Pat Peale, the band-aid poster girl, was just "jesting"

[mrbill]

From the article:

Peale said she does not apologize for her comments or for the bandages, but that she did not mean to insult Purple Heart recipients.
"I'm not apologizing for what I did. It was in jest," she said.

Peale said her behavior pales in comparison to the antics of crowds of liberal protesters outside the convention center.

"There were certainly a lot of things coming from the protesters that were not in jest," she said.

She said along nearby 42nd Street, there were several demonstrations that took pornographic themes. Other protesters, according to Peale, rode bicycles and attempted to run delegates off of the sidewalks. Many were anti-war but shouted angry rhetoric about President George W. Bush.

"It's not fair for the police and the city of New York to pay to protect us from the protesters," she said, adding she believes in the right to protest but that many of the demonstrators have acted "belligerent."

http://gainesvilleregister.com/articles/2004/09/02/news/news2.txt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. That's what cowards say when called on their crap: "just joking".

[MrBenchley]

3. Yeah, and Limbaugh's only an entertainer...

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Hardy har har

Isn't that what was said about bush's dictator comment? He was just "joking"? These people are a laugh riot! :eyes:

[belle]

42. Hey, Bush, you won the election! JUST KIDDING!

[MrBenchley]

2. It was jest disgusting....

and I'm not surprised she's trying to weasel out of it....

So much for the Party of Personal Responsibility, huh: "Those mean old demonstrators made me do it"

[MaineDem]

4. Whine, whine, whine

Pat, What you did was disgraceful. You can't turn that around by complaining about the protestors. Those bandaids were totally disrespectful of all Veterans and most especially those who have received the Purple Heart. I don't care how you try to weasel out of it!!!

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Real funny I'll bet the wounded at Walter Reed are ...

rolling in the aisles.

[terrya]

6. The protestors were protesting because of outrage over her hero...

George W. Bush and his policies, which is a proper, just and right thing to do.

Pat Peale, on the other hand, participated in a mean spirited, childish, juvenile prank that insulted decent, honorable veterans everywhere.

Got it, Pat Peale, you stupid goddamned woman?

[MrBenchley]

12. I actually feel sort of sorry for her....

She's probably been the kind of person who spent all her life getting along, never asking questions, doing what everybody else did because she didn't make waves...and it probably never occurred to her to ask why she was doing what she was doing, or what it meant.

All the "cool kids" were doing it, so she did it too.....and now she got singled out because a photographer happened to be nearby and she was momentarily transported by childish glee.

But most people get that out of their system at age 12 or 13....

It was a calculated, vicious and ugly thing to do, and now she's become the living symbol of that hate and disrespect because the people who she trusted cynically used her and a bunch of others.

[mrbill]

18. big mistake - don't feel sorry for pat.................

According to my file, Pat's known Karl Rove "since he was a youngster."

She slothed her way to Texas from Ohio in the early 90's and was in on the ground floor of the chimpy/Ann Richards governors race.

Pat lives in a $520,000 house on a lake in a gated community.

The lovely Ms Peale also was in Florida making sandwiches for the "rioters" in the election office hallway during the 2000 election bru-ha-ha.

She totally screwed up my little county by offering large campaign contributions to democrats that would switch parties. She had an amazing success rate here.

Ralph Hall kisses her ass.

She doesn't have dinner with chimpy as often as she used to.

She has two sons, one works for phil graham, the other for fred thompson.

This woman may look like a fool, but she's got some serious clout.

[yardwork]

20. Thank you for that reality check!

I was furious when Republicans said that "Republican leaders" weren't responsible for the band-aids. What are delegates except for party leaders?

You don't get to be a delegate without having been a loyal and effective party leader for many years. These people knew exactly what they were doing.

[MrBenchley]

21. Hey, I'm one of those bleeding heart liberals

people like Pat despise....

"This woman may look like a fool"
And she may sound like a fool, but down deep, I think she really is a fool.

[mrbill]

30. once pat did the chicken dance for cnn.......

When the Texas democrats went to Ardmore, Oklahoma to stall the redistricting issue, Pat Peale was there with her shock troops.

Pat danced around, flapped her arms and went cluck, cluck.

A fool???? She shows occuasional lapses in judgement.

Pat Peale hates liberals.

One sick puppy.

[MrBenchley]

33. Hate the sin, love the sinner (snicker)

[Minimus]

7. Once again the GOP doesn't have resposibility

they were not responsible for Zell and they are not responsible for the bandaids.

geez, how can you be responsible for our country?

by not condemning the SBV claims I guess the delegates thought the prez condoned it...hmmm?

[Crunchy Frog]

8. .

[blondeatlast]

10. So then the dentures were meant as a joke too! I get it...

Not.

:puke:

[punpirate]

11. "I'm not apologizing for what I did. It was in jest."

No apologies necessary, Pat. Not for me, anyway. I managed to get through three years of military service in a war I despised. No Purple Heart for me.

But, there were the people I knew who didn't fare so well, one with his arm cut off in a wartime accident, and another, on patrol inside the Cambodian border, who had a grenade rolled at him while his trousers were down, taking a shit. Geez, Pat, it only took off his right hand and laid shrapnel up and down his right side. No big thing.

And, then, in the good war, there was my father, who fell out of a burning B-24 with his face on fire. He passed out at 17,000 feet. Barely woke up enough to pull the d-ring on his parachute and passed out again, so he broke his ankle on landing. On his way to prison camp, his face swelled up twice normal size. But, hey, the Germans were pretty good with his burns. They wouldn't set his ankle, though, because that might help him escape from prison camp. Spent nine months there. He got one of those Purple Heart band-aids, too.

No biggies. Band-aids would do, right?

What have these goddamned chickenhawks been teaching you about honor and sacrifice, Pat? Nothing, from what I can see.

Piss on you and all your kind. And that Texas broke-down horse you rode in on.

[yellowcanine]

19. Holy cow. Tell us what you really think, punpirate. Well said.

[ezekiel333]

24. Rock On Punpirate

And spread the word! It is time to pluck the chickenhawks. The party that "supports" the troops my ass.

~Gunny C
<http://floridapatriots.com/purpleheartbandaids.htm>

[punpirate]

29. These people don't know...

... fuck-all about suffering of any kind. That's why they'll stoop to this kind of abuse.

Pluck `em is right, but it's not enough. Pluck `em and deep-fry `em in hot oil, I say.

Cheers.

[johnnie]

13. This shithead can kiss my ass

"It's not fair for the police and the city of New York to pay to protect us from the protesters," she said, adding she believes in the right to protest but that many of the demonstrators have acted "belligerent."

I think her fucking band-aid is a form of protest. Just because this asshole got in to the convention does not give her special rights over any other person in this Country.
Maybe she didn't throw a punch, but she probably hurt more people in this Country with her little "jestful" form of protest.
This idiot should be the poster child of what a bunch of self-centered, childish, assholes these repugs are.

[kcwayne]

14. She's the poster pig for Republican hate speech

Her porky, ugly snout should be plastered next to a picture of a purple heart recipient with no arms and legs who lives in a squalid trailer park, which is all that he can afford on his disability check from a grateful government. The subtitle on the poster would be "This is how Republicans honor your service"

[terrya]

16. Honest to God, I think Kerry/Edwards should use that pic of her..

in a nice campaign ad, letting the American people know how Bush has dishonored veterans (slashing veterans benefits, etc)

A picture is worth 1000 words...and that hateful picture of Pat Peale says so much.

[spooky3]

28. that is an EXCELLENT idea!

[Octafish]

15. She has no idea how angry the vets I know are over that band-aid shit.

Thanks, Pat!

BTW: Are you a vet?

[yellowcanine]

17. "I'm not apologizing for what I did. It was in jest." We're not laughing,

Patty. And what do the protesters have to do with it? Don't you belong to the party of personal responsibility?

[Radio-Active]

22. she was in image clean-up mode last night

one of the networks (NBC or ABC?) showed her again last night, sans purple heart bandaid, but wearing an "I LOVE NY" button!

[underpants]

23. Morton Blackwell-the "purple heart band-aid"guy (contact info & history)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x735864

[ezekiel333]

31. More here too...

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x704331>

[underpants]

32. But the RNC leadership had NOTHING to do with it

repeat until you believe it or stop questioning it.

[ezekiel333]

43. Nothing to do with it, nothing to do with it,..............

It's not working. What now? :)

I thought there was some very interesting reading in those links to Blackwell. Good for pointing out the shareholders of the GOP and how rabid they are.

[zulchzulu]

25. Shut yer piehole, Peale

You disgusting wench....thanks for showing the full character of the GOP:

- Insult our military with the "bandaid"

- Not offer any apology and say you were just kidding

- Try to change the subject with attacking the protestors

[Catfight]

26. MoveOn.org needs to do a commercial with this embarrassment at

the convention and show that the Republicans mocked every VET with a Purple Heart. This ladies face should be plastered like Lyndie Englands! The Purple HeartLESS Republicians!

[Catfight]

27. REPEAT: PURPLE HEARTLESS REPUBLICIANS AGAINST VETS!

[cthrumatrix]

34. it was poor taste and they knew it... the vets hated that

[punpirate]

35. Has anyone here found out who made the...

... "purple heart" band-aids? Were they made locally in New York, or were they printed elsewhere and shipped in ahead of time?

Sources? Ideas?

Cheers.

[in_cog_ni_to]

36. Of course she's not apologizing!

Those FUCKERS are never wrong about anything! To me, THAT is a HUGE character flaw and it seems that every repuke who supports the idiot-in-chief has that same pathetic flaw. :grr:

Eat shit you wench!!!

[LTR]

37. What a pig!

Cover your ears, DUers!

BITCH!!!

[skygazer]

38. "I was only joking"

This is what people always say when they've done something to humiliate or demean another. "I was only joking! What are you getting so upset about?" thereby laying the onus on the victim. It's a favorite tactic of abusers, too.

Pond scum is better than these people.

[Texas_Dem]

39. Proof her ugly mug incites riots!

[MrScorpio]

40. This Rat-Fucker needs to buy a clue

>>She said along nearby 42nd Street, there were several demonstrations that took pornographic themes. <<

She's one to talk. The whole RNC was nothing but a great big fucking tool fest.

This bitch's holier-than-thou attitude just burns me up.

[belle]

46. Yeah, I'll bet she was shocked by every salacious detail, too.

Which she'll be happy to tell you about, for hours and hours...

:eyes:

[belle]

41. The classic bully line. "I was just JOKING!"

Hey, Pat, I hear you're such a Republican politician groupie that you paid an incontinent Strom Thurmond to let you rim him shortly before he croaked. Just kidding! LOL! ;-) Oh, and I hope the next time you have to go to the hospital for a major surgery, your health insurance will have been so depleted that all you get are those little tiny bandaids, with maybe a $1.99 box of wine as anaesthetic. Hey, I'm just joking! Relax! Smile! Whassa matter, you're so uptight! Loosen up, you dried up old bitch! LOL! Winkie winkie, nudge nudge!

[ibegurpard]

44. ignorant pig

She thinks the hubbub is about her "insulting" Kerry. It has VERY LITTLE to do with Kerry and EVERYTHING to do with denigrating a Purple Heart to try to get in a slam at him. That insults EVERYONE who was wounded in action and received a Purple Heart.

[LoZoccolo]

45. Pat Peale is a cow.

Jest!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

47. On edit: I FOUND Pat Peale's Contact Info!!!!

Patricia C. Peale
2004 Republican Delegate
1111 Kiowa Drive West
Lake Kiowa, TX 76240

940-665-7708

[mrbill]

49. Pat's local newspaper...........................

The Gainesville Daily Register encourages readers to express their views. Letters are limited to 400 words, about one page typed or two pages handwritten. Longer letters will be condensed. The Gainesville Daily Register reserves the right to accept or reject all letters and reserves the right to condense, delete and edit all letters for content in order to conform to good taste, readability, the laws of libel and space considerations. All letters must include the name of the author, complete address, and phone number for verification. Personal attacks on private citizens will not be published. Unsigned letters, thank you notes, advertising, or letters requesting that the writers name be withheld will not be published. The Daily Register accepts no responsibility for maintaining or returning letters submitted for publication.

Letters may be brought to our office at 306 East California, Gainesville, TX 76240.

Letters may be mailed to us at P O Box 309, Gainesville, TX 76241.

Letters may be faxed to: David Scott-Publisher

940-665-3862

Letters may be emailed to: David Scott-Publisher [e-mail]

[murray hill farm]

48. Classic "alcoholic" response

The "I was just joking"...cant you take a joke? And the..well...what about youuuuuuuu? You did worse..blah, blah,blah! Classic alcohlic response!

[Julian English]

50. And the delegate kicking the protester whom he pulled down was kidding

Doesn't anyone understand physical comedy anymore? /sarcasm

[shirlden]

51. This needs to be kicked.

I do intend to send that pos a letter. Thanks for the address.

:grr: :mad:

[mrbill]

52. cue the twilight zone music.............

The Texas Gov website shows the following appointment on 5 May 1995.

"To be a member of the State Banking Board for a term to expire January 31,
1997: Patricia Crawford Peale, 1111 Kiowa Drive West, Lake Kiowa Drive, West,
Lake Kiowa, Texas 76240. Mrs. Peale will be replacing Jane H. Macon of San
Antonio whose term expired".

Patricia CRAWFORD Peale. WTF. Bet when she's having dinner with chimpy they share a chuckle at that coincidence.

Pat is currently serving on the board of directors of the Red River Authority.

Her email address is floating around the internet, she's got an answering machine on her phone.