Gephardt Sneers at John Wayne his San Francisco remarks." House.

Insider Report from NewsMax.com ^ | July 26, 2003 | News Max staff

[yoe]

The leftist media establishment, as usual, ignored one of the week's juiciest quotes, so we'll just have to highlight it again, and report on its aftermath.

As NewsMax.com pointed out Wednesday, Rep. Dick Gephardt was among the Democrats grumbling even as the U.S. military took out Saddam Hussein's genocidal sons Uday and Qusay. Geppy condemned President Bush's foreign policy as "machismo" and "arrogant unilateralism."

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black," the White House wannabe fumed in a speech to a receptive audience: San Francisco Bar Association.

Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., chairman of the House Policy Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, retorted that Gephardt needed to "get his facts straight."

"America did not go it alone," Cox noted. "The only people suggesting that, having removed Saddam, we quit and 'hoist a few cold ones' are the isolationist Democrats to whom Rep. Gephardt was apparently directing his San Francisco remarks."

And why the slap at John Wayne?

That prissy attempt at an insult might delight a bunch of leftist lawyers in San Francisco, but would Gephardt have the guts to say that to an audience of normal people in Omaha or Pittsburgh or Orlando?

Are the White House wannabes trying to alienate Middle America? Gephardt's goof recalls the boast of zillionaire trial lawyer Sen. John Edwards that he no longer likes country music, owns a gun or pays attention to NASCAR - a triple insult to his fellow North Carolinians. Edwards even had to apologize for once hunting rabbits.

Not coincidentally, Edwards is now in danger of losing his Senate seat as well as his feeble bid for the White House.

Gephardt's curious comment raises questions about what sort of movie star he'd emulate.

An angry reader from Poplar Bluff, Mo., wrote to NewsMax, "WHAT WE NEED IS MORE JOHN WAYNE AND A HELL OF A LOT LESS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S LITTLE DICK GEPHARDT!!!"

Another reader wondered if Gephardt preferred a Fred Astaire sort of foreign policy.

But Astaire was a class act all the way. It's safe to say Gephardt would adopt a foreign policy styled after ... Democrat operative and former movie star Barbra Streisand.

After all, babbling Babs' semi-illiterate, error-filled memos last September ordering Gephardt to attack President Bush's Iraq policy were such a hoot that even the media establishment couldn't ignore them.

[ohiobushman]

Too bad the "DUKE" isn't around to whoop is pansy a$$!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Geppy condemned President Bush's foreign policy as "machismo" and "arrogant unilateralism."

What really drives them nuts is that the people want the way it's being handled now more than they want Democrat-style big words that amount to nothing. The DemonRats want the world's superpower to be the world's doormat like it was under Klinton and Karter.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Little Dickie.... Fill your hand you sonovabitc#!

[altura]

John Wayne never hoisted a cold one, at least not in movies.

He might have had a shot of whiskey now and again.

[Cheapskate]

"This aint a john Wayne movie where you catch the bad guys and hoist a few cold ones"

Sounds like a better plan than little Richie Rich ever came up with!

[LibWhacker]

Genuine double-rectified busthead! No beer for The Duke! Think I'll go have one now.

[tm61]

Notice how the liberals are always crying about how we "wasted the good will of the world after 9/11". the dems want us to be continually victims, which is the hallmark of their idealogy.

[dpwiener]

Too bad the "DUKE" isn't around to whoop is pansy a$$!

Get a grip people. This is an innocuous reference to John Wayne. It could even be argued that it is a complimentary reference to John Wayne, and Gephardt is simply taking a jab at Bush for supposedly trying to act like he's a John Wayne in an inappropriate context.

This is what politicians (of all parties) do: They rhetorically attack their opponents. Is everyone so sensitive that they can't take a political punch? Especially when this doesn't even qualify as a punch; it's more of a "Nyah, nyah."

Save your righteous indignation for the stuff that crosses the line.

[Damagro]

If anyone ever doubted the anti-America leanings of the left, their eyes should be wide open after this statement

[nothingnew]

When the 101st Airborne capture little dickey, think they'll let me be the first to bitchslap him?.....nah, probably not.

FMCDH

[jocko12]

LITTLE DICKIE YOU MAKE A BETTER LEXUS MUFFLER SALESMAN.OH I FORGOT BUT YOU FAILED AT THAT ALSO!!!!

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black,"

uh, yeah, it is.

[prairiebreeze]

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." --John Wayne

Dickie would hate that quote.

Prairie

[OldFriend]

Dem foreign policy consists of going on a world apology tour, feeling everyone's pain and admiring the beauty of dictator's wives.

[fnord]

Fill your hand you sonovabitc#!

Methinks most Dems couldn't 'fill their hand', if you know what I mean, and therein lies the source of their whiuny attitudes.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black," the White House wannabe fumed in a speech to a receptive audience: San Francisco Bar Association.

Well, it damn sure oughta be, pilgrim!

[breakem]

Well, especially Little Dickie. LOL!

[the Deejay]

Little dickie g. couldn't qualify to clean John Wayne's boots.

[csmusaret]

For the entire text of Dickies speech, go to dickgephardt2004.com

[cajun-jack]

that's why reagan was so successful, bad guy does something to somebody, good guy comes along and kicks his ass or kills him...60 mins later, everyone is living happily ever after.

you can't negoiate with idots and the American people should not listen to them either.

[VadeRetro]

Another reader wondered if Gephardt preferred a Fred Astaire sort of foreign policy.

Astaire had class. Geppie probably wants to be Alan Alda.

[dighton]

John Wayne never hoisted a cold one, at least not in movies.

He did in The Quiet Man.

[Dan from Michigan]

Dick just lost his chance for 3 votes in my family for that statement alone.

[dighton]

I snapped.

“A John Wayne movie,” I said. “That’s what you were going to say, wasn’t it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John Wayne movie -- with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You’re right. And let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD.”

-- P.J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell.

[Consort]

"Quart Evans is a mighty cautious citizen..."

...but he would have offed Gephardt for saying that.

[alwaysconservative]

Notice how the liberals are always crying about how we "wasted the good will of the world after 9/11". the dems want us to be continually victims, which is the hallmark of their idealogy.

I've been thinking about this, and you're right. We were supposed to sit and snivel, not fight back, and remain victims for evermore. The rest of the world would feel sorry for us, and we could "use" that pity to extract benefits from them. That sounds about par for the Dems.

[hometoroost]

If the Duke hoisted it in the Quiet Man, it was probably a warm one.

[hometoroost]

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black,"

He should have added..."at least it isn't when we run it. We lob a couple of missles or drop some bombs from 40,000 feet and run like hell."

[Newbomb Turk]

Al is that you. Go home your drunk again.

[Bluegrass Federalist]

Amen, pal.

[TheSpottedOwl]

An angry reader from Poplar Bluff, Mo., wrote to NewsMax, "WHAT WE NEED IS MORE JOHN WAYNE AND A HELL OF A LOT LESS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S LITTLE DICK GEPHARDT!!!"

Sounds like a FReeper :) I agree with that statement completely.

[RJS1950]

This person from Missouri got it right when she referred to them as the NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY. They are this era's Nazis, in fact maybe the Nazis took their political ideas from them. The democrat party is the enemy of the constitution and this country.

[altura]

Did he? Okay, there's always someone who knows more than I do, darn it.

I'm a great one for a cold one myself, but it just didn't seem his style.

[RJCogburn]

Genuine double-rectified busthead!

Gephardt is partial to cold buttermilk.

[headsonpikes]

I've seen a lot of John Wayne Westerns....picture this...

Gephardt's the pusillanimous ribbon clerk, hiding behind a dry-goods counter, wetting himself. After the shooting stops, he'll crawl out the door to see if it's safe for his sorry *ss.

And then he'll be one of the yappers complaining about the Duke's rough justice.

Talk's always cheap after the threat has been dealt with.

Gephardt's a true tinhorn.

[wcbtinman]

"John Wayne never hoisted a cold one, at least not is the movies."

Yeah, he did. In 'Donovans Reef'.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Gephardt seems more the type who would run a Pee Wee Herman sort of Foriegn police, while adopting a Mickey Mouse policy for everything else.

[F.J. Mitchell]

We think funny little Dick is pathetic, but we are not going to pass up this opportunity to amuse ourselves at his expense.

[LibWhacker]

LOL . . . The man has no grit at all.

[Bullish]

Little Dick 'piss-ant' Gepheart is wholly owned by the labor unions.

He's not fit to polish the Duke's holster.

The more the dems babble the more stupid they sound. Keep it up Dick, and you'll be out of the race before March.

[T-Bird45]

Agreed, the Duke "hoisted a cold one" with the Aussie navy...just watched "Donovan's Reef" this afternoon on AMC. Also, in "McClintock" during the welcome back party scene, he drinks beer with his guests because the whiskey had run out.

[EternalVigilance]

[EternalVigilance]

I'll put my money on the cowboy any day.

[lowbridge]

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black," the White House wannabe fumed in a speech to a receptive audience: San Francisco Bar Association.

As opposed to the Democrat movie version of a Foreign policy, which is to go dancing through the hills, singing "The hills are alive, with the sound of music....!", while remaining oblivious to the fact that the Nazis are invading.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The Hyphen

The Hyphen, Webster's Dictionary defines,
Is a symbol used to divide a compound word or a single word.
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself
An "Afro-American," a "Mexican-American," "Italian-American,"
An "Irish-American," "Jewish-American,"
What he's sayin' is, "I'm a divided American."

Well, we all came from other places,
Different creeds and different races,
To form a nation...to become as one.
Yet look at the harm a line has done--
A simple little line, and yet
As divisive as a line can get.
A crooked cross the Nazis flew,
And the Russian hammer and sickle too--
Time bombs in the lives of Man;
But none of these could ever fan
The flames of hatred faster than
The Hyphen.

The Russian hammer built a wall
That locks men's hearts from freedom's call.
A crooked cross flew overhead
Above twenty million tragic dead--
Among them men from this great nation,
Who died for freedom's preservation.
A hyphen is a line that's small;
It can be a bridge or be a wall.
A bridge can save you lots of time;
A wall you always have to climb.
The road to liberty lies true.
The Hyphen's use is up to you.

Used as a bridge, it can span
All the differences of Man.
Being free in mind and soul
Should be our most important goal.
If you use The Hyphen as a wall,
You'll make your life mean...and small.
An American is a special breed,
Whose people came to her in need.
They came to her that they might find
A world where they'd have peace of mind,
Where men are equal...and something more--
Stand taller than they stood before.

So you be wise in your decision,
And that little line won't cause division.
Let's join hands with one another...
For in this land, each man's your brother.
United we stand...divided we fall.
We're Americans...and that says it all.

John Wayne

On His Political Philosophy

"I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view..."

"If everything isn't black and white, I say why the hell not."

[EternalVigilance]

A philosophy Dickie-boy and his pansies will never understand:

"If we all get killed out of this, nobody's going to run. Katie wins this one." - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

[EternalVigilance]

"No you're not. We can't turn back! We're blazing a trail that started in England. Not even the storms of the sea could turn back those first settlers - and they carried it on further, they blazed it on through the wilderness of Kentucky. Famine, hunger, not even massacres could stop them. Now we've picked up the trail again and nothing can stop us, not even the snows of winter nor the peaks of the highest mountain. We're building a nation, but we've got to suffer. No great trail was ever blazed without hardship. And you've got to fight. That's life! And when you stop fightin', that's death! What are you going to do, lay down and die? Not in a thousand years! You're going on with me!"

John Wayne -The Big Trail

[xp38]

[fightu4it]

Gephardt said something bad about the Duke?

Can't we get someone to issue a fatwah or something against his sorry butt?