Mohair Goat Bloodies Congressman Anthony Weiner

[RamboLiberal]

A mohair goat speared Rep. Anthony Weiner during a press conference today, nicking his right hand with one of its pointy, foot-long horns and drawing blood. Weiner was holding the goat while speaking to reporters in a park near the Rayburn House Office Building in D.C., and at press time it seems his injuries are non-life threatening. In fact, according to The Hill, he doesn't even need stitches. But the incident highlights the risks of using live animals as props for publicity stunts. (Maybe Weiner should stick to models.)

The press conference was called to highlight Weiner's demand that the government cut subsidies to the mohair goat farming industry, which received nearly $1 million last year. The subsidies began in the 1950s "when the government worried about being able to provide enough material for military uniforms, which were made of wool," the Wall Street Journal reports. But mohair hasn’t been a key material in uniforms since 1960, according to Weiner, who has vowed to stop wearing wool until the House strikes the mohair subsidy from an upcoming agricultural appropriations bill. But after today's traumatic events, we doubt he'll ever be able to don wool again.

http://gothamist.com/2010/06/10/goat_bloodies_weiner.php

“Things start in Congress with good intentions, but they never end,” Chaffetz added. “We don’t do a very good job in Washington of killing things. It just doesn’t happen.”

“It’s not killing, we’re not trying to kill — the animals get skittish when you start trying to talk about these things.” Weiner said, as Lancelot tried to back out of the press conference.

“You’ve got to slaughter these programs,” Chaffetz chimed in.

Soon, Arthur and Lancelot tired of being political props.

Lancelot was particularly not amused — and rammed a horn into Wiener’s thumb, drawing blood.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38379.html#ixzz0qUaesklG



Must've been a Republican goat!

[provis99]

1. or a Gaza peace protester goat.

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[joeybee12]

3. Go goat!!!

For MANY reasons, including not being used as a hack politician's prop.

[demodonkey]

4. I don't call Anthony Weiner a "hack politician"...

...after the courageous stance he took on single payer and the great job he did of explaining it on RW talk shows, etc. He's been one of the strongest supporters of this and many other needed reforms.

But if you insist that's what he is, all I can say is that we are ever to get improvement we need more "hack politicians" like Rep. Weiner.

[joeybee12]

6. Yup, he put the knife in Helen Thomas, and turned and turned as

many times as he could.


Oh yeah, single-payer...gee, I can explain that, too. And my track records of getting real health care reform passed is as good as his.

[demodonkey]

9. Please... by all means do send me the video of your single payer segments on FOX.

I can't wait to see your 'track record' of getting something done to advance health care reform.


PS -- FYI, I support Helen Thomas as much or more than anyone on here. Including her statement on Palestine, although I think she might have stopped before suggesting anyone move to Germany. With things ending up as they did I hope she keeps writing as an independent. Maybe this will be an even better pulpit for her if she chooses to keep going.

[joeybee12]

10. I have no track record...that's my point...it's the same as Weiner's!

As for what i'm really pissed at him right now, leave the phucking animals alone...they're not props...leave them the phuck alone.

[demodonkey]

13. Oh puh-lease.

Here's just ONE example -- of many -- of Anthony Weiner taking on RW lies about healthcare on national TV and doing a damn good job of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPI0Ty57VTA

As for the "phucking" animals I live on a farm and have in the past raised and owned goats, as does my next-door neighbor. I assure you that neither goat was harmed or annoyed by appearing in a press conference. Goats simply love attention and they're inquisitive and frisky sometimes around people.

Geesh. Get a grip.

[RamboLiberal]

7. Amazing - take a stance DU'ers don't like and you're dead to them

Never mind the great job you did on health care and being one of the more courageous Dems.

Weiner is Jewish. He represents a NYC district including Brooklyn. I'm not surprised he sides with Israel on the Gaza relief flotilla.

I can disagree with him without throwing him under the well-used bus.

[joeybee12]

8. I have no use for any of them these days...

yeah, I threw him under the bus, yeah, I've been ragging on him forever...no, but what he did to Helen Thoams is reprehensible...as for supporting Israel in this case, it's ludicrous.

[jgraz]

15. His behavior over the Gaza blockade has been reprehensible

I was a big supporter of his, but his outright lies about the Gaza atrocities have lost me completely.

[JuniperLea]

5. Skewered a Weiner, did he?

Well, hot dog!

[KamaAina]

11. Must have been one of Sam Donaldson's

yup, he of the Pepsi-logo-shaped rug has a mohair ranch in New Mexico. (And yes, he gets the subsidies).

[tmyers09]

12. "We don’t do a very good job in Washington of killing things"

Oh, two ongoing wars kinda scraps that notion...

[TexasProgresive]

14. Sounds fishy to me

Wool does not come from goats it comes from sheep. Cashmere and mohair come from goats with cashmere being the finer hair.

I don't believe that mohair was every used in military uniforms because it is too fuzzy. One other thing, the whole mohair market collapsed years ago and there aren't very many hair goat raisers. I say kill the subsidy because it is more then likely making an already rich person richer without producing a product.