TX State House Rep: "ping-pongs more dangerous than guns"

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Thursday December 20, 2012 · 12:24 PM PST

2012/12/20 · 12:24

In yesterday's edition of The Eagle, newly elected republican state house representative Kyle Kacal was quoted as saying, "I've heard of people being killed playing ping-pong -- ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns," he said. "Flat-screen TVs are injuring more kids today than anything."

I was pretty pissed, so I reached out to BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski and Slate's Dave Weigel, in an effort to expand the reach of the original article.

That led to Weigel's post on Slate.

Kaczynski tweeted out "Texas Rep. says playing ping-pong is more dangerous than guns," along with a link to The Eagle's story.

Following that tweet, Salon's Jillian Rayfield wrote up a brief post based on Kaczynski's tweet.

Once it was published on Slate and Salon, a Dallas-based blog wrote, "Does he play ping-pongs with hand grenades? Throwing stars?"

My point in all this is that infinitely more people were exposed to Kacal's absurd quote. Never would I have thought that those political editors would have shared his comments. As we move forward into 2013 with a democratic president and senate, all of us need to keep an eye on the republican legislators throughout the country and share absurd quotes given to local papers or TV affiliates to the national media.

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 3:37 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 15:37

In a new book coming out, Tom Ridge admits that while he was Secretary of Homeland Security, a cabinet level position created by the Bush administration, he was forced to raise the so-called "terror alerts" by the Bush White House. For most competent people, these "terror alerts" meant about as much as the "no cell phones while pumping gas" warning at any Exxon or Chevron. It looked more like something out of CTU than DHS.

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Friday May 08, 2009 · 3:16 PM PDT

2009/05/08 · 15:16

Lawrence O'Donnell, filling in for Ed Schultz on The Ed Show, just took two people to task for defending torture, video coming as soon as it's posted on MSNBC.

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Sunday February 15, 2009 · 2:36 PM PST

2009/02/15 · 14:36

I visit Drudge once a day to see what he's linking to and seems like the last month or so there's always a GOP ad and a SarahPAC ad. I'm sure others have noticed, but I only noticed after consistently seeing the ad.

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Sunday April 20, 2008 · 9:56 PM PDT

2008/04/20 · 21:56

In preparation for Senator Barack Obama's third appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday, April 21, here are his two other appearances, courtesy of TheDailyShow.com.

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 8:24 PM PST

2008/03/04 · 20:24

A brief story of my experience caucusing in the great state of Texas:

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TX State House Rep: "ping-pongs more dangerous than guns"

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Lawrence freaking O'Donnell

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Sen. Obama on The Daily Show

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