Dumb People of the Day Thread

'Gasland' director Joshua Fox arrested filming House panel

At the behest of the Republican leadership of a House of Representatives subcommittee, Capitol Police arrested Joshua Fox, the maker of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Gasland,” when he tried on Wednesday to film a subcommittee hearing on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method used to tap oil and gas reservoirs.

With its images of flammable tap water, “Gasland” publicized concerns among critics of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of the technology’s possible effect on water supplies. The oil and gas industry and its supporters have argued that the film misrepresented the risk from fracking, which they say is minute. Fracking involves high-pressure injection of water laced with chemicals into shale beds to fracture the formations and unlock pockets of oil and, increasingly, natural gas.

Fox and his small crew had joined other media in the Rayburn building on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning to record a fracking hearing by a House subcommittee on Science, Space and Technology, led by Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), a vocal proponent of fracking. Republicans wanted Fox removed because he lacked the proper press credentials to film.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) said she was at another committee hearing when a staffer at the fracking hearing called her urging her to come immediately. She said she found Fox handcuffed in the hallway outside the hearing room, along with at least one member of his small crew. Of her Republican colleagues, she said, “Do these guys get the 1st Amendment at all?”

In a statement on the science committee’s website, Republicans said: “The individual removed was not accredited by the House Radio and TV Gallery and had refused to turn off his camera upon request by Capitol Police.”

Congressional hearings are open to the public. Anyone with a cellphone camera could record the proceedings, as a video on Huffington Post of Fox’s arrest shows.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) told HuffPost, “I have served in the House of Representatives since 1992, and I had the privilege of chairing the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. In all that time, I cannot recall a chair of any committee or subcommittee having ever ordered the removal of a person who was filming a committee proceeding and not being disruptive, whether or not that person was accredited. It is a matter of routine that all sorts of people photograph and record our proceedings. Most of them are not accredited. I cannot recall anyone questioning their right to be there."

"I was chair of the Subcommittee for four years, and we frequently had people show up the day of a hearing to film," Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) told HuffPost. "We asked for their name, but they were told if they would not disrupt the hearing, they were free to record. A couple of times staff said, 'You're getting in the way, don't stand there,' but other than that, I do not ever recall anything like this. We certainly never turned anyone away for not providing 24 hours' notice."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-gasland-director-fox-arrested-filming-house-subcommittee-20120201,0,4337363.story

In a way, I feel like I owe everyone here a huge apology for omitting this one for so long. I'm sorry.

Dumb People of the Day Thread's #1 Most Wanted Fucktard...

Joe Arpaio

May he die very soon.

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/florida-congressman-upset-obama-70-fill-hummer-215636787.html

Allen West, like we didn't already know this guy is a dumbass. and, Florida.

smh

"smh" I didn't know you were black gdp

also your video doesnt play

Mississippi

http://gma.yahoo.com/video/parenting-26594265/2-kids-left-behind-at-2-different-chuck-e-cheese-s-28584304.html
They didn't realize until they saw the kid on the news the next day that the kid was gone.

A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they're using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona's an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees' sex lives could fire them as a result.

http://jezebel.com/5893011/law-will-allow-employers-to-fire-women-for-using-whore-pills

GDPofDRC wrote:

A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they're using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona's an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees' sex lives could fire them as a result.

http://jezebel.com/5893011/law-will-allow-employers-to-fire-women-for-using-whore-pills

How bad do you want this job?

dumb people of the day is anyone who believes this KONY bull crap, and anyone voting for Romney thinking they're gonna get something different then what they have now.

hahaagag gdp

dumb person of the day goes to....

Mitt Romney!

for actually saying "I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves"

wow. and you guys said Ron Paul was racist pfft

http://www.killsometime.com/videos/8342/Blonde-Girl-Explains-MPH
LOL OMG!!!!!!!!

GDPofDRC wrote:

Why do we let these people live? My Taxes should go towards more important things.

All three guilty of Federal conspiracy to commit hate crimes and committing hate crimes. Deryl Dedmon guilty of murder.

dumb but lulz



Kazakhstan's shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national anthem from the film Borat was played at a medal ceremony at championships in Kuwait instead of the real one.

The team asked for an apology and the medal ceremony was later rerun.

The team's coach told Kazakh media the organisers had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake.

The song was produced by UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for the film, which shows Kazakhs as backward and bigoted.

Footage of Thursday's original ceremony posted on YouTube shows gold medallist Maria Dmitrienko listening to the anthem without emotion and finally smiling as it ends.

Coach Anvar Yunusmetov told Kazakh news agency Tengrinews that the tournament's organisers had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong.

"Then Maria Dmitrienko's turn came," he said. "She got up on to the pedestal and they played a completely different anthem, offensive to Kazakhstan."

The film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, released in 2006, follows Baron Cohen's character, the journalist Borat Sagdiyev, as he travels to the US and pursues the actress Pamela Anderson.

The film outraged people in Kazakhstan and was eventually banned in the country. The government also threatened Baron Cohen with legal action.

Reports say the film is also banned in Kuwait.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17491344

oggy420 wrote:

dumb person of the day goes to....

Mitt Romney!

for actually saying "I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves"

wow. and you guys said Ron Paul was racist pfft

keep ignoring facts and letters signed - Ron Paul and try to Paint Romney as = Obama

You'll keep looking stupid have fun

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-20/news/31217196_1_lou-erik-ambert-elizabeth-r-wellborn-office-workers

Management of the Elizabeth R. Wellborn law firm in Deerfield Beach, you dumb

Criminally Dumb Criminal of the Day: A man whose attempted robbery of a Wells Fargo in Chamblee, Georgia, had been foiled by bullet-resistant glass was caught after he returned to the bank to withdraw money for cab fare.

40-year-old Trevor Gladston reportedly handed the Wells Fargo teller a note demanding cash and threatening to shoot, but feeling sufficiently protected by the bulletproof divider, the teller balked, and the would-be robber was forced to retreat.

Gladston then took a cab to a nearby MARTA station, where he had parked his car. After informing the driver he had no money to pay the fare, Gladston tried to leave, but was blocked by the cabbie.

A police officer who was alerted to the situation somehow convinced Gladston to return to the scene of his crime to obtain the money needed to pay his fare.

However, before he was able to reenter the bank, he was stopped by a second police officer, who ID’d Gladston as the perp with help from bank employees.

He was promptly arrested and now faces an attempted bank robbery charge.

If I make a dumb person of the forever, Kayne will be the first and only posting.