Mike Mukasey's Fort Hood Jokes: Too Soon?

So, fill me in here: have we decided, as a culture, that now is the time to be making jokes about the Fort Hood shooting? By my reckoning, that avenue of japery currently fits squarely in the "Too Soon!" category. But as it turns out, Michael Mukasey, an ostensibly responsible individual who I am reliably informed was once Attorney General of the United States, is out there, yukking it up, riffing on this recent tragedy.

Yesterday morning, Mukasey was on Washington Times radio, when he was asked to respond to Representative Jim Moran's comments from a week ago, when he criticized opponents of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 co-defendants in federal court. At the time, Moran said: "They will seize on any opportunity to [demagogue], and that means they'll even take a stand that's un-American. It's un-American to hold anyone indefinitely without trial. It's against our principles as a nation."

And so, Mukasey brought the mad ha-has:

Q: Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia says anybody that questions KSM coming to New York City for a civilian trial -- that they're un-American. What is your reaction to that?

MUKASEY: I think he's lost touch with reality. He ought to get professional help, perhaps from Maj. Nidal.

LISTEN:

Stay classy, Mike Mukasey!

RELATED:
Mukasey: Rep. Moran Has 'Lost Touch With Reality' And Should 'Get Professional Help' From Major Nidal Hasan [ThinkProgress]

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Comments

[seattle music]

08:13 PM on 11/20/2009

The entire country has gone mad.

No one has a filter anymore.

There is a world of difference between what one says in the privacy of your own living room with a very close friend and confidante, versus what one says on national television, especially in the Internet age.

Having thoughtful restraint in public is not "political correctness". It's a hallmark of ADULTHOOD.

Sheesh.

[quacktastic]

09:52 AM on 11/19/2009

you libs and your thin skin...jeez! If this was reversed you'd be cheering!

[Marnie1]

09:12 AM on 11/19/2009

Since I just saw the Steward clip that included a Repo talking head pointing out that Liberals can't have Down Syndrome babies, because Sarah did and that's why they love her-
I guess this is about par for the RepoCon elite.

[dems08]

08:43 AM on 11/19/2009

pubs are sick

[quadgemini]

01:57 AM on 11/19/2009

I can't see how it would EVER be OK to joke about this. But, then, who would ever have imagined a W admin crony with a decency deficiency?

[austin4]

01:45 AM on 11/19/2009

Like all the sc um suc kers in the Bush Adm. Atty. Gen, Mukasey is another piece of do g chit. And is a waste of space. To make a Joke , about US Soldier being mur der, and in around about way of saying the President of the United State should be kil led. These people think they have gotten away with Mur der,, they have not.

[chinacatsunflower]

10:55 PM on 11/18/2009

whoa. extremely bad form there. unbelievable.

[Privatepractice]

10:37 PM on 11/18/2009

If only his mother had swallowed!!

[BambooHarvester]

09:28 PM on 11/18/2009

Dual citizenship ?

[AZterritory]

08:51 PM on 11/18/2009

Yep, that was a real knee-slapper. What I want to know is when the UFOs landed and sucked all the brain cells out of a large portion of the gop 'party'.

[briarus42]

08:06 PM on 11/20/2009

they would not have to be Linda Lovelace quality suckers to get most of the GOP brain cells .
A flea could with ease do that job!

[StillAmused]

08:43 PM on 11/18/2009

So much for the myth that a complete @**h0le can't make it through law school.

[MadeandBakedintheUSA]

08:30 PM on 11/18/2009

Maybe Maj Nidal heard too many of these stories-

Lithuania agreed to allow the CIA prison after President George W. Bush visited the country in 2002 and pledged support for Lithuania's efforts to join NATO.

Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could use harsh tactics to interrogate up to eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists at a time.

"The activities in that prison were illegal," said human rights researcher John Sifton. "They included various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation, forced standing, painful stress positions."

Lithuanian officials provided ABC News with the documents of what they called a CIA front company, Elite, LLC, which purchased the property and built the "black site" in 2004.

Until March 2004, the site was a riding academy and café owned by a local family.

[vippy]

10:30 AM on 11/19/2009

Maybe that was his breaking point. How can anyone, in this day and time, be as inhumane as the Romans once were? I don't know. I read about someone torturing their puppy until the neighbors
called the police, I can't imagine having a human to that to other humans. We are worse than animals and some are even government sanctioned. Nope, me being a soldier, I just could not do it. Is that where the suicides are coming from and our soldiers coming back are mentally disturbed?

[JazzSax UT]

08:21 PM on 11/18/2009

Keep it classy Republicans....

[ruff 1]

08:19 PM on 11/18/2009

Hey liberals, how can the gummit make your lives better today?

[StillAmused]

08:41 PM on 11/18/2009

Rescind your day pass and put you back in the room with the rubber walls.

[unity08]

10:14 PM on 11/18/2009

Extend adult education to your backwoods?

[lafayette2009]

08:11 PM on 11/18/2009

Not the most intelligent comment I've heard today but nothing compared to what I heard Louie Gohmert say about the "desires" of the Democratic Party and the insulting comments about President Obama.

That man needs serious counseling.