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Stupid Ass Of The Week: Lynn Westmoreland

17th-Jun-2006 10:23 am

Welcome to the first series of Stupid Ass Of The Week! This week's feature is kicked off with the Republican from my own district, the überstarched Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA; 8th District), who in a recent interview with Stephen Colbert could only stammer through three of the 10 Commandments. Transcript:

Colbert: You have not introduced a single piece of legislation since you entered Congress.

Westmoreland: That's correct.

Colbert: This has been called a do nothing Congress. Is it safe to say you're the do nothingest?

Westmoreland: I, I, ..Well there's one other do nothiner. I don't know who that is, but they're a Democrat.

Colbert: What can we get rid of to balance the budget?

Westmoreland: The Dept. of Education.

Colbert: What are the Ten Commandments?

Westmoreland: You mean all of them?--Um... Don't murder. Don't lie. Don't steal Um... I can't name them all.

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Comments

17th-Jun-2006 02:30 pm (UTC)

grrtigger

THat was the funniest damned thing I've seen in a while.

Have you seen Lewis Black's new special, Red, White and Screwed? I hear he's also getting a new show that will be on after the Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

17th-Jun-2006 04:35 pm (UTC)

salenelle

I saw that special and roared through it; very funny guy, but sadly, what he says is the truth. I can't believe we can laugh at this stuff.

17th-Jun-2006 02:33 pm (UTC)

bigfundrew

i had heard about this..but that is amazing

17th-Jun-2006 03:02 pm (UTC)

erin

Wow. That's freaking hilarious. And kind of horrific to know that this man helps make decisions that affect our daily lives.

17th-Jun-2006 03:06 pm (UTC)

thejunebug

Last I checked, don't lie wasn't a commandment either. There's "thou shalt not bear false witness" but that's not exactly the same thing.

Heh.

17th-Jun-2006 03:39 pm (UTC)

better_angel

I said this to someone before... but in his defense, he probably wants them on the wall so he'll stop forgetting them. You know, the way most of us put phone numbers or shopping lists up on the fridge.

17th-Jun-2006 04:07 pm (UTC)

pagerbear

Yes, it's so easy to forget not to kill or commit adultery.

17th-Jun-2006 04:33 pm (UTC) - Shit Mouth

salenelle

I'd like to amend the ten commandments: Commandment number 11:
Thou shall not open thy mouth when nought but shit comes out.

17th-Jun-2006 05:47 pm (UTC)

hyldigyth

so much for seperation of church and state

17th-Jun-2006 05:55 pm (UTC)

defiantfist

Head -> desk...

Sigh, You've gotta love those 3 commandments...

17th-Jun-2006 10:27 pm (UTC)

marian333

I think I'm more depressed that as an agnostic/atheist (pick whichever label you want, *I* don't care) I can name all ten. In order even!

Then again, unlike most Christians I've actually read the bible.

18th-Jun-2006 10:16 am (UTC)

strongaxe

I saw this. This was funny and/or sad.

But not as funny as the congresswoman who advocated making drinking+driving legal on weekends, and just recommended that you keep your kids home then while the drunks were out on the road (or was that the Daily Show? since these two are on back to back and repeat several times, I often get them confused).

19th-Jun-2006 05:01 pm (UTC)

taamar

"I think I'm more depressed that as an agnostic/atheist (pick whichever label you want, *I* don't care) I can name all ten. In order even!"

Actually, there are several versions of the ten commandments, thus chosing one of them favours a specific religion. The Catholic version leaves out graven images and separates the coveting into two, one for wife and one for goods.

Lets use the one from Exodus 34:(1-10)!

1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god).
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn.
4. All the first-born are mine.
5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

1st-Jul-2008 11:35 pm (UTC) - 10 Commandments

Anonymous

I guess he wants them posted everywhere because nobody remembers them.

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