Johnny Cash’s daughter to GOP chief: Stop using my father’s name, you ‘asshat’

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The daughter of star singer Johnny Cash has some harsh words for the Republican Party’s House leader.

Notes Gawker, “Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has been using a dumb—trust me, really dumb—line involving Johnny Cash in some recent speeches. Cash’s daughter Roseanne doesn’t think much of that. And she let Boehner know, by calling him ‘asshat.’”

Boehner’s line was, “Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.”

Adds Gawker, “And, well, yes, it is a very stupid line, even by stump-speech standards, but it’s pretty successful at ignoring any kind of socio-historico-cultural accuracy (I mean, Johnny Cash, a Reagan-era cultural touchstone?) in favor of connecting three vaguely iconic Americans in some kind of nostalgia wonderland as though they really had anything to do with each other, like the rhetorical equivalent of those airbrushed t-shirts where Kurt Cobain is jamming out with Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis is there or something.”

Roxanne Cash’s Tweet is available here.

Politico’s Ben Smith notes its an expletive he’s “never had to try redacting before.”

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  • Anonymous

    Saw the asshat use that line on the teevee over the weekend and I thought “That’s dumb. Really dumb. What an asshat.”

    Confirms my suspicion that Boehner is dumb. Really dumb.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Swain/100000193790011 Matt Swain

    Damn and here I thought he was a “Dick Billed Anal Goblin”….

  • Anonymous

    Not only does this line confirm that Boehner is really dumb, the New York Times noted that he uses it regularly and it gets a big laugh from his constituents every time, so as dumb as he is, he knows a lot of people who are just as dumb or dumber–those who vote for him and his stupidity!

    Kudos to Roseanne Cash for calling him on it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/trevor.talbert Trevor Talbert

    hehe… Boehner

  • Anonymous

    Could you please let us know what Wilford Brimley’s granddaughter thinks about nuclear proliferation??….while the Dems go down in flames!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    And the 20-something know-nothings are GAGA over Obama

  • Anonymous

    John Boehner is a fucktard.

  • http://smugmug.com/other/anoceanapart Maheanuu

    Matt, Hell I think it is very possible he is both!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    “But we have no hope and we have no cash.”

    Uh, the top 10% are the only ones WITH cash, and you’re making more hand over fist while the other 90% slowly dies.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    This Boehner has lasted more than four hours. We need a doctor.

  • Anonymous

    well said rosanne well said

  • Walt

    Hey, asshat apocalypto, why don’t you go comment about “Chamber of Commerce poised to turn judges into ‘politicians in robes.’ We already have seen a taste of this with the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” ruling. Speaking of know-nothings, why don’t you go learn something.

  • http://www.MusicByDay.com Anonymous

    I’m tell you what. I really really really don’t like Republicans. They are not good people. :(

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Zentrails/100001475536421 Bob Zentrails

    I love Johnny Cash, his wife, and NOW his daughter!

    Johnny Cash was amazing, even my 18 year old daughter has him on her eye-thing. LOL

    Fortuanately, Boehnhead is wrong. We will ALWAYS have CASH. Johnny that is.

    The Repubs will give OUR cash to their rich buddies & rich Corporations over the next two years until they get booted out of office once again.

    Unfortunately, it will take a little longer to undo the damage they are going to do to campaign finance, the court system, and gerrymandering.

  • Anonymous

    Asshat…? I thought he was just a suppurating open sore on the nether regions of the Republican caucus, someone who in the night scares children who know instinctively that the color of his face is very much not right, a walking troglodyte with the brain of a half-choked chicken (a real chicken, not the proverbial one)…but, come to think of it, asshat pretty much sums it up nicely.

  • http://www.walkofthefallen.com Labrys

    As if Johnny Cash would be behind ANYthing the Rethuglicans have been doing. His daughter is right, the guy IS an asshat.

  • shinyorbs

    yeah! wtg Rosanne. Most GOPers are asshats…

  • Anonymous

    No, Boehner is a shittard.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a retardlican.

  • Anonymous

    I think I’ve finally figured out why the Reich Wingers are so angry all the time…

    all the really good musicians, artists and actors aren’t Republicans.

  • http://www.walkofthefallen.com Labrys

    Well, lol, it does explain why they chronically are in trouble for stealing song lyrics to use in their ads, doesn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    hey!…what are you talking about…they like both kinds of music!..pop country and pop western!…

  • Anonymous

    When Nuclear Proliferation, whoever he is, starts using Wilford Brimley’s name in dumb, really dumb (you know about really dumb, dontcha?) campaign jokes, get back to us. Until then, go bit a rock.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PZPpWTRTU Bamboo_Harvester

    Here, here

  • Anonymous

    gotta disagree with ya there. My brother is a Republican and he’s as honest, decent, and kind as can be. Unfortunately, he’s easily influenced by his friends and his church and is terribly misguided. But he *is* a good person. *Most* people are ‘good people’…even Republicans. They just have different priorities than we do.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2Q6FHQ4T44STMAMQNRTOIPJOWQ Richard

    It is interesting that this has come up, because I had been thinking that the Democrats need to go back and run ads showing how many great Americans were liberal, including Johnny Cash. There is no way to look at the words to the song “Man in Black” and come to any other conclusion. Show Mark Twain, Helen Keller, FDR, and show other great Americans that were liberal. Show the Americans that fought for liberal causes, the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the union workers, the civil rights movement, etc.
    Too many Republicans are just caught up in a “hate the other”mentality.

  • Anonymous

    All the GOP has is soundbites and bad jokes–all distractions so they can continue dismantling the New Deal, and trying to create a neo-feudal system under multinational corporate “feudal lords”…….laugh at their BS at your own risk. Bravo Rosanne Cash.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty apt description, I’d say, even without the inane line..

  • Anonymous

    Way to go Rosanne!

  • Anonymous

    So is an Asshat one of those tissue things, with a hole in it, that you put on the toilet seat or is that an Ass- gasket- I’ve never been quite sure! Either way the visual is quite entertaining to imagine! An Empire of Dirt…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho a Boehner that Hurts!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000840836253 Vajid Ali

    Lol even Cash himself couldn’t have done better:D Great stuff Rosanne

  • Anonymous

    Johnny Cash’s daughter’s explitive was a “too kind” of description for John Boner, and that cretin can “Thank” his conjoined twin Bevis Bush for no petty cash, Bush’s 4.5 trillion deficit and the “TWO (2)” WARS? Oh! take the “Metro” to the Social Security Department, after all that money has been accounted for after the SS dollars being borrowne by the Emergency Funds Department, after that, go down the street to the GAO where you’ll find all the programs cut off and ascertain what “should have been use for Americans”, instead, transferred to the Emergency Funds, and you “might just find where THAT money went for, that is IF it hasn’t been “CLASSIFIED”

  • Anonymous

    They just have different priorities than we do.

    Yep, like going to church to pray to Jesus that all the mooching poor people are kept in line.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP is pulling a Boehner at the prospect of Democratic voters staying home today.
    Get out and Vote!

  • Anonymous

    Boner is indeed an asshat. Good for her!

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  • Anonymous

    If there’s a heaven , Johnny Cash is in it . If there’s a hell , it’s full of well tanned Boners , just waiting for the Ohio Rep. Boehner to show up , he’ll fit right in . ….. Bless Johnny Cash .

  • David R Velasquez

    Johnny would have been proud of her.

  • Bio

    Mr Tangerine Man=Asshat!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/GCPX7DXZGK2H2CPNYRR5IS5A64 Turnip Mcgee

    - Every time you like this post, Diebold subtracts a Republican vote -

  • http://twitter.com/johnnyfern johnnyfern

    Right on Rosanne. Give that Orange Oompa Loompa Muthfucka the 7 year ache!

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  • Anonymous

    Quite aside from the idiocy of associating Cash and Reagan who were diametrically opposed to each other politically, it’s pretty stunningly tasteless to make a joke out of Cash’s death. Boehner owes Roseanne Cash and the world an apology.

    The world does NOT need a Man in Orange.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VGQPF4SAS4BGFLDBZYCATHIVFY Chris Herz

    Looks like we’re going to be hearing a lot from Speaker Asshat Boehner.

  • ladygeek

    I see that Disqus has screwed up on IE again. I was doing a reply to but I don’t think it matters too much. I know I’m speaking to the choir in most cases here.

    People like you don’t have a clue as to what is really the BIG PICTURE here. SCOTUS makes it legal to shove untraceable, undeclared funds into those repukes pockets. That is the real cause of this elections’ outcome. And if you can’t figure that out, you should go and read some history books. If you don’t know how this will turn out, you truly are an asshat. We are seeing the beginning of neo-feudalism. How does that fit into the “ownership” mantra?

  • Anonymous

    Someday he will be the Man in the Orange Jumpsuit.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently Rosanne did not mean what you guys think she means -

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/11/roseanne_cash_regrets_john_boe.html

  • Anonymous

    Great idea! It’s long past (30 yrs) to correct the ‘liberal is a dirty word’ meme..

  • Anonymous

    yeah, we have no cash. bush put us deep in the whole that reagan started.. obama’s affect was negligible considering. he should spend even more now, after increasing debt if he has to, but 1st increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy, kill defense, and create jobs through the government ala FDR, but that would never happen.

  • Anonymous

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

  • Anonymous

    (Bob Dylan music in background)

    ….”Hey there Mr. Tangerine Man, won’t you play dead for me……………”

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/GCPX7DXZGK2H2CPNYRR5IS5A64 Turnip Mcgee

    Good people though, are want to believe the liars.
    The gold medal winner of liars are the church and the state.
    Believing in magic sky gods and trickle down economic theory isn’t having a different set of priorities, it’s having a different set of programming.
    People don’t come to ‘believe’ these things on their own. There is a huge tax exempt and institutionalized infrastructure in place to help them believe that if they just sacrifice enough (be extorted, used, and abused) in this life, there will be rewards everlasting.
    Both the church, and the church of state. steal life from your lives.

  • Anonymous

    She completely mis-spoke. She meant to say Asshole..

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    I’m with her…theres no greater insult to a dedicated man of the people than to hijack his name to prop up the campaigns of powerful, money drenched bigots. Let Mr. Cash rest in peace and l;eave his name out of it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyson-Sutro/19701556 Tyson Sutro

    Stop using your dad’s name to make Twitter statements that no one would care about otherwise. Is she serious?

  • Anonymous

    Good “people” or good Zombies? infected by the Fangs of Vampires! Some become Vampires, others just do their bidding and don’t realize they are Vampire loving Zombies. Vote for War! Vote for Big Oil Pollution! Cancer! Satan smiles!

  • Anonymous

    As long as a majority of American voters is more concerned with who appears on Dancing With The Stars, which sports team wins which game, and which beer is the lightest, rather than the fact America is waging war against countries which are not enemies, the United States will continue to elect shitheads from both parties to govern them.

  • Anonymous

    Reagan, GE spokesman who immediately removed the Solar Panels from the White House upon moving in, Pro Senator McCarthy Head of the Screen Actors Guild redbaiting actors, destroying lives, never finding any real commies, Divorced President had a shotgun wedding with Nancy, won in 1980 on a Balanced Budget Platform yet first thing he did was massively increase the deficit…
    Boehner is a Retard with a massive following of Retards. Expect the economy to fall more. If I were Cash or Bob, I would sue the pants off of Boner for using my name, then maybe a few more people would see him for the Dick he is. Bob Hope was against Nazis, that’s what the Retardicans are today. Nazis are stupid Vampire infected Zombies, please prove me otherwise.

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  • http://myspace.com/timbravo Tim Bravo

    I think John Boehner just received a nickname for all of time.

    He shall be known henceforth as Asshat Boehner.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know…isn’t that kind of an insult to all other asshats?

  • Anonymous

    I would have, too. Johnny Cash was a working class hero and would be po’d that Big Orange Boehner used his name in connection with some sort of imagined Republican revival.

  • Anonymous

    I would have gone with fucktard but she will get more air this way.

  • Anonymous

    “Asshat” Boehner’s going to get a lot more headaches besides the one he’s fighting this morning, if he doesn’t pass out first.

  • Anonymous

    What Boehner said was a direct tribute to his lack of respect for anybody. I’d be pissed too if my father was referred to like that.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I’, pretty sure she means it. She thought a lot of her dad, and with good reason.

  • Anonymous

    Do “good people” start a war that kills millions of innocents over a lie, and then continue to defend that lie? I don’t think so. I don’t think that you can be any part of “good people” without a conscience, and a willingness to admit to a mistake, and do something to fix it.

    A hell of a lot of Republicans still defend invading Iraq, when it was indefensible. Period.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll take anything that they know over all that you know. Period.

  • Anonymous

    get real, She has the right to complain about some asshat using her dad’s name in an invalid context. Heck, she has the responsibility to call Boehner out for his comment.

  • Anonymous

    that’s witty only to lower double digit i.q.’s such as yourself. /sarcasm It must be really nice having an i.q. of 50. /sarcasm off

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyson-Sutro/19701556 Tyson Sutro

    No one even knows who she is or cares what she has to say. Boehner is a douche but lets get real, this article is a waste of time.

  • Anonymous

    That is exactly what I thought that she meant from her original tweet. I don’t get your point.

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