27 comments to “Westmoreland co-sponsors bill on the Ten Commandments and”

1. stardust1954:
   16 June 2006, on 9:53 am

   Thanks whoever put the You Tube…was that you Sean?

2. chilipie:
   16 June 2006, on 11:34 am

   That video was priceless!

3. Matt:
   16 June 2006, on 11:43 am

   Funny thing about that: He didn’t even name the correct ones. If most xians would bother to read their damn book they’d find that their perfect god seemed to reconsider what was originally there and do a massive revision!

4. King Retard:
   16 June 2006, on 11:56 am

   That was freakin’ hilarious. I must’ve missed that episode. Wow, anybody can get elected to congress if they have the right connections, I guess.

5. Vic:
   16 June 2006, on 12:48 pm

   Especially in this state (Georgia) if you fellate god.

6. Will:
   16 June 2006, on 12:48 pm

   This guy makes George W look like a genius.

7. BigHeathenMike:
   16 June 2006, on 2:28 pm

   I unknowingly did basically the exact same post on my site after I saw the clip. That Westmoreland dumbass is too much – I can’t believe I make less money than that guy…

8. bigdumbchimp:
   16 June 2006, on 4:03 pm

   How the hell these guys don;t know who Colbert is at this point is hillarious to me. You’d think someone on his staff would have warned his ass.

   What a maroon.

9. stardust1954:
   16 June 2006, on 4:08 pm

   How the hell these guys don;t know who Colbert is at this point is hillarious to me. You’d think someone on his staff would have warned his ass.

   These politicians much not watch television at all. Gov. Blagojevich of Illinois was on the Daily Show and he didn\’t have a clue that it was a comedy/satire show, nor did he know who Jon Stewart was. You would think that someone would have briefed the top official of the state and made sure he knew what was going on. I wonder if anyone was fired in either of these instances?

10. Sean:
    16 June 2006, on 4:28 pm

    Viva Colbert!

    That’s the funniest shit I have seen all week. Yet more proof that any idiot can get elected to Congress.

    As Stardust and bigdumbchimp point out, these people’s staffs are morons, too. All one needs is a minute on Google to figure out the nature of the program they are walking into.

    No, Stardust, musta been Ron who posted the YouTube.

11. stardust1954:
    16 June 2006, on 5:13 pm

    No, Stardust, musta been Ron who posted the YouTube.

    Thanks Ron.:)

12. tony:
    16 June 2006, on 5:27 pm

    Once again, Georgians are made to look like complete rubes. Thanks Lynn Westmoreland! I know more of the Ten Commandments and can count the number of times I have been to church on one hand and still have fingers left. Glad I don’t live in his district (well, I can’t really brag. I live in Cynthia McKinney’s district).

13. raindogzilla:
    16 June 2006, on 6:46 pm

    And that’s why they should no longer be allowed to claim the name “Christians” and be saddled with the more appropriate “FUCKTARDS” What’s his name again, Les Westnessman?

14. ChuckA:
    17 June 2006, on 12:03 am

    Hmmm…Perhaps [to play with, and ammend an old saying]:
    “Truth is [much] stranger…and, sometimes, even FUNNIER(?)…than fiction!”

15. ChuckA:
    17 June 2006, on 12:32 am

    Oops!… I guess that goes for spelling too!
    [I need to proof read more carefully.]
    …Correction: amend
    [Am I being more 'anal retentive' again?]

16. ChuckA:
    18 June 2006, on 12:21 am

    Hmmm,…and one more note, of something I never quite noticed before:
    Regarding the word: ‘Amend’…Let’s see…
    ‘Amen’ [as in a prayer ending?..."Aaaagh!"] + ‘d’ [as, possibly, an abbreviation for:... say: "Duh!"...or maybe "D'Oh!"]

    “Just wondering;…and wandering!”

17. Mormacil:
    18 June 2006, on 7:43 pm

    that was funny, damn waht is taht guy stupid. How can you call yourself a christian without nothing waht it means… I’m a european atheïst and I can name more of them thne him.

    -Don’t steal
    -Don’t lie
    -Don’t kill
    -Respect your parents
    -Do not use the name of god evil(sorry my enlish is limited)

    funny fact: the first four can also be found in budism.

18. Alex:
    19 June 2006, on 5:59 am

    Oh come on that was clearly edited! There’s no way a Congressman would sit there and get humiliated, and much less be on the verge of laughter throughout the interview. Like the bit where he says he’d abolish the Department of Education – it’s obviously an answer to another question that they’ve edited in!

19. Sean:
    19 June 2006, on 6:17 am

    You put a little too much faith on the U.S. Congress, Alex. There are some amazingly ignorant dolts who make it to capitol hill.

    That said, I would love to see some real information on how Comedy Central cuts these things. There’s a lot of fast cutting, to be sure, and sometimes people play too conveniently into gags. I haven’t seen a point-by-point rebuttal from Westmoreland (probably because he doesn’t care; his constituents will likely never see this).

    But I did find this:

    http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/14839440.htm

    Reached Friday, Westmoreland press secretary Brian Robinson said the congressman hasn’t authored any of his own legislation, but he “didn’t come here to make government bigger.”

    Colbert also noted that Westmoreland signed onto a bill to hang the Ten Commandments in public buildings. Then he asked Westmoreland to name the commandments. He got two or three, then said he couldn’t name them all. Colbert smirked.

    Robinson said that, during the interview, Westmoreland actually got up to about seven of the Ten Commandments before petering out, but that part was edited out.

    “I challenge anybody outside of the clergy to try to (name them all),” Robinson said.

    Give it a try. A paraphrased list of the commandments appears at the end of today’s notebook.

    Not that the staff member’s position could well have been “That was edited and it is all a fabrication.” But they didn’t take that position.

20. Ron:
    19 June 2006, on 6:30 am

    If anybody cares, we had a bit on ignorance of the 10 a while back: at http://gods4suckers.net/archives/2005/03/05/the-10-commandments: The 10 commandments, for the 85% who don’t know them

21. stardust1954:
    19 June 2006, on 1:20 pm

    There’s no way a Congressman would sit there and get humiliated

    Yes they would: Several weeks ago, the Governor of Illinois and Democrat Rod Blagojevich went on Jon Stewart’s daily show and ended up looking like a big dumbass.

    http://cbs2chicago.com/seenon/local_story_054135102.html

22. Eve:
    19 June 2006, on 3:32 pm

    A xian not knowing his bible? Why should anyone be surprised? What they read, re-read, re-re-read, discuss, and quote ad nauseum are usually the same passages over and over again.

23. POMMIE DOUG:
    20 June 2006, on 6:19 am

    Westmoreland will be voting on how to organise Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Syria and just about all the world and the question of wether to use nuclear weapons. Is there any hope for us?

24. Jonathan:
    22 June 2006, on 8:15 pm

    I’m ashamed to be from Georgia!

25. Cliff:
    23 June 2006, on 1:45 pm

    Alex, Westmoreland does indeed wish to abolish the Dept of Education. That department is constantly flogged by small-government-states-rights-conservatives.

26. wildman:
    24 June 2006, on 3:44 pm

    the idea that this moron is in a position to make decisions about anything is very disheartening…but this i guarantee: no more how ignorant, stupid, idiotic or moronic this cretin is, he will be relected by his constitutents because the american public has been so dumbed down and so stupified by reality TV that this disgusting piece of human feces is considered…well, human…

    it’s over for us.

27. Sean:
    24 June 2006, on 5:43 pm

    No, no, Wildman. Take heart.