GOP Rep Jokes About Murdering Treehugging Democrats
GOP Representative Gregg Harper is quite a charmer. When asked by Politico what the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus does, this Mississippi lawmaker pulled quite a gem of Republican hunting humor out of his butt.
From Treehugger:
While hunters, sportsmen, and trappers across the country are actually helping ‘liberal democrats’ to pass climate legislation, GOP Representative Gregg Harper is talking about murdering them. When Politico asked him what the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus does–Harper is a member–he replied, “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.”
The remark was given during a routine interview with Politico, in which he not so subtly displayed his distaste for environmentalists and members of the opposite party.
And that’s a pretty grim joke if I’ve heard one. What politician–especially in the age of the omnipresent sound byte–thinks it’s a good idea to talk about killing their political opponents? The punchline of this joke isn’t ‘environmentalist Democrats are stupid’ or backwards, it’s literally that they deserve death. Um, ha?
Asked later about the comment, Harper was unrepentant, stating through his spokesperson that it was supposed to be fun.
The sad thing is, we’d be willing to bet that the majority of the Fox News audience that caught that comment thought it was hilarious. These are people who take Glenn Beck seriously and enjoy watching Larry the Cable Guy. Enough said.
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