand a year, and having nothing to show for it. One was about an ad where she didn’t even show what party she represented. I don’t know, but grassroots candidates should have no questionable past should they? I mean she swears she was a Microsoft executive, even though people that work at Microsoft say she is full of it. If Dems REALLY want to trounce the Repubs, they really should run candidates with no hidden skeletons as grassroots candidates.
My guess is Hillary was far more offended by Rev. Michael Pfleger’s lambasting her last week.
Obviously Barack Obama concurs.
ConcernedCanuck @ 38:
Lexis searches for her name with “profit,” “non-profit,” “scandal,” or “controversy” don’t pull anything that supports your assertion. Thanks for playing.
ConcernedCanuck @ 43:
She was a Group program manager, FWIW.
The incomes of Microsoft employees is insane. I worked in the yards of many Microsoft employees and the 29-35 year old M$ retirees and if they aren’t mostly Thug, then I’d be incredibly shocked. Their 10,000-20,000 square foot homes, 4-8 car garages, quarter mile driveways, private bowling alleys, multiple swimming pools, $50,000 jungle gyms for the kids, 100+ ft yachts parked in the back yards at the extra-long dock and yards are ostentatious displays of new wealth, and on the surface of it, there’d be no reason for these noveau riche whiny arsed titty babies to be FOR Burner, since she is a Dem.
Why would the people who decry her have more cred for you than she does? I havent heard B Gates or any of the M$ PR machine denounce her claims…
If I sounded flip or snotty in my first reply to you, but that wasn’t my intent. :)
ConcernedCanuck @ 43:
Wow. She ran an ad that didn’t say what party she was in. And supposedly (still no evidence to prove your assertion) robbed a charity. The first is a ‘meh,’ as Lisa Simpson would say. The second: show some evidence. Lexis didn’t show anything. If you have more details (name of the charity, etc.), post them so I can run a more specific Lexis search. Until then, refrain from smearing.