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Lawyer of the Day: Tony Zirkle

Zirkle.jpgIndiana lawyer Tony Zirkle is making a run for the Republican nomination for a congressional seat. There is a general rule for political candidates that involves not being photographed in front of Hitler’s portrait.

Apparently, Zirkle missed that one:

A congressional candidate is defending his speech to a group celebrating the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birth, saying he appeared simply because he was asked.

Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana’s 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.

“I’ll speak before any group that invites me,” Zirkle said Monday. “I’ve spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta.”

Zirkle compares talking to a white supremacist group to talking to African-Americans. Nice. We wonder if he discussed his segregation plans during the radio appearance.

Zirkle has the following “defense” up on his campaign website:

I’ve been getting a flood of e-mails and phone calls, some of which include death threats, about my attempt to raise awareness of how the great porn dragon inspires Jews into pornography and prostitution and then, like the snake he is, turns the public against the Jews…. Let’s save our Jewish brothers and sisters from this tyrant king porn dragon before we get to another world-wide pogrom after a war with Iran or some other conflict and after the Jews get blamed again.

Cuckoo. The tyrant king porn dragon sounds like something out of a dirty version of The Lord of the Rings.

Candidate speaks at Hitler birthday party [The Times via Respectful Insolence]
Tony Zirkle’s Segregation Plan: Crazy Enough To Work? [Wonkette]

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:24 AM

is this guy a joke?

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:27 AM

Damn Illinois Nazis.

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:31 AM

Damn cameras. Damn Internet. I hate when that happens.

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:31 AM

Ughhh, Indiana.

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:32 AM

Will Rober Byrd come out in support of him?

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:36 AM

Just to fill out the post, these are the websites that Mr. Zirkle cites as "evidence" of the great porn dragon's plans for the Jewish people. Take note of the KKK website, the David Duke website, and apparently a website devoted to Jewish atrocities, including snuff porn....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/23/world/main682673.shtml
http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=38
http://www.davidduke.com/general/jewish-professor-boasts-of-jewish-pornography-used-as-a-weapon-against-gentiles_1811.html
http://www.davidduke.com/general/jewish-extremist-anti-gentile-hatred-present-in-porn-industry_400.html
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6319
http://www.venusproject.com/ethics_in_action/Israel_Sex_Slavery.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=16883
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/israel.htm
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1681087,00.html
http://www.ety.com/HRP/jewishstudies/snuffporn.htm
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-atrocities-blood-libel.html
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5476
http://www.kkk.bz/white_women_are_being_enslaved_w.htm
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=67
http://christianparty.net/snuffjews.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467739732&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/videos.php/2008/04/07/p24611
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIy0Vk740Uo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/754011.stm

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:42 AM

And he's different from most republican candidates in what respect? . . .

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:43 AM

Oy vey.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:44 AM

When I attended school in northern Indiana, this guy ran for office on a $6,500 budget. I heard that he spent $5500 of that budget on the purchase of a first-edition Playboy, which he then proceeded to light on fire during a press conference.

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:47 AM

I hate Indiana Nazis...

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:51 AM

I like the pink, glittery "Happy Birthday" banner running across the table. I think Hitler would have liked that, don't you?

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:52 AM

I would totally bet a bajillion dollars this guy has an underground kiddie porn torture dungeon.

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:53 AM

Some tidbits from the guy's CV on his firm's website:

INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Doctor of Jurisprudence, August 1997
Top 1/3, GPA: 3.27
A* (Highest Grade in Indiana Constitutional Law)
A- Constitutional Law, A- Constitutional Law II
A* (Highest Grade in U.C.C. Article 2 Sales Class)
Dean's Honors: Spring 1996, Fall 1996
Moot Court Competition Quarter-Finalist

ANDREWS UNIV. THEOL. SEMINARY
Masters in Divinity Degree Candidate
Delivered Seminary Chapel Sermon: June 2000

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, May 1995 Washington, DC
Varsity Stunt Squad

ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts, Religion, June 1995
GPA: 3.86, cum laude
Flag Football. Intramural Softball Champions


I don't think I've ever seen an attorney list on his CV that he received an A minus in Con Law II. Also, it looks as if he earned to bachelors degrees from two schools in two different states within one month of each other. Impressive! Finally, softball champions!

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:53 AM

What the hell is the great porn dragon?

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:54 AM

Wait, what? Tyrant king porn dragon?

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:56 AM

This guy is just out of his mind. He is clearly not a complete idiot - he has after all a decent TTT JD. I suspect daddy issues.

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:58 AM

You SOO need to do a "caption contest" with that photo.

That kid on the left looks like he got his electric head shaver stuck up his ass.

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:59 AM

This guy's resume is a hoot. He lists one GPA on his undergraduate school -- but it is only for one semester! Very misleading. He also had like 40 jobs in 4 years, apparently he got fired a LOT.

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:59 AM

Nazism is one hardcore political vice.

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:00 AM

This guy would make a perfect McCain running mate...or front-runner for the republican party even.

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:01 AM

The scary part is that this guy actually received 30% of the '06 Republican primary vote - and that was against an incumbent, so he probably would have done better in an open race.

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:05 AM

I'm just a little surprised the b-day party wasn't in Terre Haute, the armpit of the KKK. Otherwise, par for the course in Indiana politics. Oh, and I've got a great porn dragon for him . . .

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:07 AM

He wears his cadet uniform on his website biography, but he never graduated. Instead, he went at least two other colleges before graduating. What a fraud.

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24 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:07 AM

Can someone please define 'porn dragon'?

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25 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:07 AM

How did he graduate from undergrad in May (and June) of 1995 and earn a JD in August of 1997? Interesting.

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26 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:08 AM

Put your mouth on the curb. Now say goodnight.
- Derek Vinyard

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27 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:09 AM

Finally!!! An honest republican!!

Stunt squad, flag football, and softball champion....also the most impressive things our president can list on his resume. Oh and also, coke snorting and beer bong champion. And biggest dumbass alive, seriously. The guy is a complete idiot, and we almost elected him president...thanks Supreme Court...first time the presidential election was decided with 9 votes...commies.

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28 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:14 AM

Sen. Obama must reject and denounce this man immediately...otherwise, he is not fit to be Commander in Chief.

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29 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:15 AM

I wish also to point out that the image on his campaign homepage is not of Congress, but of the U.S. Supreme Court, a body to which, you may have noticed, one cannot be elected.

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30 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:17 AM

Nice Yom Ha'Shoah post Lat.

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31 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:17 AM

Old news.

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32 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:19 AM

Sorry...Kash.

11:17.

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33 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:24 AM

Kudos to guest @10:27 - that's a great movie!

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34 Posted by mutt | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:29 AM

11:09 Get over it!

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35 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:32 AM

I invoke Godwin's Rule.

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36 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:38 AM

This guy's favorite hobby has GOT to be taking long drives down the Hershey Highway with his Nazi buddies and kids.

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37 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:42 AM

Ah Republicans.

But remember, according to Jonah Goldberg's very serious and detailed "book," Liberal Fascism, the *real* Jr. Nazis in America are the *Lie-bruls.*

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38 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:44 AM

This guy is most certainly NOT a ninja!!!!!!

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39 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:45 AM

Kash, how did you miss this gem from April 30, 2008?

"I'm considering discussing divorce aids and my plans for a "Derrenger's for Dildos" policy to put guns in American women's hands instead of divorce aids. Presently, when a criminal is arrested for a weapons crime, the prosecutors seek orders to destroy those weapons. What a waste! Put our criminal prisoners to work modifying those guns to be smart-guns that can only be fired when the female owner is holding it so that children don't hurt themselves and so that criminals can't use them (unless they use the woman's hand). When a women turns in her stash of divorce aids, then give her a free gun to defend America when the jihadists follow us home."

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40 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:59 AM

10:42 and 11:42 - way to go as low as you can go by claiming all republicans are neo-nazis. i guess every democrat is an anti-american and anti-semitic fanatic since a few are happy to support hamas, express sympathy for al-qaeda, and claim israel is the root of all evils?

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41 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:02 PM

I actually know some one who briefly worked as an associate for Zirkle. The associate quit after a few months because he was afraid of getting disbarred for all the unethical and incompetent things Zirkle's firm was doing. Anyone shocked?

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42 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:07 PM

Does this guy really have clients? In the sense that people actually pay him money to represent them? He claims to charge $200 an hour, which I guess is reasonable for most lawyers in indiana.... but really? People would pay him? To represent them?

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43 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:11 PM

I'd pay him $200... to fix my brakes.

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44 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:11 PM

You left out his unease that "divorce aids" are marketed as for novelty purposes only, thus avoiding careful inspection, but they still get to tout their 1st Amendment rights, which I take it he finds disturbing. I forgot that I had to submit to inspection in order to get those rights. That must be how he got that scintillating A-.

Right before he gets going on "whoredoms," he has this chestnut for us: "Who knows what toxic chemicals these women are inserting into the most intimate areas of their bodies and how many men chase children because they can not find comfort from an adult women." Riiiiight. . .

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45 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:23 PM

11:59 - not low. Just stupid.

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46 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:34 PM

brilliant, "typical republican" comments.

if only there was a leftist nutter in the news recently to show that the left has as many kooks as the right. maybe one claiming that africans didn't have analytical brains, that the US govt created AIDS to kill minorities, and that white people can't clap on a 5 rhythm...

any idea where i could find such a man?

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47 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:47 PM

12:34 - The only thing your commented pointed out is that you are clueless. Your comments are about a preacher, not a democratic candidate. I didn't know that preachers had to run in partisan races to become preachers. You are running out of straws to grasp at.

Stop looking for a preacher and start looking for chance at retaining the presidency after the abortion also known as the "Bush Years."

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48 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:48 PM

11:59 - that's what I'm talking about...RON PAUL in '08!

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49 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:51 PM

From the top of his campaign home page "The "Be angel long ..." thread is now rated XXX because somebody posted a money shot pic." Must be the first time a politician has put "money shot pic" on his website. Classy.

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50 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:51 PM

12:34 & 12:47, you are both clearly divorce aids.

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51 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:52 PM

10:51 so true. gotta love that happy birthday banner. and the carnations are a nice touch too. It what Eva would have done.

Gallion OUT!

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52 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:00 PM

Ah, for the good ol' days when fascists and socialists hated one another!

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53 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:01 PM

How is this different than Rev. Wright?

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54 Posted by mutt | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:10 PM

I heard on the Birthday banner actually says "Happy Birthday Adolf" How touching!

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55 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:44 PM

I once worked at a Legal Aid Clinic where this guy represented some people on the other side--usually deadbeat dads in custody disputes or sleazy landlords. He's the butt of numerous office jokes, the longest-running being that of all those "offices," he has only one. The different telephone lines are just multiple cell phones that he carries on his hip.

One time our attorney told him that an issue was "res judicata." He proceeded to tell the judge that there was no such doctrine and that our attorney was making up those words.

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56 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:00 PM

1:01, are you serious?

The difference is that Rev. Wright isn't running for public office. That's why the thread is about Zirkle and not the other people attending the Nazi meeting.

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57 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:09 PM

White people CAN clap on a 5 rhythm. It just takes a lot of concentration

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58 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:16 PM

Wright thinks the US IS perpetrating genocide.

Zirkle thinks the US SHOULD be perpetrating genocide.

Both crackpots, but a big distinction nonetheless.

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59 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:28 PM

This guy is wonderful. A B.A. from Georgetown in May 1995, and another one from Andrews University in June 1995. Which school has the distance learning program? Georgetown even nominated him for a Rhodes, though that is probably Ray and not Cecil. Two years at the Naval Academy and first in his Company, though he doesn't say in what. And pages and pages of firsts. This guy google bombs Aleksey Vayner out of existence.

I do feel sorry for IU Bloomington though. That is a very good school and to be linked to a jerk like this is a shame, but no more so, I suppose, than Yale being linked to Vayner.

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60 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:32 PM

if you can't see that both are nutters from different parties, you need to take your face out of howard dean's ass.

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61 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:34 PM

Smart career move. He's locked up the 17 votes of the American National Socialist Party of Chicago. I hope his campaign manager is getting paid.

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62 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:50 PM

Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

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63 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 3:02 PM

11:08, I got that reference.

Speaking of which, a couple weeks ago our ConLaw professor was talking about a California case where the inmates were segregated by race (Johnson, is it?). She said something like, "On the other hand, you're not going to reform any white supremacists by making them bunk with black prisoners.

A guy in the class spoke up: "Now wait -- isn't that exactly what happens in American History X?" The prof gave him this blank look because she's foreign and apparently had never heard of the movie.

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64 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 3:09 PM

What a nutjob. As a law-school classmate of Mr. Zirkle's at IU-Bloomington (which is by no means a "TTT" school, as an ill-informed commenter previously suggested), the only thing I remember about him is that he was a quiet, and completely unremarkable, student. I do not recall ever hearing him give an intelligent response when called upon, and am truly baffled by the thought that he could have graduated in the top 1/3 of the class. Given what we've seen of Mr. Zirkle in the above article, I'm glad he kept his mouth shut in law school.

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65 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:24 PM

Nihilists! Fuck me. Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, Dude; at least it's an ethos.

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66 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:53 PM

Sounds like Indiana Jones and the Belt of Antisemitic Rants

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67 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:57 PM

He's lucky he does not have to go toe-to-toe with a ninja.

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68 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:59 PM

3:09- Had Zirkle not kept his mouth shut, you would most likely have been compelled to pummel him senseless; therefore ending your own career in its infancy.
OTH, you would have saved the rest of us from his lunacy. Shirker.
-FASTAC 6

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69 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:56 PM

4:59 - Hilarious. Yes, I would have undoubtedly felt the need to beat the *&^# out of Zirkle if he'd spouted this garbage in law school, which would not have helped my biglaw career a whole lot. Look on the bright side--this lunatic has given a number of us some entertaining (albeit frightening) reading this afternoon.

3:09

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70 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:18 PM

3:09/5:56-
I've been commenting about this mope for several days here:
http://www.gulfcoastpundit.com/index.php?/forums/
I may attend his AM Press conference tomorrow, just for the rollicking humor.
-FASTAC 6

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71 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:18 PM

wow, it's pretty special to see the wingnut trolls comparing Zirkle, a *Republican Party* candidate for elected office, who, as 11:06 notes got THIRTY PERCENT of the Republican Primary vote in 2006, to Wright, a stupid preacher who is not in any way affiliated with the Democratic party and who has never run for elected office as a Democrat or received votes from Democrats.

You "people" are beyond stupid.

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72 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:32 PM

highlarious...

african american radio = hitler afficionados

How do otherwise disarming, educated white people come up with this stuff?

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73 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:57 PM

11:07, "Cadets" are people who want to be army officers and take their wives with them to Germany. Real men, who want to spend their lives as officers on boats, sucking each tubesteaks and drinking stealth whiskey out of mouthwash bottles, they called us "midshipman"

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74 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:04 PM

Hey, 6:57, at least Navy knew to boot the c*ck.

Apparently, Georgetown, Indiana, and some other place actually graduated him. Close call for the middies.

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75 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, May 2, 2008 4:22 AM

Wow. You could not PAY to produce something as funny as this guy's website. I haven't laughed this hard since I saw my first Chris Crocker video.

(My fav so far: "I had never seen child porn in my life, and I still thought it was somewhat rare, until one day when a lady walked into my prosecutor's office and told me that she was suicidal because her husband was downloading it and showing it to her kids. I immediately obtained a search warrant from a judge, and to my surprise, I learned that this material is all over the internet with virtually every .com permutation of names for children. I also learned that filters will never work. "Boys" is often spelled "boyz" and with 5,000 plus languages, no filter can effectively stop it."
http://www.tonyzirkle.com/CAMPAIGN/Child_Pornography ).

Priceless.

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76 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, May 2, 2008 4:24 AM

"I hope you'll forgive me for the lack of organization and what may appear to be loose associations. I'm still working on processing the massive amount of info that was put into my brain in 12-13 years of college course work."

http://www.tonyzirkle.com/CAMPAIGN/War_on_Terror

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77 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, May 2, 2008 4:27 AM

Are the gay porn dragon and the straight porn dragon the same dragon?

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78 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, May 2, 2008 10:08 AM

As a white person I ask in all seriousness: what's a 5-beat?

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79 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, May 2, 2008 4:03 PM

The best thing about this guy is that the first thing that comes up on google when you search his name is some comment spamming that he did on the Becker-Posner blog.

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80 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, May 2, 2008 6:52 PM

Nice of old Virgil Hill to get Zirk at "medical discharge;" someone must have caught him beating off to some Lani Reifenstahl videos in the library study center.

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81 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:05 PM

This guy is a "Lawyer" He charged me $450.00 to drive and retrive my record ?. Then charged me $800.00 for not showing up in court. ( I ended up representing my self, losing) After court was over (he was 1 hour late) he asked the judge to see a copy of the record. (What was the $450.00 charge for?) If this guy gets in any form of political office I'll be the next ass..... He charged me a total of $2400.00 and did nothing, EXCEPT TAKE MY MONEY

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