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The current Vanity Fair has a lengthy article on Attorney General John Ashcroft. Full-text of the article here.

I'd excerpt a couple bits, but it would end up being the whole article. Can we finally just get rid of these people in November? Please?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Something I'll be sure to remember in any argument about gay marriage:

"('A prostitute has a sex life,' [Ashcroft] writes. 'But a married person has a love life.')"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason I imagine him singing that to the tune of Prince's "Pop Life."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wearing purple panties, too?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I should hope. I want entertainment out of my withered husks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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Daddino, some things should not be invoked.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

There is plenty of difference between their purple panties however.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

TS Ashcroft in purple panties vs. Ted Kennedy in purple panties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe if someone prominent starts baiting him constantly he'll come out in public with this stuff so people will pay attention?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There is nobody in the United States with the kind of cultural authority necessary to pull it off.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I think a sizable chunk of the American populace would just conclude that the baiter was just being "Anti-Christian." And any possible damage would be mitigated by yet another "humanizing" visit to Leno or Letterman.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://sfgate.com/news/pictures/2002/01/29/statue-ashcroft01.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

to think, this guy graduated from U. Chicago Law!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Kennedy doesn't wear panties. Instead, he sported the Pork Pig/Donald Duck look during his Palm Beach party days.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't orrin hatch wear some sort of itchy hair-shirt kinda thing?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, that would be the Mormon temple garment

http://www.saintsalive.com/newsletters/april-may2003/garmets.jpg

― the krza (krza), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Kennedy doesn't wear panties. Instead, he sported the Pork Pig/Donald Duck look during his Palm Beach party days.

T. M. I.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Ashcroft has just announced that an Al Qaeda-linked Somali was planning to blow up a mall in Columbus, OH. Is it a coincidence that Columbus is widely considered to be ground zero of the election? We know Ashcroft has used terror announcements for political purposes before - Tom Ridge told us so. So what to make of this?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll note also that Kerry is scheduled to spend Tuesday and Wednesday of this week campaigning and raising money in Columbus (followed by Cheney on Thursday). Krugman tomorrow agrees that the timing is suspicious, but thinks it has more to do with yesterday's release of the DOJ torture memo. A kossack says that Ashcroft has cried wolf one too many times.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Jeff Sessions is a nightmare but it's easy to forget how much of a huge Confederate nutjob John Ashcroft was, too (via @CoreyRobin) pic.twitter.com/BRl55qFMLe
— Jerry Iannelli (@jerryiannelli) September 16, 2017

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 19:58 (eight years ago)

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Your Attorney General, John Ashcroft

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