#299: Chuck Norris
Good ol’ Chuck Norris, however, is as American as born-again evangelicals and Walker Texas Ranger. In fact, Norris is both. In addition, Norris is an infomercial actor, a columnist for WorldNetDaily (and Creators Syndicate), an author of several incoherent religious books (“The Justice Riders”), and a political activist who has campaigned extensively for Mike Huckabee (and he has even endorsed Roy Moore). In 2009 he also announced on Glenn Beck that he might run for president of Texas. His WND screeds are remarkably incoherent and insane (and dishonest), even for Norris. At best, they bring quote-mining to a new level. It is therefore rather remarkable that he has been invited to provide a weekly column for Politico, but so it goes.
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Diagnosis: Dense as a rock, but surprisingly dangerous (not because of his martial arts skills), Norris seems hell-bent to be wrong on absolutely every issue, and succeeds to a rather remarkable degree
http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/02/299-chuck-norris.html
This from Dispatches from the Creation Wars:
Chuck Norris: President of Texas
Warning: do not drink a beverage while reading this headline:
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I may run for president of Texas
On Glenn Beck’s radio show last week, I quipped in response to our wayward federal government, “I may run for president of Texas.”
That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state."
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/03/10/chuck-norris-president-of-texa/
On a more serious note:
Chuck Norris on VT Shootings
Oh boy. You just knew ol’ Chuck would be throwing in his 2 cents worth to tell us who’s to blame for the VT shootings. File this in the breathlessly overwrought department. This idiot actually compares the victims to George Washington.
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On April 16, 1789, a hero left Virginia. His name was George Washington – a retired general who led the Continental Army in victory during the Revolutionary War. At 57, he left Mount Vernon for New York for his inauguration as the first American president.
On April 16, 2007, more heroes left Virginia. This time they were students and professors at Virginia Tech University – 32 to be exact. And like those on 9/11, they were martyrs in a war they weren’t fighting – unintentional patriots caught in a head-on clash with our culture’s values, denials and degradation."
No, no, no. They weren’t heroes or martyrs, they were victims. This was not a battle in a war and they weren’t soldiers. They were the entirely random victims of a psychopath. And of course, Captain Clueless also delivers the standard idiot creationist line:
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Though one can point to Cho’s own psychotic behavior and our graphic slasher media as potential contributors to his deplorable murder spree, we must also hesitate to consider how we as a society are possibly contributing to the growth of these academic killing fields. I believe those who wield the baton of the secular progressive agenda bear significant responsibility for the escalation of school shootings. Even conservatives who refuse to speak when evil flourishes must acknowledge some culpability."
You mean like all those “secular progressives” and “Hollywood liberals” who make movies that glorify violence and solving problems with a round kick or a machine gun? Movies like Delta Force and Braddock: Missing in Action 2 and Slaughter in San Francisco? Oh wait….those were your movies, Chuck.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/04/24/chuck-norris-on-vt-shootings-1/
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