Friday night on Bill Maher's HBO show, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) swiftboated Barack Obama by, among other things, spreading the widely debunked and completely false smear that Obama refuses to salute the flag during the pledge of allegiance.
(It's been diaried here and YouTubed here, at the end of the clip.)
Kingston, you may recall, is the schmuck who authored a congressional resolution praising Rush Limbaugh for calling soldiers opposed to the war in Iraq "phony soldiers."
Curious to learn more, I visited Kingston's official blog and searched for "limbaugh." This was the result:
"Rush Limbaugh Has a Casual Way to Say 'Butt F*cked'"
That's right. I went to a right-wing congressman's official website, hosted on the house.gov domain, and when I searched for Rush Limbaugh, one of the the hits was a crude reference to anal sex. (The graphic on the right shows the search box; click on it to see the results.)
Now, to me -- this is some seriously funny stuff. I'm not offended in the slightest.
But I wonder how a typical constituent of Jack Kingston might feel about his web site linking to blogs about anal poisoning and butt f*cking?
Probably, they wouldn't be too happy to learn that his web site was promoting such obscene language, given that one of the reasons they support Mr. Kingston is because of his strong and steady backing of the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
I wonder what they'd think if they knew that Mr. Kingston spent the weekend in liberal California appearing on Maher's television show.
Even worse, what if they found out that Mr. Kingston was actually a friend of Mr. Maher, a vegeterian atheist who proudly admits being a regular drug user?
Don't forget, by the way, that this is the same Jack Kingston who whined about a 5-day work week.
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who will become House majority leader and is writing the schedule for the next Congress, said members should expect longer hours than the brief week they have grown accustomed to [...]
"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."
So actually working is a threat to Mr. Kingston's marriage, but jetting off to sunny California to hang out with atheist, pot-smoking, anti-war liberals (sic) is cool?
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Now you and I are smart enough to know that what really happened with my search is that a third-party vendor, without Kingston's direct permission, promoted the Limbaugh buttf*cking blog.
So it should be pretty easy to excuse Kingston for the link.
Still, there's a helluva' lot more truth to the bullshit I just posted about Jack Kingston than there was in the crap the he slung Barack Obama's way last night.
Bill Maher was totally unprepared to defend Obama. I'll forgive him once -- but not twice.
As for Jack Kingston, he's on notice. Instead of telling lies about Barack Obama, he should be keeping the pornographic imagery off his web site.
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In the meantime, let's hit Kingston hard -- where it hurts.
Obviously, this porn-obscenity issue is a bit tongue-in-cheek.
There is, however, a real avenue to pursue, diaried by dengre one year ago: Jack Kingston and Jack Abramoff. From dengre's diary:
The Georgia Republican Party is deeply tied to Abramoff through Ralph Reed and Jack Kingston.
This case needs to be built. There is a lot of research to do and a lot of dots to connect. I want to get the ball rolling and offer my help to anybody who wants to bring down the GOP in Georgia. If they win in 2008 they should be forced to spend time, money and resources there. We can force them to do just that.
Abramoff, Reed and Kingston and the ways the entry points to the scandal.
A lot is known about the corruption of Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff.
Jack Kingston is another matter. So far he has escaped his moment in the scandal spotlight. I would like to change that.
In 2001, Jack Kingston was on the Appropriation Committee (as he was throughout the Abramoff years). It was the only Committee assignment he had in the 107th Congress. And conveniently for Abramoff, Kingston had a seat on the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies.
There's more to be learned about Jack Kingston.
But we know this: he just tried to punch us right in the mouth. Let's return the favor.