Primary Image on Drudge Report While Soldiers Were Being Slaughtered at Fort Hood...

The Drudge Report certainly presents an unerring reflection of the anger and violence of our times. Want to see the ugly zeitgeist of the moment? Just go to Drudge and if the headline doesn't snarl it -- the banner ad du jour certainly will.

As an unruly mob surrounded Congress -- egged on by Rep. Michele Bachmann to come to Congress and "see the whites of their eyes..." and listened to incendiary rhetoric from conservative firebrands, unemployed, has-been actors and minority leader John Boehner (in all his spray-tan glory) about seizing back the country from the Socialist enemy...

As a member of the military in Fort Hood armed up and prepared to massacre his comrades...

With unwitting but impeccable timing -- the sole banner advertisement prominently emblazoned on the Drudge Report -- was the image of a discharged member of the military in sinister shades -- brandishing his M16 rifle together with a menacing message: Send A Warrior To Congress

Meet Jesse Kelly -- honorably discharged according to his campaign website -- though it fails to detail his rank or reason for discharge. Having shot his way through four years in Iraq he is now aiming to take his skill-set to Congress as -- what else -- an ultra-conservative Republican. Not quite the Eisenhower of his generation -- he nonetheless very generously wants to help his fellow Americans.

And he is certainly not shy about sharing his views. Among the pearls of wisdom from this 28-year-old sage:

• People want someone to fight for them in Washington and that's the message I want to convey!

• People are scared of a government that has grown radically out of control!

• Barack Obama is a radical! I'm tired of President Obama and the liberals who control Congress insulting us, calling us racist, and calling us a mob. I'm tired of their double-talk. I'm tired of their bait-and-switch shell games. I'm tired of being avoided by my public servants. They have forgotten that they work for us.

• There's no question the national outpouring of rage against members of Congress is 100 percent genuine. They're spending us off the cliff! They're destroying this nation, and while I'm still breathing, I will not let it happen. It's time to be 'in your face'

• Either we stand now and fight for our country, or the great United States of America may be but a fading memory!

Before he shoots up Congress, he is gunning for Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona's 8th Congressional District.

Discharged from the Marines after an entire four years of service, Kelly now works for a construction company. And -- you can't make this up -- he works on sewer projects...

And -- not to be outdone in the Strange But True world of right-wing-nuttery --- the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has officially declared that Kelly is an 'On the Radar' candidate in their Young Guns program co-founded by dependable GOP looney Rep. Eric Cantor.

"The NRCC is committed to working with Jesse Kelly as he continues to meet the rigorous goals of the Young Guns program," says NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions.

Young Guns (Go For It)... 25 years ago it was the title of a Wham song.

Now it's the philosophy and highest aspiration of today's Republican Party.

Who says there is no such thing as irony in America...

 

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Comments

[supertim]

be afraid...be very afraid

Jesse Kelly is proud to announce the following endorsements:

Former Congressman and Chairman of House Armed Services Committee, Duncan L. Hunter
Congressman Trent Franks, AZ-2
Congressman Marsha Blackburn, TN-7
Congressman Frank Wolf, VA-10
Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, CA-52
Arizona State Senator Al Melvin, LD-26
Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, LD-18
Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio
Pinal County Sheriff, Paul Babeu
Town of Marana Councilwoman, Roxanne Ziegler
Town of Sahuarita Councilwoman, Kara Egbert
Thomas C. Rustici, PhD - Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Founder and Medical Director of Her Place: Health Enhancement and Renewal for Women
Arizona State Coordinator of Smart Girl Politics, Karen MacKean
912 Candidate
Minuteman PAC
Iraq Veterans for Congress PAC

[MinisterMelinda]

912 candidate? Isn't that the fake party that Glenn Beck created?

[Ohio9]

So just because of a shooting rampage, no veteran can advertise his service when he is running for office? On what planet does that make sense? And why should his website be compelled to state the reason for his discharge? So long as it was honorable, it should be assumed he left the military because he wanted to move on to other things. There is no reason to assume otherwise.

[islandchris]

You seem to be unclear on the meaning of the word "irony". Nobody said he could not put up this poster, or run a macho-style campaign. The irony is that this was front and center on Drudge the same morning that the stress and strain of our real military "adventure" - happily launched by 5-deferments Cheney - explodes in tragic violence.

[Ohio9]

There is no irony here. All that was displayed was a politician advertising his military service. Nearly all politicians do that, regardless of their political party. Don't you remember "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty"? Kerry trumpeted his military service even though he only was in for a few months and was also involved in a highly controversial war.

Your also making it seem like Kelly's ad was an endorsement of the Iraq war. It wasn't. It didn't even mention what war was he was in. It just said "Combat Veteran".

The fact that Druge was advertising a veteran who is using his service to help him win votes (as nearly all veterans who run for office do) on the same day as a shooting spree on a military base is a simple coincidence, nothing more. It is no more"ironic" than the fact that the Ft. Hood killer got his degree from a place where another famous rampage eventually took place: Virginia Tech.

[littleolwinemakerme]

• People are scared of a government that has grown radically out of control!

Bush/Cheney of course had nothing to do with this, right? It's all transpired in the 10 months of Obama's term. Har, Har, Har!

[billhodges]

No it has been going on for longer than that and it needs to stop before we can not reverse the course.

[NICELYDONE]

and Barack did a shout out to some guys at a conference in a jocular manner

[ruffmama]

Wow.

Just incredible.

And I am writing this as another mass shooting story is unfolding on the news.

What is going on, America? I

[Lacyt]

"Young Guns ... 25 years ago it was the title of a Wham song

And a movie about a New York street thug of questionable sanity turned gunslinger known as Billy the Kid.