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Full Metal Jacket’s R. Lee Ermey Explodes Into Anti-Obama Tirade At Charity Event

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The Obama administration really can’t catch a break when it comes to random celebrities. Add to an army that includes Fabio, Snooki, and Jon Voight, among others, Full Metal Jacket star turned GEICO spokesman R. Lee Ermey, who railed at the president’s “socialism” at a Toys 4 Tots charity event this week. With this addition, the anti-Obama celebrity league is sure a list to rival the cast of that Norwegian sitcom promo.

Ermey took the stage after a performance at the event and festooned the present members of the Marine Corps with overwhelmingly kind words of praise. After those words, he noted that “I hate to point fingers at anybody” before proceeding to prod his finger thick into the Obama administration:

“The economy really sucks. Now I hate to point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably had a lot to do with that. And the way I see it, they’re not going to quit doing it until they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up and we should stop this administration from what they’re doing because they’re destroying this country. They’re driving us into bankruptcy so that they can impose socialism on us and that’s exactly what they’re doing. And I’m sick and damn tired of it, and I know you are too. But I know that the Marine Corps will be here forever; this administration won’t. Semper Fi.”

And with that outburst, he takes his leave quietly back to his table, where the cohosts, clearly somewhat stunned, ask him how he “really feels.”

So this leaves the following question: which completely arbitrary person of measurable fame will lash out at President Obama and his administration next? My money’s on Erik Estrada. The bizarre and somewhat comical clip below:

[h/t Breitbart.tv]

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  • murf

    OORAH!, Gunny !!

  • Big Eddie

    Well , Obama IS a jackwagon .

  • Nacho

    Rather convenient this misinformed old man mentioned Fox, eh?

  • stoogedudes

    I’m sure the anti-Obama rant brought happy little smiles to all of the children who went without toys this Christmas.

    What’s next? Going to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital to bemoan Nancy Pelosi’s run as House Speaker?!

  • skyfet

    I told you once I’m telling you twice now! for God sake people turn off Fox and the mad men and women off. See, all these people don not appear rational anymore. I wonder where they were hiding when W was spending to oblivion. Turn it off you jokers, its turning you to outcast, soon people will be avoiding you.

  • timcajun

    I’m glad we have another tea blaming Obama for the last 2 years, instead of addressing the last 10 years. Obama was in office a few months and the teas started blaming every single problem on him! The teas now have the office they want, so is everything going to be their fault from here forward? When the teas fail, by returning to the old failed ways of the last 10 years, will they get the blame? No, they will still blame Obama and they will do nothing to help this country! They are the party of NO, no ideas! They will not help the middle class and that is who voted them in, so I am glad these clowns are stupid enough to let the right make fools out of them! Semper fi!

  • BarneyFranken

    Finally someone has the guts to speak the truth..!

    We all know Obama wants to change this country to Namby-Pamby Land.

  • juan

    Thank God for Fox News, the Tea Parties, and the Nov. 2nd election results.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Remember a few years ago when this would happen and Conservatives were demand they be hung for treason? Those were the days…

  • tigerprez

    If he had made these comments during Bush’s presidency, he would have been interviewed on every MSNBC show as “the voice of reason” and Oliver Stone would be writing a movie just so Ermey could star in it. As it stands, these comments probably ended his career in Hollywood, and he’s better off for it.

  • stoogedudes

    tigerprez said:
    If he had made these comments during Bush’s presidency, he would have been interviewed on every MSNBC show as “the voice of reason” and Oliver Stone would be writing a movie just so Ermey could star in it. As it stands, these comments probably ended his career in Hollywood, and he’s better off for it.

    I doubt it, he is usually the go to guy for “drill sargeant/hardass” characters. Not that there aren’t other actors like that out there, but R. Lee Ermey is legendary for his performance as the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket. I mean, Jon Voight has voiced his far-right opinion for years, and he still gets jobs rather frequently, albeit movies like Baby Geniuses and National Treasture, among others. Although I’m sure his Oscar helps get him roles…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    nov 2nd election results? why is california still blue? ignorant fucks

  • Sean68

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Remember a few years ago when this would happen and Conservatives were demand they be hung for treason? Those were the days…

    Actually, I don’t remember that. If you’re talking about the Dixie Chicks, the main issue for most people was their sychophancy on foreign lands. It rubbed me wrong too. But I still like their shallow pop-country songs (which weren’t written by them).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    I guess he had no problem with the $1 trillion wasted on the Iraq War. Maybe that had a little to do with making this country bankrupt. Just proves that second to Fox News, that the Marine Corps is the biggest brainwashing re-education camp in this country.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    tigerprez said:

    If he had made these comments during Bush’s presidency

    If he had made these statements during the Bush administration then he would led credence to the “their bankrupting this country” statement.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    why was that fucker andrew breitbart there?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    BarneyFranken said:
    We all know Obama wants to change this country to Namby-Pamby Land.

    I thought it was the chicken hawk neo-cons who proved that they knew nothing about fighting wars or were too chicken shit to catch Osama Bin Ladin when they had him in their sights.

  • jjay7381

    Whatever, he’s obviously old and senile.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Maliheh said:
    why was that fucker andrew breitbart there?

    Because he’s like the Tom Joad of fake moral outrage. Where ever there’s a bunch of scared white guys whining about things that were more appropriate to whine about 8 years ago, Andrew Breitbart will be there. Where ever there are a bunch of welfare recipients (and those that receive a military pension are just that) crying about socialism, Andrew Breitbart will be there. Where ever there are a bunch of Fox indoctrinated clowns trying to scare children with their irrational fear about Obama, Andrew Breitbart will be there.

  • MadamDeb

    Oh, that guy. I hate his commercial, mainly because he’s imitating Jack Nicholson om As Good as It Gets. Now I dislike him for two reasons.

  • Alz

    A Kim Bo said:
    I thought it was the chicken hawk neo-cons who proved that they knew nothing about fighting wars or were too chicken shit to catch Osama Bin Ladin when they had him in their sights.

    You dope, we did great in Iraq. The only problem is if Obama screws it all up.

  • Alz

    A Kim Bo said:
    If he had made these statements during the Bush administration then he would led credence to the “their bankrupting this country” statement.

    It’s more appropriate now with what the congressional Democrats and Obama have done to hurt us.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Alz said:
    It’s more appropriate now with what the congressional Democrats and Obama have done to hurt us.

    So it’s okay for the Republicans to bankrupt us by fighting wars in foreign lands for the benefit of Saudi royals but it’s not okay to go into debt to re-invest in America after long neglect of the American infrastructure by the GOP? So in other words, wasting trillions on Saudi Oil Men (money that we will never see again) is a better use of money than investing in the American people, an investment that is rewarded with an educated and healthy work force, word class technologies, and an infrastructure that is not in constant decay. No wonder you’re a fake conservative, you love Saudi Oil Men more than you love America.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Alz said:

    You dope, we did great in Iraq

    Yes, we had them right were we wanted them. Too bad you’re the only clown that believes that. AND then there’s the little truth nugget regarding capturing Bin Ladin (you know, the reason we engaged in post 9-11 military action in the first place). We actually DID have him right where we wanted him and then we turned around and went pissing away a trillion dollars and three thousand American lives in Iraq.

    Sorry tool, it wasn’t OBAMA who lost Iraq, it was a lost cause long before that. Why do you think the GOP lost the midterms in 2006, because of what was by then apparent to all, that our foreign policy in Iraq was a waste.

    Come on, fake conservatives, man up. I thought you were the party of “personal responsibility”. Stop blaming all of your failures on others.

  • OxyCon

    Maliheh said:
    Maliheh says:
    December 29, 2010 at 11:08 pm  (Quote)
    1  1
    nov 2nd election results? why is california still blue? ignorant fucks

    You answered your own question!

  • Alz

    A Kim Bo said:
    So it’s okay for the Republicans to bankrupt us by fighting wars in foreign lands for the benefit of Saudi royals but it’s not okay to go into debt to re-invest in America after long neglect of the American infrastructure by the GOP? So in other words, wasting trillions on Saudi Oil Men (money that we will never see again) is a better use of money than investing in the American people, an investment that is rewarded with an educated and healthy work force, word class technologies, and an infrastructure that is not in constant decay. No wonder you’re a fake conservative, you love Saudi Oil Men more than you love America.

    I don’t fall for straw man arguments. I’ve got news for you, but other people benefited too: like the Iraqi’s, the Israeli’s, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, etc. They would all like Iran neutered too, but Obama thinks he can appease them.

    And exactly how has Obama invested in the American people? Unemployment is 17% (when you count the people who have given up looking.)

    The middle class is being destroyed under Obama.

    (Try to write more rationally…your exaggerations are somewhat absurd.)

  • Alz

    A Kim Bo said:
    Yes, we had them right were we wanted them. Too bad you’re the only clown that believes that. AND then there’s the little truth nugget regarding capturing Bin Ladin (you know, the reason we engaged in post 9-11 military action in the first place). We actually DID have him right where we wanted him and then we turned around and went pissing away a trillion dollars and three thousand American lives in Iraq.

    Sorry tool, it wasn’t OBAMA who lost Iraq, it was a lost cause long before that. Why do you think the GOP lost the midterms in 2006, because of what was by then apparent to all, that our foreign policy in Iraq was a waste.

    Come on, fake conservatives, man up. I thought you were the party of “personal responsibility”. Stop blaming all of your failures on others.

    You liberals live in the rear-view mirror.

    Iraq wasn’t lost. The US did good despite having militant Muslims and liberals as enemies.

    (As for Bin Laden, why hasn’t Obama captured him?)

  • Michael Charles

    Hey Alz…

    As for Bin Laden, Bush said it wasn’t an important goal to get him

  • Jelperman

    R.Lee Ermey is the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!

  • Michael Charles

    Jelperman,

    Go have another drink…

  • Gasket

    Sean68 said:
    Actually, I don’t remember that. If you’re talking about the Dixie Chicks, the main issue for most people was their sychophancy on foreign lands. It rubbed me wrong too. But I still like their shallow pop-country songs (which weren’t written by them).

    Bullshit. They would have faced the same backlash had they said it in the USA.. Patriotism to your ignorant masses is agreeing and always supporting a Republican President while trashing a Democratic one.

    Alz said:
    You dope, we did great in Iraq. The only problem is if Obama screws it all up.

    How great did we do? Iraq is in more turmoil today than when the dictator Saddam was it’s leader a decade ago. Why are there still 50,000+ personnel in Iraq today if we did a “good job” there? Delusional ass you are.

    Alz said:
    You liberals live in the rear-view mirror.

    Iraq wasn’t lost. The US did good despite having militant Muslims and liberals as enemies.

    (As for Bin Laden, why hasn’t Obama captured him?)

    See above. LOL. You are asking why Osama hasn’t been caught by Obama when your buddy Bush had been looking for him for 7 years with no luck? Obama hasn’t even been in office for 2 years! Don’t worry, if he serves for 2 terms, we will find Osama and finish the shitty job you neocons started.

    Alz said:
    I don’t fall for straw man arguments. I’ve got news for you, but other people benefited too: like the Iraqi’s, the Israeli’s, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, etc.

    How did they benefit? Instead of responding with platitudes, why not tell us what exactly was achieved? I can argue and say the situation has worsened. Even Bush during his 2nd term saw it wise to lessen his bellicose rhetoric. Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan. We aren’t even done with those quagmires and yet you morons think it’s a good idea to wade into deeper waters with an outstretched military and an economy in dire straits back home. Are you guys geniuses or what?

    They would all like Iran neutered too, but Obama thinks he can appease them.

    Yes, they would like a STABLE middle east, not the clusterfuck anarchy we have unleashed in their backyard during the past decade Einstein.

    And exactly how has Obama invested in the American people? Unemployment is 17% (when you count the people who have given up looking.)

    Unemployment is NOT 17%. UNDERemployment may be close to that number. You can not even report undisputed facts. Unemployment is less than 10%. The Obama administration has stopped the extensive bleeding of jobs that occurred at the latter part of Bush’s administration. How many jobs again did Bush’s tax cuts create during his 2 terms? The economy is actually growing now…granted not as fast as it should to eclipse the mammoth amount of jobs that were lost. That is why unemployment remains high. Reagan faced similar conditions during the recovery after the recession in the early 80′s but why would you care about that?.

    The middle class is being destroyed under Obama.

    That’s quite the statement! You do realize the decade 2000-2010 has been described as the lost decade right? Middle class families had their fortunes decrease, shrink and their savings disappear during that time. It is Republicans who controlled fiscal policy during the majority of those years while in control of both the house, senate and the white house. Obama is cleaning up the shit you babies created while you took care of the filthy rich. Guess which class saw their standard of living increase during the last decade? The top 1%. Trickle down economics my ass.

    (Try to write more rationally…your exaggerations are somewhat absurd.)

    Be factual.

  • Gasket

    Now to respond to the Ermey clip. I actually like the guy. Love his show on the History channel. However, I find it quite absurd for someone going on a diatribe and rant against “socialism” while at a “Toys For Tots” charity; A socialistic endeavor. That said person also makes the point to praise the US marines who happen to be members of a socialized armed service that is controlled by that so detested civillian Government. Just priceless!

  • Truth

    I get so tried of this blame game. Its a none fact that the last guy to enter the room will always take the heat. The truth is this economy was in free fall long before 2008. I’m not sure how anyone with a brain would or could think you can repair 8 years of damge in 2 years. Also they need to keep Ermey away from the open bar. You talk about a jackwagon what a time to voice an opinion at a fund raiser.

  • OxyCon

    So, this being a holiday week…how long do you think it will take Obama to sic his commie pal Van Jones and his Soros front group on R. Lee Ermey, trying to make Ermey lose all his endorsement deals?

  • Michael Charles

    Gasket…

    Best not to put too much effort into your correct argument… It’s like talking to a wall made of packed mud.

    There are some of the most ridiculous people with the most scary, bullshit ideas on this site and they are on here constantly.

    You will never win with these morons, best to not even try.

  • Michael Charles

    Hey Oxycon,

    My guess is that you never heard of Van Jones until you started listening to Glenn Beck on the radio.

    I think, also, that you never had a political thought in your pin-head brain until you started tuning into some conservative AM station. Moron.

  • http://none pyrope

    Big Eddie said:
    Well , Obama IS a jackwagon .

    You’re too kind.

  • http://none pyrope

    Nacho said:
    Rather convenient this misinformed old man mentioned Fox, eh?

    That old man has more class than you’ll ever have jr.

  • OxyCon

    Michael Charles said:
    Michael Charles says:
    December 30, 2010 at 1:23 am  (Quote)
    0  1
    Hey Oxycon,

    My guess is that you never heard of Van Jones until you started listening to Glenn Beck on the radio.

    Pal, I know more about what’s going on then you’ll ever know.
    Have you ever been paid to blog by Soros before?
    Ever hear of ThinkProgress? I’m sure you have. I still have the scanned checks.

  • http://none pyrope

    A Kim Bo said:
    I thought it was the chicken hawk neo-cons who proved that they knew nothing about fighting wars or were too chicken shit to catch Osama Bin Ladin when they had him in their sights.

    You have just proven beyond all doubt that you are totally stupid. FYI, Bill Cliton received a call from some US operatives in Afghanistan, notifying him they had bin Laden in their sights. They asked him for permission to dispatch the target. Bill Cliton refused to give the order.

    http://clintoncrimes.tripod.com/ClintonsBinLadenGateMotherofallScandals/id4.html

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/197948.php

    And the rest, as they say, is history…but it’s being rewritten more every day.

  • http://none pyrope

    MadamDeb said:
    Oh, that guy. I hate his commercial, mainly because he’s imitating Jack Nicholson om As Good as It Gets. Now I dislike him for two reasons.

    That makes me like him even more.

    And you don’t have enough class to wash his underwear.

  • BFD

    Wow, I always thought he was a good actor when he was playing an angry asshole, but I now see was just playing himself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Alz said:
    hey would all like Iran neutered too, but Obama thinks he can appease them.

    Just like we neutered al Qaeda in Iraq (who weren’t even there until we opened the door for them and invited them in) and the Taliban?

    Alz said:
    I’ve got news for you, but other people benefited too: like the Iraqi’s, the Israeli’s, the Jordanians, the Egyptian

    But you’re right, corporate-elite in other countries in the Middle East also benefited off of our Chinese-sponsored trillion dollar boondoggle.

    Alz said:
    And exactly how has Obama invested in the American people?

    I don’t know, ask all the Republican governors who took all that stimulus money. Even though they publically derided it, they were more than willing to take the funds.

    Alz said:
    The middle class is being destroyed under Obama.

    That’s funny since under Bush the average American actually made $2000 less a year while 3/4 of the total wealth generated went to the top 3% of wealth earners. I would call that DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS. In fact, Middle Class wages have been on a decline ever since the GOP took over the Congress in the 90′s. How’s that trickle down economics working for ya?

    Alz said:
    (Try to write more rationally…your exaggerations are somewhat absurd.)

    I’m trying to understand your logic. You seem to think debts generated by unfunded wars that went nowhere are more preferable than tangible investments into the American people and it’s infrastructure. If that’s your RATIONALE than whose the absurd one here?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Alz said:
    You liberals live in the rear-view mirror.

    Well until all the failed policies of the neo-cons are finally wrapped up to completion then we’re stuck with that rear-view mirror. Unless you’re saying that we should uproot from both Afghanistan and Iraq altogether and forget all that nasty business ever happened in the first place. I’m game, are you?

    Iraq wasn’t lost. The US did good despite having militant Muslims and liberals as enemies.

    That’s right, it was a tie. Just like Vietnam. And I’m sure that your neo-con buddies will be checking up on the situation in decades to come to see if the whole “democracy” thing stuck.

    (As for Bin Laden, why hasn’t Obama captured him?)

    It wasn’t Obama that LITERALLY had Osama in his sights but then Bush couldn’t finish the job because he and his neocon pals were too busy concocting false evidence by which to invade Iraq by.

    Seriously dude, any thinking person would now concede that both Iraq and Afghanistan were wrong in the first place or beyond repair thanks to horrible mismanagement from day one. You can’t go back and rewrite history with someone who isn’t a neocon lapdog or a Fox News viewer and, thus, actually has a memory longer than a gnat.

    Speaking of Fox News, if either war in Iraq or Afghanistan were at all successful, as you suggest, the former administrations biggest cheerleader and greatest apologist, Fox News, would have not all but dropped coverage of both wars from 2006. The reason not even Fox has dedicated much coverage to either wars for longer than even Obama took control was, frankly, the whole thing bums out the viewers because it reminds us of how illogical and haphazard our foreign policy is.

    For a nation of winners, when it comes to Iran and Afghanistan, the average American certainly doesn’t feel that way. But it’s good to see that there is, at least, one remaining Bush administration apologist left in the world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    pyrope said:
    Bill Cliton received a call from some US operatives in Afghanistan, notifying him they had bin Laden in their sights

    So now it’s BILL CLINTON’S FAULT that Bush lost in Afghanistan? Can;t you neocon lapdog apologists keep it straight.

    Oh it’s Obama’s fault we lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. No wait, it’s Bill Clinton’s fault. I thought REAL CONSERVATIVES believed in personal responsibility. It’s a good thing you’re not one. Otherwise, you wouldn’t feel compelled to keep making excuses for failure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    pyrope said:
    That old man has more class than you’ll ever have jr.

    If by “class” you mean, enjoys scaring children, then I guess you’re right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    OxyCon said:
    So, this being a holiday week…how long do you think it will take Obama to sic his commie pal Van Jones and his Soros front group on R. Lee Ermey, trying to make Ermey lose all his endorsement deals?

    How long do you think it will take the neocon Congress to plunge our economy into a ditch and lie our way into a war after Jan 5?

  • Sidhekitten

    A Kim Bo said:
    Where ever there are a bunch of welfare recipients (and those that receive a military pension are just that) crying about socialism

    OK, you little coward, you just crossed a line. Now I understand that you think that the Military is a waste of your tax money and that we would all be better off if we did not have a standing force, but without those “welfare recipients” you would not be able to post your drivel. If you hate it here, move to China, I am sure they will let you have free speech.

    You see, unlike you, those of us who have put on the uniform have made a contract with this county. We don’t have a say in the politics or who is in charge at the moment, when the orders come down, we go. We are wiling to give up our lives to defend people like you. In return for playing Russian Roulette with our lives and our families lives, if we survive we get a modest retirement benefit. In case you have not read that little thing called the Constitution, the military is actually one of the few things that our Federal Government is actually supposed to do. But then I imagine you are the type of person who looks at a serviceman or servicewomen and thinks that he is a loser because he could do nothing else in his or her life. You probably think we are all baby killers, hell you probably voted for John Kerry, did you know he served in Vietnam…

    You see, a country should be judged on how well it treats those who pledge to defend it. In that respect our country still falls short, have you been to some of our VA hospitals, I have. Now in your world, I would imagine that you would see our wounded turned onto the streets and our retirees kicked the curb. After all, they are just “welfare checks”. I pity you, I truly truly pity you.

  • Sidhekitten

    Allow me to correct a spelling error, that comment really wound me up…

    You see, unlike you, those of us who have put on the uniform have made a contract with this country.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Sidhekitten said:
    Now I understand that you think that the Military is a waste of your tax money

    I don’t, it’s the fake conservatives who think that welfare is evil. So since you believe that welfare is evil and those on it are a bunch of bums then you must think that those that collect from military pensions and the VA are welfare recipients and bums. This is the fake conservative logic in action.

    Again, whatever work you did for the military should be applauded, but it was the very same kind of New Deal policies that fake conservatives derive that brought you the VA and GI Bill in the first place. You can’t have it both ways, you can’t have an irrational fear of all things “socialist” and then claim to honor the military and support all the benefit packages that it receives.

    The military deserve their benefits just like the elderly deserve their and the disabled deserve theirs.

    Sidhekitten said:
    You see, a country should be judged on how well it treats those who pledge to defend it

    I have seen VA hospitals and I have seen the very same neocons who Ermey doesn’t seem to find hostility for consistently underfund said VA. It’s simply a matter of fact that the Democrats do a lot better job at defending military benefits than the Republicans do. It turns out the Republicans loves them some soldiers when they are willing to find for even the most dubious causes but could really care less about them when they of no strategic use for them.

    BTW, John Kerry would have protected your VA benefits much better than Bush ever did. So enough with your misplaced anger.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    A Kim Bo said:
    find

    FIGHT that is/

  • Magister

    What is it about GEICO spokespeople?

    One prank calls a ‘Tea Party’ office and there’s an immediate clamoring for his firing, while this guy’s comments could be interpreted as a suggestion that members of the Marine Corps stage a military coup.

    What are the chances that two people doing high-profile contract work for the same company could be so vocal from polar opposite extremes, or was this fellow’s hiring an over-compensation for the first?

  • Magister

    ETA: Needless to say that if the first guy lost his gig, this one should too.

  • Davo

    timcajun said:
    I’m glad we have another tea blaming Obama for the last 2 years, instead of addressing the last 10 years…………………….

    When the teas fail, by returning to the old failed ways of the last 10 years, will they get the blame? No, they will still blame Obama and they will do nothing to help this country! They are the party of NO, no ideas! They will not help the middle class and that is who voted them in, so I am glad these clowns are stupid enough to let the right make fools out of them! Semper fi!

    It would take a complete “fool” to refer to 4.5 % unemployment and a $413 billion deficit as “failed ways” yet tout Hussein Obama’s 10% unemployment and a $1.5 TRILLION deficit as “helping this country.” But then, Democrats never let Truth or Logic deter them in their mission to destroy America, then try to blame Reps for it. With low brain power like that, it’s easy for DemoCrit politicians to maintain control over their Dims.

  • lazzzlo

    murf said:
    OORAH!, Gunny !!

    Bingo!

    Everyone gets their say. He’s an ex-gunny sarge who feels the way he does. His job was to keep people safe while using weapons. While he was doing his job…nobody contradicted him.

    We do need a bit more of that in life!

  • lazzzlo

    Seriously, my father used to tell me about his gunny sarge from the Brits. If y’all think this guy is offensive…you have no clue.

  • TfT

    It’s not like he stood up in front of a bunch of high school kids and said: “The President is a loser”. Oh wait, that already happened and I just don’t recall mediaite having a hissy fit. I guess when it’s a liberal calling a onservative President names, it just a-ok with the left, even when it’s the majority leader in the Senate.

    Oh well.

    Go Gunny.

  • RichS

    Nacho said:
    Rather convenient this misinformed old man mentioned Fox, eh?

    Did you lock your doors before you slinked off to hide in your basement and write that?

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    I told you once I’m telling you twice now! for God sake people turn off Fox and the mad men and women off. See, all these people don not appear rational anymore. I wonder where they were hiding when W was spending to oblivion. Turn it off you jokers, its turning you to outcast, soon people will be avoiding you.

    I’m sure you have a lot of experience with people avoiding you. Do you think THe Gunny has that problem. R. Lee Ermey was able to take an extremely small part and parley it into a pretty good career and, on top of that, earn himself a Marine Corps (the ps is silent for you Obamamaniacs) promotion after he retired. Doesn’t sound all that irrational to me!

    You, on the other hand…

  • RichS

    timcajun said:
    I’m glad we have another tea blaming Obama for the last 2 years, instead of addressing the last 10 years. Obama was in office a few months and the teas started blaming every single problem on him! The teas now have the office they want, so is everything going to be their fault from here forward? When the teas fail, by returning to the old failed ways of the last 10 years, will they get the blame? No, they will still blame Obama and they will do nothing to help this country! They are the party of NO, no ideas! They will not help the middle class and that is who voted them in, so I am glad these clowns are stupid enough to let the right make fools out of them! Semper fi!

    Well, let us consider the last 10 years. Who controlled the Congress for four of those 10 years? When was spending the worst. For those with party hack blinders on, it was worse when Congress and the Presidency was controlled by the same party. First the Republicans and then the Democrats. But I do have to give the Democrats their due, they did manage to spend more money than all of the previous Congress’ combined.

    You do know that its the House of Representatives that is responsible for spending the People’s money, don’t you?

  • cjd ohio 1

    A Kim Bo said:
    Because he’s like the Tom Joad of fake moral outrage. Where ever there’s a bunch of scared white guys whining about things that were more appropriate to whine about 8 years ago, Andrew Breitbart will be there. Where ever there are a bunch of welfare recipients (and those that receive a military pension are just that) crying about socialism, Andrew Breitbart will be there. Where ever there are a bunch of Fox indoctrinated clowns trying to scare children with their irrational fear about Obama, Andrew Breitbart will be there.

    military pension is welfare to you , what a shame

  • Hugo Daun

    Frank Sutton posthumously called….he wants his character back, Ermey.

  • Big Eddie

    Hugo Daun said:
    Frank Sutton posthumously called….he wants his character back, Ermey.

    I CAN’T HEAR YOU !

  • lazzzlo

    lol. If all else fails remember what you gunny told you…check your fail/save.

  • lazzzlo

    My Dad was SAS…these days he would have reminded me to avoid others as best i could.

  • FredCPA

    Private Snowball (obama), you’re fired. Private Joker’s (biden) promoted to squad leader.

  • RichS

    A Kim Bo seems to have a mental disorder that makes it impossible to type anything remotely approaching reality.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    stoogedudes said:
    I doubt it, he is usually the go to guy for “drill sargeant/hardass” characters. Not that there aren’t other actors like that out there, but R. Lee Ermey is legendary for his performance as the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket. I mean, Jon Voight has voiced his far-right opinion for years, and he still gets jobs rather frequently, albeit movies like Baby Geniuses and National Treasture, among others. Although I’m sure his Oscar helps get him roles…

    yeah, but what about that brilliant actor from the brothers baldwin…steven.
    his genius has been silenced because of his right-wing views.

    oh and the subtle yet beautiful ingenue victoria jackson. her voice is like all the angels in heaven and look how liberal hollywood has shut her out.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: These following write bites are from above and I’ll hit a few of these mother fuckers in the mouth the best I can in a short time!

    A Kim Bo said:
    Democrats do a lot better job at defending military benefits than the Republicans do

    Fact: Disarming a solder helps no one but their enemies! Democrats suck!

    A Kim Bo said:
    Fox News would have not all but dropped coverage of both wars from 2006.

    Fact: Journo-list didn’t control the outcome you and the rest of you anti-Americans dreamed for a solid US defeat! Fuck off llllllllllloooooooooooosssssssssseeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

    A Kim Bo said:
    That’s funny since under Bush the average American actually made $2000 less a year while 3/4 of the total wealth generated went to the top 3% of wealth earners. I would call that DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS. In fact, Middle Class wages have been on a decline ever since the GOP took over the Congress in the 90’s. How’s that trickledown economics working for ya?

    Fact: Correct it started right after the budgeting became in control of democrats in Bushes last two years what’s the point! Correct it was the loony left nut democrats that caused it!

    BFD said:
    Wow, I always thought he was a good actor when he was playing an angry asshole, but I now see was just playing himself.

    Fact: Thank God Texas is correcting school books as we speak so that the next generation may not see or hear from people like you!

    Michael Charles said:
    There are some of the most ridiculous people with the most scary, bullshit ideas on this site and they are on here constantly

    Fact: I still hurt to have lost November 2nd right! The great shellacking!

    Gasket said:
    US marines who happen to be members of a socialized armed service that is controlled by that so detested civillian Government. Just priceless!

    Fact: Volunteers all not socialist with a command chain! Freedom lovers!

    A Kim Bo said:
    Where ever there are a bunch of welfare recipients (and those that receive a military pension are just that) crying about socialism

    Fact: No Shame anti-American code pink supporter!

    A Kim Bo said:
    wasting trillions on Saudi Oil Men

    Fact: Open up coastal oil production plus refineries will bankrupt them but democrats are in the tank!

    jjay7381 said:
    Whatever, he’s obviously old and senile

    Fact: US military thinks differently than you do pussy!

    A Kim Bo said:
    catch Osama Bin Ladin

    Fact: Should have been dead before 9/11 but blow job or two stopped his death!

    A Kim Bo said:
    If he had made these statements during the Bush administration

    Fact: Why Bush is a patriot!
    Bush killed our enemies with a stroke of the pen!

    A Kim Bo said:
    Marine Corps is the biggest brainwashing re-education camp in this country.

    Fact: I show you a true liberal funk nasty!

    Maliheh said:
    nov 2nd election results? why is california still blue? ignorant fucks

    Fact: Blue and broke! Dimb bulbs! Gnarly pass the pot!

  • lazzzlo

    Whatever, there’s certain things you don’t do in life.

    You never f*ck with a gunny sarge.

    I’ve learned to live with that.

  • lazzzlo

    These people will save your life.

  • lazzzlo

    Dave Noland said:
    What a fucking loser hack. This type of bullshit will backfire on the GOP. People are already sick of it.

    How is this guy a f*cking loser hack?

    He is a Hollywood icon.

  • lazzzlo

    Have you seen Full Metal Jacket?

  • Alz

    Michael Charles said:
    Hey Alz…

    As for Bin Laden, Bush said it wasn’t an important goal to get him

    Isn’t that what Obama is basically saying now?

  • Alz

    Gasket said:
    Why are there still 50,000+ personnel in Iraq today if we did a “good job” there?

    Just like we still have people in Germany and South Korea. Think.

    Gasket said:
    How did they benefit? Instead of responding with platitudes, why not tell us what exactly was achieved? I can argue and say the situation has worsened.

    This is the liberal mental disorder in action: you can’t discern the difference between having a dictator like Sadaam running things and what is there now. (It’s the same mental disorder that allows you guys to somehow turn criminals into victims.)

    Gasket said:
    Unemployment is NOT 17%.

    When you count the people who have GIVEN UP LOOKING, it sure is around 17%. Underemployment is even higher. See http://klsouth.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/explanation-on-unemployment-no-s/
    “U3 is the full-time unemployment level. The U-6 number is far more accurate and a broader measure of the unemployment rate, which includes people who stopped looking for work and those settling for part-time jobs (underemployed), which remains high at 17+%.”
    – U3 unemployment………….9.8%
    – U6 unemployment…………17%

    (If a Republican was in office, all we would hear about is the 17% number.)

    Gasket said:
    Obama is cleaning up the shit you babies created while you took care of the filthy rich.

    Sorry, Obama is DESTROYING. He didn’t start it as the damage started many decades ago and the Republicans lost their way. This is why the Tea Party is growing and the Democrats lost something like 600 US and State seats in November.

  • timcajun

    Davo says:

    It would take a complete “fool” to refer to 4.5 % unemployment and a $413 billion deficit as “failed ways” yet tout Hussein Obama’s 10% unemployment and a $1.5 TRILLION deficit as “helping this country.” But then, Democrats never let Truth or Logic deter them in their mission to destroy America, then try to blame Reps for it. With low brain power like that, it’s easy for DemoCrit politicians to maintain control over their Dims.

    Does low brain power account for the party of “NO”, so the swine let this happen to prove a point? Debt doesn’t carry forward? Paying for someones war doesn’t count in the number? Can you not see that this is a flip of offices and with the same factors you will never blame any failure on the teas next week forward!

    RichS says:

    Well, let us consider the last 10 years. Who controlled the Congress for four of those 10 years? When was spending the worst. For those with party hack blinders on, it was worse when Congress and the Presidency was controlled by the same party. First the Republicans and then the Democrats. But I do have to give the Democrats their due, they did manage to spend more money than all of the previous Congress’ combined.

    You do know that its the House of Representatives that is responsible for spending the People’s money, don’t you?

    When unemployment is still 9.6% in Feb. and the debt still climbs, who will the teas blame then, Obama! The teas will never accept what they were part of, yet they are quick to remind us “it’s time to not blame Bush”, will that work the same for Obama, no!

  • JohnBravo82

    Looks like this party has been crashed by the astroturfing right wing. If you look at all the thumbs up/thumbs down, you can easily tell. Don’t really know why they’re trolling here, but I guess when you have no life…..
    R. Lee Ermey is a little too old to be trying to make much sense. Why would you go on a political tangent at a children’s charity event? Geez…. Senile much?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    stoogedudes said:
    I’m sure the anti-Obama rant brought happy little smiles to all of the children who went without toys this Christmas.

    What’s next? Going to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital to bemoan Nancy Pelosi’s run as House Speaker?!

    I could not agree with you more, Stooge. There is a time and a place for this type of criticism and this certainly wasn’t it.

  • lazzzlo

    Y’all might be right. When my generation got that type of a lecture…we didn’t pay attention.

    What he says is correct…it isn’t necessary to scare the kids whilst yer speechifying.

    I will take it down a notch myself.; but everything he said was right.

  • beavoux

    Yeah the economy was GREAT during the previous administration! Jackwagon?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Alz said:
    Just like we still have people in Germany and South Korea. Think.

    To be fair, the Korean War is still going on. There’s just the 60 year old cease fire.

    Alz said:
    It’s the same mental disorder that allows you guys to somehow turn criminals into victims.

    What about the conservative tendency to do the inverse. That is, turning victims into criminals? For example, the demonization of welfare recipients, the unemployed and (quite literally) drug addicts.

    Alz said:
    If a Republican was in office, all we would hear about is the 17% number.

    Then how come we didn’t hear about it during the administrations of Bush and Reagan?

  • CosmosDan

    Tissue R Lee?

  • lazzzlo

    I actually used the word “speechifying”. sigh

    WhenIi grew up in Canada there were a lot of young hairy American dudes.
    They talked a lot about their “brothers” dying in Vietnam.

    I learned to listen to what people say.

  • Davo

    timcajun said:
    Davo says:

    It would take a complete “fool” to refer to 4.5 % unemployment and a $413 billion deficit as “failed ways” yet tout Hussein Obama’s 10% unemployment and a $1.5 TRILLION deficit as “helping this country.” But then, Democrats never let Truth or Logic deter them in their mission to destroy America, then try to blame Reps for it. With low brain power like that, it’s easy for DemoCrit politicians to maintain control over their Dims.

    Does low brain power account for the party of “NO”, so the swine let this happen to prove a point? Debt doesn’t carry forward? Paying for someones war doesn’t count in the number? Can you not see that this is a flip of offices and with the same factors you will never blame any failure on the teas next week forward!

    RichS says:

    Well, let us consider the last 10 years. Who controlled the Congress for four of those 10 years? When was spending the worst. For those with party hack blinders on, it was worse when Congress and the Presidency was controlled by the same party. First the Republicans and then the Democrats. But I do have to give the Democrats their due, they did manage to spend more money than all of the previous Congress’ combined.

    You do know that its the House of Representatives that is responsible for spending the People’s money, don’t you?

    When unemployment is still 9.6% in Feb. and the debt still climbs, who will the teas blame then, Obama! The teas will never accept what they were part of, yet they are quick to remind us “it’s time to not blame Bush”, will that work the same for Obama, no!

    Now, calm down, Tim. And learn to use that ol’ “quote” button………it’ll help you stay a bit less confused.

    As I observed, you Dims cannot understand that 4.5% unemployment is better than 10% produced by your “Crits.” And a $413 billion deficit is better than a $1.5 trillion deficit, regardless of the nature of the wild spending. Maybe you should stop trying to chant what your ‘thinkers’ tell you to chant, and try doing a little thinking on your own. As a conservative I can assure you , thinking isn’t as scary as it must seem to you.

  • lazzzlo

    In case y’all didn’t get my sarcasm…the young hairy Americans ran away from the draft.

    I was a kid…we had no idea what was going on…it was different and candy was indeed laced with Acid.

    I always wonder what lens people remember their past with.

    My past in Toronto in 1965-69 as a kid doesn’t suit others retelling.

  • lazzzlo

    That type of a man was much more frequent. You got yelled at but it was to keep you safe.

  • Jelperman

    Michael Charles said:
    Jelperman,

    Go have another drink…

    It’s a quote from Full Metal Jacket, moron.

  • david r

    Jelperman said:
    R.Lee Ermey is the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!

    “And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps! Do you maggots understand that? ” Isn’t that what he said about Obama ?

  • nrgetick

    oh jeezus,.,.fuckin teatards

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Didn’t he get shot by the guy from Law & Order: Criminal Intent?

  • Nahu Tuk

    Kim Barker said:
    So now it’s BILL CLINTON’S FAULT that Bush lost in Afghanistan? Can;t you neocon lapdog apologists keep it straight.

    Having reviewed the link–as you apparently did not or did not have the mental acuity to absorb–I believe what was being pointed out is that Clinton had the chance to take out bin Laden but failed to do so. Why? I don’t know, but maybe he was getting a head job by some intern or Leon Podesta at the time. Either are possibilities.

  • OttoMan88

    “As I observed, you Dims cannot understand that 4.5% unemployment is better than 10% produced by your “Crits.”

    That statement would be incredibly impressive if you weren’t pulling those numbers out of your ass.

    When George W. Bush entered office in January 2001, we had record budget surpluses and unemployment was at 4.2%. When he left office in January 2009, we had record budget deficits and unemployment was at 7.7% and climbing fast — by March 2009, before any Obama policies had even been signed into law, it had already hit 8.6%.

    http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=LNS14000000

    It’s now 9.8%. Has Obama solved everything yet? No. It took Bush eight years to get us in this massive hole, and it’s only been two years that we’ve been climbing out. But Obama has already overseen the creation of 3.4 million jobs in the private sector in those two years, while in all of Bush’s eight years, he oversaw the creation of 1.1 million jobs.

    I’m sorry Obama hasn’t cleaned up all the mess Republicans made, but it’s because Republicans in Congress keep stealing the mop and insisting the vacuum cleaner is a socialist plot.

  • OttoMan88

    And here’s a handy chart that breaks down the sources of the deficit. Ask a grown-up to help sound out the big words if you need help.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/09/business/economy/20090610-leonhardt-graphic.html

  • True American

    I started reading some of these comments and couldn`t help myself.1m a Vietnam Vet,don`t belong to any party PERIOD! Reading some of you and your comments with ( I`m so smart that I have read the quote`s of the percentage of this and that ) is so much BullShit I have ever heard.If you hate FOX NEW`s why do you watch it.You piss on the Marine Corps,which is in a country they would just as soon be out of,but they are giving you the right to come on the venue and make stupid comments that you have absolutly any FACT`S to back it up with.You read articals on the net or papers that is One reports view,not FACT`S.You Badger the Tea Party and you know what?The Tea Party is YOU!.They don`t have a leader,they have an agenda.Stop the spending on stupid grants that Obama said he sit down and go one by one and wipe them out.He didn`t.These people get your money every year to test how a fly fly`s.Then takes home a wage of $250,000 a year.The solider`s in the war`s that this govenment has got us in is not the fault of them,they are taking order`s from the comander and chief.Bush was no better,but finding Obama and taking him out was done by him not Obama.All Obama did was take what the CIA,FBI and the CID has worked on for 10 years tracking to find him.Finally they had a Kill and took it.Obama never gave Bushe`s people or Bush any credit for it.Today one AP reporter runs a column that there is a hit list that the White House has,OMG,,,,The press goes crazy along with the Idiots that don`t think for themselves.There is always a hit list.As I said I don`t belong to any Party,but I will predict that Trump will win the Presidency and his Vice President will be General Petreause.Obama made him head of the CIA because he was afraid he would run agains`t him and beat the hell out of him.So he put him in hiding so nobody ( the Pres ) would talk to him.He is the best military tactition on the face of the earth and would take the Boarder and the war`s were in and get it done.Trump will put people back to work and stop China and the rest of the wold from ripping us off.Obama will go on vacation.OH, by the way Holder will go to jail.Emery said what everybody is thinking ,he just picked the wrong place to do it.I don`t bame him because you get to a point that you get tired of dealing with stupid people like some of you and the congress along with the White House.It`s time to CLEAN and It`s Coming.Obama know`s he doesn`t stand a chance in hell but he doesn`t care.He`s set for life.I have cotacted Al Gore`s “Green Project” and told them I wanted to make a large cotribution and would you plase send me a balance sheet so I can see where my money is going.NINE TIMES with no answer.What does that tell you.Go check out his new home in Santa Barbra.He has 4.I`m done

  • Anonymous

    Get a grip R. Lee. He points the finger at an administration who has been in control for (2) years, while failing to mention that we had his president in office for (8). Grow up! if anyone has brought this country to their ‘knees” it’s the Republican Party R. Lee. What a joke. Maybe if we weren’t having to clean up after a war that the Republican Party got us into, then we wouldn’t be in the situation we are today. Don’t blame it on Obama. It’s not his fault. It’s yours. Look in the mirror fucker. He’s cleaning up your poorly executed, unnecessary war.

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