No, not Gunny Ermy! Please say it isn't so!

[Towlie]

That was the only Geico ad that I'd listen to without hitting the mute button. Now it turns out that he's a conservative Fox-News-parroting scumbag? Apparently that's what's coming up on Countdown.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. This comes as a surprise, really?

[RamboLiberal]

2. Yeah Gunny was a jackwagon

earlier thread. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x115552

[craigmatic]

3. It's not much of a surprise. Did you ever see his show on the History channel?

I knew he was a repig then.

[Kingofalldems]

4. I remember him praising Bush in 2000 or so

During the election cycle.

[NuclearDem]

5. You're surprised that Gunny Hartman is a right-winger?

I knew he was, didn't mean I stopped liking him.

[walldude]

6. Dumb fuck had to apologize after he used a charity event

to shit on Obama, blaming Obama for the poor Toys for Tots turnout.

"The Blaze reports Tuesday that retired Marine drill instructor R. Lee Ermey issued an apology for remarks he made last week regarding President Obama destroying America and implementing socialism.

Speaking to a crowd about the Toys for Tots program, Ermey said it was struggling because "the economy really sucks."



http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/r-lee-ermey-apologizes-for-obama-socialism-comment

[eleny]

7. Don't you love how military people, making their living from the public, speak against us

Talk about biting the hands that feed your family.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. The military, like all other areas of society

is a mirror of US Society. They have all types...

[eleny]

16. I was a public employee for my career and it was the same

I worked in social services and was disgusted by the right wingers I worked with here in Colorado. They dissed the very clients we served and the public.

So I used to tell them that everyone in the country was our boss and that they should thank our clients for giving them a career. Maybe that was over the top. But it made them pause to think and after a while they kept from talking to me about it.

Yes, nadin, they have all types. Arrogant right wing types always bring out my wrath.

[XOKCowboy]

8. The Dixie Chicks lose their recording contract and are boycotted for saying Bush didn't represent...

them yet Gunny did the exact same thing and gets what? Nothing but adulation from the RW.

[MindPilot]

9. "Gays in the military is like a 17-year-old girl bunking up with a 50-year old man"

Yeah he said that on a local morning zoo radio show (the DSC for those of you from around these parts) a couple weeks ago when asked about DADT.

Real piece of work...joined the Marines as an alternative to jail. Said he picked the Marines because "anyone who wears uniforms that nice probably doesn't do much work." His Gunnery Sargent rank is honorary.

[Cid_B]

10. Discovered the same thing for LT Barkley from Star Trek...

Dwight Shultz... also known as Mad Murdock from the A-team....

Heard him fill in on a conservative talk radio show over the holidays. He was 5/10.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Toys for Tots collects toys from people across the political spectrum and he shits on half of them.

I support his right to express his opinion (and not lose his commercial gig over it) but his lack of graciousness to the toy contributors on the left makes him a capital-A Ass.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. He's been for years

but he should know better. What he did was a call to insurrection. Not that it matters, nobody does a thing about RW doing that.

[WingDinger]

14. Good thing he didn't critisize dumbass teabaggers, or he would have been fired.

Fuck Geico. And their reptile.

[timtom]

15. Sure am glad I don't watch teevee.