Senator Linda Lopez of New Mexico

[Gina]

Senator Clarifies Remark Telling Troops To ‘Go **** Themselves’, Says Quote Taken Out Of Context

by Paul on August 21, 2012 · 53 comments

Senator Linda Lopez of New Mexico, who is apparently not Senator Linda Lopez of Arizona.

Phoenix, AZ - A state senator is in hot water after making controversial remarks last week in an interview with Arizona Foothills Magazine. The full interview, which is to be released Friday, includes contentious quotes on military service-members, the constitution, and defense spending.

Senator Linda Lopez (D-29, AZ), a member of the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, was apparently quoted during the interview as saying “the troops should just go **** themselves.” Lopez continues to claim that her remarks have been “taken out of context” and that she is in fact a huge supporter of the U.S. military.

It’s not the first time Lopez is being questioned for something she said. In the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting, she told an interviewer that the shooter was “probably a veteran of Afghanistan.“ The shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, had no military experience.

Her most recent remarks come after a vote in the Committee to improve education benefits and mental health services for veterans of all service branches. Lopez opposed the bill and was the only no vote, telling reporters that she opposed it on constitutional grounds. When pressed further, she admitted however, that “she hates the ****ing constitution.”

Minutes after making the remark, she told reporters that she misspoke and didn’t mean to use profanity.

“I only voted no on the bill because I support the troops, but don’t support the war,” Lopez said. “Besides, if these numbskulls would quit enlisting, we wouldn’t need to support the stupid ****s. That last part’s off the record, by the way.”

Lopez has maintained that the full context of her interview quote was about supporting the troops and giving them fleshlights as a way “to go **** themselves in the warzone and at home.”

Although The Foothills refuses to release Lopez’s full remarks until the interview hits news stands later this week, TDB did obtain partial transcripts.

“Frankly, the troops should just go **** themselves. Let’s be honest here,” Lopez remarks in the interview. “I’m really tired of these people complaining all the time.”

Lopez is not the only politician who has made a gaffe during interviews or public events.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) once told a crowd that “he served in Vietnam” although he never deployed as a Marine reservist during the 1970s, and Representative Todd Akin (R-MO) recently came under fire after talking about “legitimate rape” and the female body’s amazing ability to defy biology.

After TDB confronted Lopez with additional context from the interview transcripts, the Senator backtracked and attempted to explain further:

“In my defense, I was responding to the troops’ demands for a constitutional amendment limiting elected offices to either veterans, uniformed police and fire personnel, or civilians who held conscientious objector status throughout their entire period of eligibility for selective service, with all others forced to wear velcro shoes and overalls,” she explained. “**** them.”

She has since apologized for her remarks, saying that she “just went full-on retard with what she said.”
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Anyone hear anything about this in the media?

[Chris_]

It's satire.

http://theduffelblog.com/

[Gina]

Thank God!!!!!!     I saw this on another site and it didn't have a link.  Man!  that had me hot 

[Chris_]

lol u bin trolled

[Gina]

lol u bin trolled

Nooo it was on another forum and didn't have a link. 

[CactusCarlos]

Thank God!!!!!!     I saw this on another site and it didn't have a link.  Man!  that had me hot 

I saw it on Facebook yesterday and forwarded it.  Minutes later, a buddy let me know it was satire and I took it down.  Scary part was that it was totally believable - a leftist hating on the troops, no surprises there!

[Eupher]

Any politician that admits he/she "just went full-on retard" with the commentary has been to the Marion Barry School of Crack Snorting and graduated cum laude.

 

After all, most politicians -- especially Dems -- should just go **** themselves. 

[docstew]

chris_ beat me to it. TDB is satire, and like all good satire, has a kernel of truth in it. Yesterday, they put out a story about "SECDEF being shot by a man wearing an Afghan President's uniform", obviously a jab at the rash of "green-on-blue" attacks in the Stan lately.

[Karin]

has a kernel of truth in it

  You can say that again.  I've been reading the DUmp too long, I have to admit I kind of fell for it, enough to look further.  Just look what the DUmmies say about the military, Mike C the bugman, for instance.  I just can't put anything past these people anymore. 

[Chris_]

This one was my favorite:

Pentagon Proposes Controversial Policy Assigning Ranks To Military Spouses

[obumazombie]

Don't worry, someone womewhere will give a lib the opportunity to speak long enough, and like Joe Biden they won't be able to help themselves, the truth, and their hatred will eventually out.

[Eupher]

My company's somewhat lenient about firewalls, though social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are definitely verboten, but I was a little surprised to find out that after about 30 seconds on the duffelblog site (I'd never seen it until now), the dreaded "If you continue to read this thing, we'll come in and take your computer and feed you to the dogs" graphic came on.

I don't think that happens when I go onto the Onion.

 

[Big Dog]

Thank God!!!!!!     I saw this on another site and it didn't have a link.  Man!  that had me hot 

So that's what gets you hot, Gina!

[Karin]

  ^^  What in the world are those two smileys doing to each other? 

[Big Dog]

  ^^  What in the world are those two smileys doing to each other? 

Well, honey, when a daddy smiley and a mommy smiley love each other very much...