Dick Armey Protects "The Innocents From The Vicious & The Malicious"

We're getting a lot of funny (in a very sad way, of course) out of one item & a link therein.

“We’re apolitical and protest all protests in an unbiased manner. I’m actually pretty conservative,” Brian Mandel, a freshman at AU said, adding that he voted for McCain. “Most people think it’s funny.”

Another club member, T.J. Bollerman, said that even though he considered himself an environmentalist, his group was planning to attend climate change protests as well, toting signs saying that they wanted a “permanent summer vacation.”

Who's not laughing? An asshole:

Dick Armey, president of FreedomWorks and one of the organizers of the rally, decried the fake protesters.

“Of course we're concerned, we always want to protect the innocents from the vicious and the malicious,” he told the Beast. “You know the militant left, mean as they are, always attack defenseless people.* These people are not professional political operatives, they’re decent, concerned, peace-loving American citizens with no experience in the travails of political sabotage. If you have these professional thugs come in among them with the express purpose of making them out to be something they’re not, it’s an obscene gesture from the liberal establishment.”

Say what you will about evolutionary psychology, we think the desire to smack Mr. Armey in the face to insure he'll never make another statement like that is so deep-rooted as to be physiological, & completely understandable. Here's a gesture from the liberal establishment, you wretched piece of lobbyist shit.