"Thin the Herd" was the tenth Tea Time commentary delivered on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, airing on 12 May 2010.
The Comment[]
First, no, that's not your water coming to a boil. It is our nightly check up on the something for nothing crowd. It's Tea Time.
G-O-E-H-R-I-N-G, how would you pronounce that? The Tea Party guy for next month's primary in the California 11thpronounces it Goehring, which was pretty smart of him, until this week, anyway, when it stopped mattering. Brad Goehring posted something on his Facebook page. He scrubbed it since, but the joys of the cached page:
- "If I could issue hunting permits, I would officially declare today opening day for liberals. The season would extend through November 2, and have no limits on how many taken, as we desperately need to thin the herd."
The local station in that district, the local Fox TV station, went out looking for people who did not think that was an atrocity or something. They found instead a man wearing a t-shirt with President Obama's face on it and the face crossed out with one of those red "no" symbols, with the slanty thing. He said what Goehring wrote was, quote, "pretty insane."
A spokesman for Brad Goehring said the candidate was just using a metaphor. The Tea Party person said it was a joke. But guess what? When the guy in the No-Obama t-shirt says it's pretty insane, it's not a metaphor, it's not a joke, it's a G-O-E-H-R-I-N-G.