Inspired by this comment at Legal Insurrection.
Let’s not also forget that political violence is not merely tolerated on the left, but actually celebrated. No one on the right is going to show up at a Tea Party rally in an Eric Rudolph T-shirt. There are no right-wing collegians with posters of Tim McVeigh on their walls. But mass murderers like Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung and cop-killers like Mumia Abu Jamal are celebrated as heroes on the left; and their images adorn T-shirts, posters, and flags at most any progressive gathering.
Ok, so if the Tea Party were just the right-wing version of liberals, what T-shirts would you see at their rallies? I speculate thusly:
* Sirhan Sirhan
* Lee Harvey Oswald
* Brain tumor (Ted Kennedy)
* Dan White (killed openly-gay liberal politician Harvey Milk)
* Snow-covered pine tree (Michael Kennedy)
* Jeffrey Dahmer (he mostly killed & ate gays)
* Piper Saratoga (JFK Jr.)
* Dan Rostenkowski’s checkbook
and of course, lots of Monica berets and Blago wigs.
Anything else?
UPDATE: I forgot Mario Teran. Then again, he really DOES have a T-shirt.
I want the Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dorn pig killer shirt NOW!
I definitely want a T-shirt of that guy who went on his own to Pakistan to hunt down Bin Laden. Gary Brooks Faulkner. I keep wondering if we should send him to Europe to find Roman Polanski and/or Julian Assange…
Oh, right-wing t-shirts. How about Dick Cheney with a shotgun telling the lefties to “Go F%@k Yourself!”
Speaking of T shirts, you know they gave out T shirts at the so-called “Memorial Service” last night, right? Here’s what they should have said:
“My 9 year old Daughter was brutally murdered because of Sarah Palin, and all I got was this lousy T shirt…”
Scott – actually, that’s in tiny print on the label, right under the washing instructions.
Obama, for throwing the democratic party under the bus. And reminding fence sitters why their vote counts, sometimes negatively.
The Jewish doctors accused of killing Stalin.
Obama’s mom for killing his honor and his dad for killing his dignity. Or Michelle for murdering all the fashion police.
– An image of FDR on crutches, dragging his lifeless feet: “Just one more term”
In truth, Oswald was an extreme leftist, and Kennedy was a blue-Blue Dog Democrat (he lowered taxes, invaded Cuba and tried to assassinate Fidel). So, the Lee Oswald shirt goes to the lefties. And didja notice that when we have an assassination, the assassin gets a middle name? It’s like the liberal press can’t get a handle on how a small person alone could possibly do so much harm, so they embiggen their names.
Pinochet on a shirt.
We can’t forget that famous instigator of murderers, Sarah Palin.
The IMAO T-shirt babe. That picture of her on the right side of the page holding a gun is rather daunting……
Oswald the guy so radically Marxist the left has spent decades since trying to invent another shooter because there was zero gray area to turn Oswald into a conservative? Laughner has been a great example in how little gray area they need to jump straight to “right wing killer”
exhibit 7917, in the far left international media.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MA13Ak03.html
The right doesn’t really have any mass murderers. Its more of a left thing.
John Wayne was a conservative, wasn’t he? He sure killed a lot of bad guys.
Thinking about it a little more seriously, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman are pretty good (real) examples of conservatives who slaughtered and/or terrorized lot of liberals. (And ironically, if you wore a t-shirt with either man on it in the South, you’d be likely to be shot by a conservative!) Are they on t-shirts yet?
I can’t stop thinking of Jeffrey Dahmer jokes now….
What did the cops find in Jeffrey Dahmer’s shower?
Head and Shoulders
What were Jeffrey Dahmer’s last words?
I used to eat guys like you for breakfast
etc. etc.
Thanks, Harvey
I’d vote for Augusto Pinochet, but a death toll under 2500 is utterly pathetic by leftist dictator ‘body-count bingo’ standards.
What about the Anti-Che William Walker?
I have a white baseball cap that was given to me by a friend. He gave me this cap about four years ago. It has three letters on it’s front…NBF. This cap is as politically incorrect as a cap can be…and yet no one has ever picked up on, or hassled me about wearing a white cap with the letters NBF on it. The letters stand for….Nathan Bedford Forrest. I love it.
Mario Teran! I can have Mario Teran on my t-shirt. The irony is I would know that he is the guy who killed Che Guiverra, while most people who wear Che Guiverra shirts have no idea who he is. Of course I did have to look it up.
Mr. M – don’t feel bad, I had to look him up, too.
Damn!! Mr. M, I’m in a quandary. I don’t know if you should send me your shirt…or I should send you my cap!
Well, if we followed the liberals lead, then Mark David Chapman would be a misunderstood hero.
Jack the Ripper (George Bernard Shaw called him a “social reformer.”)
PS re Dahmer jokes: During a search of Dahmer’s residence, police found a jar with human testicles “Watcha eatin’?” “Nut-N-Honey.”
Wait… I forgot… there is ONE legitimate right-wing hero who went on a shooting rampage, but ya know, I’ve never seen him on a T-shirt.
Bernard Hugo Goetz
Of course, he turned himself in and called himself a monster, too. Very repentant and hasn’t been arrested since.
Unlike the street rats who he should’ve killed. They stayed true to form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz#Activities_since_the_incident
Maybe one of the cops who beat up Rodney King.
I mean, they’re not right wing, but we right wingers are all racists (it says so right here:www.nytimes.com) so…..
Veeshir – that would be Stacey Koon.
And let’s not forget Mark “N-word” Fuhrman
And Johannes Mehserle, the cop who shot an unarmed black man on a BART platform and only got 2 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant
Where are the posters & T-shirts of these guys at racist Tea Party rallies?
To catch this very late, someone should make Mario Teran T-shirts. Then fun would be endless when liberals ask who he was.
“Well, he was a Cuban revolutionary who tracked down and killed an Cuban agent who had personally executed at least 45 Cuban peasants.” Or “He was a Cuban revolutionary who toppled execution squads that had executed over one hundred Cuban peasants.” Or “He was the man who stopped a Cuban agent who had terrorized villages by personally executing peasants at point blank range in front of their families.”
Frank: T-shirts, PLEASE
Reinhard Heydrich’s face in 3/4 profile is a CLASSIC for t-shirts.