Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Judge contradicts Rush: 'I'm not Davy Crockett'

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
Sancho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 12:09 PM
Original message
Judge contradicts Rush: 'I'm not Davy Crockett'

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bizarre/content/judge-contradicts-rush-im-not-davy-crockett

Comments by Rush Limbaugh have caused the 70-year-old U.S. judge presiding over the legal challenge to health care reform to issue an unusual statement, pnj.com of Panama City reports.

“I’ve never killed a bear, and I’m not Davy Crockett,” said Roger Vinson.

Limbaugh called Vinson an avid hunter who once had bear heads mounted in the court room to intimidate defendants. Vinson's assistant said the judge was amused by Limbaugh’s comments, which apparently came from a hoax entry on Wikipedia.

The judge does have an outdoorsy side. He is president of the American Camellia Society and a longtime member of the Pensacola Camellia Club.

:spank:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 12:11 PM
Response to Original message
1. Let us get a grip here. Davy Crockett never killed a bear physically.
He just grinned one to death.

Geeze, people.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 12:42 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. I thought it was a wildcat he grinned to death.
And it was Dan'l Boone who kilt a bar with his knife.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:25 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. You are incorrect, sir:
Edited on Mon Sep-20-10 01:26 PM by MineralMan
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
The greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so's he knew ev'ry tree
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier

I still have my official Davy Crockett coonskin cap from my childhood in the 1950s, and I have the official Davy Crockett song committed permanently in my memory.

Your claim is blasphemous! :rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:27 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. I watched the old Crockett tapes to tatters when I was kid.
Now that song will be stuck in my head all day.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:33 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. Bwahaha! Another earworm implanted.
Edited on Mon Sep-20-10 01:33 PM by MineralMan
Somewhere, I have a photo of me in that coonskin hat, but it's in a box somewhere, and I'm not going to dig for it.

Kids that didn't grow up with that TV show know nothing of Davy Crockett.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:35 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. It was one of my dad's favorite when he was a kid.
There's probably a pic with him in coonskin hat somewhere too.

He bought the Disney tapes for me when I was little. Loved them, one of things that inspired my love of history.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:38 PM
Response to Reply #7
10. You too huh?
Soooo did you also have a red Superman cape also? I did. My grandmother made it out of an old table cloth. :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:39 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. Nope. Wasn't a Superman fan. My parents forbade us from comic
books, so I didn't get the Superman virus. I did watch the TV show sometimes, though. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. No....it's SUPERMAN! I watched a couple of episodes recently. Pretty primitive.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:01 PM
Response to Reply #11
12. LOL Yep we didn't know how bad we had it in the pre-CGI era....
Kids actually had to have an imagination. Back to Davy Crockett originated as a "short" on The Wonderful World Of Disney". That was our Sunday night fare all of my young life and showed Disney just how easily they could manipulate young minds.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 01:37 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. My wife and I stayed in Fess Parker's hotel in Santa Barbara
Edited on Mon Sep-20-10 01:38 PM by MineralMan
for our anniversary about 15 years ago, just before Christmas. We were having a cocktail in the bar, and in walked Fess Parker himself. He was stopping at bar tables and chatting, so I told him that the show was the highlight of my life as a 10 year old boy. He seemed pleased, bought us a bottle of Fess Parker Chardonnay and picked our dinner tab. A hero even then!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:08 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. Matches up to what I've heard.
Mr. Parker was good and decent man. :thumbsup:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 04:47 PM
Response to Reply #5
15. Okay, to be fair my reference was the old Disney movie - and yes, it was Davy Crockett.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #5
16. Obviously, you were only a dabbler
I had the cap AND the official fringed "buckskin" shirt with the pic of Fess as Davy on it. And for a while, I proudly wore that getup EVERYWHERE. :)

:hi:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 12:13 PM
Response to Original message
2. I am personally scared to death of Camelias. Seeing one in a courtroom would definitely intimidate
me.

:silly:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:09 PM
Response to Reply #2
14. Especially one
that's been shot and stuffed.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Sancho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 12:21 PM
Response to Original message
3. For research purposes!
http://www.camellias-acs.com/

Seems like a pretty tough group to be affiliated with...maybe Rush should watch it!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu May 02nd 2024, 11:45 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC